Im not sure exactly how the system works, but if I were designing one, there would be 3 approaches I can think of.

The first is to equip the lock with a GPS system and dictate that it locks if it’s not within range of a particular location. This one would be the most expensive to implement, but should come with minimal opportunity for messing with it.

Next down the list is each lock is equipped with a radio to connect to a wifi or sub-GHz broadcaster, and as soon as it misses enough heartbeats to a central control point, it locks the wheels. This could be disrupted by jamming the signal, but jammers of this type are highly illegal, and easily trackable.

Last is the cheapest option, which is to include an RFID module tied to the lock and a system to broadcast a signal at the perimeter. If a cart comes within range for a long enough period then the RFID tag is activated and the wheels lock.

I suspect it’s probably a sub-GHz radio situation, with the broadcast power tuned to be within a few hundred meters of the store. If you had some kind of SDR you could probably pinpoint the signal they use and repeat it, letting you wheel a cart outside the zone, but as soon as you stop the signal the wheels will lock.

It’s just regular misogyny this time, in that they only see “real” women as capable of giving birth, and then tried to cover up medical problems that would get in the way of that with the word “intention”.

I work in an office as a network administrator. Largely my day to day is a meeting every morning to go over what everyone is doing for the day, then looking through and responding to all the alerts that came up from all the servers I manage(things like failing backups, unexpected reboots, stopped services, strange login behavior, etc)

Then, if I still have time in the day, I put time towards some of the long term projects I have which largely consists of finding things that can be automated and scripting up solutions to that

I live in a small town and even I had to wait about 15 minutes in line.

Last election, I was the only one there outside of the volunteers and was in and out in about a minute. I want to think this is a good thing and we’ll see massive voter turnout

Yeah, that tracks for Canadian politics as a whole.

Conservatives and Liberals haven’t really changed their tune and are both running essentially the same platforms they were in the mid-2000s. The NDP is headed by someone who got into politics to really try and change things for the better, and get outplayed every time by the establishment. And the Bloc really only cares about the culture of Quebec, which makes them a non-candidate for anyone far away from Quebec

Lobbyists as they exist now? Definitely.

The original concept for them is an important thing to have in a democratic system. You can’t expect politicians to be intimately familiar with the ins and outs of every industry, which leads to ineffective regulation. It makes sense to have a person whose job it is to translate the needs of the industry to the politicians.

The problems come when that person has an incentive and a sizable budget to twist policy to the advantage of shareholders rather than consumers or workers.

There was a short story I read a while back that also featured that plot point, but I don’t remember what it was called.

Only that I found it after reading into inspirations for The Laundry Files by Charles Stross.

Time to restore a whole machine backup to a VM with no network connectivity, and manually pull the command?

on my last thread somebody wrote that unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments

How do I stop having expectations?

This is almost certainly not what they meant. You can’t expect someone to read your mind and solve problems you might have.

If management is not meeting your expectations, then the answer is to have a conversation with them about it(ie: make them spoken expectations), not to remove them altogether.

That actually sounds like a rad date

“We had a good thing going here selling homes for well over triple what they are worth! Why are you messing with that?”

Would be hell to play, though, there’s definitely better horny RPGs to try

My issue with horny RPGs is that if you can find people to play with that are into whatever kink the book is catering to, why would you bother to play at all? Just have sex.

And on the flipside, if you dont want to have sex with the people you’re playing with, why play the sexy game? Just play a regular RPG

It’s not fear of the freedom, it’s choice paralysis. People want to go to one website, sign up for one account and then be part of a network with absolutely zero research beforehand. I like the fediverse, but the barrier to entry is higher than that because it first requires you to understand the technology at a base level.

Internet services getting shitty and then dying is nothing new. Look at MySpace, Digg, or any BBS. people just abandon the old one and join the new popular one. They’ll leave when it gets shitty enough and join the new thing

I’m sure that no one would ever think to abuse this. The conservative government has always been strictly honest, right?

Things are weird out here. People by and large don’t really like what Smith is doing, but they elected her to fight Trudeau, not help Alberta.

For some reason, they can’t see that we can’t just keep going to the oilsands for infinite money. I thought things were finally getting better when we elected the NDP that one time, but it turns out that unless you can fix Alberta’s substantial problems overnight, convincing the Conservative voter base that you aren’t the second coming of Stalin is impossible.

It depends on what you think the purpose of keeping creative works outside of the public domain is. Generally, the idea is so that the original creator can make a living off of their art without someone immediately copying their work and undercutting them. The idea of keeping a character true to the original interpretation is not usually considered in this discussion.

Personally, I believe that IP should enter the public domain way sooner than it actually does. I’m generally in favor the original definition of 14 years, with a 14 year extension before the work enters public domain. That gives someone 28 years to make a living off of a character before the ideas become free game for others to use and adapt in any way they see fit.

Having Spongebob as IP keeps him on rails for who he is as a character. Change that, Spongebob as a character is changed by the public that could make the original unrecognizable

I fundamentally disagree with this premise. The vast majority of characters that are in the public domain are not significantly different from their source work, outside of a handful of modern exceptions. Dracula is still mostly Dracula, even in the modern day. Same for Sherlock Holmes, or anyone in a Shakespeare play. The idea of completely twisting a character once they enter the public domain happens, like with Blood and Honey, or that Popeye horror movie coming out, but I think you’d struggle to find anyone that only knows Winnie the Pooh or Popeye from their modern, cheesy slasher adaptations rather than the original stories.

“The south shall rise aga…what do you mean I lost a quarter of my money in failing stocks!?! That’s it! Call the whole thing off!”

It depends what you want to see from the US. The US is massive and there is a huge difference in visiting NYC vs visiting Omaha.

It also depends where you are. For example if you’re in the EU then visiting places like Paris or Amsterdam are probably out as they are accessible as a day trip.

Except, like, the power grid

I mean, he absolutely has a plan. It’s just that the plan is to reduce corporate taxes, remove any safety nets and de-regulate as much as possible.

All things that are bad for the average citizen, but also still a plan.