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Cake day: August 8th, 2023

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  • Pants-on-head idiocy by the DA.

    It is 100% legal in the US to build your own gun for personal use, and has been for the entire existence of the country.

    Just because it can now be done with custom plastic parts instead of wooden or hardware store parts, changes nothing.

    Plus there is no way to validate when 3D printed guns were created, because they aren’t required to be serialized unless they are made by a dealer for resale. So they’d have to ban ALL pre-existing 3D printed guns of any kind, regardless of manufacture date, since you’re not going to be able to distinguish preban guns.

    Putting spyware into every 3D printer or slicer software, because of what people “might do”, is also ridiculous and scummy.

    TL; DR- This DA needs to fuck off and just use normal constitutional methods to enforce laws.









  • Several tech YouTubers have talked about moving entirely to Jellyfin or similar, self-hosting their own movies and TV series from legally owned, ripped copies from their own DVD or Bluray collection.

    It takes some work and time to rip, encode, and organize the files. But if you want to go this route, there has probably never been a better time. You can routinely purchase used DVDs and Bluray from thrift stores for a few bucks per disc… sometimes less. If I had a server and hard disk space I’d probably be going this route for media consumption.

    Eventually the DVDs will go away entirely and then it will be impossible to create your own legal archival copies.