as OP indicates, its a rough read - but worth your time and sharing. thanks OP.

i would have guessed a null modem adaptor, cuz - why the hell not! but… assuming the USB to serial is a typical DTE (M) then the 9pin to 25pin would likely be (F) to (M), but the potato markings on the mystery adaptor seem to suggest M/M… so… 🤷‍♂️

your breakout box suggestion is a reasonable one.

because nothing says “deeply held belief” quite like a registered fucking trademark. fuck every one of you.

no shit. god forbid there could be space to get some important progressive agendas passed here. as the kids say “let the man cook”. we can burn him at the stake later, if need be.

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yup! serves me right for responding while rushing out of the door. gonna leave that here for posterity.

edit: and… switching networks managed to triple post this response. i think thats enough internet for today.

yup! serves me right for responding while rushing out of the door. gonna leave this here for posterity.

KiB for FTW :-)

been using it for years now when i need to be precise. colloquially, everyone i know still understands that contextually, K is 2^10

but at least it is what it says on the tin. no pretense. prepare accordingly.

Kratsios, 39, cut his teeth in the world of private industry, spending much of his early career at Thiel Capital, a venture capital firm founded by Silicon Valley stalwart Peter Thiel.

jfc, not this vampire again.

there are long standing radicals on the .ml instances, to be sure. I would place the bulk of the current lemmy.ml userbase between Democratic Socialist and Social Democrat (with a strong, vocal splash of authoritarians mixed in there somewhere).

lemmygrad.ml and hexbear are often otherworldly - interesting to watch, ocassionally interesting to engage, but always entertaining if you can pick out the salient arguments from the confusion. love federated systems :-)

probably too much of a sweeping generalization there. I would say (with zero evidence other than my interactions) that after the great reddit migration, those who might say this are likely in the minority.

I cannot defend this other than “the feels”, but hey… I think lemmy.ml got moderated a little with the influx of cooler heads.

have. it works. get your core group hooked in for basic emergency communication.

other, similar projects exist, but briar is well known.

…suffered internal bleeding…

so, a bruise.

Make their spouses lose their job for being an ICE spouse

I suspect a non-trivial percentage of the spouses may be victims in abusive reltionships - the loss of employment could make it harder to extract themselves and their kids from the situation.

make their kids ask uncomfortable questions.

as long as the kids are not harrased and they start asking because daddy is a piece of shit? 100% 👍

Make their neighbors avoid them

ab-so-fucking-lutely!

eyeballs that can be verified remain important, yes. however, privacy and pseudo-anonimity are equally important.

most sites use JavaScript to restrict access. Firefox (or its siblings) extensions like noscript are not only useful for bypassing many js walls, but also for general web hygine. noscript is your friend.

at this point the sure bet is to disbelieve any trump administration statement (regardless of presented “evidence”) as an outright lie unless proven otherwise by multiple independent sources.

this both simplifies your life and points you in the general direction of truth.

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no kidding…

its how the magic is kept alive.