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

PSA: Nicholas Lemonias is still an asshat.

https://attrition.org/postal/asshats/nicholas_lemonias/
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@algernon TIL about this initiative. Aiming to index things that are "hosted in Europe" tells me there is a fundamental misunderstanding how the web works, very disappointing :(
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I sat through way too many #pentest interviews where the candidates had no clue about the fundamentals of web security, like the Same-Origin Policy.

If you want to make a career of finding flaws in (web)apps, do yourself a favor, and read @b0rk's HTTP zine:

https://wizardzines.com/comics/same-origin-policy/
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@xabd Could you ELI5 how this sw (or LinkTree) is different from a HTML(+CSS) page with links on it?
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@algernon I'm recommending this because of the "how to make using it easy" part. The repos I linked are just examples, the APIs defined by these libraries are the gist.
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@algernon sodium/tink

https://github.com/project-oak/tink-rust
https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium-rs

(not sure if pure rust implementations are available)
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TIL In #Proxmox when you *move* a disk, the original one doesn't get deleted but remains attached to the VM as "unused". Space gets only freed up in the original storage when you remove it from the VM.

#ProTip
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It seems Windows can't even launch its terminal properly, this issue is open for >5 years:

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/4750
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@cR0w @ai6yr It's John McLane vs helicopter
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@bagder People probably pay less attention than you think (this is a general rule of thumb of mine), they may still assume there is monetary reward even without H1. IMO you should give it some time.
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