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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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  • Giving Firefox a try.

    With Google hell bent on crippling their browsers functionality with the gradual work being done around killing off MV2 in favour of MV3 which cripples content blockers by limiting the number of filters that can be enabled, removing functionality for the sake of “but what happens if they install an extension from a non-verified source!”…

  • This is why you always need to read the source.

    Another day and another example of the right wing misrepresenting an article. This time the noise makers are claiming that MSNBC is claiming exercising is right wing (link) but then again that is assuming that such noise makers had any intention of being honest with their audience. Long story short it is raising the same…

  • Time and a half is always good.

    Well, I’m working on Matariki but on the upside there is a bonus – I get time and a half plus a day in lieu since this is my normal day of work (I work a Wednesday to Sunday schedule). One thing I’ll need to remember is completing the time sheet at the end of…

  • The universe is balancing itself out.

    Instagram Threads launched on 5 July 2023 and within a week they now have 100 million with many, many high profile people moving over from Twitter to Threads. I think long term you’ll find that it’ll come in waves as features are added then eventually once ActivityPub integration occurs you may find that Instagram will…

  • It takes time to turn around a tanker.

    As most of you probably already know, Meta are launching Instagram Threads and along with that launch comes the detractors (with good reason mind you) but I think it is also important to remind ourselves of a few things: a) Turning a large corporation takes time so even if you are sceptical that they’re going…

  • Trump supporters support Trump because he is Trump.

    I know it sounds redundant to make that glaringly obvious statement but it appears that those who are pushing the narrative that ‘Ron DeSantis is Trump but without the chaos’ ignore why Trump supporters support Trump in the first place. The video below does a great analysis of what is happening on the campaign trail:…

  • Tidying up my blog and back to work.

    I’ve tidied up my blog by making sure that all the posts I have made have a title. In the past I used to use a blogging client but these days the web app for WordPress is powerful enough to replace a native application. I also deleted all blog posts before 2020, nothing of any…

  • Synchronising music from macOS to Android and finding a better music player.

    Apologies for the lack of a short and snappy title but I’ve been pulling my hair out trying to find out why ptpcamerad kept relaunching every time I killed the process – one option was to run this command in the background: while ; do; kill -9 $(ps aux | grep “[p]tpcamera” | awk ‘{print…

  • The good, the bad and a whole lot of meh.

    Let’s start with the bad, I woke up this morning all ready to head off to work and found that my scooter not only has a flat front tyre but also a flat back tyre as well. I guess the saving grace being that I can work from home which meant it was a giant…

  • One more day to go.

    One more day to go – working at the moment (Saturday) then one more day (Sunday) before the weekend. Although it isn’t everyone’s cup of tea I love working Wednesday to Sunday and having Monday/Tuesday off for my weekend because having two week days off gives me the ability to chase up errands that need…