The command in question recursively changes file ownership to account “user” and group “user” for every file and folder in the system. With linux, where many processes are run as root and on various other accounts (like apache or www-data for web server, mysql for MySql database and so on) and after that command none of the services can access the files they need to function. And as the whole system is broken on a very fundamental level changing everything back would be a huge pain in the rear.

On this ubuntu system I’m using right now I have 53 separate user accounts for various things. Some are obsolete and not in use, but majority are used for something and 15 of them are in active use for different services. Different systems have a bit different numbers, but you’d basically need to track down all the millions of files on your computer and fix each of their permission by hand. It can be done, and if you have similar system to copy privileges from you could write a script to fix most of the things, but in vast majority of cases it’s easier to just wipe the drive and reinstall.

You can’t just tell the cops “no but seriously, I’ve been practicing with an air gun in my backyard, trust me bro”.

Obviously, but you conveniently didn’t quote the part where I said you need a signed proof from a licensed weapons trainer.

But really, can you find me a single one who’d certify you without having been a part of the association? In the current climate? Seriously?

I can. Multiple even, a phone call away. But in here you just of course have to ‘trust me bro’, I’m not going to prove that just for the sake of random conversation over the internet.

Good luck getting a pistol for execution as a farmer without being a hunter. Regards, someone who was born in a village of hunters and farmers.

I know several. Coming from someone currently living in a village of hunters and farmers. Obviously many of them are hobbyist hunters as well, but you don’t get a permit for 9mm pistol for duck hunting.

I’m getting more and more doubtful that you actually have a license for any sort of firearm.

I don’t care. The law, and my very real world experience, says that you don’t need to be a part of any association or club to get a permit regardless of the weapon type, as long as you otherwise qualify to have one.

Because ranges do have weapons you can go shoot with

Some do, but that’s the main attraction on their business where they loan weapons and let you shoot with them. Vast majority of ranges however are just a place in the middle of nowhere, some even without any kind of electricity and often they go days or even weeks without anyone visiting. Most of those places don’t have any kind of winter maintenance either. So if you were forced to leave your firearm there there would be very little of stopping someone malicious visiting with heavy tools and breaking into every safe on site.

For instance, if you want to shoot moose. I’m not sure if exceptions exist, but I’m pretty sure felling permits aren’t given to individual people, but hunting parties.

If you own enough land you can apply for an permit for yourself. You’re correct that vast majority of them are granted to parties and associations, but strictly speaking you don’t have to join one.

You need to show at least two years of shooting with a firearm. Where would you get that kind of experience if you’re not practically part of an association?

By yourself. You can train with a air pistol and all you need is to prove that you’re an active hobbyist. In practice you need to have a certified weapons trainer to prove your word and some of them might not sign the certificate if you’re not a part of their association, but it’s not a strict rule nor something required by law.

We have a freedom of association and that includes freedom of not associating with anyone. I’m not a member of any kind of sport shooting clubs as there’s none around here and that’s not a problem. Sure, you need to find out a certified trainer who trusts your shooting diary, but that’s it. And ‘valid reason’ is as good an explanation as any. Your hobby is target shooting? You can apply for a license with that. Your hobby is hunting? Same thing. You’re a farmer and need a weapon in case you need to kill one of your cows/wild hogs in case it injured itself and/or is a threat to safety? Sure. And if you happened to be a farmer in the 70’s you could get a permit for semi-automatic .22lr pistol for pest control, but I don’t think that’s a valid reason anymore.

So, with that in mind, I’d be very surprised if the gun used in today’s tragedy were illegal but as the media has already covered, it was a legally licensed firearm, so there’s no point of speculating with that any further.

It’s not too hard to get a license for one, but you’d never have it at your residence, it’d be kept at the range, and even with the keys, the kid would not be able to get the gun from the range.

As far as I know there’s no range which would provide gun storages for it’s members for various reasons, most obvious being that they don’t want the liability in case something, like a break in, happens. At least outside big cities this is something that doesn’t and can’t exist. Additionally, by law, the guns must be stored at the primary residence, unless you make special arrangements otherwise, like having a safe at the range with electronic alarm systems and all the jazz or stored with a gun professional in case you intend to sell it/have it repaired/things like that.

With hunting weapons (rifles, shotguns) it’s even more obvious that they can’t be stored elsewhere, but that’s a whole another matter.

For the license you need to have a valid need for a gun of any type. So you need to prove that you’re active hobbyist (no need to join any kind of club or association, regardless of the user case) and prove that you’re mentally and physically in good enough order to own a gun. And that is a fact as I went trough the whole circus few years ago and got myself a permit.

However it could just as well be an actual gunpowder propeller firearm, it’s not impossible, and am very interested in how it was acquired if it is an actual gun.

Based on local news it was an actual handgun (as in gunpowder operated) and legally owned by “close relative” of the shooter. One of tabloid newspapers here made a guess based on a blurry photo that it might have been a .22 revolver, but no official nor confirmed information is released.

High powered gas handguns are legally in the same category than gunpowder operated ones and they’re relatively uncommon compared to .22lr or 9mm pistols, which specially older people could have purchased with relatively easily back in the day. Today the laws are stricter, but it’s still not too difficult to legally get one. They should of course be locked up so that unauthorized people can’t have access to them, but if that relative took the shooter to the range he/she might know where the keys are kept, for example.

Whatever the case might be on how the gun was obtained, I’d say that it’s more important to focus on why this individual decided to shoot classmates. There no point on speculation on what the reasoning was at this point, but if the shooter decided to hurt their classmates a common kitchen knife would’ve been enough too. Once the official investigation is complete we’ll have more information on what actually happened and speculating about “dipshit criminals” doesn’t do anything helpful nor useful at this point.

In any case this is a terrible tragedy for the whole country and there needs to be serious discussion about what the society should do and what we should change to keep our kids, shooter included, safe and in such a mental state (in a lack of better words) that they don’t end up hurting people around them.

According to my spotify wrapped I listened to about 2500 different artists. Yearly subscription is 143,88€, so if spotify took 30% and ther rest is split equally to every artist they’d get a nice 0,0578€ from me each. For your $26 that’d mean on similar math that you’d need ~450 listeners, so it’s atleast nearby the ballpark if you have 1000 streams on there.

I obviously omitted things like VAT and other taxes, payment processor fees and complexity of revenue streams in general, like how long I listened to each to keep it simple.

I’m not saying if that’s fair or not, I just did quick and rough math around the data I had easily available. All I know is that for that half a cent per artist I’m not providing anything to anyone but I receive quite a lot every day.

For more detailed info you can check spotifys own report.

Ubuntu’s is opt out not opt in

I haven’t installed ubuntu in a while, but in EU you need to have prior consent from the user to gather any kind of data and if I remember correctly I haven’t seen such thing. And it’s not enough to bury that into documentation and say ‘if you use our software you allow us to blah blah’, you must get consent via an action from the user which spesifically allows that, so if telemetry comes silently with ‘apt dist-upgrade’ it’s not enough.