Am I not allowed to ponder it? I've never seen anyone doing it. The second some jackwagon was able to change the price on a gas station sign with a flipper it was hot news.

Turned out to be a neat rabbit hole.

acceptable or funny?

didn't say acceptable or funny

I just wondered it.

I'm honestly shocked this doesn't happen.

It looks like they're SubG. The lock signal broadcasts on the buried line, and at least in the one manual I found, they can also lock all, lock all in a lot, and optionally lock singles via serial number (there's an inventory system). There's a directional handheld device that can be used within a couple of feet of an affected cart.

Hey, how do I do X

I didn't ask. I've been doing electronics for decades, I own enough equipment to listen to the signals and create them if they work like I suspect they do. It's a shower thought, I have no intention of doing it, well now that we're all spicy here about it, I kinda want to try as a proof of concept.

I've never seen it done, was just pondering

<3

One of the proposed features is locking the cart if someone is about to walk out without paying.

The cost of the RF locking wheels isn't far off the price of a replacement cart. (Not to mention the investment in digging up the entire outline of the lot burying the line.

Yeah, I just watched a youtuber take apart a modern one. Found the maker and the manual for the system. Then watched some more people taking the system apart (including the one you linked)

Neat stuff:

• Looks like it's <9 Khz signals (7.2khz in the one I looked up), at that frequency, you can do a replay attack using your phones speaker from 0 distance.
• the electronics in the wheels are potted, including the battery so they're disposable at EOL.
• Apparently, the unlock signal is just an inverted lock signal. Easily detectable.
• Their system has the ability to lock/unlock all carts, only the carts left in the parking lot overnight.
• One of the features available is for them to identify and freeze a particular cart if it doesn't go through a checkout.

That's not the bar it used to be. You don't even need to worry about device drivers anymore.

Even the most difficult Linux installs now aren't that much more complicated than XP was.

Anything from Home Assistant / Sonarr / Radarr / ntfy / MQTT / LoRa would make my current basic savvy list.

S***, I don't even pirate steam games and I love the script thank you.

It should be more appropriately labeled Junk Food. Everyone's trying to make it sound official and it just ends up more vague.

If we were eating Seafood, Chicken, Beef, Vegatables, Salads and Whole Grains, we'd live longer.

In the end, we need to stay away from non-naturally occurring carbs and refrain from mixing naturally occurring carbs with tons of fat/salt to make them more palatable.

Muffins, Doughnuts, French Toast, Submarine Sandwiches, Pizza, Pasta, all have to be super portion controlled, we we just don't seem to have that kind of willpower.

I don't care to argue politics with them, but outside of that subject, a lot of the .ml crowd have useful and helpful responses to other ares.

We all suffer from limited worldview. I'm not sure any of us do a particularly great job of seeing things from others perspectives.

Not really, I just looked at it, They're behind cloudflare so scraping them would be painful. Tried hitting the api and unhinging location and distance, they hard cap 250 results. Js is required to get the results. We could go zipcode by zipcode, in the browser with GPS coordinates (available for free) but there are 33k zipcodes and if anyone hits more than a few, cloudflare is going to robot check you.

They can buy plenty of shit with your karma, It's a book personally written by you about you.

It's just not any good for 'you'

You have to be nice to someone they don't like.

one-hit wonder,

Yeah, no kidding, I had tried everything else she did before she started getting really noisy, none of it was remotely interesting.

Stopped me from buying the books for my kids quickly enough, though.

That's a Lemmy feature. Hexbear and ML run how they want, world runs how they want. If you're pissing someone off some place enough to get banned, it's probably not the best place for you and best to leave them to their echo chamber. If you go wild, you can stand up your own instance and ban any instances you don't like.

If someone wants to make a safe-space echo-chamber, they can totally do it.

Yeah, can't just hang out over there being a decent human being, they want to the the new compliment to X

Yeah, it's turtles greed all-the-way down.

The commercial real estate market, of all things, should be able to self-regulate. A property sitting empty is losing them tax money, get too many shuttered businesses together and the property value drops.

Few things market-correct in these late-day capitalism hellscapes, but commercial property either corrects or gets bulldozed and bought by someone who corrects (and maybe rezones) it. Sometimes it just takes a decade or so.