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
@antonioserrata @mmasnick That makes no sense at all.
(A) the company's assets are worth tons more pre-dismantling.
(B) If he wanted to maliciously sell the data, then the absolute last thing he'd want to do is anything that might drive people away from the platform, since users entering their data willfully is the entire point.
@michaellammer Once you realize that net worth is wholly disconnected from competence, it gets a lot easier.
@antonioserrata @mmasnick That would require an order of magnitude more competence than we've seen from Musk so far... if there was even that much money being offered, which there almost certainly isn't.
@TomDelargy @mmasnick He could have bought most of the major US news networks (all together!) for the price he bought Twitter.
If affecting elections was his goal, then he chose some really dumb methods.
Then again, we already know he has a history of choosing dumb methods so 🤷♂️
@mmasnick Some people seem to be willing to go to any lengths to not have to admit that the rich are just as capable of being incompetent jackasses as the rest of us.
Louis Ingenthron
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RT @Jose_Pagliery@twitter.com
Earlier this year, I exposed how a judge in West Virginia pulled out his gun on lawyers in his courtroom.
He lied to me repeatedly. We proved it anyway.
He just resigned.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Jose_Pagliery/status/1597295060919676928
Proof that dogs are better than us:
My dog just farted near me, but he took no pleasure at all from my outcries of disgust and revulsion.
@bobwyman No algorithm is "imposed" on anyone unless it's for an essential government service.
But more importantly, algorithms that push the morals of those who wrote them are absolutely not inherently bad.
Anti-spam filters are the most obvious example of this, but algorithms that detect abuse or content theft also qualify.
The idea that a company cleaning garbage off its property to make its service better is "censorship" is pernicious as hell.
Louis Ingenthron
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Calling out advertisers for not advertising on your platform and then wondering why advertisers think there's brand risks of advertising on your platform 😂🙃
@IntlLawGnome The more people leave Twitter, the more the company devalues, the more likely #3 becomes. Even that is an argument to leave.
@jeffjarvis @eleland @davidisen And there's no reason those communities can't remain institutions via a different medium.
@ang6666 @RalphAtHamburg Yeah, but nothing does. You can't delete the real old stuff even from Twitter's web app. It's just a limitation of their platform/API.
If you use the tools to delete as much as they're able, your profile will still be blank when you look at it, because Twitter seems to archive and hide posts past a certain date.
@jimmylittle @IntlLawGnome @jeffjarvis
Causing those links to 404 breaks Musk's shit better than forcing him to host it. If embedded tweets go dark everywhere, nobody will embed tweets anymore.
Delete your content, not your account. Your data is the product. Take it back.
@RalphAtHamburg That's why it's better to just delete all your content (there are tools online to do this for you) and leave the account open but abandoned.
Or maybe leave a parting sentiment for the new owners like I did.
@davidisen Why should we defend institutions without any consideration for whether they're worth defending?
Sometimes a decrepit or corrupted institution needs to burn so something better can rise from its ashes.
@evangreer Correct, which is just one of many awful practices by Apple and why I recommend people stop buying their products, especially if they don't want to be spied on.
But apparently people are happy to give those things up to have shiny stuff, so Apple remains a dominant platform 🤷♂️
But we all have a choice. So, can you show any similar statistics for Android?
Louis Ingenthron
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@evangreer Can you please cite a source for that claim? Because in my experience, their moderation practices are more about preventing harm.
If their moderation choices do cause harm, then people can choose not to use their app stores. I'm sure there are a couple players ready to move in and set up third-party app stores the moment confidence in the first-party ones starts faltering.
@Mustachioed_cat @saint11 Ah, unfortunately, it doesn't allow references to be assigned to other scene objects, so it's still extremely limited.
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
