iFixit Tears Down McDonald's McFlurry Machine, Petitions Government for Right to Hack Them

https://lemmy.world/post/4089964

iFixit Tears Down McDonald's McFlurry Machine, Petitions Government for Right to Hack Them - Lemmy.world

There’s already a link to the vid talking about the utter bullshit and corruption surrounding the McD’s ice cream machines posted in this thread, but here’s a resource I haven’t seen posted yet: an online tracker to find out if your local McD’s ice cream machine is working or broken right now.

mcbroken.com

(love the domain name)

mcbroken

is the mcdonald's ice cream machine broken?

How do they get the data?
If its the one I know, it sends an online ice cream request through the API, and then cancels the successful ones before they reach the stores. The unsuccessful ones are broken machines, essentially.