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

@singe And my reaction was likely rooted in the fact that I missed so many great tools, only to find them later and redo my toolchain, because the maintained stuff was simply better than my ad-hoc one could be :)
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@singe even in that case a) I don't like to write a _slightly_ different tool for a similar task (here comes maintenance) b) the fixed cost of vibe-coding (which is very easy to under-estimate) can easily exceed the cost of finding/learning 1 tool that can replace N.

But sure, I also do ad-hoc tools like this, and I actually think your observation is correct, it's just the tendency that is very slippery.
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@singe Problem is those vibe-coded tools will rarely get enough testing and maintenance to become really useful so we'll end up crafting (subpar) hammers for each nail, esp. because crafting hammers in this case feels pretty rewarding, see: https://svnscha.de/posts/the-passenger-seat-developer/
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[RSS] Iranian state TV feed reportedly hijacked to air anti-regime messages

https://therecord.media/iran-state-television-reported-hack-opposition
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[RSS] Epic Games Store Installation DLL Hijacking Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2025-2279
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[RSS] Who's on the Line? Exploiting RCE in Windows Telephony Service

https://swarm.ptsecurity.com/whos-on-the-line-exploiting-rce-in-windows-telephony-service/
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@singe You have a GUI to redirect all/some messages to a shell script (or whatever) where you can do the replace.
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@singe ICYMI: https://github.com/silentsignal/burp-piper
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@piggo I would probably cry because of the unnecessary complexity containers introduce for this use-case.
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[RSS] The Computational Web and the Old AI Switcharoo

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/the-computational-web-and-the-old-ai-switcharoo/

"shoehorning AI features into our apps isn%27t just tech bros following their tail. It%27s setting the expectation that all consumer technology requires AI."
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