New York Wants to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Your 3D Printer

New York’s budget bill proposes mandatory file-scanning “blocking” software for 3D printers and CNC tools. It targets general-purpose tools instead of criminal acts — and puts educators, open source, and small makers on the hook first. 🗽🖨️

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/03/new-york-wants-to-ctrlaltdelete-your-3d-printer/

#3dprinting #opensource

Seeing share.google links instead of real URLs?

Google started masking shared links from its Android app, hiding the actual URL and adding extra tracking.

How to disable:
1. Open the Google app
2. Profile → Settings → Other settings
3. Turn off "Shorten links to web pages"

Now you'll share real URLs, unmasked and without extra tracking.

#Google #Android #Privacy #Tips

Look, Jeff Atwood, it is difficult to take you seriously when you write authoritatively on a subject you clearly don’t understand.

GDPR doesn’t mandate cookie notices.

Cookie notices are *malicious compliance* by the surveillance-driven adtech industry.

If you’re not tracking people, you do not need a cookie notice, period.

If you’re only using first-party cookies for functional reasons, you do not need a cookie notice, period.

If you’re using third-party cookies to track people – i.e., if you’re sharing their data with others – then *you must have their consent to do so*. Because, otherwise, you are violating their privacy. Even then, the law doesn’t mandate a cookie notice.

How would you conform to EU law without a cookie notice if your aim wasn’t malicious compliance?

You would not track people by default and you would make it so they have to go your site’s settings to turn on third-party tracking if, for some inexplicable reason, they wanted that “feature”.

Boom!

No cookie notice necessary.

What’s that?

But that would destroy your business because your business is founded on the fundamental mechanic of violating people’s privacy?

Good.

Your business doesn’t deserve to exist.

Because the real bullshit here isn’t EU legislation that protects the human right to privacy, it’s the toxic Silicon Valley/Big Tech business model of farming people for data that violates everyone’s privacy and opens the door to technofascism.

https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/115120175033311443

Just to say: if you' were thinking about backing the Kickstarter to pre-order my next book, *Enshittification*, in ebook, audiobook and/or hardcover, you've got just under 18 hours to do so.

Thank you.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/enshittification-the-drm-free-audiobook

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https://lithub.com/did-anthropic-ai-steal-your-book-you-can-sign-up-for-updates-on-the-class-action-suit/

Spread the word, please!!

Last year, dissatisfied with the low quality of commercially available bike wheel lights, I set out to make my own.

Several kilograms of filament and several meters of LED strips later, I had a solution that worked. Bright, eye catching wheel lights that I only had to charge once a week.

I toyed with the idea of starting a small business to sell them online, but there were too many unknowns.

So I released them open source: https://www.instructables.com/DIY-3D-Printed-Rechargeable-Bike-Wheel-Lights/

Ride brightly, my friends.

#bikeTooter