Matisyahu's Blog

Well, I’ve finally made my domain name the handle for my BlueSky account. Regarding the BlueSky platform, it is growing at an amazing pace when compared to the first wave of people who experimented with Mastodon but decided to stay on X/Twitter because there isn’t the community there. It appears in the case of BlueSky that it is as close enough to X/Twitter as possible along with the integration into the likes of WordPress for auto publishing blog posts to BlueSky. I’m still contemplating whether I should go all in with BlueSky, what I might do is just give it a go for maybe a month and if the numbers on BlueSky keep climbing to the point that overshadows the Mastodon experience then I’ll go all in.

On The Working Group tonight there was a discussion regarding a report that came out regarding how the recession is going to being around longer and deeper because of the austerity policies (infrastructure spending being cut or severely scaled back). There is a reason why George Osborne, former Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2010 to 2016 and architect of austerity, was invited to the National Party retreat and it wasn’t because of his dulcet tones but rather to take onboard the policy he implied which culminated in where the United Kingdom is today. What we’re seeing here with the cuts to long term investment and undermining public services are all part of the austerity playbook – too bad most New Zealanders fail to spend 5 minutes keeping up with what is going on politics.

Well, we’re now having our own experience of FAFO – New Zealanders ‘bored’ of the Labour Party and decided to ‘shake things up’, something they’ll quickly regret over the coming couple of years. Maybe for some people they need to hit rock bottom and experience discomfort for the experience to embed itself into their memory so that they don’t repeat the same mistake.

Regarding the next update for macOS, iOS, tvOS, watchOS etc. it is rumoured to be released in the first half of December – with one article over on Forbes (link) saying it maybe 2 December 2024. We’ll see how this all turns out but I’m looking forward to the improvements coming in Safari 18.2 (link) – if you look through the beta release notes there are many changes that are occurring under the hood. After many years of neglect it is finally getting the TLC that it so desperately needs.