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LouisIngenthron

@LouisIngenthron@qoto.org

Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.

#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.

Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.

Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.

He/Him 🏳‍🌈

High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.

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protecttruth, to random
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Well, @mmasnick was 100% right—
that Musk had no idea what he was talking about, and would eventually have to deal with hard censorship problems that he would fail at.

LouisIngenthron,
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@leemeade More scrutiny from whom? It's a private company. He could apply a clown label to companies if he wanted to.
(Plus, the faster he screws up, the faster he'll burn down his new toy).

LouisIngenthron,
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@toriver Lol "profits".

I think you meant "ego".

hjcksn, to random

Concerns over affordability of insurance for some as FEMA flood risk ratings are updated in the US
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-climate-change-floods/feature-as-climate-risks-rise-flood-insurance-costs-stun-us-homeowners-idUSL8N36T5YY

LouisIngenthron,
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@hjcksn FEMA: This will all be water soon.

This guy: I'm gonna build my house here!

adamkovac, to random

The push for app store legislation is driven by multi-million $ companies like Spotify, Epic, Match. Small app developers - who pay no or low app store fees - are doing well:

https://t.co/PVY77ZC2wV

LouisIngenthron,
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@adamkovac Sure, if you ignore the problems with opaque rules and market oversaturation.

LouisIngenthron, to gamedev
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#Unity3D was a great choice for #KerbalSpaceProgram 1.

But I'd be willing to bet good money that it was a very poor choice for the sequel and is now just holding the team back.

LouisIngenthron, to random
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That... is... brilliant! Even if only to get them out of the regular lanes!
QT: https://mastodon.green/@baarda/109667339081231340

BleepingComputer, to random

Toyota Motor Corporation disclosed a data breach on its cloud environment that exposed the car-location information of 2,150,000 customers for ten years, between November 6, 2013, and April 17, 2023.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/toyota-car-location-data-of-2-million-customers-exposed-for-ten-years/

LouisIngenthron,
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@z3r0fox @BleepingComputer Good luck. You'd be lucky to still have a working fuel gauge after.
Better to just buy older well-maintained cars.

mentallyalex, to random
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Someone sent this to me and I thought it was funny.

LouisIngenthron,
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@mentallyalex I wish the actual translation of that verse was so ambiguous...

Teri_Kanefield, to random

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    LouisIngenthron,
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    @Teri_Kanefield Why did you not just boost the original source to begin with instead of stealing their content without attribution?

    LouisIngenthron,
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    @Teri_Kanefield Thought we were supposed to be better than the childish name-calling. This makes me cringe.

    TonyStark, to random
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    Age restrictions on gun purchases are among the most effective, most popular measures for reducing gun deaths and increasing public safety.

    So of course Republicans don’t want any of that.

    Next up for Republicans: probably arming daycare kids. Stop letting these people get elected. Stop letting them appoint judges.

    Federal judge in Virginia rules 18-to-20-year-olds can't be prohibited from buying handguns-
    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/handguns-federal-judge-second-amendment-18-to-20-year-olds-virginia/

    LouisIngenthron,
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    @TonyStark @lldgirl I think I can explain that.

    When Republicans oppose common sense gun control legislation, their base doesn't really care. Much of their base would like that legislation, but it's not as big a deal to them as the other culture war stuff.

    However, when the Democrats see this, get pissed off, and start talking about banning guns, that riles up the GOP base and gives the Republicans more sound bites to win elections off of.

    It's a calculated play to get Democrats to mobilize the Republican base for them.

    LouisIngenthron, to javascript
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    Well, that's interesting. Thanks #javascript 🙄

    Code:
    var d = new Date('2023-01-01');
    alert((d.getMonth()+1)+'/'+ d.getFullYear());

    Output:
    12/2022

    I mean, I'm pretty sure I get why (timezone offset?), but it's still very stupid.

    mmasnick, to random
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    Okay folks: this morning we're launching something we think is pretty useful. Lots of people have strong opinions on how content moderation should work, but they've never done it. So we built a content moderation mobile game (browser-based): https://moderatormayhem.engine.is/

    Details about it are here: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/11/moderator-mayhem-a-mobile-game-to-see-how-well-you-can-handle-content-moderation/

    LouisIngenthron,
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    @mmasnick Neat, but really not a fan of the time limit.

