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
@AriCohn You sure that wasn't for a gender reveal party?
@alisonborealis @krypt3ia Not a single one that I use (other than built-in ones with legitimate reason, like the phone/messaging apps).
I would consider that a huge red flag and avoid using any app that demanded my contacts without good reason.
I personally don't know of any reputable examples that do that, but it's possible some may exist.
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Gov. DeSantis battling the dastardly American scourge of, uh, a college preparatory education:
"My number one concern as a parent right now is that my kids will be cut off from additional information about the world. Will they be able to learn beyond what our state is going to allow them to know?"
@krypt3ia No, I've built android apps. I know this first-hand. You can't access the data until you get the permission from the OS, and you can't get the permission from the OS unless the user clicks "yes" on the popup.
The only possible exception to this would be the company that makes the OS, Google.
@krypt3ia On Android, they *have* to ask. It's enforced by the OS.
@jgordon @briankrebs Pretty sure the only reason they went away is because cell phones came on the scene and everyone with a cellphone got an unlisted number.
White pages died with landlines.
@jurjen_heeck With modern phones, you can just deny them the permission to access the data.
@dangillmor Looks like the fine reporting was by "Forbidden Stories" and WaPo basically just rewrote it for their audience and added some web graphics.
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getting into my tesla and hitting like on a musk tweet so it'll start
@karanicolas I'd argue that it correlates more closely to the growth and popularization of the internet than social media specifically.
In my mind, journalism has declined because of two key factors:
1) It no longer has a monopoly on information. Whereas the newspaper or evening news used to be a central point of shared cultural information sourcing, the democratization of information that the internet provides created a degree of competition that the industry simply couldn't keep up with.
2) The journalism industry's response to (1) has largely accelerated this process by trying to mimic the clickbait they were now competing against instead of defining themselves by filling a niche the internet hordes couldn't produce. See, for example, the move to 24 hour news cycles, reporting on tweets from public officials that people can follow directly themselves, massive increases in cheap crime reporting, and reliance on interns writing ragebait headlines for social media instead of investing in longer-term investigative journalism.
Real journalism is absolutely essential to the sustainability of democracy.
Unfortunately, it seems the folks most in need of that lesson are the ones who own and operate for-profit journalistic endeavors.
@44 The former is a bit more suspicious. It could mean that something was compromised and had to be rolled back to an earlier backup.
But even so, I'd still lean towards incompetence over malice.
@44 Has anyone reported something *they know they deleted* coming back? Or are random points of data coming back after mass-deletes?
Because the latter is consistent with caching failures that can be attributed to the incompetence of an overworked and directionless engineering department.
@44 To some extent, this can be attributed to caching.
I went through and deleted all my tweets ages ago, but each time I went back to check on something, I would see a couple that hadn't shown up when I was systemically deleting. This is also related to the API having a time limit for how far back it could mass delete tweets, and Twitter's search having trouble finding old tweets.
It's possible the directionless screwing with the algorithm has made this worse, but it's definitely not a new phenomenon and predates Musk's acquisition.
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As the New York Times once again defends the underprivileged, marginalized, and oppressed J.K. Rowling, it’s important to remember that a pretty big chunk of hand-wringing about cancel culture is in fact just status anxiety, as people used to having their opinions unchallenged and their prejudices celebrated are now facing criticism, and they hate it.
@NatlSecCnslrs@mstdn.social Is that real? Or is it some AI garbage pretending to be real? Or is it cake?
Because if it's real, I want it.
@TheStormcrow @TheConversationUS Sure. Just as long as we use social cues and pressure instead of government force.
@M_C_B52 FWIW, "fire in a crowded theater" is a discredited trope and has been for 100 years. You can absolutely shout "fire" in a crowded theater under US law.
See here for more info: https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-hackneyed-apologia-for-censorship-are-enough/
@karanicolas Wait... Journalism funding started drying up so journalists started posting stories on social media to increase their reach and now somehow the dry funds are social media's fault?
If anything, social media is responsible for the journalism industry continuing to hang on to dear life.
Blame your owners and managers for squandering money on things other than good journalism.
@RupertBBare The principled ones are, yes.
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
