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dcurt.is

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73/100Technical Safety ScoreIndependent technical assessment, not a visitor rating
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● Evidence is limited

What is this website?

Ben Horowitz gave this remarkable response to a question about joy and happiness on Time Well Spent: In my experience there are really two things that lead to happiness and everything else is mostly noise. The two things are contribution and... | Dustin Curtis | Designer, hacker, investor, nomad. Founder of Svbtle.

No listed local patterns observedHomepage-only analysis is not a malware clearance. Read the scope and findings below.

73/100Safety Score
75%Evidence Confidence
Trust Radar evidence profile Eight evidence dimensions from zero to one hundred. Exact values surround the chart. Threat Intelligence55 Domain History93 Infrastructure95 Website Security95 Security Hygiene55 Transparency56 Reputation50 Operational Stability85
Trust RadarEight observed factors. Select one to inspect its evidence.

How to read this report

Safety Score evaluates observed signals. Evidence Confidence measures how complete, direct, fresh, and consistent those signals are.

No automated scan can guarantee that a website is safe.

Current report context

What changed since the last scan

  • No earlier report to compare
What this scan could verify · 6 observed, 0 unavailable
DNS observed
Registration lookup observed
Network observed
TLS observed
Website response observed
Website content observed

Unavailable and unperformed checks are not clean results. The detailed evidence below remains the source for each conclusion.

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Independent evidence brief

What we observed about dcurt.is

Updated Oct 13, 2026

The latest scan examined 10 public pages on dcurt.is. Website descriptions below come from the site itself. Registration, connection and threat findings were checked separately.

Purpose and visible content

On its About page, the site says: Ben Horowitz gave this remarkable response to a question about joy and happiness on Time Well Spent: In my experience there are really two…

Registrar and domain history

Registered on Oct 6, 2011.

Connection and hosting evidence

The checked homepage returned HTTP 200 in about 1000 ms.

A valid TLS certificate was observed, expiring Nov 16, 2026.

Threat checks and score context

External malware-provider coverage was unavailable. The report does not treat this missing check as a clean result.

Safety Score: 73/100. Evidence Confidence: 75%. These measure different things.

Community reviews of dcurt.is

No approved reviews yet ☆☆☆☆☆

Visitor experiences are separate from the independent technical Safety Score.

Visitor opinions remain separate from the technical Safety Score.

Public content profile

Pages reviewed on dcurt.is

10 of up to 10 pages

We sampled public pages from this website to understand its subject and contact paths. The titles and short descriptions below come from the website itself. They are not endorsements or independent safety findings.

Dustin CurtisDustin Curtis | Designer, hacker, investor, nomad. Founder of Svbtle. Contribution and abundanceBen Horowitz gave this remarkable response to a question about joy and happiness on Time Well Spent: In my experience there are really two things that lead to happiness and everyth Apple Card disabled my iCloud, App Store, and Apple ID accountsAbout ten days ago, when I went to update a few apps in the App Store on my Mac, I was met with a curious error. The internet is filled with stories from people whose Google accoun iPad in 2020A couple of months ago, I switched entirely to an iPad Pro for about two weeks. I did not use my MacBook Pro at all, and forced myself to do everything on the iPad. After that expe Thoughts on thinkingI have been stuck. Every time I sit down to write a blog post, code a feature, or start a project, I come to the same realization: in the context of AI, what I’m doing is a waste o It is link winter on XWe do not know how, why, or when the X algorithm devalues posts with links, but it does—without telling you, and by a lot—and it makes the experience there worse. Without links, in Block CarefullyA couple of years ago, I posted a slight criticism of Elon Musk that led prominent venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to block me on X. Since then, I have been unable to view his p Tesla and StorytellingLast week, Tesla unveiled two world-changing products: Robotaxi1, a fully self-driving taxi with no steering wheel or pedals, and an autonomous humanoid robot, called Optimus2, tha Luxury for everyone: thoughts on Vision Pro and Apple’s DNAIn 2009, Microsoft released an enormous 200lb coffee table with an embedded 30-inch touchscreen called Surface. Although the iPhone had been around for a little while, the larger s Bill Gates is AngrySteven Levy interviewed Bill Gates for Wired, and it is quite an illuminating conversation. In past public appearances, Gates – like most experts – has attempted to walk the line b

