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Clifton Royston @cliftonr.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

Gonna be a lot of geeks wandering around just saying: 4

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Carlos Solís @csolisr.hub.azkware.net.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

Turns out that Randall Munroe predicted this exact scenario, down to the number, thirteen years ago. There's a #xkcd for everything indeed. xkcd.com/221/ #eMudhra

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Clifton Royston @cliftonr.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

@juergen_hubert Got it. I'm just weirdly sensitive on some typographical matters like font choice, though I can tune it out. I also think it's fun to pick fonts which harmonize well, but I don't know what kinds of fonts LaTeX can support.

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Clifton Royston @cliftonr.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

@juergen_hubert I agree with Irina, either of the middle 2 choices look better. Although you didn't ask - what I found most disruptive to reading these short samples was the change in the font style between the explanatory text and the story. If that was just to show the effect of the layout […]

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WorldTravelerAll7 @worldtravelerall7.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

@elteleoperador.com Jon Stewart is great. This was probably my favorite from the monologue: "In France, they've burned down an entire city because of a war they didn't start and aren't even any part of. And here in the country that started the war, we're not even sure we're going to get to […]

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Clifton Royston @cliftonr.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

@dryad.technology Of course you're a Pinkwater fan, I should have guessed! I love his books, and raised both of my kids on them. A movie of Lizard Music sounds amazing. Maybe it'll be a megahit and start a trend, who knows? My favorites are probably Young Adult Novel and Alan Mendelsohn, The […]

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mcc @dryad.technology · 20/10/2026

LIZARD MUSIC?? That is such a deep cut! I barely encounter anyone who read Pinkwater at all, much less who read that far back?! Apparently it was just me and Benny Safdie??

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Clifton Royston @cliftonr.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

@sundogplanets Well I think it works great, as long as you put the fusion reactor far enough out in space. For example, 1 AU seems a pretty workable distance, and we're still ramping up the amount of electricity we get from that one.

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Clifton Royston @cliftonr.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

@JessTheUnstill Closely related to what the old blog Kung Fu Monkey called "the Crazification factor."

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

See, THIS is what the Internet is supposed to be for

People also ask
Who legally owns the One Ring?

Realistically the Nation of Gondor would have the strongest claim and thus Aragorn as it rightful head of state.
While Isildur took the ring as spoils of war it was never taken from him or sold. Just lost this becoming an artifact. It was found by Deagol and should have been given to the Gondorian authorities for curation in a museum. Though Mordor does have valid.claim as the artefact was created by one of its citizens and is a cultural price of great importance

Isn't it technically Sauron's property?

I thought this was made pretty clear. It "answers to him and him alone" could imply ownership in perpetuity. Probably more than a few quotes to back that up. Everyone else who possesses it brings it back to Sauron in one way or another. Or the sackville bagginses.

also he never willingly abbandoned it. so legally don't think anyone else has a claim

The Deagol estate.

Possibly the actual answer, if abandonment kicks in while it's in the river, he might be the true owner when. he dies.

But if he died intestate without a will, it would revert through escheatment to the local government, since killing Deagol does not make it Sméagol's. So it would become the possession of whatever government the Stoors have??

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Clifton Royston @cliftonr.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

@ailadi20 Here's @pencilears, another of my friends and a delightful person, with a better explanation of how conversations and meeting people works on Fedi, and some suggestions of some people to follow. (I think I follow all of those same people myself.) And this leads to a whole […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

I see your "Tiffany is a valid medieval name" and raise you "Alexander the Great's wife was named Roxanne"

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Clifton Royston @cliftonr.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

@ailadi20 Hi Ailadi, welcome to the Fediverse! It can be a little disconcerting initially that it doesn’t start filling your feed with stuff like some social networks. The answer to that is to start following people who seem fun or interesting, and then see who they follow and it just grows […]

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Clifton Royston @cliftonr.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

@0xabad1dea What I really miss most from that era - you used to be able to meet arriving friends/relatives at their gate, or walk them out to the gate to wave goodbye when they got on the plane. What I don't miss - the insane idea of "Smoking sections" on airplanes, up to the '80s, I think? I […]

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Scary "Grampus" Jerry 👻 @jerry.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

There are major account take-over problems happening right now on mastodon instances - all appearances are that the actor is using stolen passwords, probably from malware running on desktops. I've suspended hundreds of compromised accounts over the past 48 hours, but only two on mine. If you […]

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Jess👾 @jesstheunstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Ties a million people to one trolley track, and a billion hypothetical humans to the other trolley track, then while the TESCREALs are debating at the trolley switch, runs them all over with a bus.

