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

"The intrusion started where AI platforms are uniquely exposed: the data-processing pipeline"

Sure, before AI no system ever had a "data-processing pipeline". Whatever that means.
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@schrotthaufen @jcoglan And coding agents gaslight the user by injecting "system reminders" prefixes that are invisible to the user but the LLM sees them as user messages and regularly refer back to those as user requirements.
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I feel it's time to reshare this excellent piece, as it explains some general problems that relate to my previous posts:

Can chatbots craft correct code?

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/12/19/can-chatbots-craft-correct-code/
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"DecBench is an experimental benchmark for comparing decompilers and modern LLMs on the task of recovering exact source code."

https://decbench.com/

#ReverseEngineering #decompiler
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@castaway That's an Akkoma frontend issue (it should highlight the specific post in the replies and jump there, except it doesn't jump...). I replaced the link to point to my archived copy!
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@freddy I can 100% believe their model did *something*, but first and foremost the official report tells me that their frontiers models are so great they outright steer away from the original problem statement ("write an exploit") and burn a shit ton of tokens on something entirely different ("find an exploit on the Internet"). Second, OAI either didn't have the means to monitor what's going on or didn't care to intervene.
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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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