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In the rural UK area where I live farmers will often be happy to have you shoot them with an airgun, if you seek permission. Nice (if stewed) cheap meat.


Farmers in England and Wales have a legal obligation to remove rabbits. You are doing them a favor by volunteering to do so.


No they don't, legal citation needed if you are going to claim this.


https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/2-3/68

> (2)The occupier of any land in a rabbit clearance area shall take such steps as may from time to time be necessary for the killing or taking of wild rabbits living on or resorting to the land

IIRC all of England and Wales is designated a Rabbit Clearance Area.


Yes, they absolutely do. Since 1954's pests act.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/rabbits-how-to-control-numbers


Goodness, I don't imagine a regular airgun is humane for rabbits? The FAC limit is 12ftlb?

We used to use a tight .410 which I think humanely dispatched them but I think an air gun would be much better for the meat.


You have to shoot them in the head, just aft of the eyes. About a 1 inch diameter target. That always kills them.

But if you miss, either by poor shooting or because they bob their head just as you shoot, then they often run off and you never find them. I reckon I get >> 90% kill rate, but that still means a few get away and suffer from the wound.


You can also use blunted arrows to knock them out. Don't know about the humane aspect.


Don't think bow and arrow hunting is legal in any way in the UK.


Really. Didn’t think that still stood, re: kings’s deer, a shame. Bows miss more than rifles.


Isnt that a bit slow for these?


I wish HN could auto-tag comments from bots.


I think there must be such a thing as design dyslexia because they all look fine to me shrug


I am about to release a streaming Internet radio app (Pentode) and I thought it was cool to be able to listen to FM stations far away - but when I read this I realise what really WAS cool.

Edit: downvoted comment??


I can imagine you’d be embarrassed, I did stupid stuff too, but unless you’re running for Congress you should just say “I was a stupid teenager” and let it wash. Anyone fair minded will dismiss it.


The current social zeitgeist is that one is permanently responsible for everything they ever said, even has a child. All nuance is gone. People are looking for a reason to make someone the enemy, and if you're the enemy, violence is acceptable now. I wish it weren't like this, but it is, so I can understand why people want to stay out of the crosshairs.


Love the John Politics page, utterly slick completely bland and phoney. Assume it’s a meme i missed, love it.



Mine already covers all of that, based on what Codex says…


I already had DeepSeek tell me "I cant help you with torrents or other copyright infringing uses".


You can get around the checks with careful prompting. You’re just interested and want to learn more about it.


All I did was create a wrapper script to pipe to the torrent client, then "pipe these torrent files to the script" - so easy to circumvent you wonder why they bother


weird, when I ran ds4flash it didn't complain about it at all.


As someone with coding projects in the is area would you care to elaborate on "a lot of learned lessons"?


Things like when to cancel early, how to handle par2, obfuscation, rars within rars, decoding articles. Just a mountain of "huh, didn't think of that being a complex problem" that was resolved over time.

I was able to replace the arr suite + sabnzbd with my own rust+ts frankenstein but had I known how complex the usenet piece was going to be I would have separated it into two phases.


sabnzbd is basically packaged decades of domain specific knowledge about deobfuscating media files


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