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Not a criticism of the article / documents but an observation that aligns with others comments. For new users it is probably not going to be an issue to select a different window manager / desktop experience.

Boot Arch ISO

Run archinstall

select desktop / window manager you wish to install

No requirement to manually setup X or Wayland, as the scripts / install will take care of it for you. I also understand that this is not 100% in the ethos of using Arch (where you should really understand all the packages going into your system and how all the configuration is done).

I would also include that the following is also a good resource for learning Arch. https://arcolinux.com/ (although is is a derivative of Arch this site has alot of documentation that users can learn from)

Just to add, some martial arts groups use Aluminum training blades to train with They are used to get users mentally prepared to be hit with a blade....being hit with a blunt metal blade hurts, but its ultimately better than being hit by a sharp steel one and gets you used to the mentality that you will be hit so how do you make it so it is less painful (or life threatening when you do get hit for real)

https://takknife.com/collections/keen-edge-aluminum-training...

Just to clarify, the money has already been deposited to a holding account awaiting this ruling. So Apple will not be paying over any money, they will not be getting the money refunded to them.

1) They basically said "we expect you to change your employment terms, hours of work and duration of work etc. Do you accept?" without communicating what would it entail, if there would be additional payments for extra work etc. 2) If the contract is not renegotiated it defaults to the previously agreed contract. One party cannot solely renegotiate it, as with any contract there must be 2 parties in agreement. 3) They gave 24 hours to respond or you automatically "resigned". This is a forced resignation, for it to be lawful it would need to have been tendered / given by the employee. It was also stated by the court that 24 hours notice is not enough time for any reasonable person to digest the information and give an informed response. 4) 3 days later he received an email stating they accepted his resignation but they would not engage with him or his legal advisors in those 3 days or after November 19th.

I also like Alex Steele, Colin Furze (back catalog more about making, new stuff on an underground passage / garage).

Im not sure if Ben Heck (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgeStlUnitobx8QcSxTw2aQ) is doing much lately but his back catalog is pretty good (one handed xbox controller, small electronic projects).

Diesel Brothers for trucks / snow mobiles.

The original ruling was that Ireland did not give state aid to Apple, that any multinational could have applied the same rules. This was not accepted by the Commission, they asked for a higher court to rule.

After several years it has now been suggested that the higher court puts aside its judgement and that it goes back to the lower court, because apparently (according to the Advocate General) the lower court did not take into account several factors and had errors in its judgement (relating to Intellectual property rights, where tax should be paid e.g. in the country of sales or in the country of registration). Which seems to make it once again an issue on tax and not on sweetheart deals.

The governments stance is that any company could have applied the same tax rules if they wished, so it was not state aid. As a side note, the "irish double sandwich" rules have changed since this

not seeing this error message when I access the Chrome Plugins page for Bitwarden and it is working fine for me in Chrome. If you have recently updated you may need to restart (maybe will need you to kill tasks in task manager)

Why starlink and not National Broadband Ireland fibre connectivity?

Just a clarification. If they were in the role for less than 2 years there is no legal reason to provide a redundancy package (statutory redundancy). The fact that employees are getting a payment even if they were there less than 2 years should show that Stripe are not "clawing back" contributions but that the refund is due to a stadard mechanism within the pension scheme.

https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employment/unemploymen...

Correct, most pensions in Ireland (these days) are defined contribution. Even within the civil service / government roles it is becoming extremely rare to see defined benefit schemes.

Its not a claw back per-se. Under the Irish pensions laws an employee does not have the right to retain the employers contributions to a pension if they leave the position with the company within the first 2 years of contributions to the pension (does not mean 2 years of service. If you have a 6 month probation for example, the employer will not contribute for that time. The period is 2 years from the first employers contribution). Any employee contribution is fully retained by the employee. In this case, because they are being made redundant, the employers share of the pension is refunded (through no fault of the employee).

The change specifies that all new builds have the capability to connect to Gigabit broadband but does not mean that all new builds will have access to these speeds (just because the houses have the capability it does not mandate the service providers will have to deliver these speeds).

