It always is. Always blanket laws that cover so many legal things to get normal law abiding citizens in a bind.
displaced_city_mouse@midwest.social 5 days ago
So reading the commentary in the first link, if you flash your printer with new GPL firmware that bypasses these restrictions, you’re now in violation.
And what if I move (back) to WA with my printer purchased out of state that I’ve already modded?
I see what they’re trying to do, make ghost gun production illegal, but turning makers into criminals for flashing their printers with new firmware seems the wrong way.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 4 days ago
fhein@lemmy.world 4 days ago
For a printer to be compliant, it mustn’t be possible to bypass the restrictions. So your printer might not even be legal if it allows you to flash custom firmware.
…and cannot be overridden or otherwise defeated by a user with significant technical skill.
Auli@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Or if I have a printer now and don’t update it.
AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 4 days ago
it is, and they don’t understand that the hardware on a 3d printer isn’t capable of analyzing what it’s about to print like that, it’s not even close. People average laptop couldn’t even analyze a random part and give a reasonable estimate of how likely it is a gun part unless it’s an exact match, but if you tweak 1 thing it would be lost.
I don’t think these lawmakers have any clue how anything works. 3d modeling, slicing, and firmware would all have to have spyware in it and be uploading data to the cloud to be analyzed for this to be remotely possible. Not only is that financially impractical, it’s logistically impossible.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
There’s definitely a little bit of this going on.
I wonder if Nvidia is leaning on them a bit. Like, create a regulatory requirement for something for one of their bullshit datacenters to do now that Microslop has said “we need to find something useful for AI to do or we’re not going to be able to live the lie much longer” out loud almost verbatim?
I outright don’t know if this is even possible. I mean…
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What’s that? I bet 60% of people who have touched one of those couldn’t identify what it is by sight. Should I be allowed to print that?
Gumus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Well you’d know if you upgraded a Prusa MK3 and had to print that part. Other than that? I doubt even those who built MK4 from the kit would recognize it.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
I built a MK4S from the kit, and I would recognize it, even without having printed it it’s a memorable part of the build. You’d basically have to have built or upgraded a Prusa printer in the last 2 years to recognize it for what it is. If you hadn’t been introduced to it, do you have any hope of guessing what that’s for?