RPi is included on a list of prohibited items.
Odd inclusion, sure, but there’s no evidence Mamdani added it himself.
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.
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.
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.
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.