Matisyahu's Blog

The rain has stopped but it still is very cold outside but it looks like things will clear up by Tuesday so I’m going to hunker down until the cold weather passes. I worked from home and kept the heater running to keep warm – my power bill this month is probably going to be a bit of a shocker but I’d sooner have a higher power bill than getting sick because I didn’t keep warm.

After work I finally got the office organised by pulling all the furniture away from the wall and then vacuum behind it, cleaned the skirting boards, dusted and got rid of the cobwebs. I have to admit I’ve been a bit lazy and hadn’t done it in a long time because the only time I really use the room is when I’m working. The ethernet cables I’ve organised so that they’re now pinned to wall just above the skirting board which looks a lot more organised along with rolling up the excess ethernet cable in an orderly way. Once all done I put everything back and the room is looking better organised.

I got a reply back from Kmart stating that one of the things I ordered isn’t in stock and have been refunded (the microwave shelf) but on a good side there is a wooden version which is available from the local Kmart so what I’ll do is go and pick it up on Monday or Tuesday. I’d like to replace my two monitor setup with a single widescreen monitor – I saw one down the road and I think it would make life a whole lot easier with everything on the same screen plus it would replace my current USBC with one that is built into the monitor. I was going to order it online but then I thought I may as well just go down the road and buy it so then I don’t have go through the whole drama of waiting and then hoping that I don’t miss the courier when they try to drop it off.

uBlock Origin Lite 2026.625.2148 has been released and the update is now available on the macOS and iOS App Store – it is strange that it was on the iOS store before the macOS store because I would have assumed if it was approved for one that it would automatically be approved for the other. It is interesting to compare uBlock Origin Lite 2026.625.2148 running on Chrome based browsers vs Safari where the same website will have better content blocking on the Chrome based browser vs the same exact website on Safari. I really do wish that as part of their whole ‘Snow Leopard’ release of macOS 27 that would actually fix their extension framework to bring it inline with what Chrome provides to avoid the inconsistent experience one has – it shouldn’t be a situation that the same content blocking extension does a better job of blocking content on one browser over another.

On more optimistic news, Ubiquiti has released UniFi Network Application 10.5.54 release candidate which includes many new features (link) however there is a feature that depends on a component upgrade that is only present in UniFi OS 5.1.20 or greater. At the moment UniFi OS 5.1.21 is currently sitting in the early access channel however it was released 5 days ago – generally they wait 7 days before graduating it to a release candidate although I’ve seen quite a few people in the comment section reporting issues so it may not graduate and instead we’ll see a 5.1.22 early access build made available in the next couple of days.