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
@brewsterkahle Sorry, not a native speaker here! What I mean (half-jokingly) is these days we - as in users and developers - just accept that our software is bad. We create higher layers of abstractions so ppl with minimal training can produce more sw, because we always need more sw somehow. Then ofc the abstractions leak, and the design doesn't make sense and UX is horrible. Then - if the lawyers and salesppl were smart enough - the producer can charge even more money for the fixes. And the buyers don't have alternatives and they just accept their faith because sw has always been buggy. And this is how you boil a frog.
@cynicalsecurity I think "some form of NFS" deserves some focus. I haven't thought about this but seen enough NFS induced vulns to say NFS probably won't be it. You ruled out SMB. What are the alternatives?
(We have some nice setups with MinIO, but wrapping everything with HTTP doesn't feel right either)
@pancake @joxean To be fair the issue I brought up only comes up during more "low-level" development (specifically Processor modules), certainly not during scripting. With Python scripts you can just configure a script directory and write your scripts there with any editor, and you can even fire up a headless instance from some vim command to run it. Java is more cumbersome (as Java usually is) but one of my side-quests is to document how to set up a proper devenv for it.
@pancake Now that I think about it, IIRC this is also related to the certification.manifest issue I described in the other post: it seems like a way to ensure that no intellectual property of dubious origin ends up in the code. You have to explicitly state that new files are OK to be included in the project (kind of an inverse .gitignore).
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