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
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When I was a smartass computer nerd in the 80s and 90s, an eternal theme was people asking me for tech support help and me having to slowly, patiently explain to them that computers aren't scary, they're actually predictable, they won't explode or erase your data (unless you really make an effort), and they operate by simple (if somewhat arcane) rules. Edit > Cut, then click, then Edit > Paste. Save As. Use tabs, not spaces. Stuff like that. Maybe not easy, but simple, or at least consistent and learnable.
But that's not true anymore.
User interfaces lag. Text lies. Buttons don't click. Buttons don't even look like buttons! Panels pop up and obscure your workspace and you can't move or remove them -- a tiny floating x and a few horizontal lines is all you get. Mobile and web apps lose your draft text, refresh at whim, silently swallow errors, mysteriously move shit around when you're not looking, hide menus, bury options, don't respect or don't remember your chosen settings. Doing the same thing gives different results. The carefully researched PARC principles of human-computer interaction -- feedback, discoverabilty, affordances, consistency, personalization -- all that fundamental Don Norman shit -- have been completely discarded.
My tech support calls now are about me sadly explaining there's nothing I can do. Computers suck now. They run on superstition, not science. It's a real tragedy for humanity and I have no idea how to fix it.
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The issue is that these developers wanted one thing (lower fees), but lobbied for “freedom of stores” and “external payment systems”
They got what they asked for, which is not what they wanted.
My god, they get fast and loose with the science when the drama kicks into gear.
There were small issues throughout, but the S1 climax is just scientific nonsense.
Finally watching For All Mankind, and my biggest note is that this series has a critical lack of focus.
It's supposed to be about alternate history space race, but it keeps going off on tangents about women's lib and immigration and drugs and grieving.
It's like if every Star Trek episode was half about the adventures of the Enterprise and half about the mundane lives of the relatives of the Enterprise's crew.
#Republicans in #Texas declaring desperate #refugees seeking sanctuary to be an "#invasion" is some of the most cowardly racism I've ever seen.
What's next? Are they going to pass a law allowing the use of deadly force in response to the threat of a baby sneezing in their general direction?
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What’s happening between Texas and the U.S. is batshit crazy and again proves that a bunch of Americans would rather die in a civil war than share anything with a person of color.
#FreeSpeech jurisprudence, in its simplest form, can be analogized as the crazy hobo delivering sermons on the street:
You're free to voice any opinion you want.
But you can't force anyone to listen to you.
And you're not entitled to use anyone else's megaphone.
In other words, you have a free speech right to scream into the void, and the rest of us have a free speech right to decide if we give enough of a shit to listen.
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"No one wants to work anymore"
My brother in Christ you get what you pay for. You're offering nothing. You get nothing.
Just sighted in my new scoped .177 Daisy air rifle. Hit within half an inch at 20 yards.
Hopefully this will help deter the ducks who no longer fear me and insist on nesting in my roof.
Mocked up a train last night in about an hour for fun.
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We have a problem that high quality news is now behind paywalls while fake news and misinformation is free.
The new version of this problem is 88% of top US news sites block AI crawlers like ChatGPT but Breitbart does not.
Cue moral panic in a few months
https://www.wired.com/story/most-news-sites-block-ai-bots-right-wing-media-welcomes-them/
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Also, please stop making YouTube videos. I'm fucking old, just give me the fucking manual. I cannot actually follow along in real time with your Youtube video without having to pause every 30 seconds and it's fucking maddening kids.
This applies to a lot more than GIMP; doesn't anyone under the age of 40 ever TYPE things anymore?
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There are going to be some Republican elected officials suggesting that libertarians should vote for a crook in the 2024 Presidential race.
They are more loyal to the party and the man who made it in his own image than they are to the Constitution and the rule of law.
Beware.
There's an episode of *M*A*S*H* where Colonel Potter needs to deal with the fact that his son-in-law cheated on his daughter. In the end, he does so by relating to the boy the time that his own fidelity faltered.
I wonder how different the world would be if more of us understood that the things that piss us off the most in others are just reflections of the flaws we see in ourselves.
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They nominated Ken, but not Barbie? Irony is dead, buried, and danced all over.
Just saw a guy leave his vehicle unattended at a gas station, while fueling, with the engine turned on and the door open.
Not only was it a huge fire hazard, but I could have walked up and drove off in it.
How have people gotten this stupid and careless?
And, of course, it was a gigantic truck, because stereotypes exist for a reason.
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My boss arrived to work in a brand new Lamborghini.
I said: “Wow, thats an amazing car!”
He replied: “If you work hard, put all your hours in, really deliver, and strive for excellence, I will get another one next year”
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Lol, they've been getting free marketing services for decades and now they're upset that the company that gave it to them wants to let its robots read their webpages too.
@1br0wn@eupolicy.social
‘Google said it would split its crawlers, so that publishers could choose whether to have their information scraped, or extracted, for its AI syste...
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