Public page evidence

Topics and keywords observed on dcurt.is

5 phrases

These phrases were extracted locally from sampled public page metadata. They are observations, not search-volume or ranking estimates.

thoughts onTitle, H13 sampled pages
appleTitle, H12 sampled pages
on thinkingTitle, H12 sampled pages
beenMeta description3 sampled pages
thatMeta description3 sampled pages

At a glance

Key findings

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Report is current

The displayed evidence comes from the published immutable scan.

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Confidence is separate

Unavailable evidence is shown as missing and never counted as clean.

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Verify before sensitive actions

Check the exact URL and context before payments, credentials, or downloads.

Fully explainable

Why this score?

Versioned weights
Threat IntelligenceWeight 25%
55/100

Threat providers were unavailable. The neutral uncertainty baseline is not a clean verdict.

Domain HistoryWeight 10%
93/100

Domain registration age and expiry were checked.

InfrastructureWeight 10%
95/100

Observed DNS records and network address were checked.

Website SecurityWeight 15%
95/100

Observed certificate validity and TLS protocol were checked.

Security HygieneWeight 15%
55/100

Observed security header values were checked for basic protective settings. Empty values, disabled HSTS and unrecognized values receive no credit. This is not a complete browser-policy validation.

TransparencyWeight 5%
56/100

Observed site metadata and About page were checked. Publisher-supplied details are not independently verified.

ReputationWeight 5%
50/100

Popularity is weak context, not proof of safety. Unranked sites use a neutral baseline.

Operational StabilityWeight 15%
85/100

Observed HTTP status and final connection scheme were checked.

Server-side analysis

Automated security checks

Local antivirus and phishing checks

ClamAV · homepage HTMLNo signature match in the sampled HTML
Engine version1.5.4
Signature database date (UTC)2026-10-12T06:24:02+00:00
HTML bytes submitted24,361
Phishing.Database · exact hostnameNot listed in this snapshot
Feed downloaded (UTC)2026-10-13T00:00:21+00:00
Hosts in local snapshot386,082

Sampled scripts and pages

Resource analysis incomplete

4 resources checked · 2 script links observed on the homepage. Partial resource coverage.

ClamAV inspects the fetched homepage HTML on our server. New scans also sample up to four linked scripts and two collected internal pages, with size and time limits. Scripts are not executed. Other downloads, private server files and logged-in pages remain outside this check. A signature match needs investigation and can be a false positive. No match is not a whole-site safety guarantee.

Exact hostname lookup uses a downloaded Phishing.Database snapshot. It does not send this domain to an external lookup API or mark sibling subdomains as harmful. Not listed does not mean safe. Snapshot age is download age, not proof that every entry was recently revalidated.

Homepage HTML only · Eight local rule families · local-security-v2

Checks use the fetched page and redirect chain. Scripts are not executed, forms are not submitted, and linked files are not downloaded. This is not a malware clearance.

Page resource inventory

Linked scripts2
Inline scripts2
Embedded frames0
External script hosts2

Counts describe the sampled HTML, not every resource loaded by the browser. External resources are common and are not automatically harmful.

No listed local patterns observed. The limited rule set cannot detect every threat or behavior.

External threat intelligence

Provider coverageNot checked

Local checks do not query external reputation databases. An unavailable check is never a clean result.

