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.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
I just got scolded and blocked for trying to add relevant context to someone's attempt at a helpful reply.
🤦♂️ Some mastodon folks are waaay too sensitive, lol 🤣
@w7voa Somebody should ask her if she intends to lead by example.
@vruz @SecurityWriter That won't help now, though, because it requires accounts to opt-in first before they're searchable.
@SecurityWriter Some folks tried to create an external crawler hooked up to a search box, but the backlash was so intense, they shut down the project shortly before launch.
So, if there are other projects like that, they're probably keeping it quiet.
I remember reading a while back that somebody from KiwiFarms created a similar tool, ostensibly to enable harassment, but just mentioning it got some people banned by some of the more sensitive masto admins.
@SecurityWriter By hashtags.
Full text search isn't available *by design*.
Mastodon be like:
"[Three paragraph rant about an easily-fixable tech problem]
lord save me from unsolicited tech advice"
@AmericanScream Plus you have to factor in how many are lost or abandoned since there's no way to recover them if you lose the credentials.
So, the "party of law and order" is demanding that Biden defund the federal police to fight "wokeness"?
Is this a madlib?
Totally agree with this article:
"Starfield makes space travel feel way too safe"
https://www.polygon.com/23864881/space-exploration-sci-fi-games-outer-wilds-metroid
Attention to white dudes under the age of 50 who have chosen "mustache" as your facial hair:
You're not Tom Selleck. This isn't the '70s. You're not a porno actor. Please either grow a beard or shave the mustache so you can re-enter the dating pool. You can try the mustache again when you're older and you've earned it. Thanks.
[rant followed by incoherent muttering about hipsters wastefully bringing down the sexiness average for an entire generation]
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Did Miami build a hurricane deflector or something?
Louis Ingenthron
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Longtermism
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/longtermism-2 (click for full comic)
#smbc #hiveworks #comics
Fun fact about me: I do not like spiders, because of a traumatizing childhood experience, but my favorite food is basically an ocean spider.
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Texas' government just spent $31.7M in the middle of a heat wave and energy shortage.
No, not to provide fresh shelter to the homeless. Neither to install booths with free fresh water. Neither to increase the number of public spaces (outside of shopping malls) where people can gather, instead of burning energy to keep their homes cool 24/7. Neither to boost its investments in renewables and pivot away from the oil that it keeps digging.
No, the government just gave that money away to Bitcoin miners to convince them to turn off their energy-hungry machines, so everybody else can also use energy to keep themselves cool.
Let that sink in. Even a life-threatening heatwave can't get miners to behave cooperatively and turn off their machines, whose only purpose is as pointless as randomly guessing a number whose SHA256 hash satisfies a certain arbitrary numeric constraint - and they skim some profits out of these pointless puzzles just because someone decided that putting up a system with such perverse financial incentives was a good idea. In order to get them to behave as someone who's not a complete selfish sociopath and evolutionary failure, the government had to compensate them for the losses that they would make by turning off their computers.
I guess that today's capitalism is that system where it's actually ok for the government to spend public money - as long as that money goes to those who need it the least.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bitcoin-mining-cryptocurrency-riot-texas-power-grid/
I genuinely don't understand the appeal of haikus. I sometimes think they exist only so language teachers can say "poems don't have to rhyme!"
Just saw this poster in #Starfield and now I really want one for my work area.
Minor gameplay spoilers for Starfield
So, I've only visited two systems in Starfield and already I've discovered two POIs that are identical. A cave and an abandoned relay. And I mean identical.
This is really disappointing. The world-building and environmental detail is otherwise so good that the repetition just shatters my suspension of disbelief.
Couple of non-spoiler thoughts on #Starfield so far:
1) I love the logo. It's simple, understated, easily recognizable, and clearly communicates what the product is.
2) Their choice to use the same musical cues as Fallout 4 whenever big story moments happen (that music with like the deep reverberating horns) confuses the hell out of me when I hear it... I forget which game I'm playing.
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#introduction
I've been using Mastodon exclusively for about a week now since I've deleted elon from my life. I like this platform and the people here much more.
I'd like to round out my feed more to include more #art #nature #space and general geekiness.
I'm also looking to connect with people as friends, as I'm lgbtq and live in a rural are, which makes for few social opportunities 😂😊
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
