Matisyahu's Blog

I went to sleep last night, slept in until around 12 noon, woke up, had something to eat for lunch then headed down the road to pick up a few essentials and then got in contact with mum regarding what was happening. Had a chat with mum and it turns out that my sister had he account hacked and money emptied but thankfully she got onto it quickly so hopefully it’ll be tracked down. It appears that the money was transferred to a one of those new fintech bank accounts which isn’t surprising because where I work in my day job customers who were hacked the money was sent through to the same fintech that operates in Australia – maybe the hacking scene is related? a coordinated scamming launched at multiple targets from different backgrounds but done by the same group of people.

Funny enough, the chicken I was going to have for dinner I ended up taking to mum’s and we had that with some baked potatoes and salad along with a berry apple crumble with ice cream for desert. On the way hope I picked up some groceries – the sort of items that would have been difficult to carry home myself. Normally if I’m unable to get a ride with mum or my sister I’ll just order it online and get it delivered because the cost of delivery is roughly the same amount it would be if I did the grocery shopping in two trips (to spread the burden over to trips).

I’ve decided that what I’ll be doing is 5 days of walking then followed by two days of relaxing – being able to enjoy those two day of really allows me to recover for the 5 days of walking I do after work each day. Had a great day and I guess it is a habit I need to get out of which is punishing myself because god forbid I want some time off to rest and relax – trying to get rid of a life time of bad habits and embrace moderation.

uBlock Origin Lite version 2025.1123.1640 has been released – waiting for it to appear in the Chrome and Edge store however it ready now in the Apple App Store. It is amazing how Apple does a pretty good job at getting it approved a lot faster than Google and Microsoft. I updated y mum’s computers and my sister’s as well – I’ve decided it would be best to keep them on the previous version of macOS and iOS until version 26.2 is released which, by that time, should be pretty stable.

A great interview of Yanis Varoufakis by Tom Nicholas – it is interesting how the feudal lords and landed gentry had their power come from the land that they owned but it appears that the feudal lords of today in this age of neo feudalism the idea of ‘land’ is virtual in terms of platforms in a virtual space where like in the past the seek rent from those who toil ‘the land’ in the virtual world where the feudal lord take a cut (in the form of data) and the ‘peasants’ pay the lord for that privilege. Then again if you’ve been following technology for the last 30+ years like I have then you’ve lived through the major leap forwards with each generation to now silicon valley mega corporations are stumbling around trying to find the next growth opportunity. The problem is that these attempts have fallen flat – the metaverse and AR/VR headsets no one cared about because such virtual worlds already existed in the form of Second Life which had a limited audience, wearable devices like glasses are rejected because they’re expensive and they make you look like a dork, AI services that are losing money even on the most expensive plan with many experts pointing to LLMs are limited by design no matter how many data centres and data you throw at the problem and that doesn’t even start on the fixation on autonomous vehicles because god forbid we tax these damn corporations to build a decent mass transit city for metro as well as intercity transportation (there is already autonomous trains).

Here are my three plus a bonus one because I like to rebel against the system.

1. The mixture of ignorance and arrogance – it is one thing to be ignorance, we’re all (including myself) are ignorant of something(s) but it is made worst when it is married with arrogance. The whole ‘influencer culture’ and the ‘prodcast bro culture’ being two examples of such behaviour.
2. If you’re stating an opinion then don’t phrase in a way that it makes it sound as though you’re making a declarative statement – if is your opinion then make it clear it is your opinion, don’t phrase it in a way that gives the impression that you’re stating a fact or otherwise you’ll come off sound arrogant.
3. If you don’t know the answer or the topic al that well then there is nothing wrong with saying “I don’t know” or “I haven’t looked into it” – there is nothing wrong with saying you don’t have an opinion on something or are indifferent. it appears that these days apparently you’re meant to have an opinion on everything even if you’ve never glanced at the topic in your life.
4. Boot lickers and those who defend millionaires and billionaires as if they’re going to receive a silver dollar as a reward for their sycophancy – people who convince themselves that they’re temporarily embarrassed capitalists who are just one step away from being ‘wealthy’ then spend a good portion on their life defending millionaires and billionaires online while voting for policies that harm themselves but they’re convinced that one day when they become rich they will benefit from those policies.