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Comment by nazgu1 | Hacker News Reader

It looks like generated by "AI", so I recommend taka a dose of scepticism before reading.

A more credible source from Prusa (the company behind the source slicer that bambulab forked)

https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/josef-prusa-warns-c...

The situation is interesting and kind of a grey area. The way they structured the network code as a plugin that downloads after first run is obviously to avoid violating the AGPL license, but if you don’t install it, large parts of the slicer are inaccessible. So it’s not at all like a normal plugin.

Edit: a more direct source. https://x.com/josefprusa/status/2054602354851254330

This is much better than the current slop post. Could it be swapped, please @dang?

The article linked here is a consequence of the actions taken against the repository linked by OP, not a more 'credible source'.

The file linked in by OP, is the main argument by Pawel Jarczak why his fork does not violate any copyright laws (may it be written by/with help of AI or not).

I didn't say it was necessarily more credible, although I understand that was mentioned further up.

Personally I found the article (not the tweets) much more useful to understand the context of all this, as someone very out of the loop. Certianly more useful to me than a long list of very specific, in my option largely LLM output, points about a codebase I'm entirely unfamiliar with with claims that seem to need a legal team and court case to be meaningful. Slop is somewhat unfair and I'm happy to be disagreed with.

Indeed. It’s not clear at all to me that this is a better or even equivalent post to the one I submitted.

@dang doesn't do anything. email hn@ycombinator.com to get his/other moderators attention (which I did).

It is kooky that you think some conspiracy nonsense about Bambu being a Chinese company and so something from Josef Prusa, is better than a detailed (if AI-written) analysis of all the ways that Bambu's networking plugin is a tightly integrated component of the AGPLv3 Bambu Studio from the creator of the only reimplementation of that plugin that exists/existed who is the direct target of Bambu's recent legal threats.

The tweets by Josef Prusa also seem LLM generated, this whole story is slop.

These banal accusations are so dim and dull.

Banal accusations?

Here's the frequency of the " - " pattern in tweets by "josefprusa"

  2020:  8 / 761 tweets  = 1.1%
  2021:  5 / 533 tweets  = 0.9%
  2022:  9 / 597 tweets  = 1.5%
  2023: 21 / 450 tweets  = 4.7%
  2024: 57 / 725 tweets  = 7.9%
  2025: 23 / 390 tweets  = 5.9%
  2026: 15 / 136 tweets  = 11.0%

Now, go ahead and tell me this guy is not yet another spammer polluting social media with LLM-generated garbage.

The original post that this commenter objected to, which has now been replaced by Hacker News with a tweet from Josef Prusa with none of the same technical detail, is from one of the primary players in this whole debacle. Here's the original post: https://github.com/jarczakpawel/OrcaSlicer-bambulab/blob/mai...

jarczakpawel@ (on Github) reimplemented their network plugin and was targeted with over-inflated legal threats (like Section 1201 claims about circumventing access control, which it did not do) and forced to take down his implementation. What he did is provide an open implementation of their closed source network plugin based on their open-source, AGPLv3 Bambu Studio.

This was not some random "AI slop post". This was a (seemingly AI written, yes) summary from the creator at the center of the current debacle, who seems to be the best non-Bambu expert we have on Bambu's networking plugin.

Josef Prusa's tweet is not at all equivalent information. Prusa's tweet seems to be little more than some conspiratorial thoughts about Chinese law and Bambu being a Chinese company. Does that play in? Maybe, I have no idea one way or the other, but it says nothing about the AGPL violations or the technical details of how tightly integrated the plugin is with Bambu Studio.

Even if AI generated, the arguments look solid

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