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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 m…

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…

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 refu…

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 …

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/UCgeS…

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 …

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 cha…

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 (may…

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 ge…

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 schem…

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…

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 th…

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 res…

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…

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 pr…

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 pe…

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…

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 / …

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 th…

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…

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%20regulati…

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 Sof…

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, …