Why, are you implying American companies will only operate in Europe if they can break the law??? They sent an email, she didn't respond and they stated that because she didn't respond she automatically made herself redundant....In Ireland you cannot default to "you mad yourself redundant because you didn't reply", there was no agreement to change her terms and conditions (redundancy in Ireland is a legal agreement, if its not voluntary than they could not fill the same role, even with a different title, with someone else for several years).

Im a dev that moved to devops and use a VM for dev work (or spin up a machine in Cloud). All code is in repos stored on Github, Gitlab etc. I also have a repo that contains scripts that will build the VM using Packer & SaltStack, and a text file (that is stored on usb's) to say how to add packer and any other base tools needed for the VM (saltstack scripts can be used a the cloud machine)

He didnt have permission up until recently. He had said that to submit a request for planning he needed more detailed diagrams (more detailed than the "napkin" diagram he showed previously). He argued that by building some of the tunnel it allowed him to add the detail for the thickness of the concrete, depth of the tunnel etc that were design decisions he made while actually building it.

I live in Ireland and I can agree with some of the information / points the article raises. There has been a large increase in the number of data-centres in Ireland over a short period of time, and the electric supply has not expanded as quickly (in fact there has been issues in the recent past where there were several generators shut down for maintenance and there was a risk to supply, nothing to do with requirement from data-centres)....therefore there is an issue with supply vs demand.

The article states that there has been a massive increase in the demands for electricity from data-centres in the last 6 years, but fails to identify the growth in IT as a whole with that period. Another fact that also seems to be missed (intentionally or not) is that due to restrictions over the last 2 years, as a consequence of COVID, the majority of businesses in Ireland were forced to move to a "working from home" methodology instead of having everyone in the office (the offices are only now beginning to transition back to having people in the office space). As a result all these companies suddenly had a requirement for Zoom / Microsoft Teams etc to facilitate workers being remote but to also function as close as possible to "business as usual". These demands meant that in the last 2 years alone there has been a massive requirement for additional data-centres and IT infrastructure. In my mind there has been issues with supply for a prolonged period, with parts of the delivery infrastructure not being fit for purpose / requiring upgrade, these issues have just been exacerbated by the rapid incline of TECH in Ireland over a short period.

Caveat: At the time of adding this comment there are 2 points for "12 Programming Languages" and 3 for "Data Science Starter", so they are the preferred options at present.

For the 12 languages if you are looking to create some revenue from this it could be seen as direct competition to "7 languages in 7 weeks" (https://pragprog.com/titles/btlang/seven-languages-in-seven-...). So you may need to expand on what your book would provide that extends / adds to the work done in this previous book (other than comparing 12 languages instead of 7).

This is a "normal" external keyboard, there are numerous different types / sizes of external keyboard.

The stand allows using the external keyboard in the same physical location / orientation as the one built in to the laptop (making it easier / healthier for someone with RSI instead of using a smaller laptop keyboard or creating strain because the external keyboard is in a different location / orientation to the "standard" keyboard)

The definition of PII can be a bit grey, some have deemed that IP addresses of the service provider, although not identifiable to a specific customer, can also be seen as PII as they can all people to be identified within a small group of users (where the IP does not resolve to a specific user). Even companies within the EU are being told that they need to be cautious how and when they collect data, and how it needs to be stored in a secure way.

Also can be useful for keeping track of these rulings

https://noyb.eu/en/statement-max-schrems-schrems-ii-annivers...

Nyob is one of the roups raising these issues with the EU data protections groups

Just to clarify, it is not just a preference, it is a legal requirement to store data of all EU citizens according to the GDPR.

https://gdpr.eu/what-is-gdpr/#:~:text=The%20regulation%20was....

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/18/fines-for-breaches-of-eu-gdp...

https://www.enforcementtracker.com/

It has also been ruled recently that pop-ups asking EU users to opt-in or opt-out of data sharing, where cookies etc can pass their data to the U.S., are also outside the GDPR.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/martyswant/2022/02/02/europes-n...

https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-court-of-justice-of-t...

There were updates by Meta, Google etc based on recent ruling to update their terms and to change where & how they were storing data. The recent rulings could have major impact on Google Analyitics etc

I would think that it will be benchmarked and compared against the same role/roles in other Europen countries (taking in to account cost of living etc).

So as an example Junior Software Engineer / Developer in one European country may be 35-45k salary but could be 30k-40k elsewhere (where property prices / food prices etc are lower).

