I’ve only bought ic! Berlin and Mykita the last 3 pairs of sunglasses (both are German companies). They both use these tensioned metal hinges instead of screws, which makes them hold up really well. I consider them both BIFL brands that are infinitely better than that luxotica crap.
Highly recommended!
Ooh, this is fun. Another piece of data is that we have most of what appears to be the zip code, so we can get pretty close to knowing where they are located:
Huh, interesting. It very well might be - I am on the dbzero instance, which generally does not defederate like .world or beehaw. Couldn’t tell you why .online is defederated from that community instance, although I assume there is some record of that somewhere.
Here’s Mitt Romney and Anthony Blinken’s explanation for the ban’s passage:
TLDR:
Then Romney explained that the TikTok ban overwhelmingly passed both chambers of Congress because of the widespread Palestinian advocacy on the app.
It appears to be related to fiber optics, here’s the best resource I found:
Great topic, thanks for posting!
Relevant username (Final Architecture)
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I also feel compelled to mention giving up with Peter F. Hamilton. I’ve read lots of the Commonwealth ones years ago, but struggle with the self-insert, male wish fulfillment that all of his characters seem to suffer from. I tried one last time with The Night’s Dawn trilogy, but dropped it halfway through the second book. I was mostly along for the ride with the novel spiritual elements, and I also liked the Biomechanical / Ship AI technology. But the characters were all just pretty meh and I had a hard time caring. Also, the Al Capone thing was pretty strange lol.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Waters
Legendary artist / filmmaker. His movies are not for everyone and can be tough watches at points but also hilarious and with some great characters.
I was at a tech conference recently, and the local city tech department was showing off the cameras all around the city. They were all tracking individual vehicles with computer vision, across town as the traffic moved from one camera to another.
I didn’t get a chance to ask them whether law enforcement used the data, but I’m pretty sure that’s a given.
Check out 404 media! I’m a big supporter of independent media, but there’s been a real lack of high quality, competent tech journalism for the last few years.
They launched in the last few months and I’ve been pretty impressed with their coverage so far.
Even their coverage though could be called at the intersection of current events <> technology. When I want pure tech news, I usually watch YouTube channels that specialize in related topics ( like Asionometry for silicon design or Dave2d for device reviews).
Do it! I just made the switch (using PopOS as my distro, AMD CPU, 1080ti GPU) and haven’t had much trouble with my extensive Steam collection. The biggest issue so far was Bioshock Infinite which actually runs native and I had to edit some configs for texture pools. SteamVR / Index has been a little unstable but seems to generally work (I don’t use it enough to be sure if it’s Linux or my hardware getting old).
SteamDB has been a excellent resource for checking compatibility and game specific tweaks.
Heads up - potentially NSFL image at top:
I’ve heard of Boom Aerospace from the US, which is a little further along in their development process, although they are only super sonic.
Same for me, running for a few months and all my steam games work great. I had to install some extra software to run my Logitech mouse and get the scroll wheel to be more sensitive. Otherwise though it’s been a great experience so far.
Although I’m an IT professional, I really don’t want extra work when I’m sitting down to game. So POP! has been great overall for my use case, with the bonus of Linux for any coding projects I tackle otherwise.
First time I heard of this, super neat, thanks for sharing. Found a good article here:
Looks exactly like the British soldier demon dude from Netflix’s Locke & Key.
/r/subreddit_simulator, IIRC