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Clifton Royston @cliftonr.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Today in Weird Byways of Software History, a true story that sounds like it came from a blatantly implausible parallel universe:

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Clifton Royston @cliftonr.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

The Linux Maintainers meeting report is even more dispiriting on the slop front than what I'd been hearing. This catches the flavor of it: "That said, there was also a general interest in knowing how patches are created. Some would like to see which models were used, or where in the […]

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Clifton Royston @cliftonr.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

@atax1a And neither am I, obviously, but I do feel a connection. That is kind of how we met here and why I've been following you since. Sometime I do need to explain that more, because I don't put everything about my life out in the open.

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Clifton Royston @cliftonr.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

@atax1a I can't tell you how much this means to me to see a thought directly from your mind that could equally be a thought in my own mind

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Clifton Royston @cliftonr.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

@atax1a The communication is the actual software. The executable is a byproduct. Without the communication and without the software living in people's minds, every line of code is just another liability.

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Clifton Royston @cliftonr.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

@atax1a 100% this. Someone else around here was quoting someone to this effect, and I think it's true — paraphrased from memory: Software only lives in the knowledge and understanding of its developers. I take this as: If you have some lines of code or a binary that you don't understand and […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 15/10/2026

Abstraction is leverage. Automation is the amplification of power. Abstraction is democratization. Automation repeats a duplicative process so you can stop thinking about it and focus on something higher level. Abstraction elides so architecture can expand. AI is anti-leverage. Where an […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 15/10/2026

It's also very frustrating to constantly have my opposition to AI be taken as an opposition to abstraction, or to automation, and a desire to do every little thing by hand. But it's the opposite. For a whole bunch of reasons, AI anti-abstracts. It adversarially creates oceans of duplication to […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 15/10/2026

Read the _entire_ thread, please: cosocial.ca/@mhoye/1174395318649462… Linux is lost. In the meanwhile, we'll be stuck with it for a decade at least, but it's gone. I have no hope that anyone involved is capable of learning or course-correcting any more, and it was badly off-course […]

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Clifton Royston @cliftonr.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

@atax1a Oh yeah, it's been a long time but I remember it as one of the better SCSs I've worked with. And I now think Git is 2nd worst to RCS.

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Clifton Royston @cliftonr.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

@jik Yes, but think of how much money this saves them by helping them understaff their abuse desk and fill it with poorly informed cheap hires!

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Chilly :donor: 🛡️ :gayint: :ifin: @chillybot.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

We have taken control of the means of cat (infosec.exchange now has roomba cat thank yoou) :cat_roomba_fast: :cat_roomba_fast:

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Clifton Royston @cliftonr.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

@quidcumque I haven't seen this myself. But I'm frequently unable to see/find objects which I've misplaced or sometimes put in plain view, and have to ask my wife to look for me.

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Happy to announce that the “buddha” character has been successfully adapted for a US audience

Some buddhas hand citrus branded as “goblin fingers@

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Clifton Royston @cliftonr.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

@skinnylatte I apparently slept with my head turned slightly wrong a couple months ago, and it took me nearly 2 months to recover from it.

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Proud of my local dyke bar for taking a stand against transphobia

Screenshot of a post by Rikki’s bar In SF where they said they had an incident with people coming to the bar wearing transphobic shirts looking for confrontation

The post says we we want to make it clear that trans people belong at Rikki’s and trans people belong in sports

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Jess👾 @jesstheunstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Periodic reminder that the absurd price of dram and ssds for computer components basically boil down to an oligopoly of 3 corporations who have a long history of collision and price fixing whenever they can find a plausible excuse to get away constraining supply and making obscene amounts of profit.

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Clifton Royston @cliftonr.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

He sure gets grumpy about being shut in his crate at night though. (We don't want the other cats to start beating on him while we're sleeping, or for him to accidentally hurt his leg while it's still healing.)

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Clifton Royston @cliftonr.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

This is Tomtom. Joli, a friend and colleague of my wife, has been fostering him because he had a broken leg when he came to the shelter, and they were going to amputate. She was sure she could splint the leg and save it, and she succeeded. Now we’re watching the little guy for a week or two so […]

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Clifton Royston @cliftonr.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Our cats are very upset and having literal hissy-fits because there is An Interloper! The interloper in question:

A young black and white cat with tuxedo markings, barely past kitten stage, is peering out from under a Scandinavian style wood and vinyl chair.

The same young black and white cat has come out from under the chair and is trotting diagonally left and towards the camera.

The same young black and white cat is closer still, in a half seated position, staring towards the right.

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

In precision machining it’s known that the standard twist drill makes holes that are never perfectly round nor perfectly sized. When exactness is required you drill slightly undersized then follow up with a reamer. Needing 10.000mm I drilled 9.9 and chucked a 10mm reamer. Instead of taking tiny […]

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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