    I get the point of it, but maybe it would be better to have a fixed number of cards for your shift, and then any time you get more context info, it grays out a card on the back of the deck that you'd no longer have time to get to.
    That would better reinforce the theme of the game (hard decisions in limited time) without giving advantage to speed readers.

    Also, the appeals interface is confusing. If I swipe right on an appeal, am I affirming the appeal, or am I affirming my previous decision? I assumed the former, but was never really sure...

    LouisIngenthron,
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    @mmasnick @Beeks I would recommend a popup explaining the mechanic if a user clicks instead of holds. Add a "don't show this again" checkbox.

    LouisIngenthron,
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    @mmasnick Yeah, but using that option very much feels like giving up, lol.

    LouisIngenthron, to random
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    A #duck has apparently chosen a nook in my roof as its nest.

    Are wild duck eggs a delicacy?

    LouisIngenthron,
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    @ThinkingSapien These ones don't squawk, but they do clomp around like toddlers at dawn...

    peterdrake, to gamedev
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    Gyah! Unity's "dig through a vast tree of GameObjects to manually wire things together" approach is going to make me tear out my luxuriant, flowing hair. I can see how it lets a non-coder do simple things, but it does not scale! It's tedious and error-prone.

    #unity #unity3d #GameDev

    LouisIngenthron,
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    @peterdrake It's also a prime market for an ML algo.

    dangillmor, to random
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    "(W)hat we are witnessing is the wealthiest companies in history (Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon …) unilaterally seizing the sum total of human knowledge that exists in digital, scrapable form and walling it off inside proprietary products, many of which will take direct aim at the humans whose lifetime of labor trained the machines without giving permission or consent."

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/08/ai-machines-hallucinating-naomi-klein

    LouisIngenthron,
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    @cobalt @dangillmor Or you could just use Wikipedia or host whatever information you want on your own site.

    People pretend like these companies hold some magical power, but the only power they truly have is that people choose to use their services, and that can always change.

    LouisIngenthron,
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    @Soldierhobo @cobalt @dangillmor Sure. But I'd argue that the lazy people who generate the demand for the service are far more to blame than those who meet their demand by providing the service.

    It doesn't matter if restauranteurs try to open fine dining establishments if people just ignore them for the fast food burger joint next door.

    LouisIngenthron,
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    @clacke @dangillmor @cobalt Hate to tell you this, but so can anyone who hears your verbal story. There's no DRM around a campfire.

    LouisIngenthron,
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    @TomSwirly If you read up, you may notice it's not a comparison I initiated.

    Moreover, you seem to have missed the point. It's not the listening at issue, but the reproduction. Oral historians plied their trade by listening and then repeating the stories of others, often for profit.

    cathygellis, to random
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    Yesterday some friends gave me a very technical explanation of welding.

    LouisIngenthron,
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    @cathygellis If you add hors d'oeuvres, that sounds like a nice party.

    w7voa, to random
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    Chairman of the Senate's energy committee, Democrat Joe Manchin, announces he'll oppose every nominee to run the EPA.

    LouisIngenthron,
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    @w7voa Every nominee currently on the table, or every nominee forever?

    osc, to fediverse

    I won’t lie, I’m not super optimistic about the future of #Mastodon

    On top of obvious feature issues (such as the lack of quote posts, even though it’ll be addressed soon), Mastodon has a massive culture issue

    Unless your use perfectly fit with how the so-called Fedipolice uses it, you’re taking the risk of receiving massive abuse from said Fedipolice

    It’s unwelcoming, and rooted in privilege: "Mastodon isn’t a replacement for #Twitter, except for me"

    LouisIngenthron,
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    @osc Okay, well, if they're genuinely being abusive, racist or not, then they should still be reported+banned.

    But if they're just being their normal mute-able annoying, then why bring race into the discussion?

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