>New York City usually gets this right. It has decades of muscle memory for doing hard things in public, under pressure, without panicking.
Not something I would say about Stop-And-Frisk city but whatever.
NYC Mayoral Inauguration bans Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero alongside explosives
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#22Lots of products come with integrated rPis since they're so easy to work with and have good vendor support. I guess all those products are banned too lol.
No, they won’t be. They’ll just stop anyone carrying a Raspberry Pi sized circuit board computer type thing.
ah yeah that popular youth past time of carrying around PCBs.
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#23How are they going to enforce this? "No officer see this is an orange pi"
I feel like programmers model the law as a programming language, while it only works like that in very limited contexts. They said Raspberry PI, but the spirit of the rule is "electronic looking thing that we can't immediately determine the function of". You could probably show up with an unpopulated PCB and get turned away because it's green.
> They said Raspberry PI, but the spirit of the rule is "electronic looking thing that we can't immediately determine the function of".
If this expands beyond a single event, I look forward to the inevitable lawsuit, and wish those seeking to oppose such suppression the best of luck.
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#24Ohnoes, circuit boards are so scary. Please protect us from the evil hackers mister Mamdani.
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#25I am always worried when I bring development boards on airplanes. I assume most people are reasonable, but I worry for a few that might not be.
I brought a 5G Peplink modem (which has 4 external antennas) in my checked luggage and got "randomly searched" by TSA on both legs of a trip once, which I thought was pretty hilarious.
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No, they won’t be. They’ll just stop anyone carrying a Raspberry Pi sized circuit board computer type thing.
ah yeah that popular youth past time of carrying around PCBs.
Presumably alongside the popular youth past time of attending mayoral inaugurations
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#27Honestly that’s a relief. For a moment I was worried they would ban my ESP32-powered animated LED Mooninite.
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#29People should bring raspberry pies in protest, see what happens.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I feel like programmers model the law as a programming language, while it only works like that in very limited contexts. They said Raspberry PI, but the spirit of the rule is "electronic looking thing that we can't immediately determine the function of". You could probably show up with an unpopulated PCB and get turned away because it's green.
> They said Raspberry PI, but the spirit of the rule is "electronic looking thing that we can't immediately determine the function of". If this expands beyond a single event, I look forward to the inevitable lawsuit, and wish those seeking to oppose such suppression the best of luck.
It’s not a law, it’s just banned from a specific event. Chairs are also on the list.