Nice one Wiktoria, you too have a lovely Christmas and glad to hear now
positivity as you go forward in your studies.
Tony
On 18/12/2023 19:28, wikiwiki wrote:
Hi guys
It was an super meeting talking with you today. Sorry that I was not attending with as much but I was studying very hard when you have the meeting I am have classes. This is why I was not being there I was today because I had finished the first semster. It is an much better place then I was in the past I am in Tu Dublin now so very happy.
Super notes Paul thanks for that. You are doing an super job on these notes.
Jaki I hope you are ok with your wisdom tooth I know how it feels as I have the 3rd one now and they are very bad pain. I hope you will get everything sort soon and that you will not have to have this pain at you.
I wish you all an super Christmas and super new year and that 2024 will be an super year for you all.
Best wishes Wiktoria
On Mon, 18 Dec 2023 at 17:43, Jackie McBrearty <teambanglesltd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Excellent account Paul.
Happy Christmas to all in the Cork and Dublin groups.
We'll have more tech talk in 2024.
Jackie
PS My wisdom tooth is growing up under my other tooth so hence the
pain. I'm hoping to have it sorted before 2028
sent from LadyJackiesIphone
On 18 Dec 2023, at 2:22 p.m., paulfgriffith@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hello Folks,
Well here we are, the last meeting of the Dublin Tech club for 2023
It has been a good year, with many fine contrubutions from a wide
variety of people, and many people had some very annoying tech
problems solved and ironed out.
So thanks to all those who took part in some way or other.
Our next meeting after Christmas will be on 8^th January 2024 at
the usual time of 11 am.
We will start the notes today with the discussion we ended up
todaywith,
That was a discussion by and about those people who use Guide dogs.
There was a mention of a girl refused entry to a restaurant with
a Guide dog.
Also many instances of taxi men refusing to pick up people with
Guide dogs.
Some customers took cases against those taxi men who broke the
law by refusing to take customers with those wonderful dogs.
They were fined and had to pay a charge for their behaviour.
One taxi man gave the reason that he had spent 70€ on getting
his car cleaned, but as Tom said that they could have a cover
ready for occasions like this, and simply cover the seats.
We also had a lively chat about Bus Connect.
Paul who uses either the 15A or the 150, wanted to know what bus
or more likely busses , he must then take if
These busses are discontinued.Going to the city centre seems
twice as difficult as before.
It looks like that one has now to take 2 or more buses to do a
journey , , which one bus could do for customers , before the
arrival of Bus Connect.
Not sure if this is progress on the transport front or not !.
Given that this was the last meeting before Christmas, things
were a little less technical and some more interesting
discussions ensued on a number of well known topics. .
Adrian explained all about Cookies, and whether one should
accept them or not.
He said that there were 3 different types of cookies, but the
minut taker cannot remember what they were. However, if one
accepts cookies like myself, one can get a heavy load of
advertisements based on what they were looking at on the
Internet, perhaps looking for a particular type of holiday, or
hotel. Then they will most probably get adverts aimed at them in
various countries and hotels similar to what they were looking at
while browsing.
This also happens when people use their credit card to buy an
article, then alternative manufacturers/retailers will off better
value to add to their purchases or perhaps to get them to buy
their products instead.
Adrian and Eamonn usually click the not accept button for the
cookies, or clear their history from the browser shortly
afterwards, without any real downside.
Then a chat about VPN, and the branded search engines like
Google or Safari were compared.
Adrian explained that a person who wanted to complain or praise
something and not to be recognised could use VPN (Virtually
Private Network)
And they could not be identified as using VPN, (Which cost some
money to use),
Cannot be traced as their IP address is not their, IP stands
for Internet Protocol.
We discussed some books and the minute taker plus Mary
recommended two books,
1 Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, a lively read.
2 The booker prize winner Prophet song by Paul Lynch, this is a
very good book, but a difficult read, it’s a dystopian story.
Our man from the West , Tom, recommended Banishing Margaret Small.
That’s all Folks for 2023.
May I wish all my friends and colleagues in Dublin and Cork
tech clubs, a very happy Christmas and a healthy new year.
Paul
