I woke up this morning and saw it was another rainy day – I love the sound of rain on the roof as I am laying in bed typing on my laptop. I was hoping that the weather and temperature would improve but I’ve had to put my heater back on because the temperature has dropped back down to the single digits. I’m fortunate enough that I can work from home which makes the experience a whole lot more tolerable and I’ve checked my work laptop for a Chrome update however it appears that the tech team have kept it on Chrome 152 for now until they’re confident that Chrome 154 hasn’t broken Salesforce again. When your whole organisation is run on a single piece of technology then you cannot afford to have the sort of problems we experienced with Chrome 153.
Chrome 154 has been released and there are a whopping 108 security fixes (link) and 11 of the security fixes are for critical bugs. I’m going to install it on my personal laptop and desktop after work then give it a try but in the meantime I’m going to have a read through of the platform changes that were introduced with version 154 (link). The interesting change will be in Chrome 156 with the ‘IndexedDB: SQLite backend’ change which should hopefully make a whole lot of the web apps and websites work more reliably with move SQLite backend for IndexedDB. When I originally saw the note about the change I didn’t realise how many websites actually use it but a quick bit of research uncovered just how many websites actually rely on it. YouTube also makes use of it so I wonder whether the bugginess I experience when using it something to do with it – maybe I’ll get lucky with Chrome 156 and the issues will disappear.
There is a great interview on a channel I’ve just recently subscribed to on YouTube because I’ve been following the whole Canada-United States conflict. I’ve been following it because the conflict serves as a microcosm of what is happening more broadly between the United States and the rest of the world.
Unfortunately there are too many within the business and political world who don’t seem to be able to understand the general rule of thumb that the moment you capitulate to the demands of the United States then you’ve signalled weakness. The moment you signal weakness then it is open season – you’ve already capitulated once so why wouldn’t you do it again then again then again to the point that the United States make it clear that as a country you don’t actually have a backbone. Sure, you can get angry and get pulled down into the mud and fight with the United States or you can accept that the relationship has ended and simply walk away thus leaving your clothes free of being covered in mud and the rest of the world look on the United States lashing out at other countries while furiously rolling around in the mud.
Just to round it up, there is an interesting video regarding the increase in interest rates and how the interest rates serve as a benchmark for all other interests to be set (in much the same way that the minimum wage serves as a benchmark on which all wages are set relative to it).
Which makes me think that the reason why Kevin Warsh isn’t giving the sort of long term guidance that previous Chair of the Federal Reserve of the United States have given is because his goal is a controlled deflation of the AI bubble rather than a pop (coming out and just straight out saying “the AI bubble is too big and we need to do something about it” may cause a panic resulting in an crash). With that being said, there is a comment regarding what China did do their property bubble – the ideal situation would have been not to allow it to happen in the first place but the second best would be to pop it when you have the opportunity to do so. Yes, it has involved some pain in China but as a consequence we now see money being invested into productive sector rather than asset speculation. Such investment includes investments in robotics, chip fabrication, moving up the value chain to move beyond just providing a cheaper version of what already exists.
