Where a Hispanic Catholic, and a Computer Geek write about Gun Rights, Self Defense and whatever else we can think about.
If anyone is wondering why I am AN #FN #SCAR16 fan versus an #AR15 fan (I have both and I love them differently), it is because you never have to come off target to cycle into battery on a SCAR, whether bolt is open or closed. Especially if you have a BCD. #Guns #2A pic.twitter.com/FSwqvgdU3k
— RealBizzle (@RealBizzle9000) July 19, 2023
Dear God, please be a parody.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A suspected gunman was arrested on Monday after police said his ankle monitor helped link him to an alleged armed robbery in which two people were shot.
Santez Beddingfield, 20, of La Vergne, was required to wear an ankle monitor after being arrested for a shooting in late 2022, according to the Metro Nashville Police Department. However, it was not the first time Beddingfield has been accused of a violent crime.
The most recent incident is the third shooting Beddingfield is believed to have been involved in within the last year, police reported.Authorities said the two victims went to Foster Street on June 29 to meet with Beddingfield and another man when they were reportedly robbed and shot. One person was injured in the leg and the other was shot in the abdomen.
I am going with stupid enhanced with politics. The guy had six previous felony charges in one year, two being crimes of physical violence and three weapons charges, but the most he got was to carry a lowjack around his ankle.
But don’t forget, it is we, Gun Owners who refuse to compromise the ones responsible for the violent crime in the US.
Kubernetes (k8s) is a tool for running containers on a cluster with a high level of redundancy.
Consider the case where you have a website that must be up all the time. You containerize the website. This adds a gigantic level of security but still gives you great flexibility.
The site is running just like it is supposed to, and you decide it is time to upgrade. You “rollout” the next version of the software. The new software is deployed, it starts running and is fully functional. The K8S cluster then changes some internal routing, and all traffic that used to go to the old container now goes to the new container.
When all traffic to the old container is done, the old container is terminated. Total downtime, zero.
Now it does work this way, MOST of the time. There are a few complexities to this which can cause issues. Your website consists of three parts, the “assets”, the “software”, and the “database”.
Since the database is running in a different container, there is no issue on the rollout of the website.
The software is part of the container. No issues there.
The assets, though… Those live on disk. The new website container must have access to those assets.
K8S resolves this through a Storage Method. A storage method is just away for you to describe storage that exists outside the container and which persists even if the container goes away.
The reality is that the data exists on the “node” and the container must access the node storage. Some types of storage are all network and K8S has the tools to use it straight out of the box. Other storage methods are just ways of exposing the node’s file system to the container.
Consider these three methods, SAMBA, MS Shares, and NFS. All three of these methods are pure network based. You have some sort of server that serves the files over the network. K8S attaches the file systems directly to the container. Since the actual data exists back on the file server, it is possible to have multiple nodes access that data at the same time.
Now consider an iSCSI target. There is a file server that is serving that target. That target is exported as a block device. Think “hard drive”. When you attach it to a node, it is as if you had plugged a new hard drive into that node.
Once that block device is plugged in, you can do other work with it. Not as it is. You first have to format it format c: for Windows users or mkfs /dev/sda for Linux people.
This is fine. Multiple nodes can attach the same block device. If one node formats the block device, the other nodes see it as a formatted drive that can be mounted.
Unfortunately, this will lead to data corruption. Most file systems are not designed to be modified from multiple hosts at the same time. There are only a very few file systems that are capable of running across multiple nodes at the same time.
This is the issue we are currently having with Linode. We request an iSCSI block device from Linode. This is provided for use as a “persistent volume”. When a container needs access to a particular volume, it uses a persistent volume claim.
To access that volume, K8S tells the node to mount the device. The node then allows the container to mount that part of the file system. Because the file system is single use only, the PV can only be mounted on one node at a time.
To access that PV on a different node, the current node must detach the PV. The container must move to the other node, the other node must mount the PV and only then can the container access the data again.
