hertg

Yeah, I have not once seen anything of value in their "alternatives", they always show the weirdest shit that has nothing in common with the other. It's been in my Kagi block list from the very beginning, I don't miss those results one bit.

If you want to find solutions online, stop using Google.

Sometimes I post stuff to my blog about things that I could not find a satisfying solution to and where I had to figure one out myself. I post those things because I want it to be discoverable by the next person who is searching for it.

I did a quick test, and my posts don't show up anywhere on Google. I can find them via Kagi, DuckDuckGo, and even Bing. But Google doesn't show my stuff, even when hitting specific keywords that only my post talks about. And if my site even shows up, it is only about +6 months after I posted.

Even tried their search console thing, it doesn't report any issues with my site. So it must be the lack of ads, cookies, and AI generated content which makes Google suspicious of it.

So, If you are an engineer looking for solutions to your problems online, just stop using Google. It's become so utterly useless, it's ridiculous. Of course you will miss all the cool AI features and scam ads, but there's always some drawbacks.

Reposting my post from Mastodon yesterday, it felt relevant. https://infosec.exchange/@hertg/112989703628721677

Most email providers will automatically put emails coming from .xyz to spam. I'd advise against using any "new TLDs", if you can. But if you must, avoid those that are frequently used for spamming. A lot of spam detectors will already score your emails as suspicious just for the TLD.

See for example, https://github.com/apache/spamassassin/blob/trunk/rulesrc/sandbox/pds/20_ntld.cf

And there is htmlq too, if you ever need to scrape some stuff from a website :)

Here's a good post, that argues the dunning-kruger effect is not real. I guess I am one of those annoying "well actually, ..." types now.

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/04/08/the-dunning-kruger-effect-is-autocorrelation/

This reminds of a stupid filesystem pet idea I had a while ago. Running as a daemon, it walks through your filesystem and sometimes leaves traces (as files), maybe you'll find it sleeping in your downloads folder every now and then. I thought it was a cute idea, but didnt actually think about implementing it, for obvious reasons, it could go so horribly wrong 😂

The caption is a reference to "The myth of sisyphus" by Albert Camus. "One must imagine Sisyphus happy". Good book.

Great video. I actually bought the domain opensource.rip a few weeks ago, just to list the affected projects and explain exactly what jeff geerling did here. Haven't started it yet, and I'm mostly commenting just to make myself commit to the idea.

Intending to create a static site with Zola, lmk if you wanna contribute. Submitting information like I asked for in the following post would already help me out :)

https://infosec.exchange/@hertg/112196322254411560

Since you are from Germany, simply say "Die Grünen sind Schuld". Everyone will understand and accept this reason.

The current bio model does not support PIV (Smartcard) tho, so it cant be used for PGP/SSH. They recently announced a new revision that can, but its not generally available yet.

https://www.yubico.com/blog/introducing-the-expanded-yubikey-bio-series-yubikey-bio-multi-protocol-edition-early-access/

Here are some feeds of individuals from my list:

• https://stephango.com/feed.xml (CEO of Obsidian)
• https://taggart-tech.com/atom.xml (A cybersecurity analyst)
• https://odersky.github.io/feed.xml (Creator of Scala, hasn't really published anything yet)
• https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/rss.xml (Hacker, stumbled upon him for his Acropalypse discovery)
• https://jvns.ca/atom.xml (A software engineer and speaker, don't remember how I found her, but she puts out great content)

And I also started a blog myself recently. I'm just some dude though

• https://hertig.blog/atom.xml