Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.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.
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High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
@pomegranate_stew @svc @georgetakei Laws hold a bit more force than regular speech, so I'm not sure my previous statement quite applies there.
> "No, but repeated hate speech sure does end up sounding a lot like a 'good suggestion' to too many right-wingers lately."
Bingo, that's my point. The problem is less that some opportunists are willing to sell hate, and more that so many "regular" people are willing to buy it.
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@web3isgreat Well, yeah, but that describes everyone in crypto.
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I feel like we aren’t talking nearly enough about DeSantis (FL), Abbott (TX) and Kemp (GA) using or threatening to use state laws that allow for the removal of local elected officials for significant misconduct to replace Democrats with their Republican cronies on the flimsiest of pretexts, and without any due process. DeSantis already replaced 2 prosecutors, it’s how TX took over the Houston schools, and Kemp is threatening Fani Willis.
@svc @georgetakei Speech doesn't "make" anyone do anything. We all still have choice over how we react to speech.
@georgetakei Idk, I feel like that takes too much responsibility away from the people who actually commit the deed.
Those leaders and their rhetoric are just the excuse that these folks use to deflect responsibility for their actions.
@trinsec Might be able to solve it a lot cheaper if it's just a bad breaker.
When I first moved into the house I'm in now, the circuit breaker would trip every time I tried to use my microwave while both my computer and fridge were already running.
Once I finally got an electrician in to take a look, it ended up being a bad breaker that was like a $5 replacement. Haven't had a problem since.
@trinsec Ah, too bad. Maybe another streaming service got the rights there? I don't think it's a Netflix original.
@trinsec Have you seen "The Magicians" on Netflix? It's about a magical school, but for young adults, so they're able to explore certain more-mature subjects that the kid-friendly stories can't. The quality is a little uneven, but overall, it's pretty good and has some excellent memorable moments.
@jeffjarvis @kegill And TV was the same way. "It rots your brain." Yet there's a massive modern demand for good documentaries, and having important events on video is huge for historians.
Using AI to learn, store, and contextualize knowledge will likely be the next one. In part because it's terrible at that now, so the trust will be slow, even when it is eventually capable of doing so with far greater accuracy.
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In 1995, 14 wolves were released in Yellowstone National Park.
No one expected the miracle that the wolves would bring.
It started with the wolves hunting the deer, this led to a rapid decrease in the deer population. The wolves' presence also made the deer avoid parts in the park where they were and easy prey.
Thanks to the deer's absence, those parts started to regenerate. Forests of aspen and willow trees started to flourish.
That's when things really started to happen. With trees and bushes came more berries and bugs. As soon as that happened, various bird species started moving in.
With the increasing tree population, also another species was attracted. The beaver, previously extinct in the region, moved back. And the dams they built provided habitats for otters, muskrats and reptiles.
The wolves also killed coyotes, which meant more hawks, red foxes, badgers and weasels in the park. Even the population of bald eagles and ravens rose.
But here's where it gets really interesting. The wolves changed the behavior of the rivers. With more balance between predator and prey came the possibility for other species to thrive. There was less erosion because of increased vegetation. And the river banks were stabilized, the channels narrowed, more pools formed, and the rivers stayed more fixed in their courses.
So the wolves did not only transform the great ecosystem of Yellowstone, they also changed the park's physical geography.
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I know folks are skeptical that the college board could send marketing data to 3rd parties without knowing about it, but as someone who has dealt with these marketing scripts (they still euphemistically call them “pixels” but they are giant ass JavaScript libraries), I can tell you that companies sell to marketing teams by guaranteeing “zero configuration” which means “we’ll find & send ourselves all the PII we can find on your page”. https://mastodon.social/@kennwhite/110950673710829057
@Loukas Yeah, but it's easy to copy/paste into a text editor and obfuscate any personal data.
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I’m late to the party but congratulations to the Indian Space Agency for being the fourth country to land on the moon.
The trip cost $75 million which is cheaper than a bunch of Hollywood movies about going to space including Gravity & Interstellar.
The space race is back.
https://www.independent.co.uk/space/chandrayaan-3-budget-india-interstellar-b2399203.html
@feditips Would that feed include hashtags only from that server, or all content that's federated with that server that includes the hashtag?
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#FIFA suspends the president of the football federation of #Spain for kissing Women's World Cup player Jenni Hermoso.
https://www.fifa.com/legal/media-releases/the-fifa-disciplinary-committee-provisionally-suspends-luis-rubiales
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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.
Joined Nov 2022
