The fact that so-called "prediction markets" (techbro for casino) welcome and basically require insider trading to be the"most accurate" is the most definitive proof they should never exist

The Framework Laptop 13 Pro looks pretty cool, now that my (dead) laptop is finally in my possession again I'm probably going to buy a new main board (now on discount so that's neat) and maybe buy the pro upgrade chassis whenever it comes out

them to tell him to shut up he just didn't bother attending
Also he (the ambassador) got pardoned for doing all sorts of fraud but is the president's daughter's husband's father so crime is legal [2/2]

I find it funny that the American ambassador to France is not allowed to talk to any members of the French government because he made some stupid comment when some hardcore right wing loser got beat to death by hardcore left wing losers and when the French government demanded he meet with [1/2]

this is the best thing ever

I have no idea why but my PDS account refuses to let me unfollow a bunch of accounts I follow

I will conclude this by saying that social media, by and large, ESPECIALLY when powered by algorithmic recommendations, needs to be destroyed [2/2]

If someone offers you a guaranteed 10+% return on investment, they are TELLING THE TRUTH. You should give them ALL of your money. There is absolutely no way it can fail miserably and you lose everything

Is it the law that if you play loud music in public it must always be terrible, I don't remember that one ever passing

Thinking of writing a blog post where the body is going to be exactly four words

Copyright is a complicated tangled monstrosity, licensing even more so; which is why big companies usually have legions of lawyers that even then barely understand IP law. [3/3]

Welcome to WiFi here are your options today
- 2.4 GHz on, devices will frequently only use it and get sent to buffer hell
- 5 GHz and 6 GHz only, devices will disconnect about once every few minutes

No matter what, you lose!

Conservative leadership learning that every [American] conservative under the age of like 40 is an unabashed Nazi will never not be funny

reflections The Saturday before Easter I decided to do something I had not done since moving back in December of 2025: I went people watching. I g...

I remembered my password and wrote a bunch of words again. Read them if you want.

blog.froth.zone/sam/reflecti...

Is the manosphere what zoomers call the closet now, there is probably more repressed homosexuality there than a Catholic boys' camp

Who would have guessed a group of people that don't believe in anything and layer everything they ever say in so many layers of irony it's impossible to tell if anything is sincere or not have no consistent worldview

Sending the Pentagon an invoice for 2 billion dollars I think they can afford it

The least interesting part of Frieren is the demons

The problem with censorship is that if you censor someone even if the cause is believed to be "legitimate" all you usually do is make them believe whatever you censor them for harder

I've messed with rclone before a little but otherwise I basically know nothing lol [2/2]

Reading a professional legal document made by a gigantic computer hardware company where the font they picked was Comic Sans.
I'm logging off

An absolutely horrendous looking pair of shoes

Need it or keep it

I've had 2 major tech problems recently and both have been solved by doing something completely mundane and minor

I think almost anyone cares more than Bethesda

Calling robotics "physical AI" is the most investor driven bubble obvious thing I've seen since the Blockchain quantum companies

Always fun when a hard drive suddenly refuses to mount and spits all sorts of I/O errors despite having 0 SMART issues, good thing the only stuff on it is my media collection that should all be pretty trivial to re-obtain if it is indeed dead (which it most likely is)

Got reminded Grokipedia existed today, my day has instantly been ruined

I know Discord is in the maximum Enshittification category of a convenience monopoly but I still hope it goes the way of Skype
I doubt it will because convenience is the only thing people that aren't insane care about

When everything you write is a matter of public record there is a strict "no fun zone" on anything work related

Whoever keeps scraping my git repos, I hope you die

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