Matisyahu's Blog

Back to work tomorrow – the weekend always ends up finishing too quickly but on a good side I did turn it into a productive time off. On Monday I walked down to the local bakery for some eggs bene with salmon and spinach for brunch, picked up a few sweet treats from the display cabinet then walked back home. Watched a few YouTube videos then had dinner with mum followed by some weekly grocery shopping. On Tuesday (today) I went for another walk, came back home, completed weeding of the garden – what I’m going to do on my two weeks off over Christmas is to pull up the garden and deal with the weed problem and then put down some fresh weed mats and rocks which will tidy it up. I also need to deal with the weeds on the footpath and I may even look at getting some greenery for the backyard because at the moment it is just a concrete slab, a bike shed and a clothes line so it would be nice to turn it into a place where I want to hang out during the summer rather than sitting inside all day using my laptop when I could be using my laptop outside in the fresh air.

Google has released an update of Chrome a day earlier than usual so I checked out the release information on their blog website (link) and now it makes sense, two high severity security holes and one of them being exploited in the wild at the moment so if you haven’t updated yet then I’d check under settings then about and get that update installed. It appears that the lack of an update for Android is an indication that only the desktop version is impacted.

Microsoft has released some insider builds for both the release preview channel (link) and the developer and beta channel (link). It’ll be interesting whether it’ll be released in January 2026 given that according to the November patch Tuesday there is the following note:

Due to reduced operations during the Western holidays in December and New Year’s Day, Microsoft will not release a non-security preview update in December 2025. The monthly security update will still be available as scheduled. Regular monthly servicing, including both security updates and non-security preview updates, will resume in January 2026.

So we may not see those enhancements for another month with December being a purely security and bug fix release which makes sense because I could imagine many people at Microsoft going away on holidays, spending time with family etc. etc. Btw, what it also looks like regarding the ‘Administration Protection’, Microsoft is pausing the roll out in the beta and developer channels which makes sense given that it is a pretty big change and it is almost guaranteed there will be bugs and software compatibility issues that either need to be worked around, fixed or documented so that the third party can address the compatibility issue before doing any sort of widespread rollout.

On a side note, I find it funny how there are people on Twitter who are unhappy with the head of Windows talking about how Microsoft are turning Windows into an agentic operating system – replies being made by them about how they never asked for this AI nonsense, that Microsoft should just make a decent operating system etc. etc. THe reason I find it funny is that these people complaining are the same people who tune into tech influencers who were hyping AI up to the ceiling and beyond. These people then constantly regurgitating tech influencer rectum plucks as wisdom worthy of being shared as if they had come down from the heavens – the great tech philosopher has been generous enough to bestow upon his lowly audience some great wisdom.

It reminds me of all the wailing and gnashing of teeth from the tech influencers whining about Apple ‘falling behind’ even though all the surveys point to the fact that only 7% of iPhone purchasers cared about AI features. It really goes to show the disconnect from reality that the tech influencers represent – they’re little more than people who use the parasocial relationship their viewers have with them to push the latest hype from silicon valley to their audience. I really do hope that there is a day of reckoning for these tech influencers in much the same way I would like to see a day of reckoning for the manosphere dude bros who are trying to back peddle at the moment claiming that they weren’t really that ‘hardcore MAGA’ even though there are thousands of hours of clips being just that.

The whole reason why these tech influencers gained an audience in the first place was the sense that the person was being genuine – they weren’t bought by a particular company and thus could be as brutally honest as they wanted because it was from personal experience. Something insides me wishes that the whole influencer crashes and burns but something tells me that as long as people have short memories I don’t think people will learn – keeping in mind the US voted in GWB twice, Trump twice and Regan twice, and gave Republicans a majority in both houses 2 years after their party crashed the global economy and got the US stuck in two wars, and that hasn’t resulted in Americans learning anything.