

The video specifically calls out Creality from a few years ago - and also the Bambu stuff recently.


The video specifically calls out Creality from a few years ago - and also the Bambu stuff recently.


I thought he made some interesting points about how ultimately this type of legislation is just encouraging 3D printer manufacturers to just abandon open source, something they’ve been trying to do for years.


This video perfectly summed up a lot of my thoughts from this post yesterday talking about a similar law in California.


Yeah exactly. They’re effectively banning 3d printing.


Lol I was just talking to my wife about that yesterday and how it’s exactly like AI.
If you read something in the newspaper about your job, you’re like “these fucking idiots got this all backwards.” If you see AI output of an attempt at your job, it’s the same thing.
But if you read an article about someone else’s job, you think “that makes sense.” Same about seeing AI trying to do someone else’s job.


I’m neither very experienced with firearms nor printing
Unfortunately that’s the crux of the issue. The people who have written and signed this bill aren’t either - and they weren’t as big of a person as you to recognize that.
At the end of the day, 3D printing gcode is telling your printer to spit out a shape. And you simply cannot ban shapes. Am I printing a firing pin or a part for my shoe rack? There’s no way to tell. Any politician that’s telling you there is is either ignorant or lying to you.


Your faith in this mystery algorithm is stronger than mine. Here’s a diagram of the parts in an AR-15:

So we need an algorithm that renders the gcode I’m printing, then compares it to… something?


Under the proposal, printers would have to evaluate STL files, CAD files, or other geometric code using a firearm blueprint detection algorithm and block files flagged as capable of producing a firearm or illegal firearm parts, including conversion devices.
California’s Department of Justice, or another relevant state agency, would have until January 1, 2028, to publish performance standards for detection algorithms and software control processes.
This is the problem when lawmakers write technical bills without speaking to technical people. They’re going to publish standards for evaluating if your gcode is a firearm or firearm part? THAT’S FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE
Came here for this. Doom on a pregnancy test is by far the most impressive!
I searched for a car air filter the other day. I bought a car air filter the other day. I am still receiving ads for car air filters today.
Shit’s dumb as hell.
Amazon’s primary revenue driver is selling the top spots in their search results. So it’s no surprise that when you search for something, you almost never see what you’re looking for. They have literally created a system that intentionally shows you what you’re NOT looking for in order for them to make a profit.


Unfortunately that reality is going to quickly turn to “we have to cut staff and freeze salaries this year due to AI spending”.


What’s worse is they’ve added it to Android Auto. A couple days ago I told it to call my wife and it proceeded to search for local businesses containing my wife’s name.
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Bambu has been adding controls to their printers to force commands from your slicer to go through their servers before being sent to your printer. This had caused some stuff to stop working, like 3rd party AMS systems.
One guy forked (copied it and made his own changes to) their code and removed the restriction. Bambu didn’t like that and threatened him to take it down, while accusing him of falsely impersonating them to make API calls to their servers.
The dude is like “I didn’t impersonate shit, I just forked your code.” Bambu’s code is just a fork of other open source software, all under an open source license. So they have no authority to tell someone not to fork their code, since it’s all open source licensed.
So a lot of people have banded together to push back against Bambu and are ready to take them to court if necessary. They see this as a step by Bambu to try to make their printers more restricted (only use their addons, their filament, go through their cloud, etc).


Music executive Scott Borchetta told graduates of Middle Tennessee State University on May 9 that “AI is rewriting production as we sit here.”
When the jeers ensued, he doubled down, saying, “Deal with it.”
“Then do something about it,” he added as the boos continued…
Based music executive. Hyping up people to go burn down data centers.
Had to go back and watch it again. Is this dude wearing a Scooby Doo mask?
Wtf. Two Beavis and Butthead memes back to back in my feed posted by two different users to two different communities. What kind of glitch in the matrix fuckery is going on here?

I miss that glass aesthetic from 2001