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The Flock Sock (makerworld.com)
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Sometimes a camera just needs a sock.

The Flock Sock is a slip on cover designed to help protect a Flock camera from the harmful radiation of the sun. Your city spent their very own hard earned tax dollars scattering these cameras everywhere to keep you safe, all it cost you was a little privacy. The very least you can do is help protect these valuable civil servants from getting a bad sunburn.

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[–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

How ironic that it’s hosted at Makerworld, which is effectively a CCP platform for widespread surveillance and IP theft.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    effectively a CCP platform for widespread surveillance and IP theft

    source:

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  • [–] 36 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    It’s run by Bambu Labs, a Chinese state-subsidised company that’s notorious for nudging users globally to let Internet-connected 3D printers map their home LANs and upload that info, plus name, address & other billing details, plus all their 3D models, to Chinese “cloud” servers where the CCP can siphon off any models useful for advancing Chinese industry.

    They’re also notorious for letting Makerworld users rip off each others’ designs in flagrant violation of the design licenses. Look on Reddit or 3D printing forums and you’ll see tons of people complaining about this.

    Bambu Labs also recently egregiously violated the AGPL by threatening a lawsuit against Pavel Jarczak, a hobbyist who found a perfectly legal workaround to reduce BL control over people’s printers. This was a big deal: the Software Freedom Conservancy, Louis Rossmann, and Gamers Nexus all pledged action.

    Bambu Labs and Makerworld stand for dictatorship, authoritarianism, and kleptocracy.

    If you support FOSS, user rights, and democracy, you really ought to boycott them.

    https://sfconservancy.org/news/2026/may/18/bambu-studio-3d-printer-agpl-violation-response/

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLLVn6XT7v0

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Damn, I didn't know all that. I only knew Bambu sucks, and I don't use Makerworld at all anyway because they don't let you download projects without making an account, and a lot of them require payment. Also, fuck bgcode format.

    Literally if I can't find it on either printables or thingiverse, then I either design it myself or I don't print it

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  • [+] -10 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    So no source at all for most of your claims. Thanks

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago

    widespread surveillance

    Every fucking corpo website is a platform for widespread surveillance. Best you can do is use a VPN and noscript.

    and IP theft.

    That part is based. Intellectual property, like most property, is theft.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    You can't "steal" IP. Ideas aren't ownable.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Spoken like a plagiarism-happy AI tech bro, repackaging other people’s effort for profit.

    In the context of IP, “theft” is an idiomatic way to say “infringement”. It’s bizarre of you to suggest it doesn’t exist: infringement law is quite well settled in most parts of the world.

    IP doesn’t refer to “ideas”. It refers to creative works. If you’ve ever spent effortful hours/weeks/years:

    • composing music
    • recording music
    • writing a novel, textbook, poem, teaching plan, essay, or a scientific paper
    • painting a portrait
    • etc

    then you’ll know why the difference between “an idea” and a creative work is sometimes called “sweat of the brow”.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    No, spoken like someone who has copyleft all my work, both hardware and software.

    Fuck AI. And fuck copyright laws.

    AI bros want to steal other people's work and then copyright the output, and still sue others.

    I'm saying you can't steal other people's ideas a and nobody should have the right to copyright anything. We are not the same.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    spoken like someone who has copyleft all of my work… fuck copyright laws

    You seem to be confusing copyleft with public domain.

    They are not the same.

    Copyleft licenses entirely rely on copyright law. In the words of the people who invented copyleft:

    Copyleft is a way of using the copyright on the program. It doesn't mean abandoning the copyright; in fact, doing so would make copyleft impossible. The “left” in “copyleft” is not a reference to the verb “to leave”—only to the direction which is the mirror image of “right.”

    Public domain, OTOH, which is what you seem to be promoting, is a gift to AI tech bros, who want to behave as the middlemen described in the same article:

    [IP] in the public domain, uncopyrighted … allows people to share [it], if they are so minded. But it also allows uncooperative people to convert [it] into proprietary [IP]. They can make changes, many or few, and distribute the result as a proprietary product. People who receive the [latter] do not have the freedom that the original author gave them; the middleman has stripped it away.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I'm not confusing it. I'm aware if it.

    We built what we have within the framework of laws made for the purposes of capitalistic domination.

    Ideally we'd eliminate copyright law and replace it with copyleft law. As of now, no copyleft laws exist

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Ideally we’d eliminate copyright law and replace it with copyleft law

    Fair enough, but it would still regulate what people can legally do with creative works. So, it would still be IP law - which a few comments ago you implied couldn’t/shouldn’t exist.

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