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
In hindsight, maybe we shouldn't be accepting shitty phone photos as legitimate proof when they cancel out all of the security features we've spent millions developing for our IDs.
New from 404 Media: inside the underground site where "neural networks" churn out fake IDs - I tested the service, called OnlyFake, made two IDs in...
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I wuz robbed.
More specifically, I was tricked by a phone-phisher pretending to be from my bank, and he convinced me to hand over my credit-card number, then did $8,000+ worth of fraud with it before I figured out what happened. And *then* he tried to do it again, a week later!
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/05/cyber-dunning-kruger/#swiss-cheese-security
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#AI, specifically #GithubCopilot, is an incredible tool for upgrading code.
I fixed an architecture problem that resulted in over 700 warnings related to nullability in C#. I was able to clear all of those warnings properly with the help of AI in just a couple hours. Now my code base is far more robust and better at handling errors elegantly.
Shockingly, when you use a glorified pattern-matching algorithm to deal with a pattern-matching problem, you get good results. Who knew?
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My student did his first solo today.
This makes the 3rd student I have been their CFI for their first solo.
#Pilot #FlyAOPA #Flying #Aviation #AVGeek #Airplanes #generalaviation #FlyCessna #Cessna #Airplanes #cessna172 #PilotsOfMastodon
Damn. Literally just finished watching Happy Gilmore.
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Estimates by the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption ‘put electricity supporting Bitcoin mining in 2023 at about 0.2% to 0.9% of global demand for electricity. Based on those estimates, global electricity use in cryptocurrency mining was about the same as total electricity consumption in Greece or Australia, respectively.’ https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61364 #environment #economics #globalwarming #climatecrisis
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"Disney appeals dismissal of free speech lawsuit"
"Disney on Thursday appealed a judge’s dismissal of its free speech lawsuit over what it described as Gov. Ron DeSantis’ retaliatory takeover of Walt Disney World’s governing district"
When you're so rich and famous that foreign embassies give you free advertising 🤦♂️
Embassy of Japan assures Swifties their favoritie singer can make it to the Super Bowl in Las Vegas in time for the kickoff after finishing her con...
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After a group of Republican lawmakers boycotted votes in the Oregon Senate for weeks, waylaid progress on 100s of pieces of legislation incl. bills on gun control, abortion rights, gender-affirming health care & more, the OR State Supreme Court ruled they cant run for reelection:
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/lawmakers-who-boycott-votes-cant-run-for-reelection-court/
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A hired a few people for these positions so far, but I have ~15 more people I need to hire, fully remote. The links int he post are just for seniors but there are more jobs on the left that we need including intermediate and Jr.
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@freemo@social.cleverlibre.org
I am still hiring for top-tier programmers and data scientist. Please reboost, share, recommend, or reply if you know anyone who might be intereste...
There's something unexpected and truly magical about modern heavy metal bands covering old cheesy disco tunes.
One of my favorites is Avantasia's cover of ABBA's "Lay All Your Love On Me".
Progress continues on remaking my #IndieGame, #uFactory, in #Godot:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/923710/view/4032479067162721252
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Can everyone who is tempted to describe something today as an “existential threat,” please count to 3 and then not? The volume is much more comfortable when it’s not always cranked to 11.
Ugh, #Florida #Republicans continue their assault on #1A and minorities.
"SB 1780 would make it defamation to accuse someone of homophobia, transphobia, racism or sexism and punishable by fine"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/01/florida-anti-gay-bill-free-speech-defamation
It's so nice to have a giant conspiracy theory with stakes low enough to laugh about again.
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So, a couple months back we wrote about how Appin, an Indian company, had forced Reuters to remove an article that presented evidence of Appin's connections to "hack for hire" operations. Appin demanded we remove it. We will not do so.
A very cool game just got a big update:
#Timberborn
https://youtu.be/QPxdhr3FBNU
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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
