Farmers are having to hack their own tractors to make repairs

Re:Farmers are having to hack their own tractors to make re... by LinuxBender on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @04:35PM (#26082651)

I need to find you some pictures of this. It happened, but with an angry human in Vermont. Flattened a bunch of police cars. Here are some [1] but I know there were more [2][3]. Trying to find the pictures of the cops laughing. Well, those pictures are gone, but you can see most of the story.

[1] - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/vermont-man-uses-tracto...

[2] - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2182958/Police-Vt-f...

[3] - https://motleynews.net/2012/08/03/lmao-vermont-man-upset-ove...

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Re:Farmers are having to hack their own tractors to make re... by jhawk28 on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @10:12PM (#26085361)

Our neighbor would chase "trespassing" police off his property with a bucket loader (tractor with a bucket).

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Re:Farmers are having to hack their own tractors to make re... by whomst on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @06:19PM (#26083862)

There's also the Killdozer with Marvin Heemeyer but it was a bulldozer effectively turned into a tank

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Re:Farmers are having to hack their own tractors to make re... by LinuxBender on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @03:54PM (#26094622)

I remember the videos of that. That would be a good example of high damage low risk to someone that takes control of a GPS/AI controlled bulldozer. And that was just one bulldozer. Imagine if every tractor, bulldozer, rock hauler, excavator were connected to a gaming engine and suddenly went full quake-3 arena at the same time.

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Re:Farmers are having to hack their own tractors to make re... by Person5478 on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @05:35PM (#26083364)

That is absolutely hilarious.

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