Mildly Infuriating

Shit, now how will I manufacture illegal sex toys and sex toy accessories in a covert, anonymous fashion? Woe is me....

So now you can be a cyberpunk black market tech peddler for real?

Criminals have easy access to real guns, they won't bother with printing plastic ones. A terrorist will just go to a place where they don't monitor to print them.

This is so stupid. This is written by people who don’t understand 3D printing. This will catch nothing but fake guns that don’t work because they were printed in one solid piece, it won’t catch all the little pieces that you assemble afterwards.

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

I guess we're returning to reprap then. That'll actually be good for innovation, I think.

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?

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.

Oh no, don't. Firmware can't be flashed /s

smh

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.

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.

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....

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

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.

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.

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.

Even more pointless than DRM on movies.

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

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?

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.