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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




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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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?
in reply to pewpew

Has it added repos that are conflicting with your distro's main ones?

Check /etc/apt/sources.list and all the files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

Move anything that looks sus to somewhere else and then "apt-get clean" and retry.


in reply to Quilotoa

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.

in reply to sbv

Yep, creates smart and experienced sounders of boars. US states that are using testing and 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.


in reply to Quilotoa

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.

in reply to Quilotoa

Unwittingly "L3Harris" though supports an Oppressive Authoritarian American government and the ongoing genocide committed by Israel.
All for no gain in Canada since it will never materialize.



New haptic display technology creates 3D graphics you can see and feel




Charlie Kirk, Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV: Wikipedia’s most-read articles of 2025


Year in Review.

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.





in reply to Qwarny

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?




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".


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.

fiske.zaramis.se/2025/12/07/kr…