Mildly Infuriating

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/feb/04/ebike-riders-sydney-harbour-bridge

The other night I was up around midnight and spotted a cat frantically looking in one of my windows. The cat seemed well fed and groomed, so it looked like it belonged to someone. However being that it was so late at night and very cold out I figured it might be lost. I've seen more than one missing cat poster lately (none matching this cat), so with that in mind I opened my phone and took a few pics. When I moved towards the window the cat ran off into the dark.

I opened up a neighborhood app which I know is pretty active and posted the photo along with specifying the date, time, and approximate location the photo was taken, and writing that if someone recognized it as their cat they could contact me further. I figured it was about all I could do.

Since then I've gotten over a dozen replies on the post. Multiple useless "Oh cute cat" and "Ohh poor baby" comments. Some comments telling me to catch it despite me not having seen it again or having any traps. Posts telling me to post it on facebook (I don't have facebook, so no not doing that). Not a single reply recognizing the cat, which was the sole reason for posting it.

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The Great Enshittification...

Edit: I am referring to the UI change. They worsened the UX in favor of their AI ads. I’m not a fan of their new AI agent stuff, but this isn’t what I was criticizing here.

Source: C-SPAN

Who came up with this stupid idea?! Just seize the car.

https://empire.streetsblog.org/state-of-the-state-exclusive-hochul-will-push-stop-super-speeders-bill-through-her-budget

Just let me type in a year, damnit! I'm not in the mood to click your little arrow button 200 times

This is upsetting 😠

Edit: I was wrong

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/dining/food-delivery-apps-doordash-uber.html

Recently digitalized bunch of DVDs and BluRays. This one is a hell of a CD holder. Feels like trying to play tug of war with a dog.

Uninstalled within seconds. I'm trialling Hyperion launcher now, which seems pretty crisp.

I guess this is what you call a "first-world problem". Got so used to internet that I forgot some places don't even have stable internet connection... or internet at all...

I mean I guess having mobile data as a "backup" makes this only a slight annoyance...

ISP is Xfinity/Comcast btw

Today I got a DMCA notice from Github to take down code for a Chrome extension I forked. Only problem is that the code has always been under the GPL for years. Apparently the original dev now wants money for his extension. Guess he's now regretting his GPL decision.

The URL to the original repository now links to the company's website.

(Price is in € EUR)

For context, six months ago I bought a renewed Thinkpad X395 for exactly this price and I got: An actually decent CPU and not something as powerful as a Wii, 16 GB of RAM, 256 GB of actual M.2 SSD, a really nice 1080p Touchscreen, really nice build quality with metal and a nice backlit keyboard. Heck, even when I bought a cheap laptop in May 2020 it was much better than this and it even was brand new for the same price.

I know this CPU very well, for this price you are getting something that has trouble playing a Youtube video in 1080p at 60 FPS and can't even run the latest version of Minecraft at above 10 FPS. Now imagine this combined with Windows 11 and only 4 GB of RAM...

No, this is not because of the current hardware crysis, this is pure greed. But hey, 1 year of Microslop 365 is included!