Ich habe derzeit 6 Brillen.
Meine alte, leicht angeschlagene #Brille, die ich als Fernbrille benutzt habe.
Eine sündhaft teure #Gleitsichtbrille, die ich einfach nicht benutzen kann, weil das scharfe Sichtfeld so klein ist, dass sie praktisch unbenutzbar ist.
3 Billiglesebrillen unterschiedlicher Stärken.
Und schlußendlich eine Billigbrille von Fielmann (18 €), deren Werte ich selbst bestimmt habe.
Diese Brille ist aktuell diejenige, die ich zu 90% trage, da sie praktisch alles abdeckt.
Ich trauere ein wenig den fast 1000 € hinterher, die ich für die Gleitsichtbrille ausgegeben habe, und die praktisch nutzlos ist.
Andererseits werde ich in Zukunft nur noch zum Augenarzt gehen, dort meine Werte bestimmen lassen und mir auf dieser Basis die Brille selbst zusammenstellen. Das spart über die Zeit das verschwendete Geld wieder ein.
Die Lektion habe ich schmerzhaft gelernt.
'Is this still your story, Reader?'
#DeZinVanHetBoek #TheEssenceOfTheBook
#BoekPerWeek 7/52 ★★★☆☆
My review:
goodreads.com/review/show/7229…
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#Lezen #Read
#Schrijven #Writing
#Literatuur #Literature
Fifi's review of If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
3/5: 'Is this still you story, Reader?' *) #DeZinVanHetBoek #TheEssenceOfTheBook This is a frame story with a twist. Two readers want to read a book that turns out to be incomplete due to printing errors.www.goodreads.com
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With a character, Inerio, who claims he's learnt *not to* read. Which would be even more of an enviable skill in our present world than it was in 1979.
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Exactly! And who then makes art out of books, by glueing them together. So no one else can read those either! 🤷♀️
The photo on the cover certainly is fitting. Or, it would have been if it had been 10 books, or 11 really 😀
@boeken @bookstodon
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From: blenderdumbass . org
We all love some mayhem when it comes to playing games. And nothing makes car games more satisfying than damage models. RockStar Games understood it early on, and all GTA games have breakable cars. Today some of the most popular car games like BeamNG.drive holding on a realism of damage mod...
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#DanisRace #MoriasRace #Game #Gamedev #UPBGE #blender3d #animation #GTAClone #programming #project #cars #damage #Gnu #Linux #Freesoftware #OpenSource
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The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a total disaster
The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a total disasterhttps://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/work-life/the-microsoft-365-copilot-launch-was-a-total-disaster/BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Every Sunday I share an Open Source Tool from the Cloud Native Ecosystem. Today: Helmsman.
Helmsman is a Helm Charts (k8s applications) as Code tool which allows you to automate the deployment/management of your Helm charts from version controlled code: github.com/Praqma/helmsman
#kubernetes #openshift #helm #gitops #cloudnative #opensource #OpenSourceSunday
GitHub - Praqma/helmsman: Helm Charts as Code
Helm Charts as Code. Contribute to Praqma/helmsman development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Mr. Rescue - пожарная игра в аркадном стиле | LinuxMaster Club
Mr. Rescue - аркадная 2D игра, сосредоточенную вокруг эвакуации гражданских лиц из горящих зданий. Бесплатная и с открытым исходным кодом играtroe (LinuxMaster Club)
The Open Source License Rug Pull and More at State of Open Con 25 - The New Stack
The third annual State of Open Conference (SOOCon25) will cover open source software, open hardware, open data and open standards.Alex Williams (The New Stack)
Diamond prices have dropped a bunch since synthetic diamonds came to the market.
The price of natural diamond decreased 26% since 2022, while the price for synthetic diamonds dropped 74% since 2020.
The less natural diamonds are worth, the less demand there will be for mining them.
theguardian.com/business/2025/…
Diamonds lose their sparkle as prices come crashing down
Lab-grown rocks and fewer weddings have put a huge damper on the market. On the bright side, a big dazzler is now affordable for manyJames Tapper (The Guardian)
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There are so many stones with the hardness of diamond that are just as pretty. The notion that some artificially scarce rock is somehow essential to expressing our love for each other is utter shit.
Are diamonds lovely? Sure, and so what? So are a lot of others. They would be even more lovely if they didn't come at the cost of conflicts, smuggling, sanctions evasion and brainwashing PR campaigns. Frankly, all of the latter make them more ugly to me than a stone "worth" 1/10th the cost. It's a racket.
Check out this Atlantic article from 1982 (!).
theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
The entire thing is worth reading, though this was especially eye opening:
Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?
