Matisyahu's Blog

I’ve had a couple of days to recover and I’m feeling a whole lot better – I was able to keep myself occupied by vacuum cleaning the house, cleaned the kitchen, went for a walk while the weather was fine so I could get some fresh air and then finished it all up with having a shower, changing the sheets on the bed and completing the washing. Long story short I wanted to reset the week, start with a clean start with everything organised so that the rest of the week feels a lot more orderly. Tonight has been raining so I’ve stayed inside although I’m going to get up at 10:00am tomorrow so then at least if it is raining I get back into a good routine of getting up at a reasonable time, I’ll do that for three days and then on Monday I’ll start getting up at 9:00am which will hopefully mean a good start for the rest of the week.

Ubiquiti has released two updates to their early access channel, UniFi Access Point (all U7 and E7 models) 8.6.9 and UniFi Gateways 5.1.9. It’ll be interesting to see how quickly they graduate from the early access release channel to the release candidate channel but so far all the feedback I’ve read has been positive. At the moment I’m in no hurry although I am tempted to maybe upgrade my current gateway and cloudkey setup to an UDR 7 then setup my old equipment with mum where I move the router down stairs, keep the gateway upstairs then have a power line network connection from the gateway to the router which wll give better coverage given that mum uses her laptop downstairs and the desktop computer upstairs is directly hooked up to the router at the moment.

There has been a bit of cotroversy recently regarding Google Chrome and a local model that appears to have been downloaded without end users aware of it happening. I have my security set to enhanced which makes use of AI but I assumed it was AI in the cloud but it appears that it uses local models along with. Looking through the Chrome flags it appears there are quite a few features that probably rely on the local model – for me I kind don’t care one way or another because I had already opted in for a few features but I can understand how some may find it concerning particularly if you suddenly see 4GB space disappear then you wonder whether you’ve been infected with malware. It is one of those things that tech companies need to do a better job in terms of transparency just like Steve Jobs talked about ensuring that the end user has informed consent.