On Monday, a node attached the PV and then died. It did not detach the PV. K8S instantly discovered that GFZ was down and started a new container on a different node. The new node asked to attach the PV. The old node was dead, so didn’t say a damn thing. For 6 hours it sat like that until we destroyed both the new and old node and got a new new node, at which point everything started working again.
This happened because Linode forced an upgrade of our K8S, and it did not go cleanly.
On Tuesday, we upgraded K8S again. This time the new nodes all came up. Unfortunately, the node which GFZ was attempting to run on refused to attach the PV. Once Linode had looked at the issue, we kicked that node hard and it all started working again.
We need to have something that provides reliable, robust, multihost access. The answer is something called “ceph”. That was my fun for the day. Learning enough about ceph to allow us to migrate to using it for our persistent volumes.
B.L.U.F.More of analysis of the horrid opinion offered by Judge Karin Immergut out in Oregon.
I’ve since learned that she spent most of her career, before becoming a district judge, working as a prosecutor for the government. She was actually a prosecutor for the ATF. OF course, she found a gun infringement constitutional.
It is pretty clear that the judge was picking and choosing experts, facts, and testimony to get the conclusion she wanted. This is clear from the following:
The EVIL gun lobby wants this, we can’t accept their testimony. How about the fact that Everytown, Brady, and a dozen other groups all pile on when there is a Second Amendment Case? Should their testimony be discounted because they have been a plaintiff in several Second Amendment challenges
? Maybe the judge should disallow Paul Clement from representing Second Amendment plaintiffs because he’s been involved with several Second Amendment challenges
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Does she really think that all these anti-gun people don’t make money from litigating? I’ve looked at some of the tax filings for some of these groups, they seem to spend significant amounts of money on the administrative and executive salaries.
What is she talking about? That most people don’t buy extra magazines for their firearms? Technically, I guess that is true. My M1 Garand came with zero enblocs. I think I have over 50 of them now. All but a few loaded. My PC-9 came with one magazine. I’ve never even loaded it. I purchased 6 Glock magazines to feed it, and then purchased a Glock with a couple of magazines.
My first AR-15 came with two magazines. One was 5 rounds and the other 10. None of the other AR-15s came with magazines. I don’t know how many magazines I currently have. I still have one 5 round mag, and one 10 round magazine. I do have a few 20 round mags, but most of my magazines are 30 rounds.
It does not matter why The People decide to purchase extra magazines or if they just use the magazine(s) that come with their guns. They have decided that ammunition feeding devices with more than 1, 5, 7, 9, 10, or 15 rounds is what they want, those purchases are protected under the Second Amendment.
The judge is incorrect in how she categorizes these anecdotal incidents. They are examples of people using their arms to actively defend themselves. They were using those arms for lawful purposes, such as self-defense, by possessing them. They prove The People chose these arms in common use today for lawful purposes.
I’m now behind the curve, here are a couple of YouTube videos that go into just how bad this opinion is.
I might come back to this, but with multiple issues with the k8s cluster resulting in a full day of ClusterFuck and then another 30 minutes of minor CF today. I have not had time to do any more wading through this swamp.
Miguel already touched on the Left’s attempt to cancel Jason Aldean for his song.
The Left is calling it racist and all of terrible names.
Let me remind you what they have done to their cities:
NEW: The Walgreens at 16th/Geary in San Francisco has chained up the freezer section ⛓️
Workers said normally shoplifters clean out all the pizza and ice cream every night. They’re usually hit 20x a day. The whole store is virtually locked up. @KPIXtv
h/t @greenbergnation pic.twitter.com/lfFWmkLWdo
— Betty Yu (@bett_yu) July 18, 2023
“It has been very, very frustrating that we as residents have to witness this chaos every single day.”
