Last night after coming back from my work out, I turned off my alarm so that I could sleep in today and just wake up at whatever time my body thought was appropriate. I woke up around 10:00 am, did some cleaning around the house along with putting the washing machine on but then found that on a pair of trousers that some stuff from the washing machine had gotten smeared over it. After putting it off for a long time I finally got around to cleaning the washing machine by filling it up with hot water and soap then scrubbing all the built up gunk and I also found that there is a way to remove the agitator out so I was able to give that a good cleaning which should hopefully result in a better washing experience, then after it was all clean I then washed the trousers again and hung them out on the line.
Labour has made an announcement today regarding their social media policy with one of the goals being to keep kids under 16 off social media. The interesting part is around 3:28 minutes into the video where Reuben Davidson addresses the privacy concerns regarding the age verification process to ensure that it doesn’t turn into a drag net where every user is having to go through age verification. It’ll be interesting to see whether RealMe will be used as a method of verification which would avoid having to give social media companies more information than absolutely necessary when verifying the age of the person setting up the account (or the existing account).
What is interesting is the term ‘duty of care’ and how they’re going to embed it in the social media legislation. The term ‘duty of care’ is also used when regulating two other industries – alcohol and the gambling industry. Is this a signalling to not just to social media companies but also the wider community that the focus is going to be on harm reduction – that social media is too embedded into society so the best course of action is to minimise the downsides as much as possible. I guess we’ll need to wait until the select committee is formed to see what happens regarding the specifics of the legislation because there will be public submissions that may raise concerns that may not have been considered when the legislation was written in the first reading. For me, I’m going to wait for the details before passing any judgement.
Apple has released a release candidate build for version 27.2 and assuming there aren’t any show stopper bugs then I wouldn’t be surprised if we see it being released next week. With the release of uBlock Origin Lite 2026.1018.2229 there is a workaround that was removed because a bug in Webkit was corrected in Safari 18.6 – it’ll be interesting to see whether that translates to any change in the reliability of content blocking. At the moment uBlock Origin Lite 2026.1018.2229 has appeared in the web store for both Chrome and Edge however it is waiting for approval on the Apple AppStore so I guess we’ll need to wait and find out then once it arrives I’ll install it then test it out.
