infosex.exchange <3

You are probably looking for the infosec.exchange Mastodon instance

This host is mostly for my random stuff, and in little part acts like a well-intentioned placeholder for the typosquatted domain.

Discoverability and Archiving

Currently I'm using this host for saving the items from my own feeds to the Wayback Machine and provide in-links for search engines. I hate that I have to do this, but the non-sense ideology of Mastodon pretty much ruined the search feature for Fediverse as a whole, and this wasn't changed by the fact that they owned their mistake and implemented search eventually.

Yes, I (or anyone else) could do similar things with other peoples published feeds, regardless of the tantrum. No, you can't defederate this, because the process doesn't rely on an instance.

Gluttony Section for Search Engines

@unchartedworlds Of course. Our disagreements root in the fact that you find a street a good analogy for the Internet (in fact, I should've written Fedi/social media), while I don't.
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@unchartedworlds The Internet is not the street though, and there seems to be a divide about how different groups of people see the Internet.

Case in point: When I posted first on Fedi I expected my post to be shared, digested, etc. far and wide. Some people clearly expected the opposite.

Norms may have changed, they sometimes do. Still my best bet is that content both of us post on Fedi is shared, digested, etc. far and wide.
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@jik "I'm not going to call you names" - I didn't mean you either, sorry for the confusion!

The funny thing is that I don't even think our stances are too far apart, but this topic somehow still triggers flames after all this time.

I expressed my opinion, you expressed yours. I'm OK with not taking this further.
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@jik Thanks for the reasonable reaction! I'm thinking about said controls as a band-aid for an already messed up situation (see the first part of my post). E.g. an opt-in system could make all historic posts followers-only by default. This wouldn't affect existing archives ofc. (which do exist whether we like it or not) and may be too much headache for users. We'd need arguments and compromises.

Calling each other names only conserves the current situation where one chunk of users is missing key features while an other is living in a false sense of privacy.
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@dsalo See, "we can't even seem to have a proper discussion about the possible solutions". Bye!
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@dsalo I think the root of this problem is that people who want to be forgotten historically chose the absolute worst platform for their communication: a public[1] microblogging platform.

I strongly believe a searchable, archived Fedi would be immensely useful and necessary so please don't suggest that everyone in the Fedi are on the same page about this. I'm not against having controls (either opt-in or opt-out) to control indexing on a per-account basis, but unfortunately we can't even seem to have a proper discussion about the possible solutions.

[1] The consent so many people seem to miss is in the act of pressing the button to *publish content on the open Internet*.
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TIL when the Windows `copy` command is called with one directory argument it copies all files from that directory to CWD.

This was unexpected.
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I'm inclined to draw a Petri net, please send help!
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@timb_machine Clear sign of ancient use of antigravity!
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#Ghidra 12.1.3 released:

https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/blob/Ghidra_12.1.3_build/Ghidra/Configurations/Public_Release/src/global/docs/ChangeHistory.md
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