Louis Ingenthron

Software engineering contractor/consultant in America 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.

Antifascist activist

Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.

He/Him 🏳‍🌈

Website: https://ingenthron.us

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2025-12-24 01:06:45 UTC

I just released v1.0 of my #Unredacter software. It can be used to remove lazy censorship from PDF documents, like those in some of the #Epstein files.
You can find it here: www.ingenthron.us/Unredacter-v...
Free for all to use for all purposes (credit is appreciated, though).
#uspol #EpsteinFiles
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2025-09-11 14:09:40 UTC

Wow, yesterday on Facebook (where I post my political opinions geared towards conservatives, my family), I posted, "Violence begets more violence. This is not the way."
My uncle (you know the type) told me to "STFU" because apparently I am "the last person who should be talking about this man."
It's sad to learn that some people are so far gone that even calls for peace elicit such a response.

2025-07-06 15:30:57 UTC

I know Elon Musk is a busy guy, so I went ahead and fixed his meme for him.
#uspol
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2025-05-14 10:31:37 UTC

Prototyping video games you know you'll never have the follow-through to release to another human being is the ultimate video game.
#GameDev #SoftwareEngineering #IndieDev

2025-04-08 20:24:47 UTC

Has anyone written yet about the intersection of "all electronics are now going to cost twice as much" and "Microsoft is forcing everyone to buy new computers by October"?

2025-04-05 22:54:53 UTC

I have further expanded the https://www.maga-collaborators.net website.
It now tracks #colleges and #universities in addition to #law firms and other #corporations that are #collaborating, #capitulating, or #resisting the #Trump #regime.
Please share this link to help spread the word! I'll be adding to and upgrading this website regularly moving forward.
And please send tips to help fill in the gaps in the data to the email address listed on the website.
#uspol #resist #handsoff #fascism #maga

2025-03-30 00:33:47 UTC

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Yeah, but I do still see it as sort of a "sorry we're so shitty elsewhere" apology tour.

2025-03-30 00:28:11 UTC

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Isn't that pretty much what USAID was for?

2025-03-20 00:15:40 UTC

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Speaking as an American in America: You absolutely do not want to be here right now.
Please apply economic sanctions on us before you have to start sending bombs and tanks.

2025-03-18 00:52:05 UTC

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I mean, I grew up in a Republican household. I voted for both parties through to the Obama era while donating to libertarian policy groups. I only finally registered as a Dem on January 7th 2021.
So, I definitely see what you're talking about, in general. I just see the dems as being only like 20-30% as radicalized as their opposition, and their radicalization is mostly oppositional. Remove the dictator and give him proper due process and dems will de-radicalize naturally.

2025-03-18 00:28:06 UTC

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I agree with most of that. We're all a product of our history and experiences. Most of Europe would describe your definition of "moderate" to be "conservative", while in Texas, you'd be a commie, so it's all about frame of context.

2025-03-17 22:23:15 UTC

@npub1ajn…s5ep Most of what you're describing happened before half the electorate graduated from high school, so I kind of doubt it was a major factor.
But, yeah, I think a lot of the reason why he was considered a moderate was because he had mostly extremely mainline liberal views but "moderated" them with a few extreme right-wing views.

2025-03-17 20:15:59 UTC

I will never understand why some Democrat elected politicians think that Democrat voters elected them to vote against the Democrats.
"The GOP are winning elections across the country by actually opposing their opponents?
Let's do the exact opposite of that winning strategy for no apparent reason!"
#uspol

2025-03-14 21:37:18 UTC

I was very much opposed to the "doomer" talk.
But seeing that Democrats won't even fight for our country has shattered what little hope I had for a recovery without war.
Every ounce of our democracy is now hanging by a thread that is the federal court system.
Protect yourself. It's coming.
#uspol

2025-02-13 02:06:21 UTC

One #Mastodon / #Fediverse tip that I need to follow more often is:
Check out the profiles of people who boost your posts. Consider following them.
If someone is willing to boost what you said, there's a halfway-decent chance you agree on at least one issue and may end up being good mutual follows.

2025-02-09 18:57:40 UTC

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I can't even get my liberal friends to agree to that.
The problem with the American Dream is that everyone wants to deregulate billionaires because everyone expects to become one.

2025-01-19 19:24:49 UTC

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Biden said the same thing as Trump: that he wouldn't enforce it (for the one day of his administration it applied to). TikTok just dngaf what he said because he was on his way out.
Both parties, and their leaders, demanded this ban. Now both parties are acting like the dog that caught the car it was chasing...

2025-01-15 18:26:53 UTC

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Agreed. The insurance company has a legitimate interest in preventing fraudulent billing, so at the very least, they should be able to tell you if it's real or a scam.

2025-01-15 18:03:43 UTC

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Yeah... but let's prosecute the party that is actually guilty.

2025-01-15 16:10:48 UTC

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Are they ad-supported? Maybe just didn't read that ad services contract well enough...

2024-12-11 02:22:36 UTC

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The article it's attached to describes dispersing vaccines by air. My guess would be that your mystery object is the dispersal mechanism.

