We combat this with, funny enough, AI code review.

Much MUCH stricter structural, consistency, quality, and discovery standards on code through rules and docs. Well defined expectations, stricter testing standards…etc Then let some agents loose on PR review and they catch all sorts of problems. Especially with other AI slop.

Coincidentally, the process of doing all this actually reduces the sloppiness of the slop that we receive, as the AI tools writing this code consume these rules before generating code.

Guaranteed the software in many of these printers is going to require an always online connection and is going to be baked with DRM in the near future.

It’s not about firearms.

It’s about controlling what you can 3D print.

When your 3D printer has to connect to a third party service to check if it’s allowed to print what you just sent it. That’s a clear vector for companies to enforce IPs.

Printing a replacement part for your appliance? Sorry, they’re blocked.

Printing parts to repair part of your vehicle or snap something back on? Sorry, that’s banned.

Printing something that resembles the intellectual property of any other company? Sorry, that’s banned.

Can’t have you cutting into the profits of corporations by self-servicing and self-repairing.

Also a mass surveillance device to produce surveillance of what people are 3D printing and report it to a central authority.

Here’s the thing. This isn’t about banning weapons. It’s about controlling access to IPs and preventing right to repair.

A forcibly Internet connected online. Only 3D printer that has to first check a public database to see if it’s allowed to print the thing you just sent is most definitely going to be used to block you from printing parts to fix your appliances or devices.

And definitely going to be used to provide copyright protection and blocking to IPS of large corporations and companies.

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Sure they can. Because what are you going to do financially ruin yourself in a lawsuit you’re going to lose against Microsoft or some other mega Corp who doesn’t give a shit about GPL licencing?

If it’s not enforced with teeth then it doesn’t matter anymore.

Speaking the truth about the fascists in power.

Laws don’t matter anymore, there is no more order. They are not being followed, and the ones used to hard you are being made up.

Dude, my team members put out code that’s like this or worse on a regular basis that gets caught in PR review without using AI tooling…

I’ve supported legacy projects that of course were built without tooling that didn’t exist. That are structured and written in ways that are far far worse than this.

Nothing here screams vibe coated.

Completely agree. If this is a skilled Dev who’s built products like this before and you can build something like this in your afternoons and weekends in like 6 months without LLM tool assistance.

With basic assistance you can definitely cut that time down to 4 months or less easily.

And if this is a full-time project, you can probably get it out the door in 1 to 2 months with llm assistance. (Not vibe coding, two very different things)

I’ve built projects of the size in 5-7 months before we had LLM or ML coding tools.

With tabbed completion (Which most devs enjoy), and before full LLM code gen, 4-6 months.

With llm assistance, not vibe coding, it’s possible to build projects like this in 1 to 2 months without sacrificing quality or safety. If you are an experienced engineer and have built projects like this before. A lot of these are boring, boilerplate, stuff.

So the time spent doesn’t necessarily say that it’s vibe coded but if this is an inexperienced engineer then it very well might be and may be full of holes and issues.

This is misinformation.

You can self host it, for free.

Trash guide to be fair.

Discord has more functionality than all of these, that’s why it’s in the position it’s in today, yet it gets ranked lower than… Rocket chat??

If we’re objectively finding alternatives then we need to be objective, this guide seems sus AF.

Has been since October

They taste like it too

Do… Do you not know what price manipulation is?

It’s not just license plate readers anymore. They have cameras that perform facial recognition and other identifying recognition.

Your car is in many ways uniquely identifiable by its markings and its model that vehicle with many pictures of it and that license plate are already in a database. If you have stickers, if you have big dents or additions and changes from the base model of your vehicle than you are quite identifiable within a particular geographical area depending on the urban density.

It’s always projection with them isn’t it?

It’s a fucking black hole for information. I hate that they don’t direct people to at least GitHub issues or GitHub discussions.

Even worse are the people that have an open GitHub repo for their project and then tell you to go seek help on discord when you open a GitHub issue.

We have ours configured pretty well at this point and it does an absolute bang-up job at code review. It will point developers towards tools and utilities that our monorepo has If they appear to be reinventing the wheel. It will catch common problems and issues that we have in our instruction file, and does a pretty good job of catching bugs and small issues like typos and what not.

Perhaps you need to tighten up your instruction file?

How would they though?

They cannot learn and do not have memory. Which means they cannot actually follow a “decision”, and remember that an action has been taken. All information is limited to the context window, which is only an illusion of memory. Not actually memory.

They are effectively RNG’ing incredibly capable word generation machines.