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
@mentallyalex Ah, okay. I wasn't sure what you meant by "clicks".
@mentallyalex Through ActivityPub, based on the restrictions of the protocol, you'd want to keep it mostly to text, so I'd say commands would be good, but you could also do multiple choice for things like dialog segments.
This is an interesting enough concept that I might actually try to build something out tonight. I'll send you a link if I do.
Fellow white people: If you enjoy the milk at the bottom of a bowl of sugary cereal, you should know that Thai folks have commoditized this into a drink that you can buy pretty much anywhere. It's called "Thai milk tea" and you should go try it right now if you haven't already. If you want the whole soggy cereal experience (you do, trust me) get it with boba.
@mentallyalex That's an interesting idea. Would be pretty easy to put together a proof of concept. The real question is: would everyone on ActivityPub be controlling the same save file (kind of like the "Twitch plays" series), or does each account have their own game?
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A 2023 map of every high speed railway in the US, complete with stations and service frequencies 😎
@AmericanScream Isn't that already the present of crypto?
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Good for Meta. Forcing websites to pay news outlets when those outlets choose to advertise on the website is insane and completely backwards. The worst kind of corporate cronyism.
Meta has begun blocking links to news publishers in Canada, and Google is looking to do the same. Canada's Online News Act requires technology comp...
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Another federal judge issues another (temporary) injunction against another state law making it a crime to give minors "harmful" books and allowing anyone to challenge any material a library has that they don't like, this time in Arkansas.
I'm glad there are judges who remember that we still have the First Amendment, even if state legislatures and authoritarian governors like Sarah Huckabee don't like anyone exercising constitutional rights other than having guns.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/07/30/arkansas-book-ban-judge-injunction/
@CCochard @TerribleMaps Based on the simplest physics of how much light a globe would get as it rotates on its axis, it would be a uniform color per latitude, but the equator would get more than the poles, so it would be a smooth gradient from equator to pole...
The question is what the origin of the longitudinal variation is... I assume it's due to cloud cover, but that's not indicated, so I'm not sure.
@TerribleMaps Wait, why would this not just be a map of latitudes? Is it taking weather into account?
@ayo Anything that's remotely functional is preferable to a native app. If I have to install an app to do business with a company, I'm far less likely to do business with them at all.
@briannawu Can't say I'm surprised. Whenever I hobnob with a conservative crowd (rarely, usually for work), there's almost inevitably a comment made at some point with veiled racism or transphobia. These folks assume that anyone in their orbit agrees with them (and even agrees with them that it's a shame they can't speak about it openly), and I bet that effect is far more pronounced in an ideological chat room.
I'm really annoyed with how the pandemic normalized adding tip lines to every credit card transaction, even ones for transactions where extra service isn't included.
Business owners: It's not my fucking job to pay your employees a reasonable wage. It's yours.
US politics, Mike Pence, wealth
@anubis2814 @z_everson As do most folks who go from obscure to national public figure. 🤷♂️
If people want to pay him to talk about his time in office, I don't see why that should be problematic for anyone.
US politics, Mike Pence, wealth
@z_everson Is that not true of pretty much every former P/VP? As long as he's doing it through legitimate means like being paid to speak, who cares?
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The engineers who designed the #Voyager probes half a century ago even thought of the possibility that a wrong sequence of commands may point the antenna dish away from earth.
And they implemented a self-adjusting mechanism that a few times a year scans the positions of a few known stars to infer the position of the earth, and point back the antenna in the right direction.
50 years later, these wonderful machines are still working, tens of billions of km away from earth, and even a wrong sequence of commands won't put them out of use.
The more I understand how they were designed, the more I feel like an early Medieval engineer looking at the Pantheon or other marvels or Roman architecture. Some amazing skills, knowledge and attention to details have been lost from that generation to ours.
Also, yes, for those who are wondering, I did, in fact, have the Firefly theme stuck in my head the entire time.
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
