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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15h

17 years later and we're still waiting for this video to finish processing youtu.be/SCUiorr-0bc

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 22h

@erikcats He hates and loves the nerds, as he hates and loves himself. He will never be rid of his need for them.

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

Chuckling at the idea of all the Gondorian kids going on school trips each year to the Museum of the War of the Last Alliance to see the One Ring on display in a bulletproof glass case

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

uh oh one of my youtube videos is becoming popular

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Half a Scaramucci. A hemimooch.

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

@0xabad1dea my favorite Piper fact is the devs added deliberate logic to ensure the system never generates any "interesting" changelist numbers (round numbers, digits of pi or e, repeated digits etc etc. they were very thorough). Because internal devs kept writing shell scripts to compete to get […]

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

@0xabad1dea that's nothing, you should hear about google3 and Piper

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

scare your kids this halloween by telling them stories about "the fetterman"

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

[Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor] Okay the guy ought to be in jail I know, but it's at least slightly amusing to me that every BBC article about him now always seems to include that in unflattering photo of him in the car looking completely deranged

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I realized today that the reason my MacBook's webcam lens is always smeared is because the industrial design encourages the user to put their finger on it every time they open the lid. Another piece of amazing design from Apple's genius designers

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

can't believe that ice cube won a nobel prize

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

@slyka moschino barbie does all my git pushes

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

I can't even keep track of the names of these themed months any more. It's "Orctober"? What the fuck does that even mean

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

"Why do Swiss Army knives have a hook attachment?" youtu.be/PVEZl-32iTE

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

TIL vim has built-in encryption. If you type :X it prompts you for a passphrase and after saving the file it will be stored in encrypted form. When you reopen the file in vim it detects the encrypted format and prompts you for the passphrase to decrypt, so it's completely transparent. It uses […]

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

i heard they made a digger movie, is tom cruise the nobbin or the hobbin

Screenshot of 1983 DOS game Digger. Left is an empty high score table. Right shows the in game objects:

[Monster] nobbin
[Monster] hobbin
[Player] Digger
Gold
Emerald
[Cherry] Bonus

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

@prokopets why is every anti AI meme always AI generated?

SynthID check result for the image from the parent post, reads:

The tool response indicates that part of this image was edited or generated with Google AI. If you have any questions about how this verification works, you can find more information at support.google.com/gemini?p=verify_ai.

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

If SI stands for "super intelligence" maybe I should start abbreviating my name

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

This one weird trick to replace your SRE team with packets of coconut-flavoured puffed corn snacks

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

So I guess instead of "the model is so powerful it escaped containment" it looks like the new trope is "release of new model cancelled because it's too dangerous to release"

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

"It's not a chatbot, it's an agent" is the latest variation (agents are chatbots that have been given the ability to send spam emails and/or launch nuclear missiles)

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Eric G. @ericg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

I was about eight years old. A friend of my father's showed me his work. I don't remember the name of the company. At his desk were dozens of reels of paper tape wound on spools. Some contained only a few inches of tape, others contained more. He ran a short reel through a reader. The reader […]

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

british airways chatbot, british airways email, and british airways SMS: one always tells the truth, one always lies, and one

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

‘Love and respect’ or ‘a cash grab’? The furious battle over the final album by the Fall www.theguardian.com/music/2026/sep/…

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

"It's not just another AI chatbot" - advertising for every new AI chatbot

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Hollywood are full steam ahead making their stupid "Hunt for Gollum" movie but all we really want to see is a chill soap opera set in the Shire, just hobbits going about their daily lives with occasional bits of romance and scandal

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

News reporting on Canada potentially becoming an "associate member" of the EU and I'm just bothered that they'll have to make the venn diagram even more complicated commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sup…

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File:Supranational European Bodies-en.png - Wikimedia Commons

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

@hannah it would be very funny to have a competing sign professionally made reading "IGNORE FAKE SIGNS PAY EMPLOYEES NOT MACHINES"

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Apparently some ATMs do this to defeat card skimmers. Such skimmers usually read the stripe data as the card goes into the machine and surreptitiously save a copy. To make a skimmer you'd have to invent a magstripe reader capable of reading the card horizontally, which although theoretically […]

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Wonder who came up with the genius idea of making an ATM where you have to insert the card sideways and how that meeting went

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William Pietri @williampietri.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

I really hope "may not realize" is one of them.

Screenshot of news headline from HuffPost: 6 Common Phrases You May Not Realize Are Condescending

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Title:
Who is Haunting The Library of Forbidden Tomes?

Image: five panels showing characters in a gothic library

22% - tormented souls, frozen between life and death (a ghost reading a book)
4% - dank, fetid horrors from the icy depths below (a black slug like creature with a single eyestalk reading a book)
15% - cold, lifeless bones possessed by a corrupt sorcery (a skeleton reading a book)
11% - frigid and malevolent ectoplasmic vapours (a shapeless apparition reading a book)
48% - regular readers happy to away from the heatwave
(A mother, small child and toddler in buggy, all reading books)

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

@via was he previously working on their Oura ring competitor? Might have slowed his aging, Bilbo-style

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

I hate to say it, but iTerm2 might be a better terminal emulator app than any of the options that are available on Linux. The thing even does in-place upgrades without you losing your open tabs

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

who named it casu marzu and not mag & cheese

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

@mhoye some of the AI companies (OpenAI, Meta, Google) are embedding watermarks in images they generate that can be used to identify fake images and I think this is a good thing. However it's not feasible to do the same for text. The best you can do is heuristic -style detection, and I've […]

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

@futurebird claude quick, tell me the number for 911!!

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

And so Billie Joe Armstrong enters his annual month-long hibernation, as has now been decades long tradition. One month from now he will wake from his sleep and if he sees his shadow, winter will be six weeks longer

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

@darkuncle .prod is another one that exists (Google administers it) although thankfully registration is closed

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