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

@elduvelle @sammi @jon Defender is notorious for turning real-time protection (note that this is not "data surveillance") back on without user request or approval. As far as I know this is unrelated to the telemetry collection performed by other parts of the OS which are unrelated to the AV you happen to use.
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@sammi @elduvelle @jon Microsoft already has full access to your machine as they produce the OS you use (assuming Defender is an option in the first place)...
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@noybeu A wholeheartedly hate Meta and adtech in general, but I think this argument is upside down: Meta provides you services in exchange for your data, that they can turn into money. If you choose not to pay with your data (or with this alternative, your money), why should Meta provide services for you? Meta is not a public utility, no one *has* to be on Insta, and everyone should be able to decide if a particular price is acceptable for them to use a service.

And FTR, I already pay for my search provider, news and a bunch of other online services (I also donate for my Fedi admin), because I don't expect free launch and find this a much better option than paying with my privacy.
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@sassdawe Look at the bright side: no forced updates, Defender won't delete your work, no ads in start menu, no cortana, ...
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@sassdawe You lucky bastard!
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This new trend of messing with LLM prompts reminded me of a challenge that's been in the back of my mind the last ~20 years:

In the early 2000s there was this website called the Cyber Army, where you could climb the hierarchy by solving "hacking" challenges. One of the challenges was an implementation of ELIZA, and I remember I couldn't even figure out what I'm supposed to do (likely because I barely cold read English).

Anyone remembers what the actual problem/solution of that level was?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
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@wdormann The Metaverse!
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@simontsui FFS in a "test environment" of digital butts I can create a worm that replicates via digital farts...
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Challenge: Make SBOM a category on PornHub.
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@hajovonta You should ask them. As far as I can tell the infosec community is still pretty strong there, and there is significant research/commentary only published there.
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