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.
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High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
@mmasnick Even with so many techie followers willing and able to automate that pain away for a nominal fee?
@arossp Right, but wouldn't that effectively be enabling your friends' continued use of the service? Providing a value to the service by helping keep some users locked-in to what they're familiar with?
@arossp If you had jumped ship early enough, there were API tools that allowed you to delete all content on your account without deleting the account itself.
My old Twitter account is just an empty shell taking up some server space and directing folks to my Mastodon account.
I refuse to contribute content to that jackass's empire.
@garyackerman There are three separate typos in that image...
@mmasnick @Jayslacks While I agree with you that that can be annoying in general, it does seem to be a somewhat reasonable response to a complaint about a major social network posted on a competitor network. I'd expect a similar response on Post, Gab, even Facebook. I don't think it's unique to Mastodon.
@arossp Follow the lead of @benjaminwittes if you want to speed the process up a mite.
@Craktok By that logic, Rolling Stone should report on every politicians' review of every meal they ever eat.
The argument that this is newsworthy *to his constituents* has merit, but Rolling Stone is a national magazine, not a local Houston paper.
They should be prioritizing reporting on the politicians who actually do things rather than the politicians who intentionally bloviate stupid and offensive things to try to raise their profile.
It's not about "burying my head in the sand". It's about not giving performative jackasses the attention they crave.
I just got embarrassingly far into the 2011 prequel of The Thing before wondering where the hell Kurt Russell was.
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Carl sagan’s thought about books:
“When our genes could not store all the information necessary for survival, we slowly invented them. But then the time came, perhaps ten thousand years ago, when we needed to know more than could conveniently be contained in brains. So we learned to
stockpile enormous quantities of information outside our bodies. We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have
invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of that memory is called the library. A book is made from a tree. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.”
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
@Craktok So? Folks in congress say things all the time. News outlets choose which ones to report on and which ones to make headlines out of.
This guy says outrageous things he can't ever make happen just to get headlines, and apparently Rolling Stone is happy to play right into his hands.
@clsmith @RollingStone If you click the link, you'll see he was referring to armed guards at schools, not "every yahoo".
That said, his plan is still dumb for a dozen other reasons.
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Did you know that ISO 8601 is a very large standard that describes more than a single date and time format?
It describes periods, repetitions, many different syntax of describing years, week-of-year, day-of-year, seasons, quarters, semesters, trimesters.
It's mostly unknown because the standards are paywalled: you can't just read ISO 8601 without paying ISO money.
Most of the time, when people refer to ISO 8601, they mean the subset that is described in RFC 3339.
@RollingStone A sixth grader could refute that argument 🤦♂️
Why is this newsworthy?
I love motion-sensing lights, particularly in the hallway to the bathroom in my house at night.
But I really wish someone would invent a motion-sensing light that can't be set off by cats.
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This is absurd.
If Biden commits a crime, he should also be prosecuted.
And random local prosecutors will not be able to bring cases against former presidents.
The Manhattan DA is bringing a case against Trump because he lived and work in Manhattan for decades.
@sarahemclaugh @robpegoraro Sure. As I said before, I'd boycott on such grounds. If enough people did the same, then the math on the markets shifts and it becomes more profitable to not give in to the laws of the second market.
They have very much explored the option. For them, maybe the math just doesn't pan out, and the markets they'd lose exceed the markets they'd gain.
@sarahemclaugh @robpegoraro I think those very businesses have proved, time and time again, that we can expect nothing more.
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
