Notices by Craig Maloney ☕ (craigmaloney@octodon.social), page 3

@feld Sad thing is as a former Kobo owner I attribute this more to their lazy UI design than anything nefarious.

@mwlucas Congratulations!

Me: I need to get to bed

Also me: Reads an interview with Eric Clayton of Saviour Machine fame

Also me: Has to listen to the first few tracks of the first Saviour Machine album to remember how amazing this band is.

https://saviourmachine.bandcamp.com/album/saviour-machine-i

https://www.nocleansinging.com/2019/10/01/an-ncs-interview-eric-clayton-saviour-machine-eric-clayton-the-nine/

#music #metal

That famous scene in Spartacus where we finally learn who Spartacus really is.

Called it.

Meetup is going to be sold by #wework, so it's anybody's guess who the new owner will be.

#meetup #craigwasright

https://www.businessinsider.com/wework-wants-sell-3-businesses-managed-by-q-conductor-meetup-2019-9#meetup-3

@guerrillarain Clearly you don't do things you like. ;)

@Canageek This one looks nice:

https://www.startech.com/Cards-Adapters/Serial-Cards-Adapters/1-Port-16550-Serial-PCI-Card~PCI1S550

@Canageek Then your best option is to get an actual serial port card, but I have no idea what is out there.

Professor Kliq - Lift (Always Dewaele) - Live Performance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnRG8013lAI

#ccmusic #music #goddamnedtreasure

@Canageek That's assuming you have PCI slots.

@Canageek This seems pricey but might do the trick:

http://www.thunderlinx.com/

http://www.usconverters.com/thunderlinx-usb-serial-adapter

@sara Ugh, looks like it's strictly their service. No source code at all. That's a bit of a minus for me. Means if they ever decide to disappear then you're back to figuring it all out on your own.

@sara Interesting. Wonder what they're using under the hood to accomplish this (eg is this custom code or a rebranded HAProxy setup).

@Canageek what's the application?

Generally speaking there's two kinds of USB to serial ports: the ones that are crap and the ones that are good. Unfortunately I'm not expert in which is which either. 😕

@starbreaker There are abusive tech assholes and then there's Adam Neumann who decided to take that all to an uncompromising level.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/09/wework-adam-neumann-returns-6-million is a start, but it gets into levels of cultishness that even the most devout tech-bro CEO would shrink at.