Post #3247690
2026-06-02 17:03 UTC
Your faith in this mystery algorithm is stronger than mine. Here’s a diagram of the parts in an AR-15:
So we need an algorithm that renders the gcode I’m printing, then compares it to… something?
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@benjirenji@slrpnk.net 2026-06-02 17:24
The algos don’t need to deny any or every part of a gun, but the most critical part must not be printable and it’ll already be effective. I’m neither very experienced with firearms nor printing, maybe such a thing doesn’t exist for a gun, but I suspect there’s a few very important pieces that need to be printed a certain way or the firearm falls apart or is at least a lot less useful. All that said, I’m generally against such limiting mechanism in any printer or compiler. Try close sourcing all compilers so they can’t create malware? Forget it.