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Sometimes a camera just needs a sock.

The Flock Sock is a slip on cover designed to help protect a Flock camera from the harmful radiation of the sun. Your city spent their very own hard earned tax dollars scattering these cameras everywhere to keep you safe, all it cost you was a little privacy. The very least you can do is help protect these valuable civil servants from getting a bad sunburn.

  • modem_down@thebrainbin.org
    40·
    3 days ago

    It’s run by Bambu Labs, a Chinese state-subsidised company that’s notorious for nudging users globally to let Internet-connected 3D printers map their home LANs and upload that info, plus name, address & other billing details, plus all their 3D models, to Chinese “cloud” servers where the CCP can siphon off any models useful for advancing Chinese industry.

    They’re also notorious for letting Makerworld users rip off each others’ designs in flagrant violation of the design licenses. Look on Reddit or 3D printing forums and you’ll see tons of people complaining about this.

    Bambu Labs also recently egregiously violated the AGPL by threatening a lawsuit against Pavel Jarczak, a hobbyist who found a perfectly legal workaround to reduce BL control over people’s printers. This was a big deal: the Software Freedom Conservancy, Louis Rossmann, and Gamers Nexus all pledged action.

    Bambu Labs and Makerworld stand for dictatorship, authoritarianism, and kleptocracy.

    If you support FOSS, user rights, and democracy, you really ought to boycott them.

    https://sfconservancy.org/news/2026/may/18/bambu-studio-3d-printer-agpl-violation-response/

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLLVn6XT7v0

    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
      3·
      2 days ago

      Damn, I didn’t know all that. I only knew Bambu sucks, and I don’t use Makerworld at all anyway because they don’t let you download projects without making an account, and a lot of them require payment. Also, fuck bgcode format.

      Literally if I can’t find it on either printables or thingiverse, then I either design it myself or I don’t print it