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  • guess what, the state of california on the printer bed, depicted in the article, looks close to the profile of an AR15 pistol grip.

    im looking forward to the idea that the outline of Ca. may trigger false positives

    by rolph
  • Imagine if you couldn't buy a lathe unless it refused to make a baseball bat (which could be used for hitting people).

    Or if you couldn't buy scissors (because they could cut brake lines).

    Or if you couldn't buy a car (because it could be used to run someone over).

    And if all of those checked with the government before functioning.

    It's almost like maybe instead you should just ban the undesirable end action, enforce that law, and create societal conditions that don't nudge or force people into doing undesirable things.

    by deet
  • If some people want to make their own gun, then some people will also make their own 3D printer.

    This joke of a law isn't going to stop any 3D printed handguns from getting made, it will only add one more relatively easy step.

    Then what, ban stepper motors?

    by leptons
  • The Take Action link only took 30 seconds: https://www.eff.org/3DPrintCA

    (did choose to edit the letter but otherwise really, it autofills and takes no time)

    by Barbing
  • We're bombing Iran to suppress technology form the 40s. We're suppressing advanced AI. We're suppressing 3d printer technology. Then there are the encryption wars. Control of advanced technology, not just weapons, is a larger and larger battle every year. When the robots get here, you'll need the governments ok to do anything at all with a robot. Mark Andreessen's comments that government regulators told him that they've suppressed whole branches of physics is ominous in that regard. Technology suppression is a whole separate narrative of history practically.
    by narrator
  • Looks even more draconian than the New York law. For example, it seems to mandate proprietary, locked down slicers from the printer manufacturer.

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    For integrated preprint software [slicer] design, guidance for how vendors shall demonstrate that printers will accept print jobs exclusively through authorized and validated software systems and will not accept print jobs from unauthorized software pathways, including attempts by users seeking to evade a detection algorithm.

    by WillPostForFood
  • California voters, write to your state senator. I'm in San Francisco, and I wrote to Scott Wiener, who recently voted to pass this out of committee.

    Before that when it was still in the assembly, I wrote to Matt Haney, which didn't do much good because he voted for it both in committee and for passage.

    But, I feel like bay area legislators need to know many of their constituents know this bill is misguided and are paying attention. The tech capital of the world shouldn't have artificially impaired tools.

    by asveikau
  • My kindergartner has a 3D printer.

    I got a call from the school principal. She said “another parent called and said your son 3D printed a gun and brought it to school”.

    I looked at the print history. It was a tiny toy mandalorian figurine holding a blaster pistol in his hand.

    I bought my son a bigger 3D printer and told him to stop playing with that boy.

    by gdiamos

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