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

Emacs made me extensively use LLM's to search for answers and watch videos to understand features. This is a first!

I think the reason is that I lack the meta-knowledge about where to look for information. This is in part because Emacs tutorials prevalent in search results don't directly apply to Space Emacs and I don't know yet how to translate between the two worlds.

I think the same underlying issues in part explain the popularity of LLM's and video tutorials. It seems an important personal decision if we deem a topic important enough to invest in acquiring the missing meta-knowledge. It seems an important quality of the tool we use if it helps us acquire the meta-knowledge they provided a shortcut for.
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@jerry Wait what happened?
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After 6-ish tries with Space #Emacs I managed to:
- Edit a file on a remote server with TRAMP
- Create a new Git Branch
- Commit changes to the branch
- Switch back to my original branch (and revert the buffer to reflect changes)

It wasn't a terrible experience, although my brain hurts a bit.
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You should write more

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/you-should-write-more

/by @lcamtuf
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@albinowax Thanks for the link! I'm sure some business executives applied this methodology to selling shampoo with great success. I also believe Burp exists in a different kind of market in several aspects, but I'm no business executive...
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[RSS] NVIDIA/Mellanox ConnectX-5: Custom #Ghidra processor module for iRISC

https://irisc-research-syndicate.github.io/2025/02/14/writing-a-ghidra-processor-module/
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@albinowax 1) Burp is (rightfully) the de facto standard for webapp testing. Even if by some miracle someone interested in the field didn't hear about it, what else would anyone recommend?
2) What kind of information could a 0-10 numeric answer possibly give you about the desired direction of improvement?
3) You have e-mail support, a forum, and Discord (that I know of) where proper discussions can take place. Hell, even social media allows better interaction with your team than this Clippy-style "would you like to scream into this void?" non-sense.

What this simple dialog tells me is that someone, who doesn't know better than copying dark patterns from freemium mobile games got in a position to get this useless, disrupting junk *added to the code base*. And I'm sorry, but I won't hold back my words to express my concerns about this direction because 1) allows shoving more shit down our throats unless we push back hard.

I hope you didn't take this as a personal attack. I mentioned you because I'm sure you understand the needs and concerns of professional users better than anyone.
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@bh @404mediaco because your cpu vendor is not relevant when you happen to run malware.
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@bh @404mediaco They could deploy the same code on a mainframe in Fort Knox, it would be the same bug (if my theory is correct). I dont have info abt usgov webapp deployment policy.
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@bh @404mediaco yeah ik. It's a platform, the user provides implementation. You don't blame your cpu for executing malware.
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