Darkassassin07
@Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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- Comment on Emergency Alert About Wildfires 5 days ago:
It’s my alarm.
- Comment on Emergency Alert About Wildfires 5 days ago:
All mine are swtched off.
They still come through in BC Canada. Doesn’t care about the settings; they all play anyway.
Amber Alerts, Emergency Warnings, Tests, all of them play regardless.
There’s been 6 here, since May this year. 2 of those were between 12am and 1am.
- Comment on How come when paying cash for gas, it is not like a coke machine where you can insert your money? And when it hits that limit it clicks off? 1 week ago:
Yup, just go back inside for your change.
- Comment on Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles… 2 weeks ago:
I set a walmart on fire once… ~12 years old, unsupervised, and playing with flamable liquids in the garden center…
Identified and spoken to by investigators, but still unpunished. I happened to be leaving the country with family in a few weeks, so they just let me go.
- Comment on Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles… 2 weeks ago:
Perfect, draw my attention so I remember to fuck with it
- Comment on Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles… 2 weeks ago:
Seems easier to just look at how many were rung up at the till…
- Comment on Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles… 2 weeks ago:
Something like a TSA key that fits the lock in addition to the owner’s key.
‘TSA approved’ locks have a seprate keyway specifically for TSA to open and inspect your bags.
There is something called ‘Master Keying’ (not talking about the master lock company), where you can setup the pins in a lock to open for multiple different keys. Commonly used in places like hotels and motels: one key only opens your door (this is the one given to you at check-in) and another key that opens all the motels locks, given to management/cleaning staff so they can get into each room without needing dozens or hundreds of keys.
This requires each lock to be explicitly setup with the correct pins to accept both keys. Not super common now, but you still find them now and again.
- Comment on Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles… 2 weeks ago:
The TSA have 3-4 specific ‘TSA keys’ (which are easily purchased), and they demand you use a ‘TSA approved’ lock which has an extra keyway explicitly for them to use. If you don’t use one of these locks, they’ll cut yours off during inspection and give it back to you in pieces, with no compensation.
- Comment on Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles… 2 weeks ago:
Yup, considered another type of lockpicking tool. Depending on the lock; clumsy, loud, and often ineffective. Usually defeated by security pins and/or different strength springs in the pin stacks. Plus you have to have the correct key blank for the lock cylinder you’re attacking.
- Comment on Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles… 2 weeks ago:
That master lock I’m familiar with, I’ve actually got one sitting on my shelf righ now. I could be mistaken; but I could have sworn those were warded lever locks; needing more than just the tip, but at least one if not two other positions to raise all of the levers as well. Perhaps I was wrong there, they may he even cheaper than In thought (I’ve not actually dissected one as they’re riveted together).
The tubular lockpick is what I posted… So yeah, I’m aware of it and it’s usage…
Or you buy the right key, which is what OP did.
This has been my point in this entire conversation. OP didn’t buy some magic ‘universal key’, they bought a regular key that happens to be commonly used. Nothing special.
- Comment on Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles… 2 weeks ago:
Yes, they’re only relevant to purely warded locks which are largely nolonger used in the modern world (exceptions always exist, the world isnt black/white).
In the world of pin-tumbler or tubular locks - what we’ve been talking about - the closest equivalent would be a comb pick/key, which is a bypass tool (or lock pick) that only effects poorly designed locks with compressed pin stacls shorter than the chamers their in. I don’t think I’ve ever seen one of these for a tubular lock, but they may exist.
- Comment on Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles… 2 weeks ago:
Each of the little pins you see in the ring of that lock are equivalent to the pins in a typical pin-tumbler lock you’d find on a front door. The corresponding round cutouts in the edge of the key barrel set how far each one is pushed down when you insert the key.
Yes, there’s just one little tooth that rotates the lock, but only after each of those pins are pushed down to the correct depth. These are almost always really cheap locks, so you’ve only got to be kind of close tbh, but you do still have to be close.
You’ve just got a copy of walmarts keys. (Or a near enough approximation) nothing ‘universal’ about it. I don’t think you explicitly tried to get ‘walmarts keys’, but got lucky enough with whatever random key you bought that it happens to work.
There’s no such thing as a literal ‘universal key’. There’s commonly used keys (like what a large international retailer might buy and use in bulk…), and there’s lock picking tools.
- Comment on Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles… 2 weeks ago:
A ‘universal’ key, IE a key that can be used to open multiple different locks. So yes, a lock pick. What were you expecting?
Not all walmarts are the same, many haven’t ‘upgraded’ to digital locks. Still an interesting tool for the arsenal.
- Comment on Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles… 2 weeks ago:
That’s just key, presumably a copy of the specific key that your local walmart uses; there’s nothing ‘universal’ about it.
- Comment on Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles… 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Netflix is garbage 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Netflix is garbage 2 weeks ago:
I continue to be glad I’ve not paid for a streaming service, cable, satellite, or any other tv/media service in the entirety of my life.
My mother stopped paying for satellite tv in like 2014ish, my sister stopped paying for Netflix in 2019, and I’ve provided an Emby server with an Ombi and arr stack based requests system to my whole family since 2017.
Those services have done more than enough to prove they don’t deserve my money.
- Comment on Back in my day 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on My Local Public Tennis Court Requires Online Registration 5 weeks ago:
Those poles snap of surprisingly cleanly, cable and all 😂
- Comment on My Local Public Tennis Court Requires Online Registration 5 weeks ago:
You’ll have to break in, then convince whoever shows up ‘it was like that when I got here’.
Hopefully there’s no cameras.
- Comment on Is this a rope hanging under a helicopter? 5 weeks ago:
This one was still over my head, but you gave me just enough to look it up. For anyone similarly confused.
- Comment on Is this a rope hanging under a helicopter? 5 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Artisanal 5 weeks ago:
Is it truely art if you can’t put it in your ass?
- Comment on Skeletor laying down, out and about FYI 1 month ago:
Yup. There are a few medical conditions that can cause you to fart through your urethra. UTIs, and damage to your bowel mainly.
- Comment on Skeletor laying down, out and about FYI 1 month ago:
Your ass, genitals, and mouth can all produce all three states of matter.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
“These riots are clearly not ‘peaceful protests’ as you can see from the photos of these horrific wounds,”
When you use force to deny peoples rights, they fight back and you end up with wounds. Back the fuck off and you don’t get injured officers.
- Comment on Can I repurpose my Xbox series X 2 months ago:
Emby has a decent xbox app for media streaming. TBH I’ve just been using an HTPC lately though.
- Comment on A woman has been ordered to remove a gorilla statue from the front of her house in Wakefield or face a fine. 2 months ago:
They haven’t brought up any saftey concerns, simply ‘you didn’t ask first, so now it must come down’
Their initial letter about it only mentions aesthetic issues. Someone doesn’t like how it looks and is flexing their position to get it removed.
- Comment on Some people really lack civic sense 3 months ago:
Put your elbow ontop and really lean into it.
" whoops, sorry, I didn’t seen you invading my personal space"
- Comment on Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed 3 months ago:
Outright banning it or taxing the shit out of it have the same effect: buyers go to underground sellers, further risking their health/bypassing legal quality controls.
Source: I’m a weed smoker in Canada. While it is legal here; it’s like 80% cheaper to use ‘native’ dispensaries (shops on native land, run by natives, and thus not subject to federal/provincial taxes). It’s been several years since I last used a govt dispensary, and that was mostly because my usual sources were unavailable at the time.
$10-15/gram shatter vs $45-50/gram at a govt dispensary.
At least the taxing option brings in revenue for the govt and keeps people out of jail just for consuming their substance of choice without harming anyone else.
