Matisyahu's Blog

For a while now I’ve been using the web based interface however given that I have a copy of MarsEdit I thought I may as well give it a try again. The one benefit of having a native app is the ability to work offline. I’m going to give it ago and see how it all works out. I made a few tweaks to the blog template in terms of the logo next to the name of the blog so that it gave more room on the left side of the screen for the category and recent post links.

Regarding the recent announcement regarding enshittification Firefox – this is the vibe that I get from Mozilla:

Once again we have developers in Silicon Valley huffering their own farts and convincing themselves that what they’re offering is what the end user is requesting when it comes to features/functionality. It shouldn’t be surprising given that I gave up using Firefox over a decade and a half ago when they were continuously denying that their app leaked memory, it was bloated and slow – a tonne of bug reports and nothing ever done about the reported issues. At some point, having reported issues and many other users reporting issues, you have to give up because it is like yelling into an blackhole and instead you look for greener pastures. It appears that many years later they still don’t ‘get it’ so the ramming of AI into everything continues. Oh well, maybe Apple lagging behind the competition will be a bless in disguise and combine that with the increasing profile Linux is having in the gaming community it appears that the damage has already been done to the Windows brand (even though they’re talking about gamer targeted features coming next year) and as long as Wine/Proton improves, more of the DirectX stack is implemented to support older versions of Windows games then I wouldn’t be surprised if we see an uptick in the number of Linux computers on Steam’s statistics that are collected each month.