Matisyahu's Blog

This week has been pretty good with it ending the week where I have found out I’ll end up getting a bonus for the work for the last 6 months of the year which will be nice for when I head overseas – paying for travel insurance along with a bit of spending money. It’ll interesting to see how much it will be but I’m going to complain regarding the size given that I hadn’t expected it in the first place so anything more than a status quo is always good.

I did a complete clean installation of all my devices to fix up the issue of my computer not receive SMS text messages and with that I setup AdGuard again but because I put my allow list into ‘User Rules’ I disabled the ‘Allow List’ which funny enough I noticed that the performance was a bit better when it came to downloading and rendering. I like trying new things out, experimenting and seeing whether a problem can be fixed or a process made more efficient through trial and error. It’ll be interesting to see what happens with the move to MV3 for Chromium based browsers whether we’ll see a harmonisation between the Safari and Chrome based extensions.

I really do wish for those involved in the media to cease this nonsense of false equivalency because they’re petrified of being accused of having a bias – sometimes one side is demonstrably worse than the other and there is nothing biased about pointing out the patently obvious. I also wish that the media would focus on doing a deep drive on policy rather than focus on horse politics – yes, the administration’s job is to ‘sell’ their policy but it is up to you in the media to look beyond the marketing and provide the sort of sober analysis of policy so that there is an informed electorate. Oh, and one more thing, when it comes to polls – stop making pronouncements like “Biden is DOOMED! DOOMEDI TELL YOU!” when something like 20% of those being polled are undecided.