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Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly

posted by janrinok on Saturday February 03 2018, @05:40AM   Printer-friendly
from the you-don't-own-anything-anymore dept.

linkdude64 writes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8JCh0owT4w

When it comes to repair, farmers have always been self reliant. But the modernization of tractors and other farm equipment over the past few decades has left most farmers in the dust thanks to diagnostic software that large manufacturers hold a monopoly over.

Farmers using Eastern European cracking software for their tractors, and MS, Apple, etc. want to stop them.

Related: Right to Repair

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  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday February 03 2018, @09:56AM (5 children)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Saturday February 03 2018, @09:56AM (#632442) Journal

    What I always wondered: If you are logged in and use the "Post Anonymously" option, is it stored internally who posted it?

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  • (Score: 2) by beckett on Saturday February 03 2018, @10:46AM (2 children)

    by beckett (1115) on Saturday February 03 2018, @10:46AM (#632466)

    iirc slashcode sets anonymous_coward_uid to 1.

    • (Score: 2, Interesting) by anubi on Saturday February 03 2018, @10:52AM (1 child)

      by anubi (2828) on Saturday February 03 2018, @10:52AM (#632470) Journal

      Then how does this site know not to give me moderation options for the AC posts I made while logged in?

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      • (Score: 4, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday February 03 2018, @11:49AM

        by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Saturday February 03 2018, @11:49AM (#632486) Homepage Journal

        The guys who did the writing before we got our hands on the code get credit for that. One-way hashs of your IP address and subnet are compared to those of every comment. If either matches, you don't get to moderate it. It can make debugging moderation a pain but I'm happy with how it works for a live site.

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday February 03 2018, @10:47AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday February 03 2018, @10:47AM (#632468) Journal

    It is stored, at least temporarily. I did an AC post, read more articles, came back to the article in which I posted AC, read new comments, and moderated a couple. Out of curiosity, I checked to see if I could moderate my own AC comment. Unpossible. I don't know if it's done on my own machine, or on the server, but the information is stored somewhere. When the wife isn't on her machine, maybe I'll post AC from it, then see if I can moderate it from my own machine. You've got me curious enough that I might remember to try . . .

  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday February 03 2018, @11:45AM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Saturday February 03 2018, @11:45AM (#632485) Homepage Journal

    No, but the IPID (one-way hashed IP address) will be the same for your logged in self and the AC post. It's one click for an admin to pull up that IPID's page and see who's been using it.

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