This would also may it easier for job applicants to know what the expected pay scale is before interviewing (in my experience recruiters often contact people with roles that would be below their salary expectation e.g. software developer with 10 years experience being sent a role with a salary scale equivalent to a recent graduate)

Some DevOps engineers code, some dont and it can depend on the organisation / tasks they are involved in. Some DevOps engineers will code extentions to some of the tools they use, to cover off tasks that may be unique to their orgainisation. One example could be writing Python modules for Ansible or SaltStack to be used n the configuration of their internal servers and platforms. Some may need to code applications to act as in an interface between existing Off-the-shelf applications (e.g. get the build server to update ticket status in Jira / ServiceNow depending on the outcome of the automated tests).

I would agree with this, Ansible (and Salt) allow you to extend the functionality by

1) Create a python script for your functionality 2) Drop it in a predefined folder on the master server 3) sync all agents (if using agents)

In my experience Chef / Puppet are not so easily extendable, and anything using Golang or Rust would require a step to generate the binary code for your new functionality, taking for granted the proposed tool would allow extensions to be picked up dynamically by adding them to a specified folder.

I have worked in several organisations where I have needed to be dynamic, dropping some tasks I am currently working on to take up something that is more business critical. I create a task list to keep track of anything that needs to be done, some tasks may have several sub-tasks. I add notes for each task, to remind myself of where I was in each task before I leave it to move on to something else (or before I forget). As each task or sub-task gets it gets set as finished removed / a strike through (depends on the tool being used for the list).

The list is only to remind me of what needs to be done, I will often change the order of the list depending on the changing priorities of the business I am working in. I found I need a list as trying to juggle all the tasks in my queue became too difficult and often would require some time to rediscover where I had finished off on a task before I was asked to change to something of higher priority (e.g. migrating a machine to a different version on Linux where a predecessor has not documented the build, compared to an outage on a service in production (sometimes diagnosing an issue in an outage generates tasks to be done on other machines to prevent future issues, the notes will record the relevant commands etc that will need to be run when performing that task).

I will add that I would not live my life based on the the task list, it is merly a tool to aid me as my brain gets focused on other things :D

Clarification. The EU asked the Irish Government to collect taxes that it declared were unpaid. It would then decide which countries were owed which chunk or the unpaid tax (all tax was declared through Ireland but sales were not solely in Ireland. So the tax was to be redistributed to the origin of sales). The issue with the judgement, and the reason the Irish Government were fighting it, was the ruling stated Ireland breached the law and provided an unfair advantage to one company. The Government were arguing that every company could avail of the same tax rules so it was not an unfair advantage / subsidy.

As for being a tax haven, this is something that is said by others who are outside of the Irish tax system and only look at the low corporate tax (they fail to see they other hidden taxes businesses have to pay like water tax, bin tax etc). Im not suggesting that the companies are fully "paying their way" but that it is too simplistic to only look at 1 tax requirement.

If you have worked in Ireland you would understand that the Irish tax system is extremely complex.....as employee you could pay tax in 3 separate income tax calculations, then a "bank bailout tax" that has remained even though the banks were bailed out. It is not uncommon for middle / high income workers to pay approx. 50% of their wage in deductions. Similarly if you tried to set up a company you would understand that the rules are not black and white but rather "you apply this tax calculation on a Friday, if the moon is full and the grass is blowing to the west"

Although on the surface it appears that this is a major change, brought about by COVID-19 and remote working, it is however not the full story. Google already owns several buildings in Dublin, it is in the process of refurbishing one and constructing an 8 building campus. The building that they have turned down was only ever supposed to be a stop-gap measure while awaiting the completion of the other work.

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2020/0912/1164713-work-from...

No need to change to another language, as has been pretty much outlined by previous posts Java is driven by the changes added to OpenJDK. Even Oracles commercial binaries use the OpenJDK code repository, compile it and add some support. Use one of the other vendors (Corretto by Amazon is freely available)

i never said China would win, my point was the ripple effect it will have. These games could have major impact for the smaller mom&pop companies in both China and America. So in an effort to re-vitalize businesses it may in fact cause a lot of them to fold (as even medium businesses rely on the smaller one to provide a service)