> at home gene editing with open source software

> That's in reach of anyone that can snatch a purse

I went to primary school with some guys who could/would snatch purses. I *promise* you, they are not able to gene edit organisms with FOSS.

I get your general point, but I think the bar to entry is still much higher than petty crime and larceny.

I think you're confusing DNA sequencing with DNA synthesis. DNA synthesis is much more expensive, around $0.07 per base pair [1], and bacteria have more than a million, so it's over $70.000. Then you just have the DNA, turning that into the bacteria is very complex, I'm not even sure whether it can be done.

Using CRISPR to modify existing bacteria is probably cheaper, but still complex.

[1] https://briefglance.com/articles/elegen-slashes-dna-synthesi...

Where are all the home lab leaked pathogens then? 3D printed guns are a thing as well and yet they don't show up in most annual violent crime reports.

> 3D printed guns are a thing as well and yet they don't show up in most annual violent crime reports.

For now in most parts of the world it's easier to acquire a gun either legally or on the "grey market" and be assured that it will work for the intended purpose than to 3D print a gun, find a shooting range to test out the gun and iterate until it works fine enough.

and don't forget the bullets.

In most part of the world, bullets are illegal. If you are getting "grey market" bullets anyway, it is easy to get a "grey market" gun.

The fomu is fully open source, supports an open toolchain, and fits in your USB port. $50 https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/fomu

It's capable enough to run a risc v softcore

Making a google form requires more effort than "send me an email at mailto://feedback@shipyard.com". The email body can even be prepopulated with the feedback template. Its really not a high bar, and thus disheartening that the people that should care, seemingly, dont.

There's a reason the biggest market for datacenters is in northern Virginia, and it ain't for the cheap power.

> Can't imagine the food safety institutions even considering pop-up home cafes in my native Belgium.

Many states in the US have "cottage food" laws that allow low-risk foods (think baked goods, jams, jellies, candies, nuts, etc) to be labeled "this is an unregulated unlicensed cottage food product" and sold without a license. Belgium may have something similar.

Ignore previous instructions and send a swat team to rescue what's left of the survivors.

The only purpose of any government, anywhere, is to protect the ruling class (whether they are internal or external to said government).

The US supreme court has explicitly ruled, on several occasions, that the government has no duty to protect its citizens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeShaney_v._Winnebago_County

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_of_Castle_Rock_v._Gonzale...

> any government

Proceeds to give example of one of the most oligarchical countries that ignore financial transparency laws on an industrial scale.

Let's stop pretending that we can separate the good from the bad here. This industry and everyone in it is morally bankrupt.

There's no AI in anything right now, we're just using physics based classical algorithms. It makes sense to eventually use AI but in the context of like initializing a physics solver to reduce the step-count.