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

I have this favorite story about "the first 3D shopping mall" on the Hungarian Internet: it was of course a massive failure, because the minds behind it didn't realize that people are not going to the mall to use escalators (which was precisely modeled in VRML along with corridors, benches, etc).

I think the recent enthusiasm about GenAI-driven voice/video recognition is similar in this aspect: in many cases people would prefer a system *not* involving human(-like) interaction (or using an escalator), it's just we currently don't have better solutions for many tasks. Assuming a speech/video interface is always better than e.g. a bar code reader results in faster horses, not cars.
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@tychotithonus @stf Inverse example :)
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@tychotithonus I was contemplating the same recently too:

https://infosec.place/notice/Amjet90pSdLoQzLcdE

As @stf pointed out Shibboleths had about the same function throughout the centuries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth
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The last couple of days I worked with @tmr232 to bring binaries to his @cfgbot.

Here's my script to export CFG's in DOT and JSON formats from #Ghidra:

https://github.com/v-p-b/ghidra-graph-export

I also exported the latest Microsoft Defender and openssl binaries:

https://github.com/v-p-b/ghidra-function-graph-datasets

... so you can enjoy Absolute Units like:

https://tmr232.github.io/function-graph-overview/render/?graph=https://gist.githubusercontent.com/v-p-b/67d63235089a02888d0bb0159181534a/raw/2799461034b0c0d6fff2051868d56370962965eb/netvm_emulate.json

Like and subscribe:

https://mastodon.social/@cfgbot
https://bsky.app/profile/cfgbot.bsky.social
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I just timed this with 30k files, git commit took <0.5s total on my non-accelerated terminal.
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@asrob I just switched to Terminator from urxvt
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@floyd ruby, didn't even know about tawny so thanks!
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I still don't get GPU accelerated terminal emulators.

I just git added a directory of >100k files in a non-accelerated terminal and I didn't even notice the combined lag of terminal prints **and** git tree updates in the background. I only noticed the change was this large because GitHub complained!
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I'm pretty certain all my remaining German skills are thanks to Rammstein.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af59U2BRRAU
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Good news: I'm drinking Port wine
Bad news: Haven't reached the Ballmer Peak
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