David Wiggins

[Andrew (Toycat) @ibxtoycat]

Someone worked out Mojang were on holiday and are using the opportunity to falsely report YouTubers.

[Jonathan Bainbridge @bainbridger1984]

@MikeWingerii Irritable Baal Syndrome

[Joel Telling - 3D Printing Nerd ✋ @joeltelling]

California AB 2047 was GUTTED of any safe harbor, amended 33 times in 4 days, and BROKEN. If enacted into law, EVERY 3d printer sold in California would be in violation.

https://t.co/Tudwa94gKw

[LM @loyalmoses]

We all got the same email begging us to make content to fill their coffers… I read what they “plan” on doing with the money. They want to form a committee at best, to “discuss”. No lawsuit.

Wow. A committee will sure show Bambu Lab. 🙄

[Jeff Geerling @geerlingguy]

Dump @plex, use @jellyfin

[Hamilton PrintWorks @HPW3D]

Unfortunately many in the 3D printing space are naive when it comes to security and sovereignty concerns like this. To many, it’s “cheap = good for the consumer” and that’s it.

Western governments share blame though, they have been shockingly complacent about how China competes in this industry. We’ve got to start subsidizing local homegrown manufacturing while tariffing foreign competitors.

[DavidHasbun @TheDavidHasbun]

@josefprusa Bambu is getting downright offensive about this.

They will brick your printer if you don't let them spy on you.

https://t.co/DkVjg73GKM

[Josef Prusa @josefprusa]

BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork, with the same networking binary black box in question today. Why are they willing to burn the goodwill over it?
There's something most have sensed but never seen it all in one place, the five-law framework China built between 2017 and 2023 ⤵️

So maybe their hand is forced as their "network" is too valuable already? Each law on its own, interesting, okay... Read them together, and add any Chinese company with big reach to the mix you get the complete picture.

1) National Intelligence Law (2017)
All organizations and citizens must "support, assist, and cooperate" with intelligence work. The same law makes it illegal to disclose that cooperation happened. Cooperation is mandatory, and silence about it is mandatory too.

2) Cryptography Law (2020)
Commercial encryption must be state-approved and state-reviewed. When authorities request it, companies must provide decryption keys or plaintext. The state on both sides of that equation is the same one.

3) Data Security Law (2021)
Article 2 gives the state extraterritorial reach over data that touches Chinese national security or public interests. So EU/US data hosting does nothing to make it safe, because jurisdiction follows the company, not the server location.

4) Counter-Espionage Law revision (2023)
The general definition of espionage was expanded to cover "documents, data, materials, or items related to national security and interests." Industrial data is one of the intended targets since the revision.

5) Network Product Security Vulnerability regulation (2021)
Any company or researcher that discovers a software vulnerability must report it to MIIT within 48 hours. From there it flows to CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database of Information Security), operated by the 13th Bureau of the Ministry of State Security. Microsoft's threat intelligence team documented Chinese state-hacker zero-day usage rising after this took effect. Shows the willingness to use the “tools” China built.

Together they describe a system with no neutral exits. Cooperation is required, encryption is real but the spare keys live at the ministry, jurisdiction follows the company across borders, industrial data is in scope, and discovered vulnerabilities flow to an intelligence agency 😬

3D printing became strategic for China in 2020 and joined the “Made in China 2025” plan soon after. Why does 3D printing matter so much? 1/x

[Jeff Geerling @geerlingguy]

Bambu Lab 3D printers: never again.

They're breaking the open source social contract (for the nth time...), and I'm past hoping they'll amend their ways.

https://t.co/NXzMlKHaYu

[LM @loyalmoses]

Great article from Amanda Smith on my Ford patent overreach YouTube video that went viral.

https://t.co/kI7QC0qM66

If you haven't watched the video, I uploaded it here on X and of course on YouTube, and I'll have those links in a reply to this.

[Chris Williams @Astro_ChrisW]

Our crew on the @Space_Station caught a glimpse of the @NASAArtemis II crew as they re-entered the atmosphere from their journey to the Moon! We first saw a bright light and a trail as the service module burned up. We didn’t see the Orion capsule itself as it re-entered, but we saw the wispy trail it left behind in the upper atmosphere. Overjoyed that our friends are safely back on Earth after their awe-inspiring mission!

[David Wiggins @Grandwigg]

@Barbasnoo @loyalmoses @Polymaker_3D I was 'lucky' in that it took a few days to happen to me. I clicked faster than expected. Even though I briefly wondered HOW he'd validate it, I it clicked anyway.

[Sean McDowell @Sean_McDowell]

Only one religion is based on a single, testable, historical event. If you haven’t at least considered the evidence for the resurrection, NOW is the time.

[David Wiggins @Grandwigg]

@cameront1991 @DataKraus @WesleyLHuff It's in Warehouse 13, near Unaville, South Dakota, if I remember correctly. (That was a fun show, just my kind of silly)

[David Wiggins @Grandwigg]

@todd_magers @WesleyLHuff While out was much more than a' mere box' I have also been on the side of 'destroyed by Babylon' when the temple affects and utensils were all taken and melted down and such. Given how Jesus fulfilled the roles of the box, and human tendency to idolatry, it has no purpose now.

[LM @loyalmoses]

3D printing folks… regarding the bans, remember when I said that whatever legislators don’t pass or get this year, they’ll get it next year and the year after.

All you have to do is look at existing ban patterns. 2A has experienced this for 50 years.

It started with limits on sales of certain items, now it’s a full outright ban and forced surrender.

… and for those that doubt that it could happen to 3D printing. There are a billion privately owned firearms in the US and ownership is constitutionally protected and yet, these tyrants still don’t care.

3D printing won’t even be a speed bump.

[LM @loyalmoses]

Go watch my video on California AB 2047 and how it bans more than just 3D printing.

California Just Killed Open Source
https://t.co/T6IRnhUm7e

[David Wiggins @Grandwigg]

@Doragoon6 @GoaPennsylvania These laws are often 'make illegal things more illegal' while also criminalizing safe, legitimate and often socially beneficial things 'in the crossfire'.
Parts I make for my wheelchair could easily be mistaken for a firearm component by 'safety' software, as well.

[David Wiggins @Grandwigg]

@Doragoon6 @GoaPennsylvania It's an effectively impossible distinction. And the idea of 3D printed firearms is a smokescreen/false excuse.
It is somewhat possible, but faster, more reliable and easier methods are widely available. The ppl doing it legally are basically just challenging themselves.

[David Wiggins @Grandwigg]

@kimballhutch @HowardMSklar @GoaPennsylvania Yep, laser printed documents can be identified by machine serial number and even time and date in a lot of cases.
What's even crazier is a lot of printers retain an effectively permanent copy of every document they print on internal storage.