Well, the end of another week and sure enough we’re closing in on the end of this year so quickly that by the time February rolls around next year it will mark me working for the company I am at for five years. It is interesting how as you get older it feels as though time is speeding up but I guess it just comes with age. I’ve got work tomorrow but I’ll be working from home again – my cough hasn’t cleared up but I spent all of today cleaning the place, hoovering all the carpets, dusting etc. hoping that maybe that’ll help in terms of clearing up my cough my I doubt it’ll make an improvement other than making my place a lot nicer.
YouTube and Safari appear to be an on going issue – I’ve decided to accept it for what it is given that every other website doesn’t exhibit such behaviour it would be foolhardy to move to a difference browser simply on the basis that one website doesn’t work properly. That being said, there is still a lot of work going on over at the Webkit project with the latest Technology Preview (link) so hopefully we’ll see those improvements make their way into the stable version of Safari that comes bundled with macOS. Webkit is making great progress but the problem is the slow integration of those enhancements into the mainstream Safari build that comes bundled with macOS.
Having a look at the Unifi AP U6-PRO and it appears that they no longer include the PoE injector but on the good side I can reuse the PoE injector that came with the Unifi AP AC HD. When I eventually upgrade I’ll still stick to using 5GHz given that there are 15 2.4GHz networks all broadcasting so any attempt to setup a 2.4GHz would be an exercise in futility if there ever was one. That being said, when it comes to the big uploads I always prefer to have a networking cable that runs from my desktop to the router so that there are no transmission issues which can occur when uploading large files that measure in the gigabyte size.
As we draw closer to the mid terms in the United States and the New Zealand election next year with so many voters failing to grapple with the basic idea that we live in an environment where every economy is linked with everyone else’s economy – the idea that inflation can be magically addressed through policy is ridiculous. The information that we’re experiencing today is the result of 40 years of using China as the workhouse of the world which has acted as an inflationary sponge aka having a deflationary effect but now it has come back to bite the developed world in their backside. There isn;’t some magic switch that by voting for the Republicans that the moment they take over they press it then suddenly inflation disappears or if National/ACT form government in New Zealand that Luxon will trip over a magical button that will make inflation disappear and for houses to decrease in price for those wanting to buy while those who own houses their asset goes up in value some how.
Now the newly far right Prime Minister of Italy Giorgia Meloni has come out with the usual drivel about ‘the speculators’ as if capitalism has nobility at its heart but it is undermined by ‘speculators’ and ‘crony capitalism’ etc. etc. Why do people get suckered into this obvious nonsense? because firstly most people have no idea what capitalism actually is – firstly they conflate the market with capitalism, secondly they either are benefiting from the status quo but believe it could be better if there was ‘real capitalism’ (this is where the whole spiel about crony capitalism and speculators come out) or people who convince themselves that one day their boat will come in but what is stopping them from getting that is…once again…back to the idea that capitalism isn’t the problem but the ‘polluted capitalism’ that exists today is. Why does that happen? because it is easier to convince people that the status quo is ok but simply needs a few tweaks that admitting that the very things they complain about are core features to capitalism – that capitalism itself is the problem and that a superior system needs to replace it or otherwise things won’t get better.
To quote a phrase commonly attributed to Lenin: “fascism is capitalism in decay”. When capitalism falls into crisis it transforms into fascism as a defence mechanism and wheat do I mean by fascism? fascism is when the capitalist class seize the state and use the state’s monopoly on violence to protect their class interests by suppressing communist and socialists movements that offer an alternative to capitalism. This is why history is important – to avoid another generation making the same mistake as that a previous generation made. If we don’t learn from history then we’re doomed to repeat the same mistakes of the past and thus the cycle of progress and then regression will continue indefinitely.
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