Notices by Seth "Twylo" Morabito (twylo@mastodon.sdf.org)

It's shocking how bad software is in 2025. The experience of using mainstream business software (Windows, Teams, Slack, Outlook, Chrome, Edge, Visual Studio and VS Code, Office 365-or-whatever-they-call-it-now, etc.) is JARRINGLY bad. At times it really feels like the last 50 years of UI and UX research has been for naught. No consistency at all, it's just chaos and anarchy, death by a million cuts.

OK. Hear me out.

I am increasingly of the opinion that the Internet was a huge mistake and that we should go back to telegraphy.

I used to think I knew DNS, until I got a job working on a DNS resolver. Now I know that I don't know DNS.

I'm fairly certain that DNS is unknowable, in its entirety. It is Forbidden Knowledge.

The last month or so has been rough on my desire to remain part of the Fediverse. I've seen so much collective punishment meted out due to poor moderation decisions, mostly boiling down to small misunderstandings that have lead to "You are not moderating your server the exact same way that I would moderate your server, therefore I am going to suspend you and sever the social graph". It's a bad look, and it has left an awful taste in my mouth.

It's a long shot, but: Does anyone have a CD image of the Silicon Graphics "IRIX 5.3 C++ Development Option"? It seems to have vanished off the face of the earth. jrra doesn't have it, so I assume nobody has it.

A gentle reminder to please remove your batteries.