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Discussion (8 Comments)Read Original on HackerNews

WillPostForFoodabout 1 hour ago
Looks even more draconian than the New York law. For example, it seems to mandate proprietary, locked down slicers from the printer manufacturer.

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For integrated preprint software [slicer] design, guidance for how vendors shall demonstrate that printers will accept print jobs exclusively through authorized and validated software systems and will not accept print jobs from unauthorized software pathways, including attempts by users seeking to evade a detection algorithm.

LanceH18 minutes ago
At some point between this, age verification for the OS, and everything else, it starts to seem like a coordinated attack on computing.
akersten15 minutes ago
They've been at it since 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg
Barbingabout 1 hour ago
The Take Action link only took 30 seconds: https://www.eff.org/3DPrintCA

(did choose to edit the letter but otherwise really, it autofills and takes no time)

mickelsen21 minutes ago
Hope sanity prevails and printers stay free, don't give Europe ideas.
rolphabout 1 hour ago
guess what, the state of california on the printer bed, depicted in the article, looks close to the profile of an AR15 pistol grip.

im looking forward to the idea that the outline of Ca. may trigger false positives

throwawaytea28 minutes ago
I had the same hunch when I saw it, which is either pure genius on the part of the author/publisher or pure lol meme magic.
NoImmatureAdHom26 minutes ago
Better yet, design and popularize an AR grip that is the state of California