Éibhear Ó hAnluain

The Simon And Garfunkel 'Sounds Of Silence ' album cover except they're being chased by a Cylon from Battlestar Galactica.

Simon And Garfunkel next. #totp

The mechanic removed the back plate and inhaled through pursed lips. "Who did this?"

"I did," the robot said.

"How?"

"I took one arm off, put in a wireless interface so I could still use it, and put it in a vice, then turned-"

"OK. Why?"

"I needed fixing."

"You are allowed to ask for help."

I wonder if there is guidance out there regarding the right of schools to require parents to buy laptops for their students and to deny them permission to configure the laptops as they wish.

What legal basis/framework are schools relying on in these situations?

#Speirgorm

The output of my attempt at the quiz includes this "advice". I decline.

I most certainly will not!

there are like 50 people in the country who want the UK to get involved in the Iran War, one of them is Kemi Badenoch, one of them is Nigel Farage, and the other 48 are newspaper columnists

Interesting. They never had an issue with most staff working most the time from home for long before COVID, so it would indeed be a cheap shot.

The CBS debt chickens are coming home to roost, I guess.

Ouch. An Irish company?

Is that where all the "Gavin should have been removed from the ballot" complaints were put?

Todd @ Why are we bothering with the Strait of Hormuz when we could simply do this? Explain it to me like I'm 5. Canal RIOS 508 MOUNTAIN HARD AND BIG, WATER NO UP. MANY MANY DIG DIG.

Week 9 of my stitch-the-news daily news diary took us into a new month, and included: A slice of pizza for the wild questioning of Hillary Clinton in relation to the Epstein files The Pentagon for the US miitary's fights with AI companies over the use of AI in military operations A map of Iran for the US invasion A computer screen with a target on it, for the military using Anthropic as part of a military invasion of Iran, despite a ban going into place just how before A gas pump for rising oil prices in the wake of the US attacks on Iran A blood moon for the lunar eclipse A missile for the ongoing air strikes between the US, Israel, and Iran

Week 9 of my stitch-the-news daily news diary took us into a new month, and included:

The Pentagon
A map of Iran
A slice of pizza
A computer screen with a target on it
A gas pump
A blood moon
A missile

The Great Finding Out is upon us!

The Israeli Prime Minister quoted in the article by The New Republic 'Benjamin Netanyahu Just Said “From the River to the Sea”' (https://newrepublic.com/post/178243/benjamin-netanyahu-literally-says-from-the-river-to-the-sea): 'Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday rejected the premise of a Palestinian state and promised that Israel will take over the entire region it currently occupies, “from the river to the sea,” according to an English translation on the Israeli news channel i24NEWS.'

The Israeli Prime Minister quoted in the story "Israel’s Netanyahu reiterates rejection of Palestinian state after Gaza war" (https://web.archive.org/web/20241226145500/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/18/israels-netanyahu-reiterates-rejection-of-palestinian-state-after-gaza-war) saying: '“In any future arrangement … Israel needs security control over all territory west of the Jordan River,” Netanyahu said. “This collides with the idea of sovereignty. What can you do?”'

Do they mean like this, I wonder?

That's nice.

The inscriptions on my bones raise a lot of questions already answered by the inscriptions on my bones

Holy. Moly.

In 50 years' time, the world will look back at this era and ask itself how administrators and politicians so badly failed to understand the internet and its intersection with society at large.

There's a chance, too, that the answers won't be available because of the stupidity of today.

If the price of profit is a bit of a tongue-lashing by a nameless government minister, who's going to turn down the opportunity?

There's a neoliberal somewhere saying "No debt and they're already 8! How did that happen?!"

Attempted to climb back up onto that (for real) treadmill.

I think one of the greatest offences politicians commit is to assume that *everyone* is stupid.

IMO, a politician who says "we're going to limit people's rights because our rich clients want us to" is more trust-worthy than the lumps currently running Ireland. That type of honesty is sorely needed.

Starting to see bottom surgery on the horizon as a real possibility and realizing I have never wanted anything more in my life

People can debate AI all they like, but surely we can all agree that anyone who owns or uses a pair of the pervert glasses that secretly record people should be ostracised immediately and totally from our society? I'm sorry but your pervert glasses prove you're a pervert! Get out of town!

I can't find a picture of it, but Eamon Coughlan overtaking the Soviet Union's Dmitry Dmitriyev in the 1983 5000m final at the last bend before he ran on to win the gold.

He was highly criticised for a glance at Dmitriyev that looked like he was gloating. I still think it was just a grimace.

these people are broadly evil but I also genuinely think most of them are genuinely very stupid and stumbled ass first into extreme wealth

It'll be interesting. It's an american company offering services in Ireland. They are aware of the GDPR, because I used to work there and let them know about it in that annoying way that I have. However, their databases are large and ancient and they'll probably claim it's too expensive to fix.

My complaint: When I was filling the form to get a quotation, I typed my first name, correctly, as "Éibhear", and an error popped up saying "Please enter your full forename". That *is* my forename. When I re-entered it, incorrecly, as "Eibhear" the error went away. When I entered my family name, correctly, as "Ó hAnluain" I was presented with the error message "No numbers, Spaces or special characters allowed." When I re-entered my name, incorrectly, as "O hAnluain" the message remained, and when I re-entered it, incorrectly, as "OhAnluain" the error message went away. It is both insulting and illegal for [XXX] not to permit me to have my name recorded correctly. One or more of the following outcomes would resolve my complaint: - A correction of the web site to allow people to have their names recorded correctly. - Failing that, error messages that don't suggest that the correctly-typed names are wrong, but rather acknowledge that [XXX] is unwilling or unable to capture them faithfully. - Failing that, at least the correction of the typographical error in the second error message where "Spaces" should be "spaces" (i.e. the initial capital is wrong).

I was offered the opportunity to lodge a formal complaint, so I did.

I'm still struggling to decide what upsets me more: that they won't let me spell my name correctly, or that random, mid-sentence capitalisation of "Spaces" in that error message.

Screen shot of my attempting to give my name to an insurance quotation site (aig.ie!), where it tells me that I haven't entered my full forename (I have entered "Éibhear", so I don't know how it knows) and that "numbers, Spaces or special characters [are not] allowed" in my Last name (which I provide as "Ó hAnluain" because it is, like, my last name).

Pantomime voice: Oh yes they are!

A warning on a web site that my international-format 'phone number "doesn't look like a mobile number!"

Pantomime voice: Oh yes it does!

Chancellor of the University and noted anti-neutrality hawk.