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 positively surprised that AWS apparently built a separate IAM for their European Sovereign Cloud:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/opening-the-aws-european-sovereign-cloud/

I can't tell if this whole thing will be good enough, but some key issues seem to be addressed here.
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@krutonium @ekis I bet they took special care to select very European sounding names for the VP and director too :D
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In the shitty state of tech today: Soundcloud!

I want to filter for DJ mixes (long tracks) on the web:

- The mobile app groups sets to a tab when searching, but the web version does not.
- The web version allows you to filter search based on duration, but the official help page doesn't tell you how to do it (you have to do a search, select Tracks then you can filter for duration).
- Neither interfaces allow you to search only artists you follow.

I thought these were solved problems by 2001.
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[RSS] What was the secret sauce that allows for a faster restart of Windows 95 if you hold the shift key?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260119-06/?p=111995
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@joxean @rotatoe + they can always retaliate with cutting cloud access...
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TIL this was the moment when web search turned shit:

https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/introducing-knowledge-graph-things-not/

OK, that's a bit of an exaggregation but there are so many use-cases when Page Rank Just Works(tm), I can't wrap my head around why engines wouldn't keep it as an optional search mode.
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@piggo We used to have low-priv user accounts for that. Getting the ephemeral/immutable nature of containers can be a significant step for newcomers IMO.
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@singe And my reaction was likely rooted in the fact that I missed so many great tools, only to find them later and redo my toolchain, because the maintained stuff was simply better than my ad-hoc one could be :)
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@singe even in that case a) I don't like to write a _slightly_ different tool for a similar task (here comes maintenance) b) the fixed cost of vibe-coding (which is very easy to under-estimate) can easily exceed the cost of finding/learning 1 tool that can replace N.

But sure, I also do ad-hoc tools like this, and I actually think your observation is correct, it's just the tendency that is very slippery.
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@singe Problem is those vibe-coded tools will rarely get enough testing and maintenance to become really useful so we'll end up crafting (subpar) hammers for each nail, esp. because crafting hammers in this case feels pretty rewarding, see: https://svnscha.de/posts/the-passenger-seat-developer/
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