Gregory's ServerOh good grief, I did not expect to wake up today and discover bits of my 2012 novel "Rule 34" were coming true! https://themessenger.com/tech/bambu-owners-3d-printers-malfunction-cloud-print-twice
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 @Uilebheist @cstross ^ this @cstross Why on earth not? At least it's one of the lesser squick-inducing parts of the book.   @cstross Could have been a lot worse...who the hell thinks connecting machines that throw molten plastic around to some rando on the internet is a good idea?!?  @cstross I’ll take Rule 34 over anything from the Laundry universe coming true. Rogue 3D printers is infinitely better than, say, soul eating violins.  @parsingphase @cstross Thinking there needs to be story set when Lecter still existed that includes an accompanying eldritch saxophone… @Chigaze @parsingphase No: it needs eldritch bagpipes! Because Bagpiper's Lung is a real medical condition, and I can barely imagine the extradimensional antigens you might get from tootling on the Pipes of Azathoth …  @Chigaze @parsingphase @cstross ...the woodwind instrument being named Ndragsan Rok'n-Rawl “I thought I was just generating weird new fractals; they knew I was dangerously close to landscaping Wolverhampton with alien nightmares”  @cstross I was weighing Prusa vs Bambi lately and the whole cloud printing bit was a big reason I didn't pick Bambu.  @cstross last week I was floating ways to monkey wrench 3DP specifically ones printing guns |
@cstross I'm actually surprised it took this long.
When manufacturers decide that all jobs must go through their servers which is only needed so they can spy on people who bought their products, this is what you get.