Right, the real reason isn't to stop theft, it's to avoid the optics of store-branded carts being left around and save management the hassle of retrieving carts from nearby properties.
I provide a counter-example. In the city I live in, there is only one regional grocery chain, and they always have a bagger push your cart to your car for you. Was sort of annoying when I moved here 15 years ago. The parking lot has no corrals for carts, because the bagger always takes the empty cart back.
These carts have, for the last couple years (I don't remember when, exactly), the locks on the front left wheel. It can't be to "disable the carts if someone tries to take them out of the parking lot". That isn't an issue. Though I have not seen it in action, I suspect that if I tried to take a cart through the exit without somehow moving it past whatever device deactivates the lock would have the cart lock up and start skidding (though with the lock being on the front, anyone should be able to just pop a wheely with their body weight and keep on trucking).
That said, I don't claim that these are effective at loss-prevention, but sometimes those jackasses get crazy ideas in their heads and won't be dissuaded by common sense and reality and all those other naive things.
Tools that can build you a quick clickable prototype are everywhere. Replit, claude code, cursor, ChatGPT Pro, v0.app, they're all totally capable.
From there it's the important part: discussing, documenting, and making sure you're on the same page about what to actually build. Ideally, get input from your actual customers on the mockup (or multiple mockups) so you know what resonates and what doesn't.
Nah an RSS feed has the ability to contain n feed items. This proposed new protocol would have a maximum of 1 item. The closed contract (1 notification only, ever) makes sure that it doesn't become yet another avenue for producers to push content that you didn't ask for.
"RSS but for just 1 item" and "A brand new protocol that is functionally equivalent to RSS for just 1 item" are both just contracts. What makes you think that the latter is more enforceable?
In Cockney rhyming slang, the rhyming word (which would be easy to reverse engineer) is omitted. So if "stairs" is rhyme-paired with "apples and pears" and then people just use the word "apples" in place of "stairs". "Pears" is omitted in common use so you can't just reverse the rhyme.
The example photo on Wikipedia includes the rhyming words but that's not how it would be used IRL.
I love the enrichments feature. Have you considered making it available separately from the initial web search?
I often have projects where the enrichments feature alone would be super useful: I would provide, say, a list of company names, and then use enrichments to qualify them based on location, age, founder experience etc etc.
> Most scanners send three requests per IP address. Our solution observes the first two requests to check if a device exists at that IP
So all an attacker has to do to avoid the tarpit is reduce their retries to 2? And they can detect all your fake devices by seeing who responds on the 3rd try?
I get that this is just one step in the cat-and-mouse game, but the brittleness of this approach makes the grandiose closing statements a little grating:
> Lightweight yet powerful, it empowers you to take control of your network security with minimal effort.
I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding is that vote swapping falls under the right to free association, which allows individuals to join a group that acts in its collective interest.
