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California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves (blog.adafruit.com)
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[–] 29 points 6 months ago (2 children)

This feels very much like they know it won't do it's intended purpose, but it will work as a legal tool to harass specific targets.

The 3d printed gun might be legal, but having it means you probably have an illegal machine and so that gives law enforcement some small grain of justification to get a warrant and go through your shit.

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    This feels very much like they know it won't do it's intended purpose, but it will work as a legal tool to harass specific targets.

    I wonder sometimes to what extent legislators understand and specifically seek out this outcome, or whether they're generally goobers who are ignorant and incurious about the practical outcomes of the legislation they pass.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago

    legislators understand

    Well that depends how much they're paid to actively not understand 🤭

    "3D Gun't" (millenial core for gun not) is the company/software being pushed to them, of course having used machine learning trained off of everything uploaded by people.

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago

    A step further, no doubt the company pushing this kind of detection has greater ambitions. IP protection, collecting and monitoring personally modelled parts, model licensing. I wouldn't bet on more than 2 fiscal quarters after they get some foothold legislation for them to push some more crazy bs

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