Notices by muesli (fribbledom@mastodon.social)

2006: paying for ringtones
2026: praying my phone never rings

Day 3, 10:30.

I tried talking to a neighbor. It was awful.

They kept making eye contact. I couldn't find the pause button.

Day 3 without Internet, 14:00.

I found a DVD.
It has a menu.
It has chapters.
It has exactly one movie.

I feel strangely free.

Day 3, 12:00.

I found an old notebook and scribbled down some thoughts.

No likes or boosts so far.

It's day 3 of the great internet outage of 2026.

I found myself opening the fridge repeatedly, but there were no new notifications.

The cheese has become strangely compelling. I might subscribe to its newsletter.

D*n't w*rk with ass h*les

I'm sorry, but ironing is the epitome of having too much time and too few hobbies.

The cookie banner is what happens when lawyers, advertisers, browser vendors, and regulators all solve the same problem independently.

And somehow I'm the one doing all the work now, clicking ❌ for the 47th time today.

The silver lining of the Frankenware era is that Linux process sandboxing is finally getting the attention it deserves.

Turns out the fastest way to convince people they need proper isolation is to let an LLM enthusiastically explore every possible way to rm -rf your home directory.

The natural evolution of vibe-coding? Frankenware.

You stitch together random pieces of code, skip the architecture, ignore the warnings and forgotten dependencies, apply a little electricity... and then act surprised when it starts screaming.

"This software has such a retro vibe."
"Pixel art?"
"No, it isn't laggy and just works."

Paying 19 cents per text message was actually peak society. Every message was a meticulously edited, 160-character masterpiece where you weighed the financial cost of a vowel.

cul8r!

Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.

Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.

It's amazing AI companies can legally bill by usage.

"How much will this cost?"
"No idea."

"What will I get?"
"No idea."

"Can you estimate either?"
"Absolutely not!"

We're one jackpot animation away from calling it a slot machine.

Relax. This is one of the coldest summers you'll experience for the rest of your life.

The new tech industry lifecycle:

Embrace - We love open standards!
Extend - We added a few tiny improvements nobody asked for.
Extinguish - Oops, your thing is incompatible now.
Enshitify - Aaaanyway, here's a subscription tier for the features you used to have!

Everything is open source if you know reverse engineering.

A brief guide to Unix editors:

- vi is a trap
- vim is Stockholm syndrome with keybindings
- neovim is a lifestyle brand
- emacs is a religion
- nano is a cry for help
- micro is nano with imposter syndrome
- helix is TikTok vim
- kakoune is vim for people who hate vim

My phone overheating and shutting itself off in the 2026 summer heat is actually genius. The climate crisis finally has a user interface.

"Your device is too hot. Please cool down."

Same, Pixel. Same.

If reviewing code is harder than writing it, and you use AI to generate code you couldn't write yourself, you're neither the programmer nor the reviewer.

You're a rubber duck with merge permissions.