this shit pisses me off because i've already run into it before and it took me hours of troubleshooting why is it i couldn't send serial commands to a piece of 1986 tech only for someone with 3.5k twitter followers to tell someone "yes any usb to serial will work"
RT @maplesbian@twitter.com
so apparently you can get USB to DB9 cables marketed as being RS232 compatible when in fact they output TTL levels. lovely
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/maplesbian/status/1393358423711010819
you bet your ass if i ever get there i'll stop trusting myself (i already don't very much)
i'm not trying to gatekeep by saying that you NEED to know the difference between TTL and RS232. i'm saying if you're trying to do serial stuff without it, you WILL have a bad time, through nobody's fault but your own
retro tech doesn't care about your sensory overload. retro tech predates a lot of people trying to get into it today. you gotta learn the stuff eventually or you might end up, at best wasting a lot of hours in frustration, at worst frying expensive hardware
i wanted to call myself sapphic more but now because of Identity Politics by principle i need to call myself lesbian in order to ward off exclusionists from getting the wrong idea about me
and if anyone's thinking it, the robots.txt file was originally without asterisks, i only added them after noticing it didn't like it. i also tried changing the order of allow/disallow (which canonically shouldn't matter) and twitter still thinks it's not allowed to load that url
i think twitter's robots.txt parser is just wrong and i'll have to live with twitter being the only website that doesn't embed my opengraph cards correctly
i finally fixed the opengraph directives on my website so twitter shows previews https://maple.pet/
also since apparently (maybe i'm the only one late to the party) the "sunset lesbian" flag creator has been showing her full ass parroting exclusionist and separatist rhetoric, please consider reading my blog post about the lesbian flag back from february: https://maple.pet/blog/lets-talk-about-the-lesbian-flag
here's some better threads for more info https://mobile.twitter.com/kalina_chung/status/1415124333534453761
anyway let's hope the #LesBiTwt kids read this and spread it around even if in bad-faith qrts. maybe it'll reach someone
queer robot squirrelbunny girl, un-retired computer fairies founder (2017-2021, 2024-), drone #6502, official amiga mascot, making a return to upset those who told us to leave.
https://pronoun.gdn/byte?or=it, robot, lowercase, check system link above, meat shell is 31yo, i block minors indiscriminately
flirting good but get at least acquainted first?
HRT: 15/11/2015
⚠️ do not like or favourite my negative posts: https://computerfairi.es/@mavica_again/110573733959251340 ⚠️