> New York’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has invited the city’s residents to join him at a block party to celebrate his inauguration but told attendees not to bring a Raspberry Pi single-board computer to the event.
This is just disingenuous. He didn't tell anybody to do nothing. Some assistant made up a list of prohibited items and RPi ended up there because whatever. This kind of reporting is distracting and takes away from the actual issue.
Also, what is the issue anyway? There's a public event unrelated to computing and you're not allowed to bring your RPi. Get on with your life? I'd be more interested in knowing how much the mayor spent on his new array of Flock cameras to greet people at the event.
If smartphones are allowed then normal computers like rpi should be allowed.
It's no longer the coming war on general purpose computation. The war is here. And we've lost every battle so far (mostly on the smartphone front). But they're coming for our actual computers now. Through rules and propaganda (like this), legislation, and economic monopoly tactics preventing purchases of hardware and encouraging rentals.
If thoughtful commenters are allowed then normal commenters like those that don’t read the article should be allowed.
It's no longer the coming war on our right to comment without reading the article. The war is here. And we've lost every battle so far (mostly on the shitpost front). But they're coming for our actual commenters now. Through rules and propaganda (like this), moderation, and coordinated downvote tactics preventing comments of conspiracy screeds and encouraging reading.
So... they're trying to do a little bit of bare minimum "protect people from bullshit low-effort script kiddie attacks". Big deal?
There's enough "educational use only" denial-of-service attacks across the spectrum that some happy slappy dumbass will try to run. We've already had problems with bad actors with Flippers in convention spaces with the various Bluetooth spam attacks.
I doubt he banned it. These things are usually banned by the event coordinators in conjunction with facility owners for insurance reasons and whatever NYPD would want banned. I am looking forward to what his plans are given Trump loves this guy so much after meeting with him. I think it's going to be an interesting term. He may be Trump v3.0.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46438828 (at the time of this comment, 199 comments there)
Clickbait non-article.
RPi is included on a list of prohibited items.
Odd inclusion, sure, but there’s no evidence Mamdani added it himself.
> New York’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has invited the city’s residents to join him at a block party to celebrate his inauguration but told attendees not to bring a Raspberry Pi single-board computer to the event.
This is just disingenuous. He didn't tell anybody to do nothing. Some assistant made up a list of prohibited items and RPi ended up there because whatever. This kind of reporting is distracting and takes away from the actual issue.
Also, what is the issue anyway? There's a public event unrelated to computing and you're not allowed to bring your RPi. Get on with your life? I'd be more interested in knowing how much the mayor spent on his new array of Flock cameras to greet people at the event.
If smartphones are allowed then normal computers like rpi should be allowed.
It's no longer the coming war on general purpose computation. The war is here. And we've lost every battle so far (mostly on the smartphone front). But they're coming for our actual computers now. Through rules and propaganda (like this), legislation, and economic monopoly tactics preventing purchases of hardware and encouraging rentals.
did you read the article?
If thoughtful commenters are allowed then normal commenters like those that don’t read the article should be allowed.
It's no longer the coming war on our right to comment without reading the article. The war is here. And we've lost every battle so far (mostly on the shitpost front). But they're coming for our actual commenters now. Through rules and propaganda (like this), moderation, and coordinated downvote tactics preventing comments of conspiracy screeds and encouraging reading.
So... they're trying to do a little bit of bare minimum "protect people from bullshit low-effort script kiddie attacks". Big deal?
There's enough "educational use only" denial-of-service attacks across the spectrum that some happy slappy dumbass will try to run. We've already had problems with bad actors with Flippers in convention spaces with the various Bluetooth spam attacks.
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I doubt he banned it. These things are usually banned by the event coordinators in conjunction with facility owners for insurance reasons and whatever NYPD would want banned. I am looking forward to what his plans are given Trump loves this guy so much after meeting with him. I think it's going to be an interesting term. He may be Trump v3.0.