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The Flock Sock (makerworld.com)
submitted 1 week ago by to c/privacy@programming.dev
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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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[–] 60 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Definitely don't print that in PLA so it melts all over the camera in the sun. That'll be awful to remove.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    This is overblown. I've had a little watering can I printed for the kids sitting outside during these heat waves all summer and it hasn't deformed at all. Slightly bleached from the sun, but same shape.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Doesn't pla become brittle? And it takes a while? I printed out a plug for my motorcycle in PLA a couple years ago that I have been meaning to replace but it's been just fine so far and it's in the sun when I'm riding.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    It melts at a lower temperature than other thermoplastics, but still not till closer to boiling water temperatures. If you put PLA in boiling water it'll deform, whereas other plastics will still hold up at that temperature

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    Doesn't pla become brittle?

    Maybe.

    Eventually.

    But but I've had PLA light shades and garden decorations out in the weather (direct sun, rain, freezing temperatures) for 3-4 years without any noticeable deterioration.

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    • [–] 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    I hope no one finds out that a class 3 laser is enough to burn the sensor rendering the camera inoperable.

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    • [–] 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Unless it's a Faraday bag or something it's not going to stop the signal tracking right? Might as well be a plastic bag.

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    • [–] 10 points 1 week ago

    rocks are everywhere and they rhyme with flock so they're natural besties.

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    [–] 8 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Would be a better design if it was vase mode printable.

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    • [–] 7 points 1 week ago

    Spray foam insulation is easier to acquire, easier to apply, and more durable (i.e. it won't be removed by pranksters wishing to expose the lens to harmful proximaster radiation)

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    [–] 5 points 1 week ago

    Anybody in the Seattle area need me to print up a batch?

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    [–] 4 points 1 week 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 1 week ago (1 child)

    effectively a CCP platform for widespread surveillance and IP theft

    source:

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  • [–] 36 points 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week 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 1 week ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] -4 points 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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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