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 want to remind everyone that, sometimes, if you ignore problems long enough, they actually do go away!
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New from 404 Media: a 13 year old has become the first person in the world to beat the NES version of Tetris. They reached Tetris’ Kill Screen; previously only an AI had achieved this.
“I can’t feel my hands,” he said at one point.
https://www.404media.co/13-year-old-becomes-first-person-to-ever-beat-tetris/
There is a gigantic empty wasteland where absolutely nobody lives between "#accessibility first" and "accessibility isn't my problem".
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@arraybolt3 after 25 years of working with a half dozen linux flavours, my overall response is:
it's a great operating system when i'm in the mood to tinker with the operating system and not get any work done
it's the worst possible operating system when i need to get some work done, and the operating system should be transparent
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@arraybolt3 I used Linux as my daily driver for over 10 years. When I bought a new desktop computer it came with Windows, so I figured I'd give it an honest try again.
It's worked great. I don't miss the days of programs 90% working, or having to edit config files to get my monitor to stop flickering, or trying to play Rocksmith only to find the peripheral cable won't work in Linux.
It was the steady stream of small issues that beat me down. Windows has been plug-and-play.
Game Developer: Spends 500 hours creating a game. Releases it for $5. Sells 30 copies.
Gamer: "Kind of seems like a cash grab, to be honest."
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Hey folks, since it's Public Domain Day, let's also note that our PUBLIC DOMAIN GAME JAM IS NOW OPEN! One month to come up with a game using any newly public domain material! https://itch.io/jam/gaming-like-its-1928
More details here: https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/01/and-were-off-time-to-get-started-on-this-years-public-domain-game-jam/
Wait, Adobe offers a software to automatically rig and animate 3D human models and it's *free* with no strings attached?
WTF?
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Someone give me a budget to make my cartoony retrofuturistic immersive sim
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TIL that Wikipedia publishes their browser stats; a goldmine!
https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#all-sites-by-os-and-browser
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If we live in a good place, with opportunities and prosperity, we should invite other people to join us and share in those opportunities and prosperity.
At minimum, we should not prohibit others from moving for a better life for them and their family.
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Amazing new images of the moon Io have come down from the Juno spacecraft! This one shows the volcanic moon of Jupiter from only 2,800 kilometers away, which is the closest look we’ve gotten of Io since the Galileo orbiter over 20 years ago. Check out all those volcanoes!!!!
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
Just heard one on the radio where a "teen" said something to the effect of "maybe adults actually do know more than us and we should listen to them".
Wow, modern anti-vaping ads have serious "hello fellow kids" vibes.
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With my switch from #Substack to #WordPress complete, you can now follow and interact with my blog here in the #fediverse at @blog
I made nachos for dinner, but I used no meat and lots of lettuce and tomato, so I'm counting it as a salad.
"The allure of looms entices those people who fetishize fine textiles but dismiss the work. They're the people who tell knitters, "I'll give you the pattern, then you knit it, and we'll split the profits." For them, the vision is everything and the work is just an annoying obstacle. But the WORK is everything. The work is how a thing happens, where it's made, where skill is put to work. Looms in textiles are for the people who have no skill, no work, no effort, no ethic. They just want to push a flying shuttle."
I've been seeing this doing the rounds lately...
I imagine this is very similar to what the monks who spent their entire lives carefully hand-copying bibles felt about the printing press in the 1400s.
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infosec advice: don't use computers
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
