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Olympic “trans” controversy where we lost. The boxer in question isn’t trans. She might be cheating. But we lost because the facts are not in our favor.

We had a great opinion from an east coast federal judge. The gist? “I hate Bruen, I’ve worked hard to find something that would allow me to find for the state. I couldn’t. AR-15s in particular can’t be banned. This doesn’t apply to other ‘assault weapons’ nor does it apply to magazine bans.”

Rahimi is being used by the state as an “everything goes” but the courts aren’t really buying it unless they were already in the anti-gun camp.

Thanks again for my grammar checkers. I don’t take offense and I will continue to attempt to do better.

This has been a week of Rants.

There are things happening on the legal front. I need to go read those cases and digest them.

Ally has been doing a fantastic job getting good articles out, with good engagement. Thank you, all.

For those giving me feedback on grammar, thank you. It is very helpful. I do have some tools that help, but they are not perfect.

I hope you all have a great weekend.

Another week has gone by. The world is still here.

In an astonishing turn of events, the attempted assassination of Trump is no longer in the news. Instead, all the talk is about the Democrat’s selected, presidential nominee. Amazing.

X is all a tweet over how Joe’s appearance keeps changing. The one that made me go, “Hmmmm” was the one where the camera angles appear to show that Joe grew 3 to 5 inches while recovering from Covid.

I’ve been busy with a few different tasks, limiting the amount of time I have for research. I do have a couple of “personal” articles in progress, as well as two case articles.

Ally has stepped up to the plate and is putting out articles on the regular.

The store is coming, not this month, but soon enough.

It will offer items I manufacture or make, virtual products (to support the site), and Ally’s signed books.

We will be providing links to the unsigned books on Amazon, there are some contractual things in play.

For me, the biggest question of this week was, “Is Joe still alive?”

The comments are open, do you have a question for us? Do you have an idea for an article? Where do you stand on the “WTF is going on in the Dem party?”

Have a great weekend!

The big news of the week is, of course, that somebody got close enough to Trump to make a real attempt to kill him.

This has opened up a floodgate of horrible responses from people on the rightleft. Listening to Allyson drop people from her friends list on social media has been almost terrifying in its intensity.

Libs Of TikTok has made it a personal mission to expose many of the people who are calling for the assassination of Trump.

I think the most vile thing I’ve seen are “Hopes and Prayers for the shooter and his family.”

Allyson is dealing with a massive shift in politics. I’ve described it as she was standing in the ocean near the shore. Suddenly, the waters just swept out, leaving her standing on shore with all the rest of the right.

It is frightening to her. I’m not so sure of how much she has changed, though she has, but how much the left has just lost it.

I’m trying to figure out this X thing. I want to have each post automaticity go to X but the autopost isn’t working for scheduled posts and when it does post, it is a pretty sad-looking post.

Thank you to every one of you that is here reading our ramblings.

If you would like to contribute to the blog, please send your article to me, and I’ll see if it fits and can be published.

I’m attempting to tone back my case analysis postings to be more readable to humans. Please let me know if the tone is about right for you.

Finally, we will be opening a web store soon. We will be selling Allyson’s books, signed. If anybody is interested in the wooden bowls, I’ll put some of those up for sale as well.

Anybody who is in the NH, MA, VT area that wants to meet at the Fort at #4, reach out to me, and we’ll make it happen.

Have a wonderful weekend.

When the sniper in the Texas Clock Tower started shooting men stopped and grabbed rifles from their trucks and returned fire.

Today, it is the odd of us that carry a truck gun.

There are many topics which generate strong feelings. One of the things that I’ve learned over the years, is that people on the left can find a reason to hate you and that is it. You can have one “bad” opinion, that is enough to remove you into their subhuman category.

People on the right seem to be more accepting. As some have said, “love the sinner, hate the sin.” We are the big tent side of the body politic.

With that said, I do hope that I do not chase away any of our readers by having positions they disagree with.

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The weekend is upon us, just a few more hours.

Allyson is off at another event. This time as a vendor, selling her cookbooks, and having fun.

The blue-haired fairie is with her, they are going to have a grand time.

On the nerd side of things, I am in the processing of ditching AWS. Amazon Web Services is a gateway drug. You can get started for just a few cents per month, then you suddenly find yourself shelling out serious coin.

For me, the big cost was backups. When I was at University, I was introduced to “comprehensive backups”. The idea being that we should be able to recover a file for a very, very, very long time.

When most services describe backups, they talk about having “daily” backups. That means you have 24 hours to realize that something is wrong, and recover it.

My backups are different. If you have created a file, and it is on disk when backups run, it will be backed up.

Monday through Saturday go into the daily backups. These backups are preserved for 30+ days.

Sunday backups are different, on the first Sunday of the month, backups go to the monthly backups. These are kept for 2+ years.

Finally, all other Sunday backups go on to the weekly backups. These are kept for 6 months.

So, comprehensive.

All of that takes disk space. I was exceeding 10 terabytes of data on AWS. It was running me excess dollars.

No more. I now have a local ceph cluster with multiple nodes on multiple switches, in multiple power circuits. There are over 70 Terabytes in the cluster. Two hosts have room for another 12 TB each. Two hosts can be upgraded from 12 TB to 48 TB, each. There are spots for four more hosts, each of which can handle 48 TB each.

Backups are now going to my ceph cluster. This is very redundant. I can take an entire host out of the cluster and the cluster still functions. At some point, I will configure the cluster so that I can take out multiple hosts at one time and still be fully functional.

Sorry, this is about feedback, not nerd babble.

The site is still not stable enough. The work I’m doing with ceph locally, will transfer to ceph on remote systems. Tuning ceph on the remote systems and moving the ceph cluster, proper, out of K8S will improve things greatly.

What feedback do you have for us?

I am so pleased that Ally has stepped up her postings. It helps me keep going.

I’ve had way to many 503 errors recently. This is the service is temporarily unavailable error message.

At issue is a resource allocation problem. I’ve added a couple of new sites to the mix, added a mail service, and suddenly, there aren’t enough resources to go around.

There are two fixes, more hardware, or to reduce the load. I have reduced the load somewhat, I’ll be reducing it still more.

The issue isn’t even that the pods are dying. That I can work around with replicas. It is that an entire node is going down. When that happens, it is 5 minutes before the node is fully up and all the pods repopulate.

On the great news, Miguel has found a place to post his thoughts. It is good to see him posting again.

From a personal perspective, I know that it seems like it was just one tweet that killed GunFreeZone.net. It isn’t.

Miguel ran out of go juice for the blog over two years ago. He wanted to kill it then. J.Kb. and I asked if we could take over his baby and he agreed. Over time, the site morphed from Miguel’s baby to something else.

I’ve read remarks about how GFZ was so much worse, once I started posting regularly. That’s fine. It hurts at one level, but I realize that I am not Miguel.

One of the things that I have noticed, is that there isn’t a Vine of Liberty “voice” yet. I’m working towards it.

We are still looking for more guest posts. Poor Elrod was the first victim. His well-written comment was promoted to a front page post. I hope he takes it as the compliment I intended it to be.

Which leaves the two questions of for the day:

1) What one thing is missing from the site which you want back, right now? And no, you can’t just say “Miguel”, I’ve already told him that I want him here.
2) What topic do you think is in line with The Vine of Liberty, which isn’t being covered?

Thank you for being here, it means a lot.