2024-12-08 00:00:16 UTC

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Thanks, but I'd really prefer something with 1st-class C# support instead of a C++ library with unofficial wrappers.

2024-12-07 23:42:54 UTC

Seeking recommendations on a #UI framework for #CSharp / #DotNet and runs on #Windows, #Linux, and #Mac. Something to replace #WinForms and go #CrossPlatform.
In a perfect world, it'd have strong #JetBrainsRider support, a visual editor, and MVP structure, but I can live without all of those.
#SoftwareEngineering #GameDev #Programming #SoftwareDev

2024-12-02 04:14:49 UTC

If you think Biden pardoning his own son is a good thing because it will piss off Republicans, you might be blue-MAGA.
#uspol

2024-12-02 00:25:50 UTC

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Maybe so, but it seems a bit far-fetched to me, especially what with their pushing so much funding to Ukraine as well.
If the Democrats are under the thumb of anyone, current evidence would seem to point to Israel, for whom they've shown far more deference.

2024-12-01 23:30:23 UTC

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Wait, if he's "controlling" the democrats, then why did the Democrats sanction so many of his oligarchs and take their shit?

2024-11-29 17:53:45 UTC

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Why does "less than 50%" matter? In any way?
He got the most votes by a fairly wide margin and got the most electoral votes by a blowout margin. There's no electoral silver lining to be found.

2024-11-21 16:05:29 UTC

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Sure, absolute pacifism exists, but as the article notes, it's not tenable. The people who refuse to engage in violence, even for their own defense, are inevitably the first to die.

2024-11-21 15:49:35 UTC

Important PSA:
Being a pacifist doesn't mean you'll never throw a punch.
It means you'll never throw the first punch.
You should always do your best to throw the last punch, pacifist or not.

2024-11-15 15:08:54 UTC

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Link? Where do I find this?

2024-11-11 06:13:26 UTC

Oh shit.
So, if this whole AI thing turns out to be a fad, you know what those long-term-contract server farms powered by nuclear plants would also happen to be really good at?
Surveillance.

2024-11-08 04:25:38 UTC

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Much like the stock market. We've become a culture that regularly mortgages out our long-term future for the smallest hit of short-term dopamine. This dynamic explains so many things, from the climate crisis to the election.

2024-11-03 20:47:07 UTC

Live every day like it's the last that Earth can maintain contact with Voyager.
#Astronomy #Space #Science

2024-11-02 03:09:05 UTC

Uh, this seems problematic:
"Justice Department dispatches election monitors to Florida, but state leaders say they can’t enter polling sites"
#uspol #election
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2024/11/01/justice-department-dispatches-election-monitors-to-florida-but-state-leaders-say-they-cant-enter-polling-sites/

2024-10-10 15:22:35 UTC

#Hurricane #Milton update: I lost power around 1 AM and the winds peaked at 3-4 AM (they were *roaring*! I kept hearing things snap, but with the whole neighborhood out of power and sheets of rain, it was too dangerous to find out what).
Huge props to Orlando Utilities Commission, though, my power was restored in just 10 hours!!! And local flooding is minimal!
Some pictures of local damage below.
How did you other fediverse folks in #Florida fare?
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2024-10-09 01:52:26 UTC

Anyone know what happened to @mentallyalex@beige.party?
Been missing his voice these past few months in the fediverse and I just discovered his account has been deleted. I hope everything's okay...

2024-10-04 14:33:53 UTC

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You might consider reaching out to the doctor directly and asking their cash price for the procedure.
A year or two ago, I needed a topical cream for eczema. With insurance? Over $2,000 co-pay. Without insurance? $200 flat cash price. From the exact same pharmacy.

2024-10-02 12:42:19 UTC

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I was replying to the mastodon post, not the blog post.
However, I just read the blog post, and I stand by my comment. You claim that trying to extract accurate information from an LLM is a basic functionality test, but LLMs aren't fact/truth machines and never have been and never will be (the screw in my analogy). But they are pattern matchers and that is immensely useful as a coding tool (the nail).

2024-10-02 12:17:08 UTC

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"My hammer has trouble driving this screw! So why would I trust it with this nail?"

2024-09-30 14:21:09 UTC

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> AI generation is bullshit
It's a tool. Like any tool, it has proper uses and bullshit uses. Now, granted, the latter are the ones proliferating right now while the tech is in its infancy, but there are many genuinely fascinating novel uses for ML algos, especially in health sciences.

2024-09-30 14:03:50 UTC

Them: "AI uses so much power, we should shut it down!"
Me: "So does air conditioning and streaming video, should we shut them down too?"
Them: "...shut up"

2024-09-24 14:07:53 UTC

"Fair Source" is obviously a bullshit term, but "Open Source" also isn't quite accurate for how restrictive the term has come to be used as.
I propose the following categories:
Closed-Proprietary: totally closed source
Open-Proprietary: source available, but read-only, not copyable
Open-Source: source available for non-commercial use
Free-Source: source available for any use
https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/113192671789884479

2024-09-22 18:34:42 UTC

By far, the most difficult #GameDev skill to master is what I call "Brain Scope".
When you first start making games, you just plug away and make something. But, by the time you get it to be fun, it's so riddled with tech debt from the unplanned organic nature of the growth. That's one end of the spectrum. 1/3
#Programming #IndieDev #GameDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering

2024-09-17 01:10:05 UTC

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I'm from more of the game dev side than the enterprise business side, and my formative years were in the mid-2000s, so I had a very different experience:
Microsoft's XNA democratized game development by being one of the first extremely-low-cost options to bring a game to consoles.
And more lately, the embrace of cross-platform open-source software by the .NET platform has been immensely refreshing.
But then they invested in OpenAI, and now they have to recoup that investment...

