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A breakthrough in the agricultural #RightToRepair fight: the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission is investigating whether it's legal for companies like @JohnDeere to bully farmers into exclusively using their repair services.

accc.gov.au/focus-areas/ag…

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The ACCC is investigating whether the use of DRM in tractor parts (which necessitates an expensive and useless service call to type an unlock code into the tractor's keyboard after the farmer effects the repair) and the extraction of data from farmers are legal.

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Check @Jenny_Alto's commentary at @hackaday for more:

hackaday.com/2020/04/21/rig…

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.@abigaildisney is the outspoken, anti-corporatist Disney heiress - granddaughter of Roy Disney - and she's really angry about the company's decision to furlough 100,000 front-line workers.



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She points out that the top exec paycuts that the company has announced are effectively meaningless, because top Disney management's compensation is only incidentally derived from their salaries.

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The meat of Disney's exec compensation comes from the $1.5B it pays out in bonuses every year, and that figure has not been affected by the company's belt-tightening.

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.@GetSpectrum is the garbage company I have to buy my internet from, due to their monopolistic arrangement with my city, #Burbank.

Charter doesn't give its field techs hazard pay or PPE. Instead they get $25 gift cards for (closed down) restaurants.

pluralistic.net/2020/03/28/unr…

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Charter's CEO, Thomas Rutledge, an asshole, decreed that back-office staff would have to keep going to work, even if they could work from home, on the theory that they would be more productive under the watchful eye of their managers.

pluralistic.net/2020/03/18/diy…

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(He forced a whistleblower who complained to resign)

You will never, ever guess what happened next.

At least 230 Charter employees now have covid-19. NY AG Letitia James has opened an inquiry into corporate culpability in their illness.

cnbc.com/2020/04/21/new…

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One of the best cybercrime sleuths is @briankrebs. He used Domaintools to list out all the "repen*.com" domains registered in the past month, finding ~150. The registrants of most of these were redacted by the registrars, but that didn't stop Krebs.

krebsonsecurity.com/2020/04/whos-b…

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By cross-referencing things like Google Analytics identifiers, Krebs was able to assemble a (remarkably short) list of shadowy figures behind this (very long) list of "Reopen" domains.

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The rogues' gallery starts with the Dorr Brothers, a pair of grifters who target gullible musketfuckers by running scare stories about looming gun confiscations leading to prominent donation boxes that suck dollars out of these bedwetting ammosexuals.

dorrbrotherscams.com/p/how-dorr-bro…

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