Friday Feedback

Dec 13, 2024

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Networking, still

Major reconfigurations took place. Ceph is now running over OVN/OpenVSwitch. The choice was to determine how to have 5 different networks for the cluster network, or to make just one.

One method would have been to make the cluster network a larger network and then have each of the room networks a subnet of those. This would require some magic that I didn’t want to figure out.

The switch I purchased turned out to be a dud, for me. It only supports MTUs up to 1550 bytes. That is not going to work.

It also turns out that I’m becoming a Cisco router person. Seems that all of these routers I’ve been working with use the Cisco CLI and methods. Yeah.

IPsec

I’ve been using virtual private tunnels for a while now. I’ve been using OpenVPN for the most part. I’ve done a couple of other tunnels. Now I am learning VTI and XFRM tunneling over secure IP. It will be interesting.

Daniel Penny, found not Guilty

After deliberating for multiple days, the jury was hung on the charge of second degree manslaughter.

When the judge allowed the prosecution to drop that charge, leaving criminally negligent homicide, most people expected a guilty plea. That is the norm.

In a shocking turn of events, the jury returned a Not Guilty verdict after only a short deliberation. It appears that the jury was not happy with the judge nor with the event as a whole.

Snope (Bianchi) v. Brown (Frosh) rescheduled

Cases that are seeking a writ of certiorari go through different stages. One path is the emergency docket, the other is the regular docket. This case is on its third petition for writ of certiorari. The first was granted, the lower court’s opinion was vacated, and the case was remanded for further work in light of Bruen

The second time. The case was denied certiorari because the case was in an interlocutory state.

This case is in its final form. It is ready to be heard by the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court was originally scheduled to discuss this case today. It has been rescheduled.

Those people who spend their lives reading the tea leaves of the Supreme Court all agree. They all agree they have different opinions and the other guys are all wrong.

I am withholding my opinion until I find out when the case is rescheduled.

Question of the Week

Given all the gun laws on the books, both at a federal and state level. What changes that are pro-Second Amendment and achievable would you like to see in the next year?

By achievable, I mean that “total repeal of all gun laws” is not an achievable goal for 2025.

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curby

2024-12-13

“achieveable” pro gun law- STOP pushing bullshiite gun control laws that do zero to prevent crime… democrats pushed thru a 72 hour waiting period here which multiple times has been proven to do nothing to prevent crime.
STOP validation of word salads like “gun violence “ “common sense gun laws”…
STOP blaming everyone and everything for crimes but the criminals…
if We the People and firearms manufacturers can be held liable for the actions of criminals, than prosecutors, judges and lawyers can be held liable for criminals they let back on the street.. turn about is fair play..rant done

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It’s just Boris

2024-12-13

I would have said “hearing protection act.”

Now, after the recent NYfC events that’s probably a non-starter … Perhaps moving SBRs off the NFA is a start.

National reciprocity would be great too but only under certain conditions and restrictions (on the Feds and states, not the individuals).

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1. Chris.
  
  2024-12-13
  
  I would like to see either the Hearing Protection Act, or Nation Carry Reciprocity.
  
  Either of those to me is a “Common sense gun law”.
  
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2. Archer
  
  2024-12-13
  
  My thoughts exactly, on the Hearing Protection Act.
  
  Conditions were (finally!) favorable for it to pass. And then a rando goes and shoots a high-profile CEO, using a suppressor-equipped handgun. (Which also happens to have been at least partially 3D-printed, but that’s another conspiracy theory….)
  
  So I expect the GOP squishes — and all Democrats, but that’s a given — will now vote against de-listing suppressors from the NFA. Again.
  
  And we will have new support from those same GOP squishes — and all Democrats, but that’s a given — to regulate or prohibit home-built firearms.
  
  How does this always seem to happen?
  
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Jay Bee

2024-12-13

Achievable pro-gun law? Ditch the form 4, add the purchase of suppressors, SBRs, etc., to the 4473, with the turnaround times of the 4473. Keep the $200 tax on the NFA items.

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Joseph L. Roberts

2024-12-13

A good start would be the total repeal of the 1934 National Firearms Act, the Gun Control Act of 1968, and the badly misnamed “The Firearm Owners’ Protection Act” of 1986.
(All 3 are unconstitutional under the 2nd Amendment)
The defunding (zero the budget for all 4 years) of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. Returning the oversight of firearms to the states, as is right under the 10th Amendment
I would like to see both the Hearing Protection Act that removes suppressors from the NFA, and The National Reciprocity Act for concealed carry permits enacted. (Which should already be in place due to the Article 4, Section 1 of the US Constitution)

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CBMTTek

2024-12-13

How about beefing up the PLCAA as an achievable goal?
The contortions the anti-gun groups are going through to try and sue gun manufacturers is amazing.
Add “lawful advertising” to the law’s protections. No more suits because someone says you made your guns too appealing to young men and children.

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