Matisyahu's Blog

Today was a pretty rainy day and I checked to see the news regarding whether the rest of the country had experienced something similar. Unfortunately down south there has been some pretty major floods but thank goodness the local and central government were able to mobilise resources to help those who were affected. In the northern hemisphere there are heat waves and wild fires, in the southern hemisphere we’ve got El Niño making the weather go crazy. It looks like it’ll be horribly nasty weather until Friday although given how unpredictable the weather is I guess it’ll be a situation of having to play it by ear.

It is interesting to see the number of centre left and left wing Americans getting excited for the mid terms but I can’t help but get the feeling that there is an echo chamber online. As much as I’d love to believe that things are crashing and burning for the MAGA faithful and then for those MAGA faithful to have a road to Damascus moment, I am reminded that so often that their entire identity is linked to a party and/or an individual rather than an ideology. When you have a large number of Americans whose politics are based on vibes rather than a robust understanding of the issues and the policies being promoted to fix those issues, I wouldn’t hold out on a mass rush towards Democrats. Assuming that they do make the move to vote for Democrats then I’m pretty confident they’ll switch back to the Republican Party the moment the next charlatan comes along promising to feed into their inclination of blaming minorities for the problems in their life rather than the very people they keep voting for.

In terms of software update, uBlock Origin Lite 2026.705.2152 has been released and it has appeared in the Edge extension store however it hasn’t appeared in the Chrome or Apple Store. I’ve been following the release of Chrome 150 however I liked to check out the Chrome Platform Status page (link) to see what is being implemented. Apple has released Safari Technology Preview 247 recently and on the Web Platform Test it has been bumped from 85.9% to 87%.