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You forgot the part where it refuses to toast your unlicensed bread.
by readams 5y ago
You forgot the part where it refuses to toast your unlicensed bread.
- mixedmath 5y agoFor those unaware, this is exactly the main point of the story "Unauthorized Bread" by Cory Doctorow. I liked the story and would recommend it.
- dvtrn 5y agoA link to an exerpt: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-near-future-tale-of-refugees-and-sinister-iot-appliances/ https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-...
- ptx 5y ago(The excerpt contains the story in its entirety. It's excerpted from a book that consists of multiple stories.)
- Freak_NL 5y agoRadicalized (2019). Four novellas, including the bread one. I just happened to have read it last week; it's a solid collection of stories. Model Minority from that collection is a good story as well.
- bobsmooth 5y agoThat was a great story. Thank you for linking it.
- andyjohnson0 5y agoSeconded. Well worth reading.
- disqard 5y agoThank you for sharing this!
- mrpopo 5y agoAlso the part where the toaster version is outdated and it won't start toasting before it's up to date.
- seventytwo 5y agoEvery slice has unique nooks and crannies to create a 2D pattern, allowing for DRM and personalization!
- failwhaleshark 5y agoPersonalization so they can never be returned, right? --- Pepperidge Farms.... D: NOOOOOO https://www.heb.com/product-detail/pepperidge-farm-original-pre-sliced-english-muffins/387673 https://www.heb.com/product-detail/pepperidge-farm-original-... My grandmother made those in her Sunbeam toaster before loading them with room-temperature butter and Laura Scudder's smooth peanut butter. (Yes, my grandmother kept butter at room temperature but refrigerated the eggs. Go figure... grandmothers.)
- PhasmaFelis 5y agoHow you gonna spread cold butter? :)
- nitrogen 5y agoYeah, standard American kitchen: butter on the counter (in a semi-airtight butter tray) and eggs in the fridge.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoI have never seen anyone in America keep their butter on counter and not in the fridge. I have lived in 7 states in both coasts and upper Midwest. Generally, I assumed if it’s in the refrigerator in grocery store (which butter is) then it goes in refrigerator at home.
- eitland 5y agoHow do you spread the butter then? Or do you mean something else than butter? I grew up on a farm and the first first 15 or so years of the life ordinary butter was the onlh alternative. It had to be kept in a jar at the counter or it would become unusable.
- failwhaleshark 5y agoI self-chip my homemade gluten-free bread with Doritos Flamin' Hot Limon.
- tablespoon 5y ago> You forgot the part where it refuses to toast your unlicensed bread. The RFID chips make the toast taste better!
- rzzzt 5y agoA QR code is baked on the backside on it in the bakery. People with too much time (and bread) on their hands soon figure out which spots you need to darken with a clothes iron so the checksum still matches and the toaster accepts the slice.
- emptyparadise 5y agoThe toast is coated with special chemicals which will cause the body of anyone whose genetic code does not match the license owner to reject it.
- kwere 5y ago>The toast is coated with special chemicals which will cause the body of anyone whose genetic code does not match the license owner to reject it. welcome to paradise!