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

(Sorry for the duplicate posts, it seems everyone can see them except me so I can't delete them...)
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"I think scientific education might do more to ease what is a very big transition: from learning what other people once discovered to making your own discoveries."

This is why love the work of 3Blue1Brown[1] and this (Hungarian physics) book so much: they rarely approach a problem from the known solution, but explain how the solution was discovered when there were no existing formulas/algorithms/theories to hold on to.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@3blue1brown/about
[2] https://www.antikvarium.hu/konyv/dr-karacsonyi-rezso-egy-a-valosag-s-ezer-a-ruhaja-i-172577-0
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"I think scientific education might do more to ease what is a very big transition: from learning what other people once discovered to making your own discoveries."

This is why love the work of 3Blue1Brown[1] and this (Hungarian physics) book so much: they rarely approach a problem from the known solution, but explain how the solution was discovered when there were no existing formulas/algorithms/theories to hold on to.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@3blue1brown/about
[2] https://www.antikvarium.hu/konyv/dr-karacsonyi-rezso-egy-a-valosag-s-ezer-a-ruhaja-i-172577-0

#science #education
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[RSS] Ghost in the PPL Part 2: From BYOVDLL to Arbitrary Code Execution in LSASS

https://itm4n.github.io/ghost-in-the-ppl-part-2/
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"I think scientific education might do more to ease what is a very big transition: from learning what other people once discovered to making your own discoveries."

This is why love the work of 3Blue1Brown[1] and this (Hungarian physics) book so much: they rarely approach a problem from the known solution, but explain how the solution was discovered when there were no existing formulas/algorithms/theories to hold on to.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@3blue1brown/about
[2] https://www.antikvarium.hu/konyv/dr-karacsonyi-rezso-egy-a-valosag-s-ezer-a-ruhaja-i-172577-0

#science
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The importance of stupidity in scientific research

(from the previous one)

https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/121/11/1771/30038/The-importance-of-stupidity-in-scientific-research
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"Guess what; many of the problems you will actually face, both professionally and personally, cannot be solved using brilliance. They just take effort and stamina."

"Being 'smart' is not actually about knowing all the answers. One of the biggest parts is being aware of the limits of your knowledge and not running around like a headless chicken when you don’t know what to do."

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2016/02/05/smart/
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I dockerized Binary Ninja so I can use it on my older OS's. Features:

- Shared X11 socket with the host so you can use the GUI (runs on Linux)
- Bind mounts the Binary Ninja directory to the container, so you can share your local installation
- Sets $HOME to the mounted Binary Ninja directory, so license information and plugins are stored in one location and persist across runs
- Executes Binary Ninja GUI from xterm so you can restart the GUI to apply updates

https://github.com/v-p-b/binaryninja-docker

(On a related note, it would be *so* nice if @binaryninja documented their dependencies so I wouldn't need to figure them out one-by-one based on Qt debug prints...)
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[RSS] Rebuilding The First Digital Personal Computer

https://hackaday.com/2024/08/16/rebuilding-the-first-digital-personal-computer/
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[Dailydave] "You have to assume that, having learned from the Russian attacks against their electrical infrastructure, the Ukrainian Army is traveling not just with a screen of FPV drones but with a few USB keys containing implants for the specialized equipment that runs a gas network.

It's hard to disconnect OT networks that are presumed to be segmented physically, and temporary physical control can easily translate to permanent cyber control."

https://seclists.org/dailydave/2024/q3/8
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