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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I’ve already had to justify each purchase to the registrar individually, just like everyone else with guns in Australia.

    Placing an arbitrary limit on the purchase of something you have to individually justify is silly.

    Just like a golfer doesn’t use a wood when they’re on the green in golf, and “mum” doesn’t use a semi trailer to drop the kids to school; a hunter doesn’t use an air rifle to hunt foxes.

    Or at least, I don’t.

    If I wanted an air rifle capable of humanely dispatching a fox, I’d need to apply for a permit to acquire this snowflake 50cal single-shot-with-a-scuba-tank abomination.
    And part of that is justifying why one of my existing firearms can’t do the job in question.
    And even if that’s approved, I have to consider my storage obligations; because quantities and categories impact your storage requirements.
    Which are subject to inspection, failure of which can cost your licence, forfeiture of your firearms and fines.

    The /average/ gun owner doesn’t have 6 now, it’s a pain in the ass.

    And frankly, none of your business or concern.

    Mmm, bait.




  • The National Cabinet agreed in principle to the deal, but implementing it requires their individual states to buy in.

    I’m surprised the federal government hasn’t completely abandoned this yet.
    It’s simply not worth the political capital:
    There’s a vocal minority desperate to take away other people’s guns for personal/idea logical reasons.
    There’s a slightly larger, but still a minority, desperate to keep their guns (who personally have never done anything wrong).
    And an uncaring majority who are being told they will have to pay for it with their taxes.












  • I’ve been running Cachy for a few months - it just works.

    I picked it because it appeared to be easy to install Arch (which I’ve run before, btw) with sane defaults.
    But that’s exactly what Endeavour is from what I just read.
    I don’t know if the purported optimisations provide any real world benefit, but the major reason I went Cachy is it being the flavour of the month.
    For the time being, it’s where a lot of focus is for new development in the gaming space.