katy-l-wood:

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afloweroutofstone:

gaiomon:

tilthat:

TIL that farmers in USA are hacking their John Deere tractors with Ukrainian firmware, which seems to be the only way to actually own the machines and their software, rather than rent them for lifetime from John Deere.

via reddit.com

Rural Cyberpunk.

Companies like John Deere actively seek to legally prevent farmers from repairing their own equipment in order to squeeze more money of them. Elizabeth Warren’s called for a national right-to-repair law for tractors specifically to counter this.

Oh my neighbors did this. 

Thanks Ukrainian programmers! You’ve done us here in Iowa a solid, we do appreciate it

I’m also a fan of “fuck it, we’ll make our OWN tractors from several cut up Fords and random bits of scrap from out back.” Not as popular anymore, but still fun.

3:56am Mon 20th May 2019 47,178 notes
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