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Rome’s silent killer . It’s lead.PHP problems . It’s funny, once you depart Wordpress, PHP is actually quite nice to use (and relatively ubiquitous, because of Wordpress).Luxury submarine . Given last year, I’ve no idea why anyone would want to produce, let alone buy, this. And windows in a submarine is presumably poor engineering.Secret code reveals secret backdoor . Irish police use this.Dublin is far, far too expensive for renting Four day week made permanent for many UK companies Fuji X100V . Looks neat!Tenant reviews . Ireland-specific but very good.Mystery vessel at Trinidad & Tobago oil spill site Sora AI’s problems Bohs Thin Lizzy jersey Musk claims neurolink patient doing well . He would, wouldn’t he? Interesting that he’s not the patient, and the patient or a doctor hasn’t said anything.Fediverse spam issue explained Pork flavoured coffee Gen Z may not need mortgages TikTok cutting hundreds of Irish jobs . Right after moving into new swanky offices.Significant Signal updates Ezra Klein creates Democratic party panic
Who would become a local politician? . I know a few and they work hard. Thankless long hours.Apple Vision Pro x Accessibility Barbie to be part of LC curriculum . Old men will combust.iPhone changes coming to the EU . Can’t wait!7 things learned from the SocDems conference British Museum facing social media campaign to return Easter Island statue Cool little hack projects EU hit Apple with proper $500m fine Data & empathy A Dublin-based tech entrepreneur builds a YIMBY-ish media platform The cost of bathing while being disabled The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90%—And That’s Made the U.S. Less Secure Forgetting the history of UNIX is coding us into a corner The majority of traffic from Elon Musk’s X may have been fake during the Super Bowl, report suggests . Remember the hoopla from this tosser about bots on the platform pre-purchase?Vice is gone Review of Powerscourt hotel . Somewhere too close for me to ever stay, but posh enough to have me curious!Is tech making our lives better or wose? . On the whole the answer is obviously better, but there are aspects of modern tech (and how it interacts with capitalism, frankly) that are atrocious.