Ireland drafts new surveillance bill expanding police powers to intercept encrypted messages 🔐
Includes legal basis for spyware use & device scanning tech 🕵️‍♀️
Civil rights groups warn of normalization of extraordinary powers ⚖️

🔗 https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/21/ireland_wants_to_give_police/

#TechNews #Privacy #Surveillance #Spyware #Encryption #HumanRights #Law #Cybersecurity #PoliceTech #CivilLiberties #EU #Government #DataProtection #Security #DigitalRights #Ireland #Irish

Ireland drafts new surveillance bill expanding police powers to intercept encrypted messages 🔐
Includes legal basis for spyware use & device scanning tech 🕵️‍♀️
Civil rights groups warn of normalization of extraordinary powers ⚖️

🔗 https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/21/ireland_wants_to_give_police/

#TechNews #Privacy #Surveillance #Spyware #Encryption #HumanRights #Law #Cybersecurity #PoliceTech #CivilLiberties #EU #Government #DataProtection #Security #DigitalRights #Ireland #Irish

What are you dreaming of? ✨

One last night in Dublin Ireland.

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#Dublin #Ireland #Architecture #Art #DigitalArt #Night #Irish #Bridges #DublinIE #CreativeToots #MarkOnArt

What are you dreaming of? ✨

One last night in Dublin Ireland.

💚🤍🧡

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#Dublin #Ireland #Architecture #Art #DigitalArt #Night #Irish #Bridges #DublinIE #CreativeToots #MarkOnArt

1) The big question for any #Irish or #EU political party is why any of them are still on #X ?

Why would any political party opposed to #billionaire capture of #SocialMedia platforms post anywhere other than a decentralized platform?

The toxic #SiliconValley stack can be escaped. #Mastodon is an obvious exit ramp, based in #Europe. Why aren’t all elected officials there?

The #NewsMedia will follow

@Ciarancuffe #Mastodaoine #IrishPolitics #EUPolitics

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/politics/arid-41771657.html

OK this is the longest of long shots and will only mean anything to #irish folk or even #dublin (ers)…anyone got ANY idea where I could get my hands on photos of DART TRAIN INTERIORS FROM 1980’s?? Not finding anything much online. Building a paper diorama of a train carriage from this era for a film project. Any leads gratefully recieved! #train #rail

OK this is the longest of long shots and will only mean anything to #irish folk or even #dublin (ers)…anyone got ANY idea where I could get my hands on photos of DART TRAIN INTERIORS FROM 1980’s?? Not finding anything much online. Building a paper diorama of a train carriage from this era for a film project. Any leads gratefully recieved! #train #rail

Eh, pls #boost my request to #getfedihired, if you could spare two clicks? 🥺

I've been humming and hawing about posting this, it feels strange, something about generational guilt & working class shame & ... but it's either this or start putting my CV through LLMs to include every buzzword on the listing I'm applying to. I haven't been able to stomach that, even though I presume that's a lot of my competition.

I simply can't get to an interview. Historically, I've done three interviews and got the job each time, because I'm a real human being who is friendly and chatty and presents himself sincerely (or, that's my guess, anyway).

#Christmas miracles appreciated!

In #Ireland with my partner, but we've lived in different places and would move happily. I've a year experience doing an IT support role the last year, but have transitioned to this stuff later than usual.

Before I've done: bartender; bicycle courier for Deliveroo in #Berlin for two years (best job ever); private tutor for five years in #Lyon (mostly piano but also maths, Irish, English, flute, tin whistle); bookies clerk for a short period; a few other odd bits - one highlight was writing reviews for a theatre company.

Oh, very comfortably fluent in #French, pretty fluent in #Irish (my first love), and intermediate #German (which I would love to have a chance to go back speaking and learning).

Tech-wise, it's been mostly on the #Linux / #Emacs / #Lisp side of things. I would happily work on anything that is one or more of challenging, interesting, useful, or moral.

Money doesn't rule me. I want to live with a humane level of comfort, that's all.

CVs and references available, DMs open. Thanks so much for any and all help!