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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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  • Cancelled trip into Wellington, Apple Improves browser interoperability.

    Well, I’ve enjoyed my second day off from work – just chilling out at home. Last week I was going to head into Wellington to get my keyboard repaired but due to all the craziness along with police advising not to come into the CBD due to the protest. This week I’m going to head…

  • Protests in Wellington, Ubiquiti releases update

    Well, I was going to head into Wellington today (Wednesday) to get the keyboard on my MacBook Pro replaced (as part of the whole programme Apple has running) but given the craziness I saw online in Wellington I decided to wait it out until things get back to normal – a person riding in on…

  • War in Ukraine, COVID arrives at the workplace.

    With the conflict currently going on in Ukraine I’m going to refrain from putting my 5 cents worth in regarding it however I do think it is worth while for people to have a brush up on their history – further back than Putin or the Soviet past – way back to Peter the Great.…

  • Manifest V3 and the future of content blockers.

    its all the discussion regarding Manifest V3 I find it refreshing to see that there are developers bringing to the forefront one of the biggest complains regarding the move to Manifest V3 which is one of the big sticking points for content blockers (link). Alexi made a great point in the most recent minutes where…

  • Experiments in browsers and cloud providers.

    I mentioned on my last post that I had moved over to Google Workspace as a trial (the post yesterday was after almost 2 weeks) and although in some areas it is an improvement I am still drawn back to iCloud because even for all its faults the leading benefit is its integration with macOS,…

  • Google Workspace, Custom domains, Android 13 developer preview.

    Well, I’ve decided to move from iCloud to Google Workspace for my custom domain for a number of reasons. The first is the 3 email address limitation is far too low, I understand the potential reasoning behind it but it has become an impediment since I like to have cohorts of email addresses used for…

  • Galaxy unpacked and the ongoing Exynos/Snapdragon drama.

    It is interesting to see the wheels in motion when it comes to dealing with the big technology companies particularly in the area of app stores. I’m going out on a limb to speculate that Google will probably avoid the worst of it since they already allow people to ‘opt in’ to be able to…

  • Chrome 98 released, what I’d like to see in Safari/Webkit.

    Google has released Chrome 98 (link) and so far everything is stable on macOS – a fair number of security bugs have been fixed. On the topic of Safari though, just when you thought that the issue of IndexedDB had been resolved (the security issue) it appears to have reared its ugly head with reports…

  • Back to Chrome, rumoured information regarding Samsung Galaxy S22 series.

    I tried to give Safari a try, I really did but I’m back using Chrome once again – if it isn’t content blockers that break websites (I only enable the non-problematic filters) it is Safari not working properly with the websites I use such as the Affinity payroll (the website doesn’t work properly, for example,…

  • Apple releases updates, taking time off from work.

    Good news – Apple has released macOS, iOS, watchOS and tvOS updates yesterday (Wednesday US time, Thursday NZ time) which included a large number of security fixes including a fix for the IndexedDB leak which has been left unfixed since November – better late than never I guess. Those updates also included firmware updates –…