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

ProTip: the moment you'd put the first debug print in your supposedly long-running Python program is the right time to import logging instead.
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Shameless plug: my other, very similar bot is at @attackerkb scraping data from Rapid7
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Although Talos was an *automaton*, it's a PITA to fetch vulnerability reports from @TalosSecurity automatically so I created a Fediverse bot:

@talosvulns

You can follow it or subscribe to its Atom feed of course.

(Currently parsing data from 2016, so will be a bit noisy for a little while)
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@wdormann @neurovagrant FTR, some fine Talos advisories:

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-1947
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2023-1861
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2023-1888
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@yassie_j At IBM early AS/400 development was guised as a punch card sorter (iirc) because mgmnt didn't want to finance another computer project (aside of mainframe) and "it is easier to apologise than to get permission"
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@nflnfl Honestly I don't know the difference, seemed like a good translation...
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@suzannealdrich @kaoudis Given the faculty I see very little chance of any such activity in the first place, but maybe things have changed since my time...

I do hope the arch-enemy economics uni will at least poetize some fun songs about the whole incident.
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@kaoudis Literally no one knows what the organizers were thinking. Oh and they were worried about sex in general which makes the decision even weirder. They were confronted about this too, without any result.
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I'm experimenting with #NixOS and it's all good so far, chezmoi works like a charm, successfully cleaned up some Debianisms, etc.

Then I ran into the problem of shebangs o.O

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/shebang-locations/28992/7
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@peterbutler @esther You are right, and in this particular case it is a non-profit thing. But that's beside the point, as their business model doesn't really affect my situation (I will donate to them just as I would pay for a for-profit service).
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