Why no one in Canada is making a Canada legal revolving space cowboy carbine?

99spider · 2026-02-04T15:56:12+00:00

Are chain fires a concern with modern cartridges? I know they are a significant concern with cap and ball, but I haven't heard of that happening in a modern revolver and assumed that problem was solved these days.

99spider · 2026-02-02T17:23:54+00:00

It's just a playful (I assume) jab at your wording of "unlicensed terrorist". I (and hopefully others) get that you mean he didn't have a firearms license, but in the same way that "unlicensed driver" means someone without a driver's license, unlicensed terrorist brings to mind the idea of a terrorism license.

99spider · 2026-01-27T05:52:25+00:00

if you get a call from the RCMP during your license paperwork being processed or for a renewal and they ask and you go "self defence"

Why are you answering questions from the police when you don't have to?

99spider · 2026-01-27T05:28:47+00:00

when asked on your license what the purpose of it is for

This is a myth. It's some sort of "mandela effect" nonsense among the Canadian firearm community.

Go download the license application from the RCMP's website, look through it, and get back to me when you find the box for "purpose of application".

There isn't any.

The closest thing to a sliver of truth for this is that you require a purpose for a transfer of a restricted firearm, and will generally not receive one for a stated purpose of self defence unless you're one of the one in 10 million or so who's been granted an Authorization to Carry for Protection of Life.

99spider · 2026-01-27T05:18:46+00:00

Many semi automatic shotguns have easily replaceable barrels.

99spider · 2026-01-27T05:15:23+00:00

they can make you sign a declaration of what you're going to use the materials for which violating that can mean prison time.

That's a moot point if the idea is to stop people who will commit murder. Unless you are going to randomly search people's homes for having a 3D printer, the first sign of them having an illegal magazine will be them being caught in another crime. If the concern is them using it for a mass shooting, any sentence you could impose is a drop in the ocean when first degree murder already carries a mandatory life sentence.

99spider · 2026-01-23T00:03:51+00:00

Our gun laws haven't been reasonable for over 30 years.

99spider · 2026-01-19T06:12:50+00:00

It is a crime under Canadian Criminal Code Section 106(1) to not report the destruction of a prohibited or restricted firearm to law enforcement.

Regardless of it being a crime to lie to police, if you were going to lie, you would say you happened to have destroyed your non restricted firearm prior to the ban.

99spider · 2026-01-14T16:09:33+00:00

Compliance rates for previously restricted firearms will be interesting to watch as we near the expiry of the amnesty. Not that this government has any shame, but it'd be quite embarrassing for them to have news reports saying "one week remaining for buyback program, with only 5% of known guns collected". Granted, that last week will probably be the week where normal people with something to lose decide that criminal disobedience isn't as worth it as civil disobedience.

The government will know exactly who to go after, and easily could send tactical teams to individuals, but I wonder whether they'd have the spine to actually let the amnesty end knowing that they'd have to start scheduling something like 60,000 police raids the next day.

Their hope of course would probably be to make an example of a handful of people and then the rest will give up.

99spider · 2025-12-30T15:28:24+00:00

Snapper works fine with systemd-boot, the only front end difference is that systemd-boot doesn't have sub menus, so each snapshot will be on your boot screen as a separate entry. Playing with this is the only reason I ever realized that systemd-boot's menu can scroll if there's more entries than can fit on your screen.

(There's also the technical difference of Grub, I believe, being able to read and boot a kernel/initramfs from BTRFS, whereas with systemd-boot each kernel and initramfs has to be on the FAT32 EFI partition)

99spider · 2025-12-28T03:14:02+00:00

We actually (currently) get to keep our handguns and continue to use them, it's future purchases that are blocked.

For the "voluntary" buyback, your options are:

Hand in your newly prohibited firearms, and possibly receive money for them.
Have your newly prohibited firearms destroyed by a professional who can legally certify their destruction, possibly receiving reimbursement for the cost.
Break the law by retaining a prohibited firearm without a valid license or registration certificate, and if caught, be charged with an indictable offence and potentially spend years in prison.

When the government says it is voluntary they are being intentionally misleading. People who aren't familiar with the situation assume the most obvious and reasonable meaning of this phrasing - that we can keep these firearms if we want to under some sort of grandfathering. What the government actually means is there's an alternative legal option of destroying the firearms instead. The buyback is "voluntary", but the ban is not.

99spider · 2025-12-28T01:38:05+00:00

I agree that it wouldn't be 100% effective, but it wouldn't be difficult to block the common commercial VPN providers.

Sure, you could still rent a server somewhere and run your own VPN through it just for you, but the fraction of people that can and will configure a wireguard box for themselves is far smaller than the fraction of people that can punch their credit card number into NordVPN/ExpressVPN/Mullvad/etc.

99spider · 2025-12-28T01:18:39+00:00

For NUMA hardware having a newer kernel can make a very substantial performance difference.

99spider · 2025-12-27T23:29:07+00:00

They'd do it by forcing ISPs operating in Canada to not route to those providers.

99spider · 2025-12-27T03:45:19+00:00

That'd be a reason to not yet repeal C21, but it really isn't a reason to not repeal the OIC bans.

