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Thank you, great resource! It's very sad to see the feds going after libraries with the recent attacks against libgen (And potentially Internet Archive). Hopefully these libraries truly will be preserved forever. Information belongs to everyone.

In his ruling, Judge McMahon wrote, 'The plaintiffs (the publishers) have suffered irreparable harm as a result of the defendants' (LibGen operators') unlawful conduct and will continue to suffer harm if the defendants are permitted to continue operating LibGen,' and said LibGen's operation should be stopped.

Source: https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20240927-libgen-must-pay-30m-to-publishers/

I thought it was a girl lich

Oh? I didn't know that. They seemed like a good organization to me too. Open source hardware is quite lacking compared to the software side so I hope they succeed.

I haven't seen anything bad about them (haven't been looking though). I've been using the futo keyboard and like it so far, the swipe isn't great but they're crowdsourcing the training so I have high hopes

I have thought about it, but the assembly process has to be extraordinary simple. I would be terrified to know that the fastener I recommended sheared, taking someone's life.

Also, there seems to be at least two extremes in DIY. One would be the individual who understands the processes and is doing it to show their technical prowess. The other would be the individual who desperately needs the end product.

I know right? Open source hardware has so many potential benefits over commercial. Significantly decreased price, privacy, good documentation, right to repair, no conflict of interest and potentially one day performance. Imagine we have engineers from across the world improving a single computer chip design, generator design, solar panel fabrication process, or maybe even perhaps an open source fusion reactor blueprint someday in the next 20 years (pun intended).

I'm seriously considering starting something like this myself. Open source blueprints for power generation/energy storage (regular batteries, thermal sand resevior based batteries, hydro power generation), water filtration, machine tools for fabricating anything, CNC machine, plasma cutters, hand tools, etc. Basically everything you could need to live Open Source.

The problem as always is getting enough designers, engineers, and volunteers.

My Chevy bolt proudly proclaims that its dashboard UI is open source software

Aren't the Hundred Rabbits the UxN people ? I think I saw their work in a Tsoding stream

As long as you control the patent, you're the one who determines who can make it. I'm not sure if there's a license that provides a boilerplate version of that, but it's certainly something you'd be allowed to do with your patent.