An unruly market may undo the work of a giant cartel and of an inspired, decades-long ad campaignEdward Jay Epstein (The Atlantic)
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I've finished: To Be Taught If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
This is not one of Becky Chambers hopeful stories.
It is an exercise in ethical space exploration.
It has relationships, cool aliens, and an attempt to do the right thing in a harsh universe.
It is good, but don't come to it expecting her famous cozy tales.
app.thestorygraph.com/books/a6…
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To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
A stand-alone science fiction novella from the award-winning, bestselling, critically-acclaimed a...app.thestorygraph.com
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It might not be cozy, but it's a story you read with your heart, I feel. I really felt engaged with the characters and cried and felt their pain quite distinctly when they suffered.
I like it a lot.
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Law School Now Requires Students To Get Artificial Intelligence Certification
Law School Now Requires Students To Get Artificial Intelligence Certificationhttps://abovethelaw.com/2025/01/law-school-now-requires-students-to-get-artificial-intelligence-certification/BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
26 January 1915 | A Polish woman, Maria Sajkówna, was born in Cracow.
In #Auschwitz from 19 January 1943.
No. 29935
She perished in the camp on 1 March 1943.
Sooooo... what is everyone thinking about Flohmarkt ? codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmar…
The notion of a federated, decentralized flea market / classifieds / Craigslist type network seems quite appealing to me, but maybe I'm being naive?
(PS: "Flohmarkt" is the German word for flea market, of course.)
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all Christians support her. every single follower of Christ agrees with her message.
there are terrorists who hate her and want her "deported" and worse. those are not Christians or athiests. their religion is hatred, and the word for them is terrorists. use it.
lil correction for the poster there.
@falcennial well, they call themselves christian. I'd say the message is to look at the meaning of what people say, not what they call it.
I can imagine christians getting upset about this message, but that's a 'not all men' situation. A lot of people who call themselves christian, do act like this. Not all christians are safe for the people in fear of their lives. So someone's self-proclaimed faith does not reflect on their character. Which is something you cannot blame the victims for. Nor the atheists.
@mees
first principles stuff:
only fascists do fascism.
all fascists are terrorists.
either term works. but calling them "Christian" is a lie. you should be careful not to repeat -- and therefore promote -- their lies, unless you support them.
Jusqu'où iriez-vous pour protéger vos enfants ? Êtes-vous prêts à défier l'État ?
Il l'a fait. Il est allé en prison. Il est de retour, et il n'est pas content.
Lui, c'est la corneille Y001 !
En 2017, le service de sécurité d'un bâtiment du ministère de l'Économie et des Finances situé dans le 13e arrondissement contacte Frédéric, le bagueur de Corneilles Paris : une corneille attaque des fonctionnaires matin, midi et soir. Sur place, Frédéric comprend vite pourquoi : un nid se trouve dans un arbre en face de l'entrée de bureaux.
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Frédéric décide alors de capturer la corneille, à l'aide d'un netgun. C'est une sorte de grosse lampe torche qui projette par air comprimé un filet lesté, utilisé pour capturer des petites animaux ou des drones. Appâtée à l'aide de morceaux de pain, puis d'un délicieux œuf cassé sur le trottoir, la corneille se fait avoir.
L'idée de Frédéric, c'est que ces oiseaux particulièrement agressifs ont été élevés par l'homme et ont perdu leur appréhension naturelle. Ici, cette corneille, un mâle, défend très agressivement son nid alors que sa femelle couve : les corneillons ne sont même pas encore nés. Qu'est-ce que ça va être quand ils déambuleront au sol ?
Frédéric bague donc cette corneille pour qu'on le reconnaisse par la suite : ce sera Y001, la seule corneille baguée en jaune de tout Paris. Il la place en garde à vue pendant 4 jours dans une cage au Jardin des plantes.
Libérée (délivrée), Y001 retourne immédiatement protéger son nid, mais il n'intimidera plus les humains. Pourtant, sa femelle continue de nicher dans la même rue, face au bâtiment de l'Économie et des Finances.
Démago anti-fisc ? Anarchiste ? Simple père modèle ? Qu'en pense Y001 ? « J'aimerais être joué par Liam Neeson, mais vite car il se fait vieux. »
Såg denna fascinerande film ikväll om hur det gick till när man hittade Richard III:s kvarlevor under en parkeringsplats i Leicester för några år sedan. Denna söndag är sista dagen den ligger uppe på SVT Play.
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The Lost King
Ett verklighetsbaserat drama om amatörhistorikern Philippa Langley som trots omvärldens skepsis inleder en sökning efter kung Rikard III:s försvunna grav.SVT Play
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