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"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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  • Winter getting to me, powering through.

    I’ve been sick for the last couple of days then add to that the ‘winter blues’ I’m pushing myself forward – it’s difficult not to fall into slump and once in that slump trying to pull oneself out of it. We’ve had some crappy weather and it is difficult to keep being motivated with work…

  • And people wonder why there is a low level of trust in the media.

    Ok, I was watching the Sunday (18 August US time) episode of Meet the Press and what frustrates me was the way in which the issue of ‘banning price gouging’ was being reported – drawing the conclusion that ‘banning price gouging’ equals price controls even though nothing is mentioned regarding price controls. It also completely…

  • Giving Chrome another go.

    I’ve decided to give Chrome another go to see how MV3 fares when compared to MV2 in Firefox and the bespoke content blocking API that Apple uses in Safari (they are adding declarative net request but still trails in functionality when compared to the implementation on Chrome or Firefox). I have to prefix this by…

  • Weekends go so quickly.

    Weekends go so quickly – I wish I had a three day weekend because the first day off one is recovering from work which only leaves one day to actually do something. I’m still deciding whether I should go into the office or work from home – if I go into work I’ll have to…

  • Giving Safari another try.

    I’ve been running Firefox for a while (recently updated to 128.0.3) but every time I update my version of macOS I like to give Safari another try, to see whether things have improved and what bugs have been fixed – I guess I have an optimistic outlook on life where I hope that maybe as…

  • Apple releases software updates and thoughts about Kamala Harris.

    Apple has released updates to all their platforms today and part of that involves a huge number of security fixes that came through (link) with quite a few updates for Webkit and Safari. On my iPhone 15 Pro Max the modem firmware was updated from 1.60.02 to 1.70.02 along with the firmware of both Macs…

  • Photos from my trip around the United Kingdom, Ireland and Paris.

    I have finally uploaded all my photos – I was going to use the Google Photos but I found it easier to share it using Apple Photos since I have everything integrated into the Apple ecosystem – I’ve now got 2TB on iCloud so I might as well use it. I’ve got two albums –…

  • Random thoughts.

    Firefox 128.0.2 has been released (link) – a minor update that fixed some annoying bugs. I haven’t noticed anything major, it’s as reliable as always. The one thing I did notice which I like is how when using Google Chat the icon on the tab has a red dot when someone has replied back to…

  • Joe Biden steps down: My opinion on what has unfolded.

    Just before I start I should put my cards on the table regarding where I am coming from politically – I sit on the left economically and socially I’m a libertarian so for someone like me Bernie Sanders is closer to where I sit politically but that being said I’m realistic. I understand that there…

  • Let’s give them all a go.

    I thought I might as well give Chrome a try with the whole move to MV3 over the next year – I’ve posted a few toots over on my Mastodon account however I thought it would be better to thrash it out on my blog so I doesn’t come across as some sort of adlib…