Registration

Domain information

Public RDAP observation
Canonical domaindcurt.is
RegistrarUnavailable
RegisteredOct 6, 2011
Domain age15 years
ExpiresUnavailable
Registry statusesactive
Report statePublished

Infrastructure

Network & hosting

Observed endpoint, not legal location
IP address107.20.198.228
Autonomous systemUnavailable
Network organizationUnavailable
Observed countryUnavailable
CDNNot detected
Web application firewallNot detected

At a glance

Infrastructure summary

Observed during this scan

A compact view of the connection, DNS and security surface. These observations describe what the scanner could verify at scan time and do not prove ownership or ongoing availability.

HTTP response200 · https://dcurt.is/
Endpoint107.20.198.228
NetworkUnavailable
CDN and WAFNot detected · Not detected
DNS surface17 records · 4 nameservers · 5 mail exchangers
Protection signals3 security headers · 2 technologies · DNSSEC unknown

Page telemetry

Observed page statistics

Safe metadata only

These counters describe the fetched response and sampled HTML. Script counts describe references in the markup, not a complete browser network log. Cookie counts cover observed response headers.

Response size24,361 bytes
HTTP check duration1,000 ms
Cookies observedUnavailable
Script resources2 · 2 external hosts
Frames and sampled checks0 frames · 4 resources checked

Encrypted transport

TLS certificate

Valid when observed
StatusValid when observed
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuercountryName=US, organizationName=Let's Encrypt, commonName=YE1
Valid fromAug 18, 2026
Valid untilNov 16, 2026
Certificate namesdcurt.is

Resolution

DNS footprint

DNSKEY status unknown

DNSKEY presence does not verify the DNSSEC signature chain. Missing records can mean no record was returned or the lookup was unavailable.

A107.20.198.228TTL —
NSns-1410.awsdns-48.orgTTL —
NSns-1547.awsdns-01.co.ukTTL —
NSns-302.awsdns-37.comTTL —
NSns-754.awsdns-30.netTTL —
MX1 aspmx.l.google.comTTL —
MX10 aspmx2.googlemail.comTTL —
MX10 aspmx3.googlemail.comTTL —
MX5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.comTTL —
MX5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.comTTL —
CAA0 iodef "mailto:certificates@dustincurtis.com"TTL —
CAA0 issue "amazon.com"TTL —
CAA0 issue "letsencrypt.org"TTL —
CAA0 issue "pki.goog"TTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=_zcdAluEeJXIesrVjJ8y_aXQJGnuKxHvH_09xqoeyPMTTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=ah4pp_rGbz6gTmHDfeGuBcIhBWecdouP1av-Vffqf-kTTL —
TXTkeybase-site-verification=y23wProp8nGEg5EQ_d5BIpdZecjc3fKhncZQQhmR-y4TTL —

DNS observations · no external lookup API

Domain email protection

Exact-host SPF and DMARC observations help the owner investigate email impersonation risks. They are separate from website malware checks and do not change the Safety Score.

SPFNo matching record returned for this exact hostname
DMARCNo matching record returned for this exact hostname

What to do next

Review the records with your mail administrator. Inventory legitimate senders and test SPF and DKIM alignment before enforcing a stricter DMARC policy. Fix duplicate records and investigate overly permissive SPF rules.

This bounded check does not send email, probe SMTP, evaluate recursive SPF includes, verify DKIM signatures or apply organizational-domain DMARC inheritance. A missing subdomain record does not prove that no inherited protection exists. A DNS timeout is unknown, not an absent record. A policy record is not proof that messages authenticate successfully.

Responsible disclosure

security.txt

RFC 9116 observation

No readable security.txt file was observed at the standard locations. This is informational and is not evidence of malware.

Browser protections

Security headers

3 observed
referrer-policypresent strict-origin-when-cross-origin
strict-transport-securitypresent max-age=0; includeSubDomains
x-content-type-optionspresent nosniff

Response headers

Cookie protections

Passive observation

No Set-Cookie header was observed on the sampled homepage response. Other pages may set cookies separately.

