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New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers

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Post by ragazzina »

meindnoch wrote: post #571
int_19h wrote: post #411

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Luty#Firearms_design > one particular design, outlined in his book Expedient Homemade Firearms, is the best known. This design makes extensive use of easily procured materials such as folded sheet metal, bar stock, washers, and hex screws. It is a simple blowback-operated sub-machine gun and entirely made from craft-produced components, including the magazine and pistol grip. The…

See it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YE9J7qcj0c

"[The second amendment] basically says in order to keep us free we need to be able to keep and bear arms. A lot of countries though aren't necessarily that lucky and through things we won't talk about that's starting to show its ugly head".

Oh well.

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Post by KingMob »

wtcactus wrote: post #550
KingMob wrote: post #531

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Who, Mamdani? He's a democratic socialist, not a communist. It's like you just confused RAM with SSD because they both involve gigabytes.

"If there was any system that could guarantee each person housing, whether you call it the abolition of private property or you call it, you know, just a statewide housing guarantee, it is preferable to what is going on right now.", Mamdani, 2020 "We have to ensure we are unapologetic about our socialism", Mamdani, 2021 "There are also other issues we firmly believe in [...] weather is the end goal of seizing the mea…

Again, you're just demonstrating that you don't know the definitions, relationships, and differences between, communism and socialism.

Not that anyone defending Musk's nazi salute should be trusted on anything whatsoever.

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Post by ragazzina »

derekdahmer wrote: post #67
pjc50 wrote: post #33

This is insanely stupid stuff. Even the UK with our weird panic over Incredibly Specific Knives hasn't tried to do this kind of technical restriction to prevent people printing guns. Why not? Because nobody is printing guns! It's an infeasible solution to a non-problem! Someone should dig into who this is coming from and why. The answers are usually either (a) they got paid to do it by a company selling the tech, whi…

Actual shootings with 3D printed guns are relatively rare but it’s come up because Luigi Mangione killed the United Healthcare CEO with one.

>Luigi Mangione killed the United Healthcare CEO with one

Do you have any source?

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Post by KingMob »

9875325996435 wrote: post #733
kortex wrote: post #663

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> Anna Grzymala-Busse, a Stanford University international studies professor, said that seizing the means of production is a socialist and communist goal. "The difference is that with communism, there is also one ruling party that brooks no opposition and no pluralist civil society," she said. https://www.politifact.com/article/2025/jul/03/seizing-means... Collectivism and some amount of state controlled means of pro…

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He doesn't have a point, because he doesn't know how socialism and communism are alike, and how they differ. He's arguing against what he imagined I wrote.

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Post by mghackerlady »

ls612 wrote: post #805
mghackerlady wrote: post #742

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That could also be related to his family being under more scrutiny by authorities

You're right that absent some colossal screwup you could never prove one way or another that it was legit vs planted, but stuff like that changes my priors on what I believe can happen. The fact that it is completely deniable also increases the incentive for the government to do it, and they no doubt have the capability. Capability and motive combined leads me to believe that it likely does happen.

Oh definitely. I'm not saying that it doesn't happen, just that this time I don't think that's the case here

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Post by LocalH »

koolba wrote: post #339
mystraline wrote: post #325

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"This is how its always been" is one of the banes of my existence. It explains why we're here, but not how to do better. There are ways to do better. A national holiday for elections has been mentioned countless times. We could do like Australia and mandate required voting. Prisoners should be able to vote. But this country is too hell-bent on punishment. Registration can be made on the same day of voting, rather tha…

> There are ways to do better. A national holiday for elections has been mentioned countless times. Sure. But let’s get rid of all early voting and mail in balloting. No excuses right? Throw in voter id too. > We could do like Australia and mandate required voting. I never quite understand why mandatory participation is a meaningful goal. If people are neither informed nor interested, why do you want them to have a s…

Voting is a civil right. People who are stripped of their right to vote should also pay zero taxes. You know, "no taxation without representation".

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Post by Retric »

int_19h wrote: post #827
Retric wrote: post #660

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“Possessing a live grenade is illegal.” https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/criminal-def... Obviously there’s a bunch of exceptions, including as you point out the federal option of going through a background check and paying 200$/grenade. But that’s only at the federal level it doesn’t necessarily meet state requirements. The rules on those background checks are as capricious as banning people who were d…

They are not "exceptions". It's exactly as I wrote: possessing a live grenade is legal , subject only to paying the $200 tax and doing the associated paperwork for the feds. The illegal part is not paying the tax. State laws are another matter entirely, but even many states with stringent gun laws don't ban DDs specifically (probably because many lawmakers are not aware that such things are legal). As for the backgro…

> firearm transfer under federal jurisdiction

A far looser restriction.

> doing the associated paperwork for the feds.

That implies that it’s guaranteed you will pass, which is false.

That said, the ability for some states to totally ban ownership outside of military or police rests on them not receiving constitutional protection.

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Post by rblatz »

mayhemducks wrote: post #707
pjbk wrote: post #128

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People print guns and gun parts. More than you think. Now even more since metal printing is starting to become affordable. I print grip and grip attachments for my 9mms and my AR15, trigger guards, barrel clamps, etc. I also find it stupid since, as the article suggests, what kind of algorithm can you implement to do smart detection of something that could be potentially dangerous? Will it also detect negative space?…

This is my attempt to answer your question about "what kind of algorithm can you implement to detect something dangerous". Disclaimer though, I agree that the proposed regulation is way too broad and will have unintended consequences as written. If you look at how Apple detects contraband imagery, they hash every image that gets uploaded into the photos app. Those hashes are transmitted to servers that compare them t…

Ok that works for STL files, but printers don’t print STL files they print g code. G code is generated by slicers, and depending on your printer and settings the g code will be different.

Is this law obligating printer manufactures to lock down their printer to slicers that can do the STL naughty check?

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Post by vdqtp3 »

rayiner wrote: post #829
seg_lol wrote: post #824

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> illegal to carry a firearm to go commit crimes Of which Pretti did zero of.

There is video of him kicking light the tail light of a federal law enforcement vehicle, which is definitely a crime. And that’s just what we have video of.

That same video shows him spitting on an officer.

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Post by abosley »

anthk wrote: post #543
joe_mamba wrote: post #542

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> But weapons' culture in the US it's obsolete. Militias can't do shit against tyranical govs because once they send drones it's game over. Pretty sure those 50 thousand or so civilians killed on the street in the recent Iranian protests/riots would have been a lot less, if all those Iranians had easy access to guns, and not just the government. Drones are not enough, you still need boots on the ground for you to cla…

Mob with guns would be useless against the Iranian Guards which are pretty much elite commandos.

The Iranian guards, along with most of the armies in the second and third tier powers don't have elite anything. Please see Desert Storm, etc. Most of them ran. The ones that didn't were destroyed.
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