Matisyahu's Blog

Apple has released updates to all their platforms today and part of that involves a huge number of security fixes that came through (link) with quite a few updates for Webkit and Safari. On my iPhone 15 Pro Max the modem firmware was updated from 1.60.02 to 1.70.02 along with the firmware of both Macs being updated to 10151.140.19 (I forgot to write down the old version). With how stable things are with macOS I am wondering whether I should wait for the x.1 release of the next versions of Apple’s platforms…but knowing me I’ll want to update to the next version as soon as possible to see the improvements Apple has made to Webkit in terms of conformance to web standards along with fixing up bugs in their implementation of those standards.

There has been a slight performance boost – everything thing feels a bit snappier even tvOS feels a bit more snappy. I have been looking at getting myself two HomePod for stereo sound to replace my existing speakers hooked up to my Mac Studio directly. The benefit of the HomePod is the ability to stream from my Mac Studio or from my Apple TV so then I can have decent sound quality when watching a movie. It is NZ$529 but it isn’t as though it is something that you buy every year I’ve got a few more things I’m going to look at but we’ll see how things go.

Regarding Kamala Harris, the way in which reproductive health is being framed in terms of freedom is exactly how I’d be doing it if I was in her position – do you want to make that decision or do you believe that decision should be made by politicians? I hazard to guess when you frame it in that way that you may even get people who maybe anti-abortion (in terms of their personal moral position) but are also equally opposed to the very idea of the government coming into private lives of women and telling them what they can and cannot do with their own body.

When it comes to the economy and inflation I do hope that Kamala pushes back the narrative that the Republicans keep putting out that they’re ‘good with the economy’ (and how Biden apparently caused the information problem even though it was the Republicans who injected $7.5 trillion into the economy and ran a massive budget deficit) when for 4 years all Trump did was talk and talk and talk and talk and talk and talk *deep breath* and talk and talk but never delivered – he was a big talker but then again the American public were warned but they decided to ignore those warnings just as Brexit voters labelled anyone pointing out issues as ‘project fear’ are now dealing with the consequences of their devision.