Matisyahu's Blog

Finished work tonight and it never felt so good knowing that for the next two weeks off I have no responsibilities other than to take care of myself. I put the first load of washing on then went for a relaxing walk tonight around the block, came back, put the washing out, had a shower, then put the remaining washing in the washing machine the hung it out once completed. On Monday I’m going to just relax and see where the day takes me – I might even pop down to the local cafe for eggs bene for brunch – something I like to treat myself to at least once a month.

One thing I forgot to mention is that with the upgrade from macOS 26.1 to 26.1 the firmware was updated from 13822.41.1 to 13822.61.10 with the wifi stack, driver and firmware updated from IO80211_driverkit-1530.16 to IO80211_driverkit-1533.5. As noted in the past, I think the destination of DriverKit points to it operating in user space (the actual Broadcom driver being com.apple.DriverKit-AppleBCMWLAN). It’ll be interesting to see Apple gradually move more components out of the kernel with my guess being that with the big push to end support for x86-64 in macOS 27 I wouldn’t be surprised if we see that take place and the kernel will be fully locked down with the expectation that if you need to support hardware then you’ll need to do is all in user space.

I was reading through a post on Reddit regarding a YouTube I follow who was talking about the USSR and it is amazing how even 30+ years after the collapse of the Soviet Union the red scare paranoia is still alive. The person in the video was basically talking about the USSR and homosexuality, bisexuality and transgender. It should be relatively uncontroversial but apparently because the video creator didn’t portray the Soviet Union as the root of all evil in the world and everything they did was utterly evil it some how made the video creator an USSR apologist. Imagine suffering from so much red scare paranoia that a balanced video regarding the USSR triggers you. I guess if you have a population insulated from knowledge then it shouldn’t be surprising that even those who are born after the collapse of the Soviet Union display this level of paranoia as if it were some sort of genetic trait inherited from their parents.

On a side note, I always find it funny how in the United States there is the equating of capitalism with freedom and equating the market with capitalism. The propaganda that the average American is exposed to really has done a number on so many peoples brains in the United States which explains why there is this slavish devotion and worshipping of wealthy people. It isn’t helped there is the myth of meritocracy that is perpetuated by the capitalist class as a way to justify to the working class the way society is structured as well as a well for the capitalist class to morally justify to themselves why they’re at the top. When half of the people posting on Reddit are from the United States it isn’t surprising to see wealth individuals and/or corporations being defended but after a while it does make me feel sorry for them because the propaganda runs so deep in their society.