European Commission offers access to bloc’s subsidies for manufacturing in partner countries with trade agreements.

Paywall? https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.ft.com/content/bfe77726-ba7b-4e18-ae5f-4dbc7464c770

Broad opposition to controversial freedom of information (FOI) law reforms that would have made accessing documents harder has forced Labor to back down.

Crossposted from https://lemmy.ca/post/61333568

Fewer than half of young Australians believe democracy is always preferable to other forms of government, as trust in institutions wanes, new research has found.

The NSW government will back reforms that allow driving exemptions for medical cannabis patients, with Premier Chris Minns telling budget estimates on Thursday his government would be investigating new roadside drug testing rules for those impacted.

After Sammirr's great post on their bee hotel, here's some easy instructions on how to build bee accommodation. There's lots of videos on YouTube so you can get different ideas and become better informed. Some bee hotels, using bamboo stalks, are a fun project to do with children. https://www.aussiebee.com.au/bee-hotel-building-tips.html

Australia has close to two thousand species of bee. Some form hives but many are solitary. Some nest in a wall. Some nest in the ground.

Six years into her role as a village head, 29-year-old Zhang Guifang has transformed her struggling home village. She has built basketball courts, cinemas, live-streamed sales of local produce, and recently held a village gala. CGTN's Xu Yanwen spoke to her about China's new generation of village heads and about daily life in rural China.

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/60202068

Speaking to Bloomberg News at MWC Barcelona, Ekholm compared Europe’s sluggish move to 5G unfavourably to China

“China has already built out a 5G standalone network,” he said.

“Europe has elected to be a museum,” he added. “That’s a choice European citizens have to live with.”

Speaking to Bloomberg News at MWC Barcelona, Ekholm compared Europe’s sluggish move to 5G unfavourably to China

“China has already built out a 5G standalone network,” he said.

“Europe has elected to be a museum,” he added. “That’s a choice European citizens have to live with.”

Statistics for Strava is a self-hosted, open-source dashboard for your Strava data.

Features and improvements worth mentioning since we lasted posted here:

• Dark mode
• Added a timeline view of your key achievements and milestones over time.
• Added statistics for recording devices, giving you more insight into which devices you use for your activities
• You can now view Eddington metrics in both metric and imperial units, regardless of your default unit system
• Use compression algorithms to store data. This results in a 70% drop in used storage space
• A lot of bug fixes and quality of life improvements

As always, thanks for your feedback and I'm looking forward to more feature requests! Stay fit, stay healthy 💪

• Example: https://statistics-for-strava.robiningelbrecht.be/dashboard
• GitHub: https://github.com/robiningelbrecht/strava-statistics
• Docs: https://statistics-for-strava-docs.robiningelbrecht.be/#/--

Punch, a baby macaque that stole the hearts of animal lovers around the world, is outgrowing his Ikea djungelskog plushie that comforted him after he was initially rejected by his mother and other monkeys at a zoo in Japan.

Images of the seven-month-old dragging around a toy bigger than him drew attention to the residents of Ichikawa city zoo near Tokyo. When other monkeys shooed the baby away, Punch rushed back to the toy orangutan, hugging it for comfort.

But he has been using the toy less and has even started to mix with other macaques at the zoo, where visitors have been flocking to see him get through his ordeal. On a recent day, Punch was seen climbing on the back of another monkey, sitting with adults and sometimes getting groomed or hugged.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said that he could not rule out his country’s military participation in the escalating war in the Middle East, after earlier saying that the US-Israeli strikes on Iran were “inconsistent with international law”.

Speaking alongside Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Canberra on Thursday, Carney was asked whether there was a situation in which Canada would get involved.

“One can never categorically rule out participation,” Carney said, noting the question was “hypothetical”.

“We will stand by our allies,” he said, adding that “we will always defend Canadians”.

When Bulwal Bilima (BB for short) first arrived at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, she, or possibly he, was lethargic, badly constipated and dehydrated. Named “strong turtle” in the Aboriginal Dhurga language of the Yuin people on whose land it was found, the tiny 110g loggerhead hatchling, no bigger than a bar of soap, had a fight on its hands.

