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

@david_chisnall @itsfoss Mandatory background link about the scanner incident and the USB Cart of Death by Raymond Chen:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20240521-00/?p=109786
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VSCode doesn't know the powers I possess!
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[RSS] BGGP6: REVIVING RDOFF PART 1

https://n0.lol/bggp6-rdoff/
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@caspicat yeah that too - google even has a special "wont tell you why we dont index this" code on search console. But I'm also talking about docs where you get like 3 examples but no API docs.
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@pancake umm, that's weird, seems to have disappeared from the blog too?
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Re: "AI chat is a better search experience than traditional search engines"
https://come-from.mad-scientist.club/@algernon/statuses/01KAYE52M0RCVN6G3TWCYVS1SG

Lately I have the impression that not only are search engines worse and websites contaminated with slop, but significant amount of content - technical docs, mostly for modern SW - *is simply not there, because no one ever wrote it*!

Am I alone with this?
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[RSS] Why does XAML break down when I have an element that is half a billion pixels tall?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251124-00/?p=111811
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[RSS] The apocryphal origins of the Hot Dog Stand color scheme

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251125-00/?p=111813
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[RSS] Constant-time support lands in LLVM: Protecting cryptographic code at the compiler level

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/11/25/constant-time-support-lands-in-llvm-protecting-cryptographic-code-at-the-compiler-level/
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If you only enable scripts on soundcloud[.]com the site doesn't load but no blocked scripts show up either.

Back in the day people were burned at the stake for shit like this.
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