Matisyahu's Blog

Had a late start for work but I’m happy that tomorrow things are normal – I didn’t go for my walk tonight because of the late finish but also because I wanted to do a whole lot of organising around the house. In my bedroom in the closest I have a habit of keeping all the boxes of stuff I buy ‘just in case’ but I decided that I should start getting rid of them particular for stuff that either I no longer have or really can’t justify keeping around. That was all sorted out and then I went through all my draws (bed side tables, the draws in the computer desk and once that was sorted I folded up all my washing. Oh, and the package from YouShop arrived from overseas today, I washed the two hoodies, t-shirt and socks with them now on the clothes horse and I’ve got my dehumidifier running to stop the place from getting damp from the clothes drying inside. On a side note, I went through my sock draw and threw out all the old socks that had holes or ones so thin that there was no cushioning when I go for a walk each night – 24 pairs of socks in total which should take care of my needs for a few years before I need to replace them (I’m tempted to buy some slippers to avoid wearing socks around the home and wearing them out).

Google released the usual update on Wednesday (Tuesday US time) and uBlock Origin Lite has been updated as well. I really do want to give Safari a go but when even the native content blockers are limited when compared to the tour de force that is uBlock Origin Lite does just such a great job as a content blocker. Maybe Apple at this point should throw in the towel and embrace Webkit given how much it trails behind even when it comes to web standards when one considers the web platform tests (link) where Safari even trails behind Firefox which makes me wonder why doesn’t Apple make the investment to bring Safari up to speed (the situation is even worse when you split from experimental to the stable release, Chrome sitting at 90% while Safari sits at 50%). That doesn’t even touch on where Safari is when it comes to bring MV3 to Safari given how much of their implementation of Declarative Net Request (DNR) trails behind Firefox and Chrome in terms of the features missing that are present in Chrome and Firefox (link) not to mention the various bugs that have been reported regarding their implementation yet have sat there not being address for months or in some cases years.

Oh, and as for iCloud, I don’t know what is going on between my Mail app and iCloud but out of nowhere it’ll stop sending mail then ask me to select mail server that I wish to send my mail through where by I manually select the iCloud one already loaded on only to find that the Mail app tells me it failed. I think it is getting to the point where I may need to investigate an alternative to iCloud for my email if this keeps up. When there was an update recently to macOS to 15.5 I prematurely celebrated that my aliases appeared in Mail app only to find out recently that after logging out of iCloud, clearing out my ~/Library folder then logging back in again that the aliases have disappeared. So let me get this straight, I open up my Mail app on my iPhone my aliases are there but on macOS they don’t exist at all and I need to manually add them – please help me make sense of that because at this point I can’t work out what would explain such a situation other than Apple not giving a toss about macOS users in favour of all their attention being on iOS or what ever happens to be the next new gizmo.