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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 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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