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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: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday February 03 2018, @05:04PM (2 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Saturday February 03 2018, @05:04PM (#632590) Homepage Journal

    All I'm currently thinking about is allowing people to assign a per-user adjustment to Spam moderated comments that'll take them below -1 and collapse them even if they're browsing at -1. Some of the recent Spam has been overly verbose and I'd rather spend a week coding and debugging than the time it takes to click the "-" button on that post. I'm weird like that.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2018, @06:08PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2018, @06:08PM (#632615)

    Don't we allow -6 to +6 to be applied to mod reasons including spam? That's the point (the custom prefs for anons, new users, mod reasons, comment length, etc.) at which it would be good to blow the -1 and +5 caps. Before customizations, keep -1 to +5 range as usual.

    But we could have comments with -34 or +69 karma with that change which would necessitate a new negative infinity option for displaying all comments.

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    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday February 03 2018, @10:06PM

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Saturday February 03 2018, @10:06PM (#632687) Homepage Journal

      That's the idea, yep. Only for Spam at this point though. Someone annoying us by being right when we're wrong or vice versa doesn't warrant the ability to hide their posts when you're browsing at the floor IMO. On the other hand, it'd probably be easier to just set anything with a Spam moderation it to collapsed after the normal collapsed/expanded checks have been done for that comment.

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