I've been playing "whack a mole" to suppress crawlers that violate robots.txt. It's pretty much hopeless, but an amusing side activity.

#TeXLaTeX lovers should know about the metacapture package that we published on CTAN. The purpose of this is to help modernize the publishing pipeline for LaTeX articles, and separate the declaration of metadata like affiliations from the way it is displayed by a journal style. https://ctan.org/pkg/metacapture

Apparently @openwebsearcheu does not obey robots.txt. That's not a good way to start a project.

In honor of April Fool's day, I offer you https://debrisprint.iacr.org/ for AI-generated research articles on cryptology.

Heads up: March 8 is National ProofReding day. https://nationaltoday.com/national-proofreading-day/

oh yeah. mastodon. I forgot about that.

No, I'm not going to enable 2FA on my infosec.exchange account. I think I'd rather just have fewer accounts than have more authentication requirements.