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California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves (blog.adafruit.com)
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California’s new bill requires DOJ-approved 3D printers that report on themselves targeting general-purpose machines.

Assembly Member Bauer-Kahan introduced AB-2047, the “California Firearm Printing Prevention Act,” on February 17th. The bill would ban the sale or transfer of any 3D printer in California unless it appears on a state-maintained roster of approved makes and models… certified by the Department of Justice as equipped with “firearm blocking technology.” Manufacturers would need to submit attestations for every make and model. The DOJ would publish a list. If your printer isn’t on the list by March 1, 2029, it can’t be sold. In addition, knowingly disabling or circumventing the blocking software is a misdemeanor.

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[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 38 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

I am reminded of a senator from Alaska trying to describe the internet as a series of tubes.

[–] Naia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, not to defend that idiot because he was voting against net neutrality and obviously had no idea how technology works...

... But we do call some connections "tunnels".

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 hours ago

And the inside of a fiber optic cable is sort of a bunch of tubes, if you're feeling a bit loose about descriptions.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 22 points 21 hours ago

That was way more accurate and intelligent than this. Like orders of magnitude.

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 18 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Sen Ted Stevens, rest in piss.

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

"The internet would be a series of tubes if we rolled out fiber, but as the literal chairman of the Senate committee regulating the internet I'm somehow against that."

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

Isn’t most fiber optics solid glass? So more a series of rods.

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

I mean.....replace the word "tubes" with "cables" and it's apparent it's not completely wrong. he's reasonably correct on an ELI5 level I would say.

[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Except the tubes he was talking about could get clogged. He wasn’t really correct. He had no idea what he was talking about.

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Clogged...like a broadcast storm? IDK, I can see the analogy working, but I don't doubt that any resemblance of correctness was purely coincidental.