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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • TLDR: Ubuntu Pro offers additional security patches to packages found in the universe repo. Universe is community maintained so Ubuntu is essentially stepping in to provide critical CVE patches to some popular software in this repo that the community has not addressed.

    I suppose it depends on how you look at it but I don’t really see this as withholding patches. Software in this repo would otherwise be missing these patches and it’s a ton of work for Ubuntu to provide these patches themselves.

    Now is they move glibc to universe and tell me to subscribe to get updates I’ll feel differently.


  • He’s actually right about this one despite the down votes. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are electric vehicles that use elective motors not engines so there are no oil changes.

    The difference is that a fuel cell vehicle captures electrons during the reaction that takes place when hydrogen is exposed to oxygen (they bond to from H2O) rather than storing energy in batteries.

    So battery electric vehicles store their energy in a battery while fuel cell electric vehicles store it in the form of hydrogen but ultimately electricity is was powers both of them.



  • They don’t know why the ozone hole is big this year but they suspect it may be related to a volcanic eruption. Article concludes that scientists expect the ozone layer to be back to normal by 2050.

    The suggestion is that this is an unusual year for the ozone layer which sees the hole expand this time every year before retracting again by December. They never suggest human behavior is damaging it again.







  • What? I never said I was trolling. I said I was offering a different perspective.

    It’s so bizarre how people are attacking me for that. You would think I said something awful.

    I did enjoy the reaction that my original comment got but only because the comment wasn’t intended to stir up controversy or invoke a strong reaction but clearly has.

    I was contributing to a conversation with a comment that I feel was quite harmless. I didn’t know free speech absolutism was such a feather rustling topic.




  • The concept of absolute freedom of speech is based on lessons learned in history and even the present. As soon as you start limiting speech you have to draw a line and nobody can agree on where that line should be. The real issue however, is that it’s ultimately government that decides.

    A government that can limit few speech gets to decide what acceptable speech is and that’s a dangerous power in the hands of the wrong people.

    There’s definitely consequences to unhinderred free speech but I think history shows us that the alternative is worse.


  • We never even warmed bottles. Some people were shocked to see us pull a bottle straight out of the fridge and give it to our daughter but I didn’t see any reason to warm them when she was perfectly happy with cold milk. I’d rather not have to worry about overheating it or having to lug around a bottle warmer when traveling.

    I do like the monitor though but it’s more of a convenience and piece of mind thing than a necessity. Being able to see her means we know if that big thud was her kicking the wall vs falling out of her crib without getting up and running into the room. We almost always keep the volume muted though, it’s a small house and we can can hear her just fine except for if we’re both outside.

    The advice I give other parents is to not buy anything but the absolute basics until you really need it because a lot of things you think you’ll need you probably don’t.