Mildly Infuriating

They're using weapon printing as the wedge, but this is really about protecting all manufacturers.

Even more pointless than DRM on movies.

https://all3dp.com/2/how-to-build-a-3d-printer-from-a-kit-or-from-scratch/

You'd think with a title that says "California just passed a law", that it would actually be about California passing a law. It still has to go through the senate and then get signed by the governor.

Edit: The bill was passed in the Assembly back in May. This is a nearly 3 month old article.

How would this even be enforced?

Like, it seems like it would be a trivial process to just install a firmware package without the blocks.

I’d love to know how they expect printer manufacturers to do this, given all they do is read gcode. Do the legislation makers even know what a slicer is?

OP why are you posting a 3 month old article with no updated information or that needed context that this was in the past? There was a discussion then.

It's almost like you are trying to upset people again for sport, because reddit broke your brain and you think internet points are important. Almost like that.

There's pedophiles roaming the streets and no one can afford healthcare or housing but yeah, lets make useless laws to try and regulate 3d printers....

The standards will not mandate perfect efficacy – they will allow for “an acceptably low level of evasion” against a bank of identified design files.

They've just admitted that it won't work. It will rely on a bank of banned designs which means anyone can just modify them until the algorithm doesn't recognize it as such while still being functional or simply make their own designs. Whoever finds a way to evade those restrictions will pass on the word.

Sucks that this will act as a push to lock down 3D printer firmware for everyone else though. Mass enshitification inbound. The only hope I see is that 3D printer manufacturers will simply get out of California as a result instead because the expense of developing such an algorithm and the risk of fines if it is not performing well enough is too great.

California needs to start pushing laws to shut down hardware stores, department stores, shopping malls, and office supply stores since you can buy things in those places to also create makeshift weapons.

One of the most common uses for 3d printers is for cosplay props. I wonder if the lawmakers considered how this infringes on the rights of people trying to print prop guns from their favorite video games or anime?

Good luck with that... 3D printers are not complicated and you could build one yourself if you wanted to.

The first thing they need to add to their DRM thing is those flexible dragons that have taken over half the booths at a local comic con. That and The Rock's head.

The standards will not mandate perfect efficacy – they will allow for “an acceptably low level of evasion” against a bank of identified design files.

So they except this is basically an impossible task. Essentially they're just going to check that the algorithm can detect the test examples, and then anything beyond that is an acceptably low level of evasion apparently.

I can't wait for the EU to eagerly adopt this like they do for a lot of these dogshit US decisions.

This what happens when a state is controlled by idiots. I wish we had opposition party that were not a bunch of boot licking freaks.

Fuck this country.

Are we even fucking free any more?

Has a 3d printed gun been used in a crime? Ever?

Just configured my router to block my new printer. Looking up how to set up Linux to block my slicer. Fuck this sucks.

DIY 3D printers aren't that difficult. It's just two or three motors, a motion controller and a hot nozzle for most plastic printing. Replace the hot nozzle with a really epic laser for metal parts or possibly a stick welder. Even better with lithographic printing minus the really toxic fumes of the material. Take a really bright high resolution screen or maybe a projector and one motor and you got yourself a lithographic printer. Are you going to compete directly with cutting edge printers? Probably not. Will you still be able to make shit that works? Most likely after some tinkering.