I read their name as The Sweatshop and thought it was satire at first .

Whistles are a dollar or less. Just give people money instead of making a complicated logistics situation.

Look again

It’s not their first printer with a way to reduce purge. The H2D has dual nozzles.

I take it as you tried their pizza now try ours. It references a bunch of historic design changes just before theirs.

These Chinese company English polished trailer things are always worded weird. It’s even weirder when you know there are people in the company who speak English well.

I don’t know how you look at a Bambu printer vs a Prusa printer and think that Bambu does a worse job of testing. There is level and levels of more mature and talented engineering.

He is in a corner lashing out. Going too hard about it now can come across as kicking while they are down. Values can change when you are looking at 10s, 100s of people losing their job. That pressure can and has turned into real world physical harm in this community.

Prusa was a kid who largely lucked into a large business who then had a bunch of other young people working for him. They made a ton of mistakes and now are being eaten alive by a company with more skill and resources. He should release but he is looking at potentially losing the whole business.

Partly because Open Source Hardware is largely software people shoe horning open source software into a completely different thing. It’s the TECH is FANG software, HARDWARE is embedded electronics, MAKER is traditionally male hobbies/crafting, problem.

It wasn’t a value judgement. The cert creates ambiguous arguments about what is good enough that end up in at least public online pressure. Also the irony of the main contention being software from an open hardware cert. There is a bunch of “source” gremlins in BOM stuff that doesn’t get attention

This whole Prusa argument isn’t even about hardware. All the legal framework existed for years so it’s a question of if it’s ethical to try and bully him into releasing software source.

The other dark side is that hardware is fairly easy to open source because it’s hard to scale plus has a first mover and huge scale advantage. Some custom parts take months to spin up. This led to a lot of open source solely as a marketing tactic which poisoned the well a bit.

I wanted it to be good and made the initial Kicad footprints but I never saw a problem it solves. It’s easier to search GitHub.”We shouldn’t police open source” but this invites conversations about policing open source since what is good enough to deserve an allocation number is now a debate.

It is does not have detailed rules, and does no enforcement, you might as well just use the original open gear logo as it just another social contract at that point. The majority of the current designs are Sparkfun and Adafruit which have stronger branding and legal protection than OSHWA already.

Software licenses are nice because you can avoid the legal landmines of auto copy-write by explicit “legally backed” permissions. Hardware doesn’t require the same explicit permission so it’s matter of how much original designer notes to provide. If you have no legal control of the copy-write,

Not the people who made the clone. An idea was to piggy back on the logo so a smaller creator doesn’t have to go through the copy-write legal process. The problem is they have no legal standing to enforce a copy-write they don’t actually own and have some minor liability for using it incorrectly

The hardware project has limited legal protection because hardware is not automatically copywrited like text inherited from literature. An issue at the time with clones is that they were direct copies from gerbers so customers were confused and trying to get support from the company who designed it.

Certification For Open Source Hardware Announced Today at the Open Hardware Summit in Portland, Alicia Gibb and Michael Weinberg of the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) launched the Open Source Hardware Certification program. It’s l…

I don’t want to spend time scrubbing twitter for what else was said publicly. hackaday.com/2016/10/07/c...

Not the exact case I mentioned here but it mentions that the copy-write was done as an enforcement tool. The example is of a designer going out of compliance but it was spoken about, at least in person, that this could also could in theory be used against clones as a way to convince people to use it

The initial premise was to use the logo as a way to fight clones but that requires the org to fight copy-write claims on behalf of the person who made the design, which isn’t scalable and only applies in the US.

This is a big problem with the cert. The who what where when and why of enforcement is what gives it credibility and if the Board does not have specific guidelines that are enforced it’s essentially self certification again. OSHWA doesn’t host files to freeze documents at time of cert either.

They pay basically nothing per article. Any detailed article is just someone gifting their time to the site. Now that multi billion dollar company owns it, the ethics of the situation are even worse. Also Elliot is an ass.

I don’t think someone is going to be able to help without long form conversation. There are tons of things at those speed that can be a problem and the rest of circuit matters.

State Farm accepted our money and then instantly dropped us because the interior stairs weren’t metal even though we have back deck stairs. Barely got coverage in time because the drop was flag by everyone else. They are essentially refusing to insurances thousands and thousands of Chicago 3 flats

Even disregarding the makerbot era, Bunnie was talking about this a lot in 2018 trying to get people to proactively patent things.

www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2018/yo...

Vote harder is not a panacea for what is going on.

DNC removed people’s ability to vote in a primary. The candidate they put up never won a primary.

There are multiple policies that get majority to super majority of public support that will never get passed because politicians don’t listen to people who vote for them.

Very bad take

It’s a protest against remove people who are not citizens they likely has a good amount of people not legally allowed to vote in it.

The cities where they are taking place likely voted at 60/40 Harris Trump with people not voting for Harris in safe states over Palestine.

A cartoon still of a woman fiddling with hardware parts of some sort of computer. It says "I'm fine as long as I'm constantly distracted". The still may be from the serial lain anime

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