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. We’ve been tracking this pattern. Washington State’s HB 2321 requires printers to include “blocking features” that can’t be defeated by users with “significant technical skill” (good luck with that on open-source firmware). New York’s budget bill S.9005 buries similar requirements in Part C, sweeping in CNC mills and anything capable of “subtractive manufacturing.” California’s version adds a certification bureaucracy on top: state-approved algorithms, state-approved software control processes, state-approved printer models, quarterly list updates, and civil penalties up to $25,000 per violation. As Michael Weinberg wrote after the New York and Washington proposals dropped… accurately identifying gun parts from geometry alone is incredibly hard, desktop printers lack the processing power to run this kind of analysis, and the open-source firmware that runs most machines makes any blocking requirement trivially easy to bypass. The Firearms Policy Coalition flagged AB-2047 on X, and the reactions tell you everything. Jon Lareau called it “stupidity on steroids,” pointing out that a simple spring-shaped part has no way of revealing its intended use. The Foundry put it plainly: “Regulating general-purpose machines is another. AB-2047 would require 3D printers to run state-approved surveillance software and criminalize modifying your own hardware.” As we’ve said before on this blog, when we covered Washington and New York, it doesn’t matter if you’re pro or anti-gun. The state should prosecute people who make illegal thing, not add useless surveillance software on every tool in every classroom, library, and garage in the state. And as you can see, these bills spread – that’s how an small group can push legislation into the entire country. First, Washington proposed theirs, then New York, now California. Once those three states pass a law, that’s 20~25% of the country by GDP/population and thus every manufacturer is forced to comply with a bad decision in order to stay in business. If you’re a maker, educator, or manufacturer anywhere in the US, even outside these states, this is a problem-problem now.

Bandcamp Fridays began in March of 2020 at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic when the shuttering of venues led to a loss of vital tour revenue for artists. Since then, Bandcamp Fridays—on which we waive our revenue share and pass the funds directly to artists & labels—has resulted in millions of fans paying over $120 million directly to labels and musicians they love. In addition to helping artists pay the rent, or fund album recordings and tours, Bandcamp Fridays have also become a beacon for artists and record labels looking to raise awareness for causes or raise money for charities. The final Bandcamp Friday of 2025 will be this Friday, December 5th. You can help us spread the word by downloading these handy social assets. And we’re happy to announce that Bandcamp Fridays will be continuing in 2026! Find the dates below, and mark your calendars:

• February 6th
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• May 1st
• August 7th
• September 4th
• October 2nd
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I think I forgot about the last one, again. But here's the thread!

The CLI is now in beta version and available for Visionary supporters, with a broader availability across paid plans coming soon.

selfh.st was a website that was included in my RSS feed for reading news about self hosting and such for a while now. I never felt it was that helpful for me since I usually add the release notes of the services I use individually on my feed. I would often read out of curiosity.

I also felt their feed was always very clunky to be honest, it was never formatted properly but at least there was content there. In the middle of the huge images there was at least a little bit of information to be seen.

9 months ago their feed broke (because they changed their domain or something like that) and since then, I noticed the website is kind of declining? I kind of hate the overuse of enshittification but there are no other words for me to define this. Many red flags were already ignored before by the way, including the usage of AI slop imagery and a change of interface for the worse, to include information about sponsors.

They started sending the feeds with: "This is a feature reserved to premium users" with a link to their website. Felt very icky.

I do NOT expect people that make content to keep doing it without support (we support a few independent news outlets, also donate every now and then to projects we use a lot), however the way they are trying to get said support is very.... weird. Like trying to boost numbers, if that makes sense? If done different I would gladly give them a subscription each month, but this hit me in a weird way.

Anyway, I won't be part of their audience anymore. Are there other websites which focus on self hosting have on your feed?

Should posts like this have [Satire] added to the title? I know sometimes people have a hard time clicking links and only read the title before commenting (example "How to monetize a blog" I posted here previously), but I want to learn what y'all think it is best.

Not only Stremio, I heard there are other apps that do the same thing Stremio does, which is only leech and not seed.

From my research, the suggestions I found were :

• Disable DHT
• Use blocklists (I am also looking for suggestions, currently considering using this one)

There were also suggestions to block by PeerID, however Stremio generates a spoofed PeerID.

I also learned that Stremio only works if the tracker allows magnet links, but this doesn't seem something actionable on the peer level.

Is there anything else I am missing?

Since a few days ago when I updated my system, I noticed that I was unable to paste anything while using Code - OSS. It seems an issue caused by the newer Electron version.

On the issue page there are a few solutions listed already.

I'm posting this in case someone is having the same issue and might be wondering what is going on.

Her response on Canada being the 51st state was amazing. I think it start around 8:30.

Since we started paying for Proton Pass I noticed that a few websites do not allow you to use the generated e-mail. Two that come to mind are Atlassian and Discogs. Has anyone figured our a way to go around this?