Matisyahu's Blog

After a week of fun and excitement at work I finished at 10pm tonight, went for a walk down to the convenient store to pick up a sandwich but it was closed but I needed a walk anyway so it wasn’t a wasted outing. I finally got all the washing sorted out and it is now hanging on the clothes horse inside along with the dehumidifier running so that it doesn’t my house damp (the heat from my heater in my bedroom floats through the house which also helps dry the clothes a little bit faster when combined with the work the dehumidifier is doing).

On a good side uBlock Origin Lite 2025.703.1440 has been released – haven’t noticed any regressions but I’m comparing it to the beta release of AdGuard 5.2.25. uBlock Origin Lite is still being beta tested on Safari however I don’t imagine a stable version being released before macOS 26 stable version is released given that there are bugs in Safari that are fixed in the next release. Personally I’m sticking with Chrome – the Workspace integration, things are going well with my Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra which has really grown on me and I can see why people like the Samsung ecosystem with the Samsung TV acting as a SmartThings hub.

One of the things I really loath about social media and video sharing sites are the number of people who declare something or someone is “doomed! doomed! doomed I tell you! they’re doomed” – claims that China is going to collapse in x number of days, that a particular company is dying, that a given product is dying etc. Exaggerated claims propped up by people watching it because it re-enforces an existing bias for or against a given organisation, product etc. which is then made worse because the algorithm picks up that said content is popular and suddenly appears in the feeds of more people.

This is the one reason I cannot stand the ‘tech dude bros’ on YouTube who convince themselves that they’re some sort of van guard, a member of a group whose opinions are the only ones that are valid and that they have the final say even though their track record is one of getting it wrong over and over and over again. They’re right up there with a particular YouTuber who starts off their video by saying that they’re going to ignore all the drama while ignoring the fact that they are the drama – they are the ones making unsubstantiated claims, whipping up conspiracy theories and rumours while simultaneously acting as though they were the ‘adult in the room’.

On some more positive news, Microsoft appears to be giving it another go in terms of getting things out of the kernel that ideally shouldn’t be there (link). It’s funny how back in the Windows Vista days there was an attempt to achieve something similar only to find that there were threads of being sued left, right and centre (link) only for this to come back to bite businesses and end users in the backside as one can see with the Crowdstrike fiasco not to mention the on going ‘anticheat’ problems that regularly cause gamers to complain forums about frequent kernel panics (aka BSODs). Hopefully we’ll see that along with ‘Administrator protection’ which will hopefully provide greater security and reliability to Windows 11.