Matisyahu's Blog

It started on Tuesday but I went to work on Wednesday because it was a late shift and they needed extra man power but by the end of the shift I had a horribly crook back then I headed back home thinking that maybe a lay down will fix it – nope, my back still feels horrible. Long story short, I messaged my boss to inform him that I will not be in on Thursday – I’ll be spending most of the day in bed to recover. I guess it is combination of age and bad luck resulting in it. Oh well, these things happen.

I’ve changed the setting on my Chrome to disallow third party cookies (then cleared all my cookies, cache, history etc) and so far I haven’t had any issues. Although Google is slowly rolling it out (link) I would say that the vast majority of websites are already adapted to the change when Apple made the first move with Safari with Safari on iOS being a pretty dominant force in the world of drive technology change in in the area of web technologies. Right now the improvement to privacy is very much a work in motion and the details can bd found out over on the Chrome Developer website (link).

The Chrome Developer website (link) is a great source along side the Webextensions API (link) which give a good insight into what is happening particularly when it comes to web standards – plenty more can be found over on github which range from Webassembly through to WebGPU and everything in between.

Apple released updates for macOS, iOS, iPadOS etc. (link) which addresses two vulnerabilities – one in webkit and the other in the kernel. It’ll be interesting to see when macOS 13.5 will be released – maybe when they release iOS 17 they’ll release the macOS 13.5 update? I guess we’ll have to wait and see. I’ve installed the security update on my MacBook Air and Mac Studio – no problems with either one of them.