"When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called 'the People's Stick'"

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  • Things are going well.

    Well, I’ve finally made my domain name the handle for my BlueSky account. Regarding the BlueSky platform, it is growing at an amazing pace when compared to the first wave of people who experimented with Mastodon but decided to stay on X/Twitter because there isn’t the community there. It appears in the case of BlueSky…

  • End of another week, beginning of a new.

    A new season of Silo has appeared on Apple TV, season 2, watch the first episode of the season and it gives a bit of historical context as the main character moves from one of the other silos as she has memory flashbacks of when she was growing up. Looking forward to more episodes as…

  • I really want Safari to be successful but alas.

    I really do want Safari to be successful, a counter weight to Google hegemony but I was holding out hope that maybe Safari 18.1 and 18.2 would address the lack luster support for MV3, improving their existing native content blocking API to allow a more feature rich experience for extension developers. It appears that as…

  • I need a break.

    Even though I had a sense that the election wasn’t going to go in the direction that the Harris campaign and the online echo chamber believed it would I was holding out hope that maybe Harris could pull off an unlikely victory. Even with my low to almost non-existent expectations I still felt that pain…

  • Smooth sailing so far.

    I had an early start today in the office starting at 9:30am (I had to get up at 7:30am to get ready to catch the train into Wellington), it was a long day but there were lost of tasty treats for lunch so I was a happy lad all day. For lunch I had a…

  • Finally got it sorted.

    Yeah, I changed some settings for my domain which stopped people from accessing the website but I’ve now fixed that up which should translate into people being able to access my website again. Basically it occurred when I changed my DNS settings to point to Google Workspace but when I gave up on that experiment…

  • Software updates, getting into good habits.

    I’ve gotten back into taking my iron tablets in the morning and it has made a big difference in terms of alertness, not feeling as fatigued etc. that combined with a breakfast (an ‘Up and Go’ liquid breakfast) I’ve found I’m performing better at work. Change is occuring gradually, it’s more like a marathon rather…

  • End of another week, start of the weekend.

    End of another week, looking forward to relaxing over the next couple of days, sleep in, got the dentist on Tuesday for deep cleaning of my teeth. Around 6 months ago they were able to finish most of it but I needed another appointment to finish it off then after I’ll schedule a yearly check…

  • The gradual phase out of MV2, migrating to MV3.

    Just been following the discussion regarding the migration from MV2 to MV3 – at times the discussion has become rather heated as people accuse Google of deliberately crippling the extension framework to undermine content blockers. The problem is that the number of people who use content blockers are very few in number so I doubt…

  • End of another day, looking forward to the weekend.

    Finished work and to my surprise my local Mexican restaurant is open late so I ordered some Tacos for dinner – I didn’t feel like anything but thought, “why the hell not” and I bought it anyway. They’re around 30 minutes alway so by the time it arrives I’ll submitting this blog post. I some…