Louis Ingenthron @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.
Politically moderate, but a registered Democrat since January 7th 2021.
He/Him 
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
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I made the transition to #Mastodon the day Elon closed his deal. Looking back, the difference is surreal.
On Twitter, my feed was full of political trolls pushing my buttons and pissing me off and making me question my faith in humanity.
On Mastodon, I get to read opinions from many of the same people I respected over there... but also I get brief, random windows into subcommunities like #Mosstodon, which is a delightful group of nature weirdoes and scientists posting pictures of moss they see out in the wild. It's so wholesome and positive that it restores my faith in humanity.
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A good way to start a feed on a new social media site is doggo pictures, right?
Currently in the process of making a transition to my own Mastodon server (it was inevitable).
If you follow me and it doesn't automatically transfer, my new handle will be:
I've now seen multiple comments on the fediverse, predominantly from #black folks, either directly calling people #racists, or implying as much, for the crime of supporting #Harris for president.
So, either I'm missing a really big piece of the puzzle, or there's a really bizarre trolling campaign going on. I haven't figured out which yet.
If you can shed some light on the subject, please do.
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Nine years ago, Hillary said around half of Trump supporters were bigots of various stripes and despite that being a generous estimate, the right hasn't stopped whining about it since--and they convinced the press that it was a consequential slur.
This will be forgotten in 2 days...
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I was wrong.
I thought Biden stepping aside would be a disaster, leading to a bloody nomination battle. I am pleasantly surprised that it has instead resulted in an amazing burst of energy, excitement, and optimism, around Harris, a terrific candidate.
I suspect almost all primary voters who voted for Biden are happy with Harris as well.
Biden gave his country, and our democracy, a wonderful selfless gift by passing the torch.
Let’s win this!
#AI is absolutely incredible at helping #refactor repetitive #code. I love it when it just picks up on a pattern I've been applying and offers to perform what takes me 10 clicks in a single keystroke.
And for all the anti-AI folks: this is a great example of it working on (A) a local machine without significant additional power usage, and (B) pattern matching against my own actions, not "stealing" anything from its source materials except basic syntactical patterns.
It's amazing how many people were adamant that there was no way in hell that #Biden would drop out of the race... and now they're making other absurd claims without missing a beat.
I do believe I'm gonna unfollow some of the more egregious ones. Humility and self-awareness are important, as is being able to acknowledge when one was wrong.
Just adjusted the date of a dentist appointment so as not to conflict with the release of a video game I'm highly anticipating.
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My mum (bless her!) used to say, "I'm not racist, but I don't want a black family to move in next door; it'll bring down the property values."
That's not very different from all the people who say "I'd vote for Kamala Harris, but there's too much racism for her to get elected."
People "outsource" their racism to others.
If you're not actively supporting people from ethnic minorities, rather than creating problems for them, you make yourself part of a racist system.
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For all my lovely 763 followers, I am going to be posting more politics than usual to try and support #KamalaHarris so might want to mute me until 2025 if not interested.
Last week I had swore off the “news” online because doomscrolling is so unhealthy for me. But now, #hopescrolling has given my interest in the election 5,000 gallosn of premium rocket fuel.
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I've always known I was cis male, even if I didn't have the language to describe it when I was a kid 50+ years ago. It's not something I had to talk myself into or pray about or get "converted" to. It's just who I am.
So why can't we just trust that trans people know they're trans?
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OK Mastodon #OpenSource folks, this is your time to shine
I need some examples of common open source myths. This will have a security slant to it when I put it all together, but I'm not only looking for security examples, I want all types
Here are a few I've cooked up, but I know there are ton more
- Most projects have more than one maintainer
- Most projects are part of a large foundation like Eclipse or Linux Foundation
- There are many options for libraries and you can swap them out if needed
- Open source is more secure than closed source
- Open source is less secure than closed source
- Most projects have funding driving the development
- If I use open source in my product, I have to open source the whole product
- If the source code is available, it’s open source
- There are a few thousand open source projects
I want them all, no matter how small, silly, or obvious you think they are, let me know
So the United States got 8 good years of legal gay marriage, a period during which I was at my sexual prime and failed to find anyone to marry.
Fuck.
The challenge to Obergefell is here already, courtesy of Kim Davis, the clerk who refused to provide a marriage license to a same-sex couple. Dobb...
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The cult surrounding a white guy whose father’s tax fraud scheme made him a millionaire at age 8 insists that the daughter of two first generation immigrants couldn’t have gotten to where she is on merit.
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Compiler: 29 errors
Me: [fixes like 50 errors]
Compiler: 28 errors
Man, the 70s must have been wild. I'm watching an old show from then and the ladies on the left are described as irredeemably ugly. The famous beautician says he's not sure he can fix them. Then they come out the other end looking like golden girls in the second picture and everybody starts fawning over them as if they're movie stars.
I don't know if it's just because they remind me so much of my grandparents in the second photo, or if my lack of attraction to women is a factor, but I genuinely think they both look better in the first photo.
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In which my favourite piano-youtuber discusses a song in my favourite game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGb04ayqNhY
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i will use CW for #USpol if computer people start using CW for tech computer boring linux software posting. i said what i said
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A mea culpa. A few days ago I said getting rid of Biden as the candidate would be an own goal by the Dems. I was wrong.
The palpable energy shift among Democratic voters that I know from Biden as the candidate to Kamala Harris has been incredible. People seem genuinely excited and dare I say, hopeful.
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.
Politically moderate, but a registered Democrat since January 7th 2021.
He/Him
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
