Éire / Ireland

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/24585544

By Megan Specia
Reporting from London
Jan. 7, 2025

[Bias alert - #NYT usually favors Israel]

https://archive.ph/9196q

I downloaded the TG4 player tonight for the first time since before lockdown. TG4 produce and air some of the best TV in ireland (most of imo). The player was always decent, always better than the RTE player, but fck me. ... The latest version - last updated Nov 4th 2024 according to the Android Play Store, is close to perfect. Installed it on a Formuler box first, then on an old android TX3, and finally on a Huawei M5 Lite. Flawless. Press play and it plays, pause and it pauses. Zero buffering. Live TV perfect. Subtitles? Yep. That's standard for every TV Player. Then I tried RTE Player. What a clunky honking heap of shite.

That's all.

Anybody know the cost that both have taken to develop? I have heard RTE player was given to an employee's son or nephew, which probably explains why it's shit, but I have never heard what they cost each company. Does anybody know were to look?

Is anyone else finding VM internet shit over Xmas?

Outages yesterday and today.

A local elderly man showed me this certificate which belonged to his mother and I had to take a picture. I'm sharing it with permission and the surname redacted. The design is quite beautiful and one of the things I miss about older Ireland, as well as the design of our slightly older currency.

Some backstory: This woman was treated horrifically by the church and had her child forcefully taken from her. Also, when she got this qualification she became one of the most proficient people in the local administration at her job but because she was a woman, she would never be promoted beyond the job she had at the time. Less capable men passed her by to become her boss.

This post originally was just to show the beautiful certificate but now I think the story is just as important. I'm glad that the vast majority of people in the country do not want to return to the dark ages.

Initial results look like a slight shift to the left. The candidates fielded on a hard right stance are taking a hiding which gives me hope for our little island.

Interesting about "the monk". That would be a cat among the pigeons if he gets in.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/30739725

Anglais : https://www.euronews.com/culture/2024/11/01/thousands-go-to-fake-ai-invented-dublin-halloween-parade

La police a dû intervenir pour disperser les gens.

Me included.

My bookmarks for various bus routes and timetables are now useless 🙈 It’s a big change that breaks old links.

Has anyone gotten used to it yet? It seems better in some ways but I can’t really say until I’ve had time to get used to it. The live trackers were handy to check if they were running late before I’d leave the house.

"The initial list of eight conditions are allergic rhinitis, cold sores, conjunctivitis, impetigo, oral thrush, shingles, cystitis and thrush."