RidgeRoad

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Trump refuses to say if he wants Ukraine to win the war in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] RidgeRoad@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago

That would be after the low hanging fruit of Moldova. Neighbors Ukraine, Constitutionally neutral, does not admit stationing foreign military troops on its territory, can only be altered by referendum, and not at all during a state of national emergency, martial law or war.

Kamala Picking Governor Walz for VP Is a Win for the Right-to-Repair Movement in c/righttorepair@midwest.social
[–] RidgeRoad@midwest.social 10 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Yeah, Entertainment Software Association representing all three.

Kamala Picking Governor Walz for VP Is a Win for the Right-to-Repair Movement in c/righttorepair@midwest.social
[–] RidgeRoad@midwest.social 25 points 3 months ago (7 children)

I'm less surprised by that than the exclusion of video game consoles.
Didn't know the Nintendo lobby was a formidable adversary up there.

Black Lives Matter demands DNC host virtual primary in c/usa@midwest.social
[–] RidgeRoad@midwest.social 2 points 3 months ago

It’s not like there was a Warren-level progressive in the running.

And if there were, we know from 2020 there'd still be cosplay communists insisting she wasn't progressive enough.

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Kamala Picking Governor Walz for VP Is a Win for the Right-to-Repair Movement (gizmodo.com)
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“Smart” Washing Machines are Dumb (pirg.org)
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Pluralistic: Apple Fucked Us On Right to Repair (Again). (pluralistic.net)
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California Passes Right-to-Repair Act Guaranteeing Seven Years of Parts for Your Phone. (www.theverge.com)
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When Tail Lights Lose Touch With Reality (hackaday.com)
 

Water gets into 2018 Ford truck tail light assembly, corrodes connectors, disables vehicle, $5600 repair.

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Midwest Farmers Aren't Allowed to Fix Their Own Tractors. And Many Right-to-Repair Bills Are Stalled. (www.iowapublicradio.org)
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iFixit Tears Down a McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine, Demands DMCA Exemption For It. (arstechnica.com)
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Surprise: Apple Now Supports California’s Right-to-Repair. 😳 (www.theverge.com)
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And now to meteorologist Louis Rossmann with expected impacts of the forecasted snowstorm in Hell.

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Mousetrap, a new GUI engine for Julia. (github.com)
 

Initial commit was June 11. Documentation is here.

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NHTSA, Massachusetts Attorney General Reach Agreement on Voter-Approved 'Right to Repair' Law (www.wcvb.com)
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See also PIRG's statement NHTSA Walks Back Anti-Repair Letter, but Questions Remain, including link to the NHTSA's letter.

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Security Industry Association Lobbies States for Exemptions from Right to Repair. (www.ecmag.com)
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Holly Borgmann, vice president of government affairs for ADT, Boca Raton, Fla., said that while these types of laws may make sense for some industries, tools and manuals that could enable someone to disarm an alarm or reroute an emergency signal should remain proprietary. Borgmann is an SIA board member and vice chair of the SIA government affairs committee.

A security system that can be repaired without notifying the monitoring service, nor sending any suspicious signals, is a security system that can be defeated independent of right to repair legislation. Likewise, if the monitoring service can't verify repairs to be authorized by the customer, they can't handle response to an ordinary alarm.

The site specific data of an alarm panel is generally uploaded remotely by the monitoring service using the communication system through which the panel is monitored. That data is retained by the monitoring service in the event it needs restored, or for use as a template should it need modified. This is a trivial operation if there are any doubts regarding the integrity of the programming.

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Canon Is Getting Away With Printers That Won’t Scan Sans Ink — But HP Might Pay. (www.theverge.com)
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