It won’t stop anyone buying or importing innocuous machinery parts like 2020 aluminium extrusions or GT2 belts either. There are mature generic 3D printer designs out there that outperforms RepRap i3 bedslingers.

E.g. https://vorondesign.com/voron2.4

That just sounds like twitch without any parasocial relationships or community.

They accelerate emerging standards like USB 4 and UMA that’s being used by other parties now.

I am no fanboy but I can’t point to hardware or privacy-centric innovations from any other FAANG without Apple’s involvement.

I’ve just started blocking SEO slop while using ddg on my main computer. Makes my life easier if it’s just DigitalOcean blogs rather than geeksforgeeks or linuxvox. The latter being full-on ai slop. At least DO/Vultr/whatever actually bothers with content quality because it’s their PaaS.

It does seem to be a one pump chump

Isn’t this just a bailout?

I find it quite hard to believe it would be able to detect innocuous, dual-use, off the shelf components spread out over a dozen prints.

Even US export controls can’t prevent that, only delay and cause irritation.

Oh lovely. Is this the funeral to democracy y’all been hyping up?

They’re slowly becoming the necessary evil in this day and age. At least they’re not Meta, Google, Anthropic, OpenAI / Microsoft, or Amazon.

Now with a memecoin and AI generated NFTs to commemorate!

Heil human 🫪

In most societies of recorded history, the end of human civilisation isn’t celebrated. Imma buck that trend.

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