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

@david_chisnall Chaotic Evil: *starts beatboxing*
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[RSS] wtf is NS_ERROR_INVALID_CONTENT_ENCODING? investigating shared dictionaries and ChatGPT breakage in Firefox

https://joshua.hu/chatgpt-fail-loading-firefox
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@320x200 @qaris @hobbs Thank you!
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@320x200 Could you please ELI5 for me what a "permacomputing collective" is? This brewing metaphor is cool but a bit too abstract for me to imagine what is happening in such a group.
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GLIBC-SA-2026-0001: Integer overflow in memalign leads to heap corruption (CVE-2026-0861)

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/01/16/5

GLIBC-SA-2026-0002: getnetbyaddr and getnetbyaddr_r leak stack contents to DNS resovler (CVE-2026-0915)

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/01/16/6
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Part of the reason of every service turning shit is that some technical writers assume that shit can only ever run on k8s...

https://worstofbreed.net/patterns/k8s-overkill/

#documentation
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@pooh When asked "who's there" I say "nobody", therefore I am.
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@nicolaottomano that is true but how does it explain this email?
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I just got the weirdest e-mail:

It's a lab result for someone else. It has a PDF attachment, but I can see nothing malicious in it. The sender domain exists and does lab stuff. I looked up the person in the document and he seems to exist (in the US).

I'd say this must be a typo, but my e-mail address has only the first character (and probably the domain) matching with the persons name. I highly doubt his internet handle is a short keyboard distance from my Hungarian handle.

I have two theories:

a. This is a highly sophisticated scam (but I don't see the scam part yet)
b. Copilot hallucinated my e-mail address (which is actually pretty easy to scrape from the web)
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@algernon @hongminhee "They need new content to "improve" the models." -> The easiest way to think about this is to consider some fast evolving library API. If you don't scrape+train constantly, you won't be able to generate code for the latest&greatest, so by this logic (incredibly costly) training *can never stop*.
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