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

BMW's are apparently pushing Spider-Man ads to all their recent model cars. Guess I'm never buying a BMW.

"Authorities urge public to refrain from spreading speculation" while the authorities refuse to share any information.

Every institution overestimates the harms of being transparent and underestimates the harms of withholding information.

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/e9cfdcb18bb4c54802b7214a226d983c0015bb37e41a39a4d293d4e674fa94c8

which includes

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/67e8f51957b39bb3193a211161f6332e5320f1c31754d903b8822e2c1061b1a4

So this is fun, Nielsen sends out letters with their paid TV/radio survey, which tell you to go to radiotvstudy dot com/survey. I accidentally typed radiotvsurvey dot com, which redirects to a page that requires recaptcha, then downloads malware in an msix file.

"The real bug is a pre-auth on screensharingd and it allows to pwn any Mac that has Screen Sharing enabled, without knowing password or anything else. You just need to have an IP address :-)"
https://reverse.put.as/2026/07/29/its-a-pre-auth-stupid/

when you accidentally assign your default no-auth redis instance a public IP and it opens up to 0.0.0.0/0

I'm sorry, I thought this was America.
https://www.koat.com/article/federal-agents-uncover-drugs-guns-and-60-snakes-in-south-valley-raid/73299650

@0x00string Oh I'll still criticize him for plenty, but handing out Llama is a heck of a lot better than every other AI giant corp. And fighting against Dario's quest for regulatory capture is worth cheering.

"Historically, hoping that an absolute power will benevolently provide for humanity if sufficiently enlightened hasn’t led to safe or positive outcomes...

Putting power in people’s hands to pursue their own aspirations is how humanity has made the most progress. Novel ideas and major steps forward rarely originate from established institutions alone. They came from the brothers in a bicycle shop who believed people could fly, the bookbinder’s apprentice with no schooling who figured out how to generate electricity, and the kid in a garage who thought personal computers could be for everyone...

Some argue that superintelligence itself, or a small set of experts who control it, should decide what is best for humanity. I disagree. The history of democracy and economics has shown that there is no single objective answer to how people define the best life, and therefore the best approach is letting people decide what matters to them.

Rather than centralizing this power, we believe that delivering personal superintelligence to everyone is the way to answer this question. This has the potential to begin a new era of personal empowerment, in which individuals have greater freedom to pursue their interests and reach their full potential."

What has this world come to - I'm sharing something from Zuck?

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-ai-future-is-for-everyone-a0c24e20

Naturally, this must be "global" because nothing says "safety" like a global censorship regime against math. I'm sure that won't be abused for anything.

Just coincidentally, the open source models Dario says aren't safe and must be banned happen to be those that compete against him, naturally. Oh I'm sorry! He doesn't support "bans" no no, he only supports "testing" and undefined nebulous "mitigation" (which must be a ban)
https://x.com/stillbigjosh/status/2081882849863405735

OpenRouter's terms explicitly say you must not develop or use software or scripts to copy any information from the services.

Literally the only way to use it at all is to develop or use software or scripts to copy information out of the services.

"application enables anonymous communication without mandatory user registration, phone number verification, or centralised logging of communications. The technical architecture of the application significantly impedes lawful interception"
India would ban vocal cords if it could.

"Oops, sorry, my homework ate the dog" - OpenAI

Can a man have hobbies?! I'M SORRY SOMEONE CARED ABOUT EFFICIENT TRAFFIC FLOW.

https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2026/07/21/man-arrested-at-i-35-construction-site-accused-of-impersonating-a-police-officer/

All I'm hearing is go nuts and hack whatever you want. If you get caught just blame the AI.

@drwho

I tried making a DigitalOcean account, and now I have unsubscribed from their marketing emails *three times* in the past week and they continue to spam me. I can guarantee I will never be using them.

@todb yeah there's a reason I said registered to vote and not had voted. I think most of the latest batch were actual citizens who had died and were not yet removed.

Hard to overstate how messed up the economy & lives of young Americans got due to mass no-strings-attached college subsidies. Universities receive ~$200 billion regardless of grads' ability. The "factory" would learn really quick to not waste years of students' lives if it meant they didn't get paid. The ones taking the money should also be on the hook for results, not just the students.