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

This OpenAI vs. HF story stinks to high heavens, I tell you this much...
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@root42 I think that's a UI issue with the frontend, the linked quote post shows up as a reply to the original with highlight, but the in-page anchor isn't triggered...

This is the gist:

"Turns out this was an unintentional trick question, because two games mixed up in my memory (30 years is a long time):

- I mainly remembered Ecstatica (thanks @BryanGreyson and your friend!)
- ...but giant worms (which weren't even green?) definitely came from Magic Carpet (thanks @g !)"
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You guys are AWESOME! Thanks for all the help, I really didn't expect this much effort from the community!

Turns out this was an unintentional trick question, because two games mixed up in my memory (30 years is a long time):

- I mainly remembered Ecstatica (thanks @BryanGreyson and your friend!)
- ...but giant worms (which weren't even green?) definitely came from Magic Carpet (thanks @g !)

Now I'm off to figure out what little me was supposed to do in front of our first color CRT :)

#retrogaming

RE: https://infosec.place/objects/370500d6-2960-412c-b30c-d2cc19e59c67
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Let's see if Fedi is smarter than LLMs:

When we got our first PC a friend installed a bunch of games (Win95).

One of these was a 3D adventure game (maybe 3rd person view?). It was a miracle it ran on that HW and was very low poly. I didn't know English at the time so I have no clue what the game was about.

I remember that could walk around in a village and NPCs occasionally talked to you. Then giant green worms appeared and that's when I usually died :D or the game just went on because the worms weren't very targeted/hostile?

I'd appreciate any guesses on this! I'm not a huge gamer but want to know what that game was about.

#retrogaming
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[RSS] Dark Elevator: Windows Install Service Local Privilege Escalation (CVE-2026-50343)

https://blog.calif.io/p/dark-elevator-windows-install-service
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[RSS] GitHub - NtProtectVirtualMemory/PE-Library: A modern C++ library for parsing and manipulating Windows Portable Executable (PE) files.

https://github.com/NtProtectVirtualMemory/PE-Library
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@asciimoo @jimothy Also mental health support: no battery -> no doomscrolling, tiktok, etc.! I think you could get an EU grant for this...
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@cR0w Read the latest Qualys thing, that's pretty good :)
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@asciimoo You're doing God's work!
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@david_chisnall I think part of the problem is few trust that this level of integration between Office and Teams will work, considering the usual issues of each of these components. I'd be esp. concerned about clients running on non-Windows platforms.
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