You cannot put DRM in stepper motors. This law is dumb.
We Can Still Stop California’s 3D Printer Surveillance Scheme
Submitted 2 months ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de@discuss.tchncs.de to 3dprinting@lemmy.world
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/we-can-still-stop-californias-3d-printer-surveillance-scheme
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apftwb@lemmy.world 2 months ago
TrippinMallard@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Hey now, don’t give them any ideas…
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago Can’t stop those 3D printer pens, either. Someone could one day be literal when they say they are gonna draw a weapon.
reluctant_squidd@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Everyone unplug from the internet?
TIEPilot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Bingo, back to the SneakerNet.
sleet01@lemmy.ca 2 months ago - blows dust off classic Fellowes floppy disk caddy *
“Gimme some sugar, baby!”
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
You can still connect it to your LAN without giving it internet access.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
[deleted]sj_zero 2 months ago federation: confirmed
If this was about guns, they would ban hardware stores. It's just about controlling everything so they can parcel it back out to friends.
0xd34d@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago America, fuck yeah!
I mean, fuck America!
Lasherz12@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I don’t really get it other than changing its convenience and efficiency. Superglue and wall loops make stronger parts of multiple pieces than priting it all in one.
ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 2 months ago
You can buy whole kits to build your own, the capacity to control what is made with the is about as much as if you tried to ban someone with a table saw from building a birdhouse.
TIEPilot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Thats a perfectly succinct analogy.
Pretty sure you could make a gun too, which is the point of this 3D printer thing
And like what about other CNC machines?
I like that California is on the frontier of many tech laws, but this and the age thing are particularly dumb lately
turbowafflz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Or just go to a bordering state, buy one, and come back
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Printer manufacturers won’t make state-specific versions of printers. This is going to screw all of us.
tomiant@piefed.social 2 months ago
Oh nothing to worry about then? Fuck you, we need to fight back against every infringement of our rights, it has nothing to do with how effective the law will be but that the law is WRONG.
Jesus christ when will we stop doing this?
masterspace@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Actually ammo reloaded at home shoots better than factory ammo this is a known occurance. And guns put together with kits usually shoot better and have less problems than mass produced factory ones.
Guns aren’t really that difficult to make. Hell that Japanese guy shot Shinto Abe with a gun he made himself although bit of a different thing because it used a battery to ignite the gunpowder but still the same idea.
Making guns isn’t hard to do.
3d printed ones are a joke though. You can only use them a few times before they become even more dangerous and unpredictable.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Tell me you know nothing about metalworking and firearms, without telling me you know nothing about metalworking and firearms.