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How are they going to enforce this? "No officer see this is an orange pi"
by weli 9mo ago
How are they going to enforce this? "No officer see this is an orange pi"
- girvo 9mo agoThe brand won’t matter. A PCB-like thing will be considered equivalent.
- afavour 9mo agoThey’ll say “that’s banned too”. Their language here is imprecise and that’s crappy but the intent is clearly to ban little microboard computers, they’re just using “Raspberry Pi” to describe it.
- dheera 9mo agoThis will be interesting because Adafruit is based in NYC and they have pretty much every variety of microboard computer you can imagine
- hnlmorg 9mo agoI doubt That would make any different unless Adafruit is opening a pop up stall inside the Inauguration party. These “bans” are actually just a list of prohibited items at a very specific event. Umbrellas are also on the list.
- Havoc 9mo agoArrest first understand later enforcement
- some_random 9mo agoDifficulty of enforcement has never stopped such things.
- BoorishBears 9mo agoI 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.
- JoshTriplett 9mo ago> 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.
- mcintyre1994 9mo agoIt’s not a law, it’s just banned from a specific event. Chairs are also on the list.
- some_random 9mo agoNY and 2nd Circuit Courts have upheld far more egregious rules and laws than this, there will be no lawsuit.
- gerdesj 9mo agoCall it a donut-pi and watch their minds explode. You could also try American pie, apple pie (Hi mom) or perhaps freedom pi. A decent stars and stripes heat sink should be pretty easy to fiddle up, and probably exists already.