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

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: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday February 03 2018, @12:25PM (10 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Saturday February 03 2018, @12:25PM (#632496) Homepage Journal

    If someone being a jackass once or twice a day on average is going to butthurt a visitor enough that they don't come back, they wouldn't have enjoyed their experience here anyway. We're not a cute and cuddly bunch.

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  • (Score: 1) by anubi on Saturday February 03 2018, @01:15PM

    by anubi (2828) on Saturday February 03 2018, @01:15PM (#632507) Journal

    Maybe we are not so cute and cuddly, but most of us here have absolutely great bullshit detectors, and don't filter the output very much!

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  • (Score: 2) by Nuke on Saturday February 03 2018, @08:23PM (8 children)

    by Nuke (3162) on Saturday February 03 2018, @08:23PM (#632650)

    If someone being a jackass once or twice a day on average is going to butthurt a visitor ...

    It isn't necessarily a matter of being butthurt. Some of these trolls post stuff that is so long, like several screenfulls, and then the same again and again in the same thread, that it becomes hard work for the reader to dig out the real discussion. I am a regular, not butthurt by trolls posting about Gayniggers etc, but l have given up reading threads before now because it became too tedious to sort through the trolls.

    Some other forums have a permanent troll/spam thead or section to which admins or moderators can move stuff. Stopping AC first posts is a good idea, as first post titles tends to be perpetuated thoough most of the discussion, to the satisfaction of the troll if he wrote it.

    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday February 03 2018, @10:09PM (7 children)

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Saturday February 03 2018, @10:09PM (#632690) Homepage Journal

      Sounds like setting anything moderated Spam to an initial collapsed state regardless of its score would solve that. I'm really leaning towards that as a solution at the moment.

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      • (Score: 1) by anubi on Sunday February 04 2018, @08:57AM (6 children)

        by anubi (2828) on Sunday February 04 2018, @08:57AM (#632852) Journal

        Interesting. That oughta work. Maybe set by the preferences|comments menu: spam set to -1 modifier - which would take the spam and drop it to -2 karma, below the -1 threshold?

        So, if someone reads at -1, uncut and raw, with the spam modifier set to -1, they will see everything but spam.

        ( I tried to do that before I posted, did not work for me, I got those spams anyway )

        A lot of stuff that should be moderated spam is not moderated thus and still gets through... but I can't change the moderation as its at -1 already, and its gotta be upmoderated back up to zero before anyone else can downmoderate it as spam.

        Maybe let us moderate even an existing -1 post to be spam, if nothing else, to get the spam designator in place, even if it does not affect the post's karma.

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        • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday February 04 2018, @11:21AM (5 children)

          by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday February 04 2018, @11:21AM (#632875) Homepage Journal

          Also a good idea. One that's been brought up by takyon several times.

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          • (Score: 1) by anubi on Sunday February 04 2018, @12:37PM (4 children)

            by anubi (2828) on Sunday February 04 2018, @12:37PM (#632895) Journal

            Sure is better to not jump and do stuff before thinking about it a bit, eh? I have spent more time building junk that way. Gotta be busy, but hadn't thought it out well yet.

            Sure is an odd hour you mess with this stuff... before bed, or first thing in the morning? ( for me, before bed... I am really bad about staying awake all night... cuz I'm not sleepy ).

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