The baby turtle was found stranded in New South Wales’s Booderee national park last April, much further south than the usual hatching grounds. After days of feeding on squid, sardines and marine vitamins, BB, whose sex cannot be determined until it is fully mature, revived.

Through winter, BB remained in heated rehabilitation pools to thermoregulate while offshore waters remained too cold. Then last month, it was finally fitted with a satellite tracker and released from Lord Howe Island, about 700km north-east of Sydney.

The East Australian Current is strengthening and pushing warmer waters further south. Marine species once largely confined to Queensland, including endangered loggerhead turtles, are now turning up much further south in New South Wales – in places they have rarely been recorded before.

Honey, I Shrunk The Vids is an overengineered oversimplified system-agnostic frontend for FFMPEG. Built with assistance from Claude, but don't let that stop you reading - I'll explain why.

Predendum 6/MAR/26: Yes, I’m using genAI - specifically Claude - to help me build and improve this application. But, I believe I’m using genAI differently than the majority of projects. For one thing, I’m not blindly copy-pasting output and crossing my fingers that it works. I read the output, looking for things I know are wrong, and try to fix it; if I can’t, I ask what I’m doing wrong, and then I fix it. When I encounter errors, I’m reading the error output and if I know how to fix it I do it myself. I’m trying to actually learn, but I do that best by diving in and fixing the mistakes I make. I test informally* on the hardware I have available, which is two Windows PCs, and sometimes my friend with a 2016 Mac will do a test run for me to confirm stuff works. (*by "informally", I mean I don't write test cases. I know how, but they're repetitive and I hate them and I'm not doing it for my personal projects or I'll end up hating my hobbies.)

My goal in posting my projects is not to have other people audit my code for me, nor do I want kudos or approbation (except for any jokes you see. Those are all me). I’m posting what I’ve got when I’ve got it largely working, in case other people find it useful, and that’s it. I do hope that if people see something I could refactor or conventions I should be adhering to, they’ll drop me a (civil) note about it so I can keep it mind. I appreciate feedback and advice, but I’m not expecting it.

Thanks for reading, I hope you find HISTV useful!

This is a followup to a post I made yesterday, about a silly little Windows application I'd made for batch transcoding files. I wanted something that I could just dump my files onto without having to muck about with Handbrake or Tdarr - post here, for those curious: https://piefed.ca/c/selfhosted/p/568748/honey-i-shrunk-the-vids-a-windows-transcoding-frontend-for-ffmpeg

So I spent today making my silly little Windows application a silly little platform-agnostic application. I rewrote the whole thing in Rust and JavaScript with a webview frontend, and apparently Github lets you compile binaries for quite the range of target platforms, so I have compiled binaries available for Windows, Linux, and Mac (Intel/Apple Silicon). It's got a dark theme because of course and a light theme because I guess, also it's themeable because why the hell not. I'm pretty pleased with how it's coming along - if anyone decides to give it a go, please let me know if you find issues!

screenshots

Compiled binaries can be downloaded at https://github.com/obelisk-complex/histv-universal/releases

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/56303965

Apparently there was no reason to attack Iran.

They're sending Sandra, Pamela, Tina and Rita

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/30285427

My small bee hotel established in 2021 has been a hit with the local population, usually fully occupied. I see many different native resin, leaf cutter and a few carpenter bees around. Lately, I've been seeing more of these bees or wasps show up. I'm having a great deal of trouble identifying them. Can anyone help me? It has a distinctive round abdomen, single pale yellow ring, and a tail coming out of the torso.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7714393

Popular cultivar with lovely creamy pink and yellow inflorescence. Adored by honey eaters*. Yim yum

*Honeyeaters are a group of birds

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International News Article

A Marine Corps veteran suffered a broken arm as he was dragged out of a hearing in the US Capitol by police and a senator.

Brian McGinnis called out during a Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing in protest of the US attack on Iran.

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Three Capitol Police officers grabbed McGinnis and attempted to drag him out of the room.

The officers were joined by Senator Tim Sheehy, who joined them in trying to pull him away.

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McGinnis, a Greens Party candidate for a Senate seat in North Carolina, has been charged with resisting arrest and three counts of assaulting a police officer.