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
@infosecdj That's a pretty neat idea actually, would also catch invalid encoding programmatically, not to mention brightening my day with frames of events I care about :)
@infosecdj That would make a good sanity check assuming the compression doesn't change across downloads (I can imagine the stream in optimized in lots of ways), and I'll definitely give it a shot!
My other concern though is that the service may just start streaming blank/noise/whatever randomly, and I wouldn't notice.
@nieldk @13reak E-tags are a neat idea, but I'm not sure if will reflect the hash of the compressed stream delivered to me? I'll keep this in mind though!
@13reak There are no originals, only the data from the service with some random compression. What do I compare hashes to?
Edit: you can also think of this as analog->digital conversion (which is also part of this story actually) - how do I know there were no glitches in my encoding software along the way?
Archivists: suppose you have to scrape large amounts of media for preservation from an unfriendly service. How do you ensure that the retrieved media didn't get corrupted along the way? (I don't want to watch/listen to 1000s of hours A/V)
#archiving #scraping
@bontchev We (Hungary) don't anticipate EUR anytime soon, prices still climbed to 400% since 2015.
@lcamtuf @rationaldoge @inthehands"- Fry, you're wasting your life sitting in front of that TV. You need to get out and see the real world.
- But this is HDTV. It's got better resolution than the real world!"
My own eyes never produced such a good image of the yellowish, semi-transparent material of a home-made PCB as the AC-DC converter slop :P
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