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

@adriano

1) OK, let's not dive into the Hell-hole of why a major part of our economy is about advertising shit instead of shit being actually useful, that's really beside the point...
2) I think I may have a previous version of this popping up. But it does pop up, I don't know on what conditions, I refuse spending time on investigating those conditions, but I see no obvious way to turn it off.
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@joern This is basically the same business model as some "agile" dev shops run: billing by amount of work instead of results incentivizes shitty work.
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"#Firefox recently rolled out a set of New Tab widgets timed to the 2026 FIFA World Cup"

1) No browser should time anything to any sports events
2) This is very annoying and I'm still not sure if I could disable it, because I don't have the button mentioned in the article #darkpattern

https://piunikaweb.com/2026/06/11/how-to-turn-off-firefox-widgets-new-tab/
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@matdevdug One should also be careful with wired stuff during these crazy times: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/06/03/lightning-headphones-that-require-bluetooth/
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It's ridiculous that Windows these days silently fails if it can't find a DLL. Instead of a friendly error message saying "Hey idiot, you don't have VCRUNTIME666 installed!", I have to break out Procmon or dive into Registry to see what's going on.

I guess this has something to do with all the "Download missing DLL here" malware nests, good that we granted Google monopoly in search so they can handle such ugly cases...
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OpenPrinter update:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/open-printer/updates/progress-update-and-details-about-our-nomination-for-a-french-design-award
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@jonny @aburka "nothing can be trusted to do anything because it never throws (so that the tests pass)" OMG yes, this is literal damned asbestos as code and it's EVERYWHERE!
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It's the second time I wasted way too many hours figuring out that kdnet debugging doesn't work across #Proxmox VMs because...

...fuck knows why. When I do the same stuff with a new VM it just works.

Anyway, useful resources:

https://bednars.me/blog/winpe-harness
https://kashiwaba-yuki.com/windows-windbg-proxmox-remotekd-en
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Fair warning:

If you are a person involved in creating splash windows for first browser startup and we ever meet in person, I will hurt you.
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@stf The main issue that I don't plan to move to Emacs, although I'm sure org-mode can do literally *everything* (khm..Unix philosophy...khm) :D
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