Detected stack

Technologies

Google Analytics 94% Nginx 93%

Versions are shown only when publicly exposed by the page or response headers. An observed version is not, by itself, proof of a vulnerability.

JavaScript library advisories

2 sampled JavaScript files checked locally with Retire.js. Database snapshot: 2026-10-13T02:40:16.560Z.

jquery 2.1.1 6 known advisories. CVE-2015-9251 CVE-2019-11358 CVE-2020-11023 CVE-2020-11022

A version match is not proof that the website is infected or that an issue is exploitable here. Owners should review the advisory, check whether their code is affected and test an update. Up to four external script files are sampled, not every dependency, inline script or dynamically loaded resource.

Recommended maintenance checks

NginxReview the Nginx branch and keep security patches current. Avoid exposing detailed server version headers.

About this website

What the site says about itself

Ben Horowitz gave this remarkable response to a question about joy and happiness on Time Well Spent: In my experience there are really two things that lead to happiness and everything else is mostly noise. The two things are contribution and... | Dustin Curtis | Designer, hacker, investor, nomad. Founder of Svbtle.

View the site's About page ↗

This is publisher supplied information. The independent safety findings are shown separately.

Publisher supplied

Public contact details

These details were observed on the website, not independently verified as an active support channel.

Emailhi@dustincurtis.comSource: https://dcurt.is/

Structured facts

Website identity & response

Public page metadata
Page titleDustin Curtis
First headingThoughts on thinking
DescriptionDustin Curtis | Designer, hacker, investor, nomad. Founder of Svbtle.
Canonical URLhttps://dcurt.is
Final URLhttps://dcurt.is/
HTTP response200 · text/html; charset=utf-8 · 1000 ms
Languageen
Structured typesNone observed
Page page detectedhttps://dcurt.is/thinkingAbout page detectedhttps://dcurt.is/contribution-and-abundance
missing100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
en100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
17100% evidence confidence
4100% evidence confidence
5100% evidence confidence
unavailable100% evidence confidence
Dns consistency.cname present100% evidence confidence
Local headers.hsts max age100% evidence confidence
Local headers.permissions policy present100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
Local headers.hsts preload100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
Local headers.csp present100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors wildcard origin100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors present100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors credentials with wildcard100% evidence confidence

Connection path

Redirect chain

0 recorded hops

No redirect hop was recorded for the sampled homepage.

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Compared with the previous scan

What changed

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Explainable matching

Digital fingerprint

fingerprint-v1
quiet-beacon-wave-195

Comparable components help find technically related websites. A match does not prove common ownership.

DnsHashed private comparison value
TechnologiesHashed private comparison value

Material changes only

Change history

Show change history

No meaningful changes recorded yet.

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Visual evidence

Website screenshot

Screenshot of dcurt.is
Captured once in an isolated browser during this scan. Visual tint is an interface overlay. The original evidence is not duplicated.

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Questions about dcurt.is

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Is dcurt.is safe to visit?

The latest Safety Score is 73/100 with 75% Evidence Confidence. This is a point-in-time assessment of observed technical signals, not a guarantee. Check the exact address and avoid entering payment details if anything looks unusual.

Did the scan detect malware on dcurt.is?

ClamAV found no signature match in the sampled homepage HTML. External scripts, downloads and private server files were not checked. This is not a whole-site malware clearance.

When was dcurt.is registered?

The public registry record shows Oct 6, 2011. Registration details may be privacy-protected or updated later.

Did dcurt.is have a valid TLS certificate?

The scanner observed a valid TLS certificate using TLSv1.3. A valid certificate alone does not establish that the site is safe.

How does dcurt.is describe itself?

The website's About page describes its purpose in the report above. This is publisher-supplied information and is separate from independent security findings.

Can a paid listing change this website's score?

No. Premium placement and owner-supplied pages are labelled separately. Technical evidence, the Safety Score and moderation decisions remain independent.

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