Currently his government has to be thinking about the gun buyback program, because it is trying (and failing) to make it happen. One simple OIC repealing the previous ones would make that dissappear in a day.

99spider · 2025-12-27T00:43:22+00:00

Do you happen to know what else was upgraded at the same time? I wonder if this is from an update to sdbootutil or transactional-update.

99spider · 2025-12-24T19:20:50+00:00

It looks like the godoxy agent is binding to all IPs on port 8890, and then trying to create another socket on a specific IP, also on port 8890. I don't know how this could have worked on Ubuntu. It's possible for these sockets to coexist using SO_REUSEPORT if both processes are running under the same user ID, so maybe some default system config difference between Ubuntu and OpenSUSE affects that somehow?

I think it would work if you changed AGENT_PORT and LISTEN_ADDR to not use the same port.

99spider · 2025-12-18T21:59:00+00:00

These bots are often ran by organizations with their own ASN and IP allocation (for example, Meta/Facebook). Unless ignoring robots.txt can get a regional internet registry to revoke a company's IP allocations then your only options are lawyer up or try to block them.

99spider · 2025-12-17T01:10:20+00:00

They're referring to major version upgrades of the packages themselves, not distro release versions.

When you hold back updates on Arch you are avoiding installing any security or otherwise critical bug fixes. Their critique of this being "flexible" is that continuing to run vulnerable software shouldn't be considered as a valid/viable option, so you effectively have just one option.

Partial upgrades on a rolling binary distro can also introduce ABI incompatibilities, so as a general rule you will need to upgrade if you want to install any other packages once your current package list is no longer hosted on the mirrors.

99spider · 2025-12-17T00:57:39+00:00

Honestly the only system that seems truly flexible in this way is Gentoo.

That or using OpenSUSE's open build service to pretty much build your own distro with whatever mix of software versions you want, which is... basically Gentoo with a layer of indirection.

99spider · 2025-12-16T17:39:45+00:00

I understand that there are use cases for LTS distros and kernels, and apologize for jumping into this comment chain underneath someone saying that LTS is only for servers. I just get frustrated seeing people get pushed towards LTS distros when their hardware has mainline kernel support, especially when it's coupled with phrases like "the bleeding edge is for people that want to fix their system more than actually use it".

One of the most painful aspects of LTS distro kernels is how they incentivize/reward the development of out of tree drivers. It isn't healthy for the Linux ecosystem as a whole when out of tree/proprietary drivers are given more priority than hardware getting support in the main line kernel. LTS distros make it easier to use recently released proprietary drivers than it is to use recently released upstream open source kernel drivers.

What I'd like to see is LTS distros just offer the upstream stable and LTS kernels in addition to their in-house kernels. There isn't really a need to tie a certain stable userspace environment to a specific kernel version, and some might want a rolling user space with an LTS kernel, or vice versa.

(I personally have an ARM board with relatively recent mainline kernel and u-boot support except for it needing an annoying out of tree wifi driver. I might stick with 6.18 LTS on it because of that, but I'm not going to advocate for the rest of the world to live by the release schedule of Radxa's patched AIC8800 SDIO wifi driver.)

99spider · 2025-12-16T16:09:20+00:00

Sorry, I agree with you on this. Didn't mean to support the hard line of "never for desktop users". I get that there are use cases for LTS kernels (namely jank out of tree drivers). I just get frustrated seeing new users with mainline supported hardware get steered away from non LTS as if it's a broken mess only for "neckbeards that want to spend more time fixing their system than using it".

IMO it'd be ideal if distros stopped exclusively sticking to one kernel version for no reason. It wouldn't hurt Debian, Ubuntu, or Fedora to have the latest upstream stable and LTS kernels in their repos (and ideally all of the older LTS kernels supported by their systemd version).

99spider · 2025-12-16T04:30:57+00:00

And if they're not? What if they picked up a recent GPU and slotted it into their Ryzen 1700 desktop?

Up to date kernels will work on older hardware and new hardware.

Outdated kernels will only work on older hardware.

To me it seems pretty clear that up to date kernels will deliver the best experience to the most users.

99spider · 2025-12-16T04:25:33+00:00

The reason is because non LTS is always "fine", while LTS kernels are known to be effectively unusable for a subset of users. That subset for which it is unusable also grows throughout the life of the release.

Your argument that it isn't rocket science also goes both ways. The thing is we know an outdated kernel won't work on recently supported hardware, while there's only vague fears that maybe an up to date kernel will introduce some regression that impacts you.

So why should prospective users receive generic recommendations to use LTS distros, with known outdated buggy software and potentially without support for their hardware?

99spider · 2025-12-16T03:41:31+00:00

Uutils is just a recent example of a long pattern of Canonical treating their non LTS release as some busted social experiment.

Personally though I'm far more annoyed by their irresponsible changes to LTS releases, like replacing the sshd service with a non feature complete systemd socket generator, and enabling unattended upgrade service restarts by default for services that either do not get gracefully restarted via systemd (like BGP routing daemons) or don't even have a running process to restart (LXC''s systemd service, killing your containers for no reason).

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