Matisyahu's Blog

Today was a rather uneventful day however I have finally got back into going for a walk – went for a 14km walk after work. I was making such good progress however when I went for my holiday and then there was a week and a half worth of rain then the result was met falling out of a routine. I’m going to go for a walk after work each night for the rest of the week then next week I’ll gradually transition back to going for a walk before work in the morning so then I get my daily exercise out of the way rather than leaving it to the end of the day when I’m less inclined to do it.

A strange thing to do has been the Chrome Releases page (link) not loading – I’ve checked on my fixed line internet connection (fibre) and it only partially loads and either it eventually loads after a long time or Chrome asks me whether I want to keep waiting. If I try loading the website on Safari it doesn’t load then when I tried loading it on my phone but using mobile data but the same time occurred too. I’m unsure what is happening but apparently others are experiencing the same issue regardless of the browser or the ISP they’re on. The strange thing is that other Google websites load perfectly fine – I hope that Google get their act together and fix it.

Regarding the Chrome update that was released, if you haven’t update then I advise you do given that there are 430 security vulnerabilities were found and fixed. A lot of the security vulnerabilities were found by Google themselves so it would be interesting to see to what degree is AI helping them when compared to the other tools that they use to pick up these security vulnerabilities. Probably the one good thing about Chrome is the fact that features such as AV1 playback aren’t disabled based your hardware – Apple seems to have this obsession of “if we don’t provide hardware support for it on your computer that we won’t support it at all in your browser even though your computer could easily decode it without hardware acceleration”.