Jaime van Kessel

Software Architect (Cura & Thingiverse) @Ultimaker. All opinions & statements made are my own.

[Jaime van Kessel @nallath]

A Christmas present from the Cura team! You can find the alpha release of the improved tree / organic support (contributed by the amazing Thomas Rahm) here:
https://t.co/kxDlxj7SkI

[Jaime van Kessel @nallath]

@francip @martinwoodward @JunghwanNa8355 I've looked at the quality of the rant posted here. That's not a guaranteed indication, but all of it is LLM generated and doesn't touch the core of the problem towards developers. Based on that I'd say "nevermind the contribution".

A contribution is more than just the code.

[Jaime van Kessel @nallath]

@dscape @ryan_castner @ljharb @JunghwanNa8355 @goncalossilva Eh, I'd agree that the experiment was cool if people asked for it and opted in. Now it's just adding undue load to already overworked OS developers.

So as much as it sucks to get banned, I'm with the automatic GH system here.

[Jaime van Kessel @nallath]

@dscape @ryan_castner @ljharb @JunghwanNa8355 Same for me. But getting LLM's PR's that are from someone who has no insight or connection to the project isn't helping. I could do that myself and better.
Now, if it's a new contributor, i'd be willing to invest, since that might grow the pool. But driveby PRs? Yeah nah.

[Jaime van Kessel @nallath]

@ryan_castner @ljharb @dscape @JunghwanNa8355 Sure. And that's why both systems have a block button and anti-abuse/spam systems.

The problem for open source contributors is the amount of time it's now taking them to reject low effort / low quality PR's.

[Jaime van Kessel @nallath]

@martinwoodward @JunghwanNa8355 @francip I personally see this as a correct instance of at least a temp (if not permanent) ban.

The fact that all the posts of the original author are clearly LLM written gives me the feeling that it's not someone I'd want contributing on projects i'm working on.

[Jaime van Kessel @nallath]

@Cynical_3DPrint @All3DP @makerbot Makers can get tips? Under Ultimaker we even added more options to receive tips. You can see the entire list of changes we made during that time: https://t.co/xo2FarPBNz

[Jaime van Kessel @nallath]

@Mirrorada @thingiverse We've already been doing that. If you feel that a file is stolen, report it.

[Jaime van Kessel @nallath]

@alder_riley @AndrewASink There have never been 25 million designs on thingiverse. If someone reported that, that was widely off the mark.

The designs use a pretty simple incremental ID system. Right now we're at ID 7m-ish.

[Jaime van Kessel @nallath]

@awful_piper @thingiverse Uh. I just tried this and it works for me. Could you share a bit more info? Might be that we're overlooking something.

[Jaime van Kessel @nallath]

@SoulL3s5Ginger @thingiverse We're going to add this to the search soon. Until then you can enable this option in your userprofile

[Jaime van Kessel @nallath]

@iridium_rose @HoundsTheEnby Don't worry, we like you for uploading to Thingiverse <3

[Jaime van Kessel @nallath]

@ZombieHedgehog_ @TechJeeper @shouse59 @pezliz @JoshMurrah Yeah, I can see the advantage of both approaches. But in the case of TV we felt that improving the stability & speed was more important to do first (and well, also just plow through the backlog of the moderation, which is now done)

[Jaime van Kessel @nallath]

@ZombieHedgehog_ @TechJeeper @shouse59 @pezliz @JoshMurrah No, it's on our list to improve. But we felt that actually improving our moderation speed was more important than actually notifying everyone involved.
And there is the unfortunate truth that especially telling the trolls that their stuff was removed will just cause more work.

[Jaime van Kessel @nallath]

@ZombieHedgehog_ @TechJeeper @shouse59 @pezliz @JoshMurrah If it's a formal DMCA their thing gets a banner and is placed under moderation.

If its for a normal violation of the TOS, we just remove it.

[Jaime van Kessel @nallath]

@TechJeeper @shouse59 @pezliz @JoshMurrah Heeey :'(

We pretty much handle reports about stolen models every day.

[Thingiverse @thingiverse]

🎄 10KG FILAMENT PRIZE! 🎄

The Holiday Ornament Challenge is LIVE on Thingiverse! Design the best 3D printed ornament and win a massive @Polymaker_3D bundle.

Thanks to Polymaker & @3DPrima! Use code HOLYPOLY15 for a discount.

🗓️ Enter by Dec 31: https://t.co/zJefjMlq4A 💙

[Jaime van Kessel @nallath]

@reprinted3D @devmobnow @ZombieHedgehog_ We actually did quite a lot of work on it. You can find a list of the changes we did here: https://t.co/xo2FarPBNz

[Jaime van Kessel @nallath]

@twityves427 @JeffreyRMillman @JasenkaPhd Well, they shouldn't as that would likely be illegal. The files were removed due to infringing on copyright of someone else.

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