If we change the "right to repair" laws, we should also change the liability laws. If a home-repaired unit becomes unsafe and injures people, who is responsible?

In the case of farming equipment, suppose a farmer makes a repair to a piece of equipment and then his son is injured or killed by said equipment. Who is liable?

The company would say that the farmer took full responsibility once he modified the equipment, while the farmer could say that his modifications did not affect the safety of the device.

It's also not at all clear whether a physical repair done by the farmer could have contributed to an accident made by software. Lots of things can affect software, such as the alignment of the two welded pieces. The software makes a performance analysis of stopping distance based on information it has, but the repair might have changed those parameters.

People who like to race want to download new parameters into the ECU of their car, but that's illegal. It actually is: the parameters are set to maximize efficiency, and while you can get better performance with different numbers, it would promote climate change, so it was made illegal.

Being able to repair things is good, and it's very clear that open source has driven the software industry forward, but we need to be careful about liability as well. Jailbreaking your phone is one thing, but jailbreaking your EV might have catastriphic consequences. I'm not a fan of ID-tagging headlights (BMW, Mazda), but if an accident occurs because of reduced visibility the company could be held liable.

I'm completely in favor of being able to repair things, and John Deere is the worst sort of predatory behaviour, but just wanted to point out that there's another side to the story and we should be careful.

Find it hard to believe the "why" of an invasion is even relevant. I can see China invading the western seaboard of the US telling Americans hey no worries we do not "claim ownership". As if any living person in the US would give a flying fuck about such utterances.

Front lines are too diffuse for tactical nukes to have much of a strategic effect. Unless Russia plans on lobbing strategic nukes at major population centers which sure as heck is not the "same result as surrender" even nukes are unlikely to result in surrender and may well backfire.

I don't see the relevance WRT invasion claims.

"Nothing to lose" rhetoric is not credible. Relevant differentiation is lack of threat to state survival. In an alternate reality in which Oct 7th attacks sufficiently threatened the survival of Israel I have little doubt Gaza would be converted into a glass parking lot. There were voices in the government calling for it in this reality and of course daily voices calling for nuking Ukraine and the "west" from Russian state media.

You are the one gaslighting. The Ukrainian military invaded the Kursk region of Russia and held it for a year. This is common knowledge and an irrefutable fact. Their intentions don't change the fact a military invasion of a nuclear power took place.

Oh give it a rest Spirals. You are not merely opposed to war you actively support Russia and regurgitate every bit of false Russian propaganda there is while demonstrating guttural hatred of Ukraine like any good self respecting vatnik.

"Now, those women they sent away for safe keeping better learn to clean house and pole dance at speed, because daddy isn't coming home. He got blown up in a proxy war back home. Bad decisions to prolong wars have consequences (and so do foreign warmongers interfering, like you are advocating for). Ukrainian women are going to finish paying the price on strip club runway that Ukrainian men already have paid with their lives. "

"Fuck those beggars. They definitely provoked it with their shelling in Donbas and elsewhere after repeated warnings from Russia to stop."

"When Ukraine loses and capitulates to Russia they will never get back their lost territory. They probably shouldn't have been shelling Russians in Donbas and Luhansk and they'd never had the trouble with Russia in the first place."

"BTW, Ukraine is losing badly and this whole idiotic debate is about to end when we properly stop supporting this proxy war and war mongering BS"

"There was no 2014 coup? There was no shelling in Donbas before the war? There was no threat of joining NATO? Russia just invaded because they coveted Ukraine?"

Assuming Mojtaba is not a vegetable he lacks religious credentials, has no charisma and hereditary ascension cuts against a core tenant of the Islamic revolution. What having him in place makes bare to Iranians is the IRGC is running the country as a mafia state and he is its puppet.

More Iranians are enraged over the prospect of being abandoned as bombs stop falling. Iranians supporting attacks against the regime were well aware of the fact there would be collateral damage. There were never any safe options no matter what. On one hand you have unintentional mistakes and on the other deliberate regime massacres involving orders of magnitude more people coupled with omnipresent systematic terrorizing of the population.

Trump's rhetoric is certainly idiotic and highly counterproductive.

What is interesting is the degradation of Iranian terror networks throughout the region. Hezbollah's days in Lebanon appear to be numbered. PMFs facilities in Iraq are under attack. The Houthis know they won't be getting Iranian support any time soon and rather than exporting terror huge numbers of their proxies around the world are flooding the streets of Iran.

No better way to enhance a regimes legitimacy than a bunch of foreign paid mercenary boots on the ground at the behest of the regime.

We've seen a similar unraveling of Russian proxies due to their preoccupation with getting their asses kicked in Ukraine. The fall of Assad's Syria, loss of influence in Caucasus and Africa, abandonment of Transnistria.

North Koreans have been supplying weapons to the Russians for years. There is no need for any of this just to sell weapons or find out how weapon systems perform in real world conditions.

I find the scoring hard to believe. Perhaps it has been years since I've looked and things have changed.

Apple and Microsoft last I remember were overly enamored with solder and glue. Doesn't Apple have some kind of whitelist/hardware signature thing requiring specialized tools just to replace components? Lenovo stinkpads had been screws from what I remember major components were serviceable.

About a year ago I went looking at one of the Dell rugged laptops (dual hotswap batteries, customizable ports) ultimately ended up deciding against it once I found out you literally had to strip the entire machine down removing mainboards, heat sinks..etc just to access the sodimm slots to add/replace memory.

This is separate from secure boot. In Windows kernel drivers are required to be signed. The trust anchors from what I remember are hard coded into the operating system. You can't even add certs for drivers to the systems store.

This can only be bypassed by booting with driver signature enforcement disabled. Having users do that is not all that feasible.

Yes, of course.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine began in 2014 when it became clear Putler's puppet Yanukovych had lost his legitimacy. He then fled to Russia a couple days later. On Feb 24 2022 Putler began a "full scale" war against Ukraine. Ukraine would invade Kursk over two years after the full scale war around August of 2024 as part of its fight against Putler's war of conquest.

Making arguments that depend on what Trump says is a bad idea.

Ukraine invaded the Kursk region of Russia two years ago.

Operation Ajax is more conspiracy than reality. It was an inept propaganda campaign against a prime minister that turned out to be about as effective as the CIA's 600+ attempts to kill Castro.

The prime minister was already declining in popularity and was fired while attempting to instigate a coup to install himself as dictator. He ended up getting himself fired for his efforts and was then tried and jailed for 3 years. Somehow this morphed into the patently absurd popular notion the CIA had deposed a democratically elected leader and installed a US puppet dictator instead.

"A plebiscite more fantastic and farcical than any ever held under Hitler or Stalin is now being staged in Iran by Premier Mossadegh in an effort to make himself unchallenged dictator of the country."

https://www.nytimes.com/1953/0...

Don't trust.

This is a rather silly argument. Russia has nukes and not only was it invaded it is being bombed each and every day. Ditto for Israel.

The primary problem with humans is they are easily manipulated and have an unhealthy tolerance of tyranny and aggregation of power. The tribal shit is merely a means to an end.

If pacifists had their way the entire planet would be locked into a totalitarian dictatorship.

After the company was caught spamming contacts a decade ago did anyone think they would improve?

Are you happy absurd nonsense prevailed or is it just outcome aligned with preference?

It is one thing to argue for repealing gambling laws. It is another to support absurd word games as the modality by which that end is achieved.

One can't well have a free country when for example:

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

Is allowed to be rendered moot by filing legal actions against inanimate objects such as a persons houses, papers and effects.