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That could be because to say ChatGPT in French sounds like "Chat I farted" (Chat j'ai pété)

I agree that amazon.ie is useless, but i think that Irish shoppers will still buy from Amazon UK for more expensive items, where the €3 fee is relatively insignificant. Amazon UK, even with the new €3 import fee, is still cheaper than local Irish retailers who take price gouging to new levels.

I've been using their DNS (migrating away from Cloudflare) for over a year and I've found it solid. Good latency and fast propagation. Custom nameservers are easy to setup. Migrating from CF is easy too - just export your zonefile from CF and import it to Bunny and you're good to go.

I had to use tailscale to bust through port forwarding on chained routers because, even with ports configured correctly, wireguard wasn't able to get through.

My use case was for remote access into a home-hosted Nextcloud instance, via an ISP supplied fibre router (IPv4, not CGNAT), then my own Gl iNet router, then to my Nextcloud instance.

Despite opening up port forwarding correctly, wireguard just couldn't get through that chain, whereas tailscale got through with no problems.

Downside of using tailscale is that it's messy to use at the same time as a VPN on your client device. Split tunnelling supposedly works, but I couldn't get it going.

When I lived in NL, it was explained to me that closing the curtains would imply, in some sort of weird Calvinistic belief, that the occupants were engaged in some nefarious activities; therefore the curtains are left open to show that the occupants have nothing to hide and are engaged only in wholesome activities.

The other side of the social contract obliges passers-by to not look inside.

The other strange thing that I found is that some apartments have little spy mirrors mounted on the exterior wall to allow the occupants to monitor what's going on in the street.

Might be worth adding that Bunny offers DNS services as well.

I've started switching a few sites from Cloudflare to Bunny and the experience has been great so far. Bunny offers custom name servers as well, so if you can setup glue records with your domain registrar, it's easy enough to have custom nameservers, DNS and CDN hosted with Bunny. Cheap as chips and great performance so far.

I'm looking for a decent alternative to ReCaptcha or Turnstile but haven't found one yet that has easy integration (form builders etc.)

My move away from US providers isn't in protest - it's just risk avoidance. The unpredictable nature of the current administration reduces the attractiveness of using US based providers.

Irish police used newly updated Cellebrite system to bypass security on murder suspect's locked phone. Suspect immediately changed plea to guilty.

Irish government has banned purchases of military equipment from Israel, but the ban doesn't extend to purchases by the police force.

Try voip.ms. Incoming texts can be sent to you as an email. A US number costs about $1.50 a month.

To be fair, it had all her stuff, so she couldn't just leave it behind. /s

Apparently the tradition continues. On our Peugeot 407, the button to open the boot (trunk) is in the "0" on the "407" badge.

SFR will switch you from cgnat to ipv4 if you contact customer support and explain that you work from home and need to open specific ports to access your work servers or VPN. I did just this a month ago. Takes less than 24 hours and you should be OK on ipv4.

Gobshite, while it might appear to be "mouth shitter", isn't used to describe a braggard bullshitter or liar, as the components might suggest. It's more commonly used to describe a person who's both stupidly incompetent and contemptible, as in:

"Why is the system down?"

"Dave pushed the updates to the production server again."

"F*king gobshite."

Gobdaw is a less offensive variation, typically used by those who say fe_k instead of fu_k.