What Trade War? China’s Export Juggernaut Marches On
China’s Global Exports Continue to Grow Despite Trump Tariffs
As Trump has imposed steep tariffs on China, American importers are buying much less. But China has offset the decline from the United States with breathtaking speed.Agnes Chang (The New York Times)
Custom domain names are cool
social.coop/@afewbugs/11567402…
One of my favourite Mastodon things is you have people with account names like CapitalismMustFall@SmashThe.System posting about gardening and baking biscuits and people with names like ANiceCupOfTea@Friendly.Cafe cutting the power lines to arms factories
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Friend
What makes a friend a friend?
Is it the time that you spend?
Is it the depth of the connection?
Is it the common interests?
Is it the amount of time after you first met?
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Bridgy Fed is a bridge between decentralized social networks like the fediverse, Bluesky, and web sites and blogs.fed.brid.gy
Is my apt bugged?
I've been trying the COSMIC store and it looks like it killed my apt somehow.
Apt says that there is a version mismatch between some libc6 packages, but I checked with dpkg and it all looks correct.
Apt says that I've a newer version of some packages but that is not true.
Is there any way to fix this?
EDIT: Fixed formatting
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I've been using Debian Unstable for about one year since I wanted Plasma 6 so bad. Even after Trixie came out I didn't switch back to Stable because it runs good and gets frequent updates.
The experience was actually quite smooth, better than what my friend has with Kubuntu, which for every distro update has a 50% chance of breaking
Banning hunting a species the province is trying to eradicate might sound counterintuitive, but Brook said there has been no evidence that sport hunting has lowered wild boar populations. That's partially because the animals reproduce relatively frequently and have large numbers of offspring, averaging two litters of six piglets per year, he said."Unfortunately, not only does hunting not eliminate them fast enough ... it also breaks up groups and spreads them around the landscape, because very rarely will hunters actually remove a whole population," Brook said.
Huh. TIL.
Yep, creates smart and experienced sounders of boars. US states that are using testing efficacious methods are having great success with eradication efforts.
They have banned hunting and set up zones of populations. They target these zones independently. The efforts primarily focus on two methods of reduction:
camera operated spring traps that capture an entire sounder.
Helicopter sharp shooters who coordinate with drone pilots who have infrared cameras to spot sounders.
The key is taking out each and every boar in a sounder.
Source: Master Naturalist involved in eradication efforts.
As someone with a farm in the middle of the worst infestation area in N. Alberta, hunting can control them, but it has to be very, very intense. We killed about 300 of them over 4 years and haven't seen a pig or pig sign in almost 3 years now, by hunting down sounders to the piglet, and doing it quickly before they could spread out.
But the same goes for trapping. We had the province "trapping" but they never really wiped out sounders entirely and it never improved the areas that were being trapped. When they brought a different group in that did it properly, they made a difference.
A bunch of weekend warriors out plinking for them does not accomplish anything.
It's a similar concept with coyotes. If you leave them alone the population stabilizes, if you hunt them they spread out and reproduce like mad and you end up with more coyotes. Unless you methodically take out every coyote in an area it's better to leave them alone then to hunt them if you want to keep the population down.
Boars are a different problem though, since they are so destructive. Definitely need a solution to clearing the area of wild ones.
Even if this happened, you cannot count on it. Trump or someone like him will take them back.
If you build and service Gripens in Canada, you can count on those jobs.
All for no gain in Canada since it will never materialize.
New haptic display technology creates 3D graphics you can see and feel
New haptic display technology creates 3D graphics you can see and feel
This technology could one day enable high-definition visual-haptic touch screens for automobiles, mobile computing or intelligent architectural walls.The Current
Charlie Kirk, Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV: Wikipedia’s most-read articles of 2025
Including two popes, the Prince of Darkness, and MrBeast.Wikipedia will mark its 25th anniversary on January 15, 2026. No one could have predicted 25 years ago that Wikipedia would grow into the backbone of knowledge on the internet it is today—powering search engines, voice assistants, and generative AI tools.
Today, nearly 250,000 volunteers generously give their time and energy to update Wikipedia, add citations, build consensus, and more. They keep knowledge human. In 2025, people spent an estimated 2.4 billion hours reading English Wikipedia articles, according to data from the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia and other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. The top 20 most-read English Wikipedia articles of 2025 outlined below focus on politics, popular culture, and loss.
Announcing Wikipedia's most-read articles of 2025 – Wikimedia Foundation
New Wikipedia data shows the events, people, movies, and more that captured global attention in 2025.Wikimedia Foundation
Judge hints Vizio TV buyers may have rights to source code licensed under GPL— Tentative ruling signals a potential win for SFC’s copyleft enforcement push
Judge hints Vizio TV buyers may have rights to source code licensed under GPL
: Tentative ruling signals a potential win for SFC’s copyleft enforcement pushThomas Claburn (The Register)
Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image
Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image
Rail services were cancelled after a 'hoax' picture of a damaged bridge appeared on social mediaZoe Toase (BBC News)
controversial amendment that would remove a religious exemption for hate speech from the Criminal Code.
How is that controversial?
Leader Pierre Poilievre posted on social media that the change would "criminalize sections of the Bible, Qur'an, Torah and other sacred texts."
Again, how is that a bad thing?
Again, how is that a bad thing?
Whole ass or no ass. Don't use undefined sections.
She doesn't seem to be a nice person anyway.
Smart light bulb suggestions
I'm completely out of the smart lights loop and I'm looking for light bulbs that allow me to set brightness, color temperature and possibly the color in general using HA.
I see a lot of people recommending zigbee bulbs, which is fine, I just need to buy a dongle, but I already have an isolated wifi network with no internet access that I use to control smart stuff from my home server, so something with wifi would be ideal. I want something that I can just screw in and control from my server with no proprietary apps needed for the initial configuration.
Can you give me some recommendations?
Thanks
Apparent coup attempt in Benin, govt claims army has situation 'under control'
cross-posted from: lemmy.eco.br/post/18878447
A group of soldiers on Sunday appeared on Benin's state television claiming to have removed President Patrice Talon from office and dissolved all state institutions. Talon's office, meanwhile, said that loyalist forces had managed to get the situation "under control".
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EU, Norge och Storbritannien har nått en överenskommelse om fiskekvoterna för de fiskbestånd de gemensamt förvaltar i Nordsjön och Skagerak. Det gäller även torskbestånden, där en 44 procent mindre kvot än år 2025 överenskommits.
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Kraftigt minskad torskkvot i Skagerak och Nordsjön - Svenssons Nyheter - Njord
Kraftigt minskad torskkvot i Skagerak och Nordsjön. EU, Norge och Storbritannien har nått en överenskommelse om fiskekvoterna för deAnders Svensson (Svenssons Nyheter - Njord)
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