Residents & workers at Willow & Van Ness say their continued complaints about the homelessness/drug use/mayhem along Willow don’t result in any action. #SanFrancisco ?⬇️ pic.twitter.com/VA24NKQKEq
— Dion Lim (@DionLimTV) June 24, 2023
This is what happens if you park on the street in the San Francisco area. These tourists reportedly left their car for just 30 minutes. pic.twitter.com/cYG8jHhaEu
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 10, 2023
https://twitter.com/GLFOP/status/1678117408517521411?s=19
https://twitter.com/spireli/status/1680725490468790277?s=19
Homeless crowding the streets, rampant shoplifting, car burglaries, violence, public drug use, those are the things small town people don’t want in their small town that happens in big Blue Cities.
Between that and the small town, I’m taking the small town.
On the wall of the living room is a display rack. My family got it for me for my birthday. It has an American Flag motif and holds four rifles and has a small cabinet at the bottom for ammo and other accouterments.
On the bottom is a Henry Golden Boy in .22LR. Squirrel gun.
Above that is a Rossi R92 in .357 magnum. Raccoon rifle.
Above that is a Winchester ’95 in 30-30. Deer rifle.
At the top sits a Henry in 45-70. Bear rifle.
The .22lr is mostly a showpiece. It is fun to run, but it is not my go to for taking squirrels. The R92 is the rifle I’m most likely to pick up when things go bump in the night. The 30-30 is too big for small game. The 45-70 is there for when it is needed.
The 45-70 is firing +P rounds. When the first round hit the 8in steel, it knocked the plate off the chains. The 30-30 is firing cast bullets, and I’ve not had any luck with the new mold. I haven’t made the time to cast, and it is too freaking hot to do casting right now. I did source 300 Hornady FTX bullets, so I’ll be loading some rounds up shortly.
Which brings me to the dumb. I’ve been shooting cast bullets out of the R92 loaded over 5 grains of TiteGroup. Nice load. In .38 SPL, 5gr is a +p load behind a 125GR HDY XTP, which is what I loaded up over the weekend. I only shot it out of the Ruger GP100. It did what it was supposed to. Felt pleasant in the hand.
Subsequently, I went to load up some .357 magnums. I checked my notes a few times, wrote down the recipe. Double-checked here and there. Did one final check and then started loading 158gr Hornady XTP over [REDACTED] grains of Alliant 2400. Loaded 50 rounds. Went out to the range and sent 5 rounds down range.
Nice punch. Recoil was there. It even left a small ache afterward. It made the steel ring and swing. Then I cleaned everything and was getting ready to shut down for the night when it occurred to me to check another number.
Yep. The amount of 2400 for a 125 gr XTP was what I put under that 158 gr XTP.
Yeah, those rounds are hot.
I checked the primers for over pressure. There might be some signs, but nothing really stands out.
Today I decided to check the loads out in the Ruger.
Now that was a kick. It RANG the steel. When it hit the box with the spatter target on it, the box jumped. Lots of energy being transferred.
I should have stopped the first time I tried to cock the hammer and the cylinder didn’t want to rotate freely. A little help, and it rotated into position for the next shot.
After we were done, I went back in and went to dump the cylinder. The cases didn’t fall out. That’s ok. I’m told it happens. I pushed on the ejector rod. Nothing. The cases didn’t even budge a little bit.
In the end, I took to tapping the ejector rod gently until the cases ejected.
The pressure was high enough to pressure from the cases to the cylinder walls. Those rounds are not going into the revolver again. They are far too hot for that hand gun.
I’m torn. What I should do is pull every round. What I want to do is just send them down range through the R92.
Do as I say, if you make a hot load and you know it. Don’t mess around, just pull them. You can save the bullets. So what if you lose a bit of powder.
Liberals went nuts, including dear old hag Shannon Watts, so I have to do the right thing and share it here.
Because self-defense is never authorized: You must suffer the attacks without the ability to respond in kind or you are a racist/supremacist/uncaring bastard, right?
Allow me to quote Aaron Tippin: “Why don’t you kiss? kiss this And I don’t mean on my rosy red lips.”