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

Township Rebellion & Fab Massimo - Labyrinth

https://soundcloud.com/township-rebellion/township-rebellion-fab-massimo?in=township-rebellion%2Fsets%2Freleases
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@sassdawe lol OK that makes sense :D I thought you want to exclude advertisers.
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@sassdawe Who would scare away their best customers (in this case, companies with the highest turnover rates)? :)
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@13reak @airwhale Yes, this is what I mean.

You are right that these are extremely powerful tools, still I feel like most customers (by count, not invoices) are just burning their money on adtech, because that's what everybody does, while you don't have to be Nassim Taleb to see that the numbers justifying the spend are rigged.
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@13reak @airwhale Oh GDPR avoidance is a great reason to operate like this!

I think we are talking about different things re: company revenues: as I understand these companies use data to do marketing - this can be translated to money, sure. But how is it possible that these marketing companies work with finances comparable to e.g. Exxon?
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@airwhale I still don't get how the market of "telling people about things" can be more profitable than the market for "things" (G and Meta being the largest companies in the world) in the first place.
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@airwhale My gut tells me most of these are in fact stand-ins for large adtech companies like Meta and Google.
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Fixing a Buffer Overflow in UNIX v4 Like It’s 1973

https://sigma-star.at/blog/2025/12/unix-v4-buffer-overflow/

Exploit su on a PDP-11 :)
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AI is going great at MS:

"You will see us be more intentional about how and where Copilot integrates across Windows [...] we are reducing unnecessary Copilot entry points, starting with apps like Snipping Tool, Photos, Widgets and Notepad"
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To tilt Hungarian election, Russians proposed staging assassination attempt - The Washington Post

https://archive.ph/f8zdV
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