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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Musk's right-wing extremism accelerates, and so does his active amplification of other extremists. Remember, these are people who want to end democracy and, by extension, freedom of expression (for anyone who isn't one of them).
Journalists, meanwhile, continue to directly support him by pouring their work into his malignant platform.
Will they ever stop helping their enemies?
(Needless to say, that's a rhetorical question...)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-boosted-pizzagate-conspiracy-theory-rcna127087
Because some people only know how to destroy 🤦♂️
If you don't like what climate protesters do at +1.2°C (e.g., gluing themselves to stuff, disrupting sporting events, throwing paint on buildings),...
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I'm sorry, did you forget the last 200 years of technological progress advancing productivity yet leading us to work even longer hours? If we want to work less, we need unions, not tech.
One of the most important skills in modern life that most people don't talk about is the skill of choosing for whom you apportion your mental and emotional energy.
Is it sad that a relative of a random person you know on the internet just got cancer? Sure. Should you invest emotions into it? Absolutely not.
If you allow your emotions to be guided by anything you read on the internet, you'll be a mess (we all know the type).
But if you go too far the other way, you become callous and cruel to those outside your immediate circle.
Finding the balance is difficult, and we should talk about it more.
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36 years ago today was the Max Headroom TV STL hijacking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_signal_hijacking
I regard this incident as the best and purest hacking prank in modern history. The combination of sophisticated, meticulous technical planning and execution, utterly juvenile content, essential harmlessness, lack of financial motive, and never getting caught or identified (or later taking credit) remains, in my opinion, unmatched to this day.
Pure art.
Bought a Bluray only to find out I can't play it because the DRM prevents most commercially available media players from being able to decrypt it, even for legitimate customers.
Congratulations, studios. You have officially fully silenced my moral qualms about torrenting.
PSA: It's still November for another week.
Oh, except it breaks syntax highlighting in my IDE. That's a dealbreaker. Damn.
Holy crap, I love Windows high-contrast mode.
Wow, Newegg has a 20TB hard drive up for $250.
When I started working on computers, we never had an entire gigabyte free, much less a terabyte, much less 20 of them!
Look, AI/ML is great at a lot of stuff.
But this. Is not. One of them.
Revolution might not be televised, but apparently genocide will be mathwashed. From the team behind "we kill people based on metadata", a new excit...
A pharmacy just texted me a link to a webpage that is only designed for desktop.
People really don't think these things through, do they?
You can always tell when someone takes #GunSafety seriously. Sometimes they even break character because handling guns safely is so important that it becomes an automatic reflex.
Note: Drew Carey delivered his line seamlessly while performing this maneuver, but then again, he is a former Marine.
Ah, so apparently the Federalist is writing guides on how to be the racist uncle at Thanksgiving now.
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When I was young, in the immediate aftermath of WWII, I was brought up to believe that we had defeated Fascism. Now I am old, I realise that those battles have to be fought over and over again. Never in my lifetime have I felt so despondent about the future.
Strongly recommending the game #HighFleet.
I usually hate anything resembling a "bullet hell" game and sidescrollers aren't usually my preference, but this game is so singular and unique it needs to be experienced.
The premise is that you're in charge of a small fleet of gargantuan black-smoke-belching rocket-powered mountains of machines to run a guerilla war against a far superior force.
The graphics and sound design are superb, but the game itself is a masterclass on proper scoping. Everything that's included plays a vital part in making the game what it is and there's nothing extraneous.
The game is two-layer, much like XCOM. Half of it is frenetic dogfights between these massive rocket ships and the other half is a very challenging strategy/story layer about building your resistance.
Anyway, if you're a #gamedev and you want to see an example of an indie game done right, don't sleep on this one.
I don't care how "clean" you think it makes your app look, add fucking borders to your windows.
Wow, so StackOverflow took the questions that are their entire purpose off their homepage?
Seems foolish.
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
