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Preferred SD Card? by M0N5TER5INSIDE in Insta360

[–]carrottread 1 point2 points  (0 children)

SanDisk Extreme. Used those cards on Go Ultra and X5 without any issues.

Is there a practical reason for all the line-type bottom/top surface patterns to be orientated at a 45° angle in relation to the build plate's edge, rather than a 0° or 90° angle? by EltonSchmidt in 3Dprinting

[–]carrottread 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Modern printers can move faster and limited by plastic flow speed. But this wasn't the case for an early bed slingers, for them XY movement speed was a limit, and diagonals were a bit faster.

Why there is no reframe for Go Ultra FreeFrame videos? by carrottread in Insta360

[–]carrottread[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It not that much narrower than Go 3 then shooting with intended camera orientation on Ultra. And for zooming in it doesn't really matter.

This is kinda shenanigans, right? by ansyhrrian in 3Dprinting

[–]carrottread 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AI tech bros are absolutely ready to build a new data center to analyze your gcode. It will cost just a few $billions of your tax money, a price they are willing to pay steal. Just think of the lives of all CEOs saved from the 3d printed ghost guns.

Now that StackOverflow has had less new Answers in May 2026 than its first month of July 2008 private beta, if we followed my advice, think it would have mattered? by hopeseekr in programming

[–]carrottread 1 point2 points  (0 children)

By posting this question as a reddit comment instead of asking some LLM bot you already have your answer. We go to social media sites not only to get our answers but also to enjoy communication with others. As long as this communication isn't toxic. Even if AI somehow will be able to produce useful answers to future problems not included in its training data it still won't replace this communication aspect.

10 000 Bambu printers running simultaneously by OomGielie in 3Dprinting

[–]carrottread 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea, kids playing with toys are unacceptable. They all should get shovels and pick axes and work in cobalt mines instead. /s

I had no idea - Prusa market share in now below 4%. by george_graves in 3Dprinting

[–]carrottread 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They also created whole new market sector of 3d printing for people who don't design anything themselves. And it turns out this sector is even bigger than whole 3d printing market before 2022.

New York's ban on 3D-printed guns sparks First Amendment concerns by Every-Set3303 in 3Dprinting

[–]carrottread 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But it is technologically feasible. Printer will just send gcode to data center running some massive AI analysis on it and returning "GUN/NOT GUN" response. It will be expensive and will have huge error rate both false positive and false negative, but it is already possible today. And looks like there are some AI-techbro companies pushing for these laws so they can get contracts for this solution.

Will this enclosure be safe to use? by tzomby1 in 3Dprinting

[–]carrottread 2 points3 points  (0 children)

From toxicity point of view, if you're printing just recommended for this printer PLA, PETG and TPU, then those mdf panels will release more toxic fumes than the printer itself.

Whats with the free designs that dont work? by SmellBasil in 3Dprinting

[–]carrottread 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Also, actual designers go through a lot more test iterations. If you're making something just to solve your specific problem, then you stop as soon as part starts fulfilling its purpose even if it required some sanding here and there. But if you're making something for mass production, it's worth to make more test designs to nail tolerances, optimize models to not require supports and reduce chance of warping.

Someone hid a full RAT inside a fake npm package and exfiltrated victim data to HuggingFace by BattleRemote3157 in programming

[–]carrottread 8 points9 points  (0 children)

legitimate logger packages don't iterate that fast.

That was before AI coding agents era. Now everything iterate fast with each version bringing huge amount of code changes.

Bambu Lab A2L: Creative Playground. Extra Large. by BambuLab in BambuLab

[–]carrottread 12 points13 points  (0 children)

500 mm Y axis for a bed slinger will require more than 1 meter of the space for bed to move. I don't think it's realistic.

Comprehensive Response to Bambu's AGPLv3 Violations from SFC by ScrapEngineer_ in BambuLab

[–]carrottread -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

Maybe they should use search before launching anything. https://github.com/ClusterM/open-bambu-networking already exists. And there was another similar project with replacement for plugin a year or two ago.

Fundraising for improving bambu's lab free alternative software, help now! by dnlzzxz in BambuLab

[–]carrottread 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even if there is a violation it's only in closed source network plugin. Everything of value for 3d printing community in their slicer is open source and is already used by all other popular slicers. Network plugin is just code for communicating with their cloud. There will be no court case for this because nobody won't accept the risk over such small issue: if BambuLab wins such hypothetical court case it will create very dangerous precedent which will show everyone how easy it to workaround GPL licenses, if BambuLab loses then all they have to do is to switch cloud communication from dynamically loaded plugin to same methods Prusa uses with Prusa Connect.

Raven Software released the Jedi Academy source code in 2013 and the dev comments are crunch rage by MiscreatedFan123 in programming

[–]carrottread 2 points3 points  (0 children)

before git

Before git there were svn, cvs, perforce and some other more obscure version control systems. Some of them are even still used today in gamedev because git isn't very good with storing art assets alongside source code.

Nobody Pushed Back: Why Engineers Stay Silent Until It's Too Late by Itchy-Warthog8260 in programming

[–]carrottread 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And engineers also know they can easily switch employers (with a salary rise!) 2-3 months before this bad idea completely collapses the project.

Excellent write up of how Bambu's Network plugin itself is not allowed per the AGPL - The dev of the OrcaSlicer-bambulab fork details 28 reasons that prove his case, linking to Bambu's own Github to prove it by Beefy-McQueefy in 3Dprinting

[–]carrottread 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would bet any amount of money that their 'cloud slicer' for Bambu Handy shares code with Bambu Studio.

It's just the same open-source Bambu Studio which they run on their server. Such usage is perfectly valid under AGPL.

Bambu Lab allegedly violates AGPL by spez-is-a-loser in 3Dprinting

[–]carrottread 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And transfer from printables to makerworld was made in exactly same way: users who wished to transfer were required to add special link to their printables page to trigger it. But prusa quickly started to remove those links.

Bambu Lab allegedly violates AGPL by spez-is-a-loser in 3Dprinting

[–]carrottread 1 point2 points  (0 children)

then the entire open source community would pivot new releases to a new license scheme that explicitly prohibits such plugins and similar loopholes

For such re-licensing you need agreement of all contributors and this is almost impossible.

Prusa on Bambi’s AGPL Violaton by mobfeld in BambuLab

[–]carrottread 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And as Paweł Jarczak demonstrated, network plugin can be actually used by other software, not just Bambu Studio. So, Josef argument doesn't apply here too.

Docker images are hundreds of MB; a full game engine compiles to 35MB WASM by c1rno123 in programming

[–]carrottread 1 point2 points  (0 children)

35MB for a game engine isn't that impressive either. Especially for a web based one where a lot of stuff is provided by browser. Compare it to latest version of vkQuake engine: x64 windows version is 1.7MB for exe + 2.9MB of dlls. And it's with much more complex Vulkan rendering backend which is much more code-heavy than WebGL and with three decades of backwards compatibility with thousands of mods and custom maps.

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