Ireland seems to be making a reasonable fist of having English and Irish; most business is conducted in English […]

Historically, that’s mostly because of colonial rule by the English government.

For decades (if not centuries) the Irish language was severely suppressed and might have even died out, if not for the continued efforts by the Irish people to preserve their language and cultural identity.

A combination of the introduction of state funded […] primary education, from 1831, in which Irish was omitted from the curriculum till 1878, and only then added as a curiosity, to be learnt after English, Latin, Greek and French […]. The National Schools run by the Roman Catholic Church discouraged its use until about 1890.

It’s only quite recently that Irish has become an official language in Ireland:

In July 2003, the Official Languages Act was signed, declaring Irish an official language, requiring public service providers to make services available in the language […]

Of course, the fact that Ireland is trading a lot with the UK and other countries in the anglosphere and EU, is a reason to keep English as a major language.

In the last few years, Valve (company behind the popular Steam PC games store) has made huuuge efforts in making most games work well on Linux, because the Steam Deck console that they sell runs on Linux, and the compatibility layer they made is called Proton.

To check what games work well on Linux you should look in the ProtonDB.

If there are games that only work on Windows, you could do dual booting.

Irish Unification of 2024, let’s gooooo

Defend Trans Kids!

Wow, who would have thought?

It seems the AI hype is shrinking (or at least slowing down), since people are more and more critical of it: intellectual property, workers rights, power consumption, climate impacts, usefulness and more.

If you want more reading, I recommend these:

I can’t recommend Ed Zitron’s blog enough: Where’s your Ed at

He did an interview with Adam Conover a month ago, which was also really interesting.

The other blog I highly recommend is The Luddite, e.g. Why is there an AI hype?

I will also never buy a spaceship /j

Youtube tip everyone needs to now: remove the si query parameter, it’s not necessary and used for tracking

From

https://youtu.be/LKCVKw9CzFo?si=06X6O91R9pX_8UbX

Into

https://youtu.be/LKCVKw9CzFo

https://youtu.be/LKCVKw9CzFo

And those 8 really rich guys definitely work less than 5 days a week already

I definitely understand; but it’s good that you are angry, because that means you are human.

The best thing is to use a different device, period.

Since the company is lord and master over the device, in theory, they can see anything you’re doing.
Maybe not decrypting wireguard traffic in practice, but still see that you’re doing non-official things on the device that are probably not allowed. They might think you’re a whistleblower or a corporate spy or something.

I have no idea where you work, but if they install a CA they’re probably have some kind of monitoring to see what programs are installed/running.

If the company CA is all you’re worried about, running a browser that uses its own CA list should be enough.

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