Notices by scriptjunkie (sj@social.scriptjunkie.us), page 2

"We're coordinating on threat actor names!"
"Finally! So they'll use your names now?"
"No"
"Oh, you're using their names now?"
"Also no."

This is a really neat trick
https://x.com/haxrob/status/1929541111065768184

@reconbot yeah, I remember this coming up in inspections when buying a house so I know it's code and I'm not sure why either.

@reconbot "Texas Property Code § 92.255 outlines the requirements for smoke alarms - how many are required, where they must be placed, but in general they must be installed in every bedroom in the unit and at least one on every level if it’s a multiple level dwelling"

@ericphelps it was popular among criminals for testing malware since it didn't share samples like virustotal does and it was taken down by the feds. But I thought the feds needed actual evidence of lawbreaking to shut down a site, not just bad vibes.

Cryptome.org is an incredible archive of leaked documents, historic internet artifacts and other strange finds. Another favorite quote from Young (and Cryptome's co-administrator, his wife Deborah Natsios) is the site's privacy policy:

I assume avcheck dot net is just taken down because the admins did other stuff that was illegal? Because if the position of the FBI/courts is that it's illegal to scan for malware without sending copies of the scanned files to all the AV's then we have a problem.

I really wish the enhanced games would have cycling just so somebody could hide a motor in their bike and make everybody mad at them for cheating.

rooms packed full of sweat-drenched staff level Meta engineers in Menlo Park, shaking, stammering, cursing as they are enrolled in a DCAA compliant timesheet tracking system and the life drains out of their souls
https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/30/meta_is_now_a_defense/

@Lee_Holmes "the age of your oldest credit account, the age of your newest credit account and the average age of all your accounts" is average length of debt holding. I just checked against my own credit report and elsewhere online confirms utility bills "are not credit accounts" and do not factor into length of credit history.

"utility bills typically have no impact on your credit score because the information is not generally reported to credit bureaus as they are not credit accounts. However, if you become delinquent in paying your utility bills, the utilities companies could report the late payments to the credit bureaus" https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/12/paying-utility-bills-improve-credit.asp

@Lee_Holmes I mean, they're not going to outright say things like "We want you paying us interest in lots of ways" instead they say "The ability to successfully manage multiple debts and different credit types tends to benefit your credit scores". It's pretty much the same reason why bundling home & auto insurance "benefits" you, you're paying them more money for more things. Risk of default or late payment is a huge part of whether they make a profit, so it's definitely most of the score, but "likelihood you'll be making the lender money" is a far more straightforward explanation for the whole enchilada. It is mostly aligned with, but subtly different than your risk of not paying.

@FritzAdalis maybe not exactly, but with the number of these kind of stories lately, it's not inconceivable
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyz4rkxrwxo
https://abc7ny.com/post/nyc-crypto-suspect-surrenders-nypd-torture-italian-business-partner-soho-apartment/16563565/

Back in the day, to kill someone, you had to murder yourself, or deal with the Mafia. Now you just pretend to be them, post online about how you have 10,000 Bitcoin with a memorized recovery phrase, "accidentally" leak your (their) address and let nature take its course.

@Lee_Holmes I should have left that off, but the principle is the same. People think a credit score is only about risk of default then naturally get angry when very financially careful people with no debt have bad scores. Not having debt is a sign you won't hold it and they won't make money lending to you.

A credit score isn't mainly about "ability" or "acceptable risk"-it's whether lenders will make money lending to you. If you don't hold debt and you have plenty of income/assets, you'll probably just pay a loan back immediately. And they won't make money.
https://x.com/wanyeburkett/status/1927410265584234813

@SecureOwl that is about when time stopped.

"one in five of the top 100 free virtual private networks in the U.S. App Store during 2024 were surreptitiously owned by Chinese companies, which are obliged to hand over their users’ browsing data to the Chinese government"
https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/articles/apple-offers-apps-with-ties-to-chinese-military

"Severe Thunderstorm Warning" - Scientific. Sterile. Boring. Ignore.
"Aviso de Tormenta Severa" - REEL BACK IN TERROR. FLEE THE TORMENT. RUN FOR COVER.

@georgia screwworms

So that's cut and dried misinformation, the whole premise is wrong, and easily, verifiably so. Here's a worse one though: in "Deep-Sea Fishers Fight for Wi-Fi", 404 media posts a not just misleading, but actively harmful narrative to the people affected.

With no connectivity for 10 months+ loneliness is crushing and you get no help in emergencies. 404's suggestion? A $15k Iridium system. Starlink is 1/10th the price. Pitching 5x a Filipino fisherman salary is the same as telling the sailors to get lost. Just to blindly hate Musk.

Telling poor sailors alone at sea effectively they have no affordable hope of help is unconscionable misinformation, all to grind a reporter's petty prejudice. Anyway, I cancelled my paid 404 media subscription and these two examples of misinformation should help explain why.