A new feature by Andy Greenberg for Wired on the bizarre fight over diagnostic/control tools for McDonald's soft-serve machines is a fantastic, fascinating look at the intersection of Right to Repair with hardware hacking, corporatism, and franchising.

wired.com/story/they-hacked-mc

McDonald's ice-cream machines are notoriously finicky, so much so that people use bots to determine whether your local McD's machines are busted (5-16% of the machines are broken at any time)

mcbroken.com/

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@zpartacoos @pluralistic That's a wild story. I don't have much sympathy for Kytch fighting back with the evil weapon of alleging EULA violations.

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