2024-09-17 00:41:23 UTC

Oh. Great. I rebooted #Windows on my laptop and suddenly #AI is installed in the OS.
So glad I switched to Fedora on my main box. Gonna have to get #Linux up and running on my laptop now too.
After nearly two decades of being a cheerleader for #Microsoft they've now fully alienated me.

2024-09-13 17:45:34 UTC

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No, the alternative is Unity having a defined scope and delivering on what it promised years ago instead of endlessly bloating its work force to build a million half-finished buggy features nobody asked for.

2024-09-03 19:55:52 UTC

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Refusing to tolerate him by boycotting his platform and products is a great answer. But there's a big difference between refusing to tolerate him and using the force of government to actively persecute him.

2024-09-02 17:51:47 UTC

Just rediscovered this video of a #TechDemo I built years ago for "3D Hockey". The idea was that you'd play #hockey in a massive glass capsule full of water in orbit around the earth. Players would have fins and swim around the stadium. Fans would get on an "audience orbital ship" that parks outside to allow them to watch. All other hockey rules applied, like off-sides and checking and etc.
I got pretty far with the demo, but struggled to find the fun.
#GameDev #IndieDev
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2024-09-01 17:08:36 UTC

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Someone the other day mentioned how people with kids are willing to put up with a lot more bullshit at work because they can't afford to lose their income and healthcare, whereas single people would just quit.
That really hit home as to what Vance was going for. He wants a constituency that's miserable and compliant.

2024-09-01 17:04:29 UTC

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Well, she did anyway. Apparently she quit the day he was announced. Probably smart, to save the firm the embarrassment of being associated with Vance.

2024-08-27 19:50:25 UTC

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Whaaaaat? I regularly see people in the US fuck up a regular roundabout (usually by going the wrong way). How would that not just be a massive recipe for collisions from confused drivers? It looks like something AI would dream up.

2024-08-27 18:26:36 UTC

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Wait, what? I've had a game out for 5 years and I've never heard of this. When you click my studio name it just takes me to a list of games my studio has released. What's a "developer page" and how do you create one?

2024-08-25 01:54:57 UTC

Fun #GameDev fact, especially for #IndieDev, if you're not multilingual: You can easily test localization before you have all your translations set up by using pig latin!
1) It's super easy to programmatically convert your native language to a "pig-latinized" version.
2) It's super easy to spot text that isn't localized when everything else is pig latin
3) You can still easily decipher it without having to know another language
https://cdn.masto.host/ingenthronsocial/media_attachments/files/113/020/163/074/257/879/original/d95c99773829870a.png

2024-08-24 23:21:17 UTC

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Yeah, it's only rocket science, right?
You're not a serious person.

2024-08-24 23:03:13 UTC

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For cars? Yeah.
But space is significantly less forgiving. 1.4% is a tremendous accomplishment.

2024-08-24 22:45:55 UTC

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That's... incredibly disingenuous. 40% would be terrible if they were single-use launch vehicles, but the fact that they had 2 failures over 3 decades and 135 missions in reusable spacecraft is a tremendous safety record.

2024-08-22 14:14:35 UTC

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Yeah, she was a state prosecutor. The "order" half of "Law & Order".

2024-08-17 16:15:43 UTC

For this #Caturday, meet Ghost. She's a stray who's been hanging around my house so much lately that I guess she's basically my cat now. She hides from the heat under my car and gives me dirty looks whenever I need to drive it somewhere. Whenever I open my very creaky front door, 9 times out of 10, there she is, running up and asking for food/attention. Sometime soon, I may need to blow all the trust I've built with her by luring her in to get some vaccine shots...
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2024-08-16 12:06:01 UTC

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Why post about it, but choose to conceal her name?

2024-08-05 18:47:08 UTC

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Hmmm interesting. Despite the fact that I'm currently on Tusky, I usually use the web interface... I wonder if there's a browser extension.

2024-08-05 18:04:49 UTC

It would be amazing if #Mastodon let us "follow" entire servers, essentially importing their local feed into our own.

2024-07-31 18:32:41 UTC

It's easy to blame someone for malice, but can you ever really blame a person for ignorance?

2024-07-30 22:13:52 UTC

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...you do if you're working on legislation to help fund Parkinsons research. 🤦‍♂️
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/legislation/2024/07/02/bill-signed-h-r-2365/

2024-07-30 17:40:46 UTC

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Hey, I'm one of those folks. There was a pretty big difference between his campaigning/debating skills in 2020 vs 2024, which is what led us to change our minds. He's just not the man he was.