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Tech companies are trying to neuter Colorado’s landmark right-to-repair law
A state bill is a glimpse of how corporations are limiting people's ability to make their own fixes and upgrades.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/tech-companies-are-trying-to-neuter-colorados-landmark-right-to-repair-law/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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`Da Elf 3d ago

@arstechnica LOLOLOL ... I adore absolute, distilled bullshit like this:

“IBM supports right-to-repair policies that empower consumers while protecting cybersecurity, intellectual property, and critical infrastructure,” wrote an IBM spokesperson in an email to WIRED. “Given the critical and often sensitive nature of enterprise-level products, any legislation should be clearly scoped to consumer devices.”

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Kzad_Bhat 2d ago

@elfin @arstechnica tell me you believe in "protecting the children" AND "security through obscurity" without telling me ypu believe in sich things..

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`Da Elf 2d ago

@Kzad_Bhat @arstechnica You Win my internet for the day.

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`Da Elf

@Kzad_Bhat @arstechnica IBM fucking KNOWS better. I've taught them these lessons for three decades hacking their gear.

Hell, when IBM gave us their ThinkPad specs I was one of the *many* drug and caffeine fueled idiots that wrote drivers and *made* that platform Linux Badass. (As opposed to my Sony VAIO fetish that ended because I got too much push back).

Open it up and let me have a look. I will find, AND FIX, problems. Is what I do.

Hide it, I'll find it anyway.