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

@Cali Well the title is parroting Meta's message in the first place, so I guess that's a fair assessment, but I'm still curious about what this decision is really about...
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This BBC article makes my head hurt:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czd3mey1ej2o

- The main news is about Meta's consent or pay model makes users "choose between paying for a monthly subscription or letting Meta *combine data it has collected on Facebook and Instagram*", and how EU ruled this non-compliant with #DMA.
- It then links to another article about a model where where you can pay for *ad-free* Facebook. Ad-free is not the same as combining data from different platforms!
- There is no link to the EU source, but we get a full section about Meta's plans with AI, that has *nothing* to do with the original topic.
- In the middle of this mess we get a totally out of context paragraph explaining what Meta is?!

Was this all written by an LLM?

Does anyone happen to know what this regulation is actually about?

#EU #DMA #Meta #privacy #journalism
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@saagar Thank you, now I feel my utter disgust against Apple UX a little bit justified!
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Making a Lua Bytecode parser in Python

https://openpunk.com/pages/lua-bytecode-parser/

This came very handy today, and the whole blog looks pretty nice, although it wasn't updated for a while.
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@dey yeah I expect continued protection against Janet Jackson too!
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[RSS] Protecting Windows users from Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250429-42/?p=111127

#NoCVE
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[RSS] Python Dirty Arbitrary File Write to RCE via Writing Shared Object Files Or Overwriting Bytecode Files

https://siunam321.github.io/research/python-dirty-arbitrary-file-write-to-rce-via-writing-shared-object-files-or-overwriting-bytecode-files/
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Another gem from Bandcamp:

https://risingnemesisrecords.bandcamp.com/album/obey-the-clit

#jayandsilentbob
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@dey Exquisite choice, sir!
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[RSS] Why did Windows 7, for a few months, log on slower if you have a solid color background?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250428-00/?p=111121
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