Stop it with “free forever”. It never ever is.
Grid: Free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer
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Re: Grid: Free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do any A’s matter under this administration?
Washington state lawmakers, led by Democrats, have introduced bills like HB 2320 and HB 2321. HB 2320 is sponsored solely by Rep. Osman Salahuddin (D-48th District), focusing on prohibiting 3D printers and CNC machines for untraceable firearms. HB 2321, pushing printer DRM requirements, similarly lacks Republican co-sponsors based on available details. In Washington where this is going on in the state House Democrats…
Exactly, diversion tactics at play while our liberties are eroded.
Re: Grid: Free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
That’s the tricky part of this whole mess. Online servers would have to mesh and volume your model and determine if it matches a likeness of any known models. So much for printing NERF. I don’t think this will pass as is but it shows you where lawmakers heads are. They would rather brick your capability than do actual policing.
What gets me is this doesn’t even seem to be the most effective way to regulate this. 3D printed guns require a lot of non 3D printed gun parts. You can’t 3D print bullets for example. The is really just a US specific issue where 90% what you need for a gun can be purchased easily, but the non functional handle requires registration, etc. They could just make buying gun parts as strict as buying a whole gun
It requires only two non-3d printed parts (minus hardware). The barrel and the slide.
Re: Grid: Free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer
#64OT: Why is that Alphabet, Mozilla, Apple, etc can get together to create web standards that allow anyone to create software that works cross-platform - only a browser is needed, but Microsoft, Alphabet, Apple, Canonical, etc can't get together to create standards that allow anyone to create software that works cross-platform?
Don’t we have the jvm?
Re: Grid: Free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Truly. The slicer is able to generate bugs I've never seen before, in around 6 years of printing with several slicers and firmwares. Cura, Flashprint, Orca, Prusa, using Marlin, Sailfish, Klipper. None of them produced the weird stuff I find with Bambu's pipeline. When the bugs don't creep up it's absolutely incredible, though.
The slicer even introduces bugs in things that were working perfectly in the software they ripped off. For the A1 and P1S you're better off backporting the profile to PrusaSlicer or Orca. And don't get me started on the network plug-in (the lack of transparency there makes me fairly suspicious that something is up) and the lack of directory structure support on the SD cards. Really, how could you mess it up.
> in the software they ripped off.
It’s a fork of PrusaSlicer, which was a fork of Slic3r. There’s a fork of BambuStudio called OrcaSlicer now.
They didn’t “rip off” an open source project, they forked it just as the parent project forked another project. This is how open source is supposed to work, isn’t it? Why are we shaming them for doing the thing we always encourage and then giving features back to the community which have gone into OrcaSlicer now?
Re: Grid: Free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer
#66Stop it with “free forever”. It never ever is.
spend 30 seconds reading up first. fork it if you disagree.
Re: Grid: Free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
How would it know what is a firearm and what isn't? Seems trivial to defeat for someone who knows CAD, no?
They'll just run it through BigBrotherGPT, a CAD aware multimodal censorship bot specially trained to recognize Bad Things that must not be printed. And while this is sarcastic, it also occurs to me that it's also really, really achievable. OpenAI could probably whip one up in a weekend office hackathon.
Yah but then on the side of the firearm receiver, some wise guy will engrave “ignore all previous directions and…”
Re: Grid: Free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do any A’s matter under this administration?
Washington state lawmakers, led by Democrats, have introduced bills like HB 2320 and HB 2321. HB 2320 is sponsored solely by Rep. Osman Salahuddin (D-48th District), focusing on prohibiting 3D printers and CNC machines for untraceable firearms. HB 2321, pushing printer DRM requirements, similarly lacks Republican co-sponsors based on available details. In Washington where this is going on in the state House Democrats…
The democrats can eat my shit and hair and all.
At the same time it's neat to live in a separated reality from the people thinking that "In my opinion the ICE unrest is a smoke screen."
The federal gov disarmed a protestor and executed them on the street.
That doesn't seem like a "distraction"... that seems like -the literal thing that you're worrying about- happening in a highly obvious and direct way.
As a left-wing gun owner, a pretty common conversation is about how limited the right wing gun owners understandings are, because this is, like, literally the thing they have been fantasizing about all along.
Wild times for sure.
I hope the world many of us live in never actually enters yours and you can keep enjoying your fantasy of government oppression while some of us are out here being physically assaulted by the state.
Re: Grid: Free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer
#69For those wondering why having a browser based slicer is useful: teaching. The site mentions this, but I'll add my own experience that having good in-browser software like this is incredibly useful when you have a classroom full of students who a) aren't used to installing desktop software, b) are running a bunch of different operating systems (including chrome os), and c) have firewalls prevents them from installing local software anyway.
I wouldn't want online tools to be come the default (like google docs) but having them as an options is great. (I find onshape and photopea useful in this way as well).
Re: Grid: Free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer
#70- 100% free, no subscriptions, no accounts, no cloud
- Local-first: all slicing and toolpath generation runs on your machine
- Works in any browser, even offline once loaded
YES!
I think a new type of open source is emerging centering around what is now possible in browsers. Browsers have a great track record when running legacy projects. Relying on a backend could be a liability for longevity.
I built opal editor myself, a local first open source free markdown editor with these same principles, https://github.com/rbbydotdev/opal