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janrinok
on Saturday February 03 2018, @05:40AM
from the you-don't-own-anything-anymore dept.
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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Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly
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New crypt. See /usr/news/crypt.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by isj on Saturday February 03 2018, @03:53PM (1 child)
Another thing that would help is to not allow AC to make the first post. That would make it harder for AC trolls to get noticed and also reduce the problem with "first" posts.
The downside is that if an AC had a valuable insight then he would have to wait until someone non-AC had made the first post, but I think that would be acceptable - if the insight is valuable it will get modded up and noticed by a larger audience.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2018, @09:36PM
I think that's unnecessarily restrictive, for a very small problem. There are very few articles with a spammy first post.