Or, just use them while not stealing anything. Have fun evacuating the whole store (leading to lots in lost profits) because, “Oops, I didn’t read the sign”.

If Gnome ran a restaurant, the waiter chooses the meal for you, and tut & shake their head if you try to deviate from it.

And if you want to add salt and pepper to your meal, there’s a convenient store across the street that sells salt and pepper shakers. No, the Gnome restaurant will not be providing them.

Now I want to figure out what’s the maximum possible range a highly customized ‘pellet gun’ could shoot if you really engineer the hell out of increasing the range…

go to meetings

And fuck you if you’ve got a job, right?

That’s why all these HOAs are run by retirees with too much time on their hands.

“With freedom and justice for all who can afford it.”

at least it’s a system of governance!

Local governments are subject to monitored elections and the bill of rights.

HOAs are neither. Their elections can easily be cheated, and they’re under no legal obligation to respect the civil rights of their members.

the city just can’t afford to maintain it all without raising property taxes

So, instead, everybody gets to pay HOA fees. I guess as long as you don’t call it a ‘tax’ people will go along with it.

I’ll live in a goddamn cardboard box before I live in an HOA house.

Yep. Doesn’t matter if this HOA is ‘one of the good ones’. It can become a horror show at any time whenever the leadership changes.

With a high degree of overlap to the Epstein client list.

and think they can get away with it.

At least until the guillotines come out, they can and are getting away with it.

And look at the vote for releasing the Epstein files! Obviously, they ‘didn’t have the votes’ for that, either … but once they tried, even a bunch of Republicans were on board.

At least fucking try.

Just ban the sale of gun parts in California.

Okay, now define what a ‘gun part’ is.

He always wanted to go to Mars. Let’s not turn him back on until we’ve got a sustainable Mars colony up and running. He’ll be thrilled!

Huh… Come to think of it, that would be a really difficult show to produce. Not only do you need a lot of SFX-heavy TF scenes, you’re also going to need a lot of different well-trained animals (some of them quite exotic) to represent the characters in their animal forms … or else a whole lot of CGI budget for CGI animals instead. I guess in the modern reboot, they’ll probably go mostly CGI for the animals. Working with live animals in film is usually a huge headache – they often don’t cooperate, and you need special treatment and expensive 3rd party verification that you’re not harming the animals.

Okay, sure, but if you’re trying to build a verifiable, FOSS web script, you can just avoid using any of that obfuscation.

There was a show!?!?

Either way, a trap that only changed one or the other would trigger dysphoria, so I’d say the minions did just fine on this one.

However, if any adventurers who already have dysphoria enter your dungeon, you’re going to have problems. Your traps will only cure their issues, leaving them more capable than ever.

Every line of client-side code on every website is fully visible to the user every time it runs. All you have to do is right click and select ‘view page source’.

But as a web page, it would be delivered by the web server, requiring you to trust that the server is not snooping on your decrypted content

Anybody interested (and capable) enough could view the web page’s source and verify that the scripts running on it are identical to what they’re supposed to be, and if they want to, they can even go through the entire code line-by-line to verify.

Honestly, web scripts are easier to verify than a browser extension or stand-alone app, because you can quickly and easily view the (local) source code that you’re actually running.

I’d say that browser extensions and apps are more difficult to verify. You can, of course, publish the source code, but unless end users are compiling it from source every time, you have an issue with them having a difficult time verifying that the compiled code they download and run is actually the same as the publicly visible source code. A malicious developer could publish clean source code, but then provide compromised compiled versions for download and install.

I suppose there is a frequency argument to be made, though. With a browser extension or standalone app, you only need to check and re-verify the code each time it’s updated. But a script running on a web page would need to be verified every time you use it.