"When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called 'the People's Stick'"
Category: Politics
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Almost the end of another week, I was hoping to get 20-26 December off from work but I’ve been dragged back into doing a shift on Christmas eve. I wanted the day off but what I might do is ask for a couple of days on the other side so I end up getting off…
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Apple released a series of updates for all their platforms with the system firmware and wifi firmware being updated with the latest update with many security bugs being fixed in macOS (link) along with bumping the Safari version from 17 to 17.1. There have been some improvements in Webextesions support, there is still a lot…
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Although we won’t have an official final result until 3 November, by then all the special votes would have been counted, it is clear that New Zealand voted for change. With this vote for change the internet has been over whelemed with hot takes, bad takes and a whole lot of cope with people reading…
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Well, I’ve given Safari a try for a couple of weeks with one week using Safari 17 (using AdGuard with all but the filters that are labelled problematic enabled) and so far it has been good but I run into compatibility issues with some sites not to mention the limitations of Apple’s Webextensions API implementation…
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I’m always sceptical when I hear politicians talking about ‘cutting back end staff’ and ‘putting more money into front end staff’ because in sounds great in theory as so long as you don’t think about it too deeply for more than 5 minutes. I find it interesting how ‘back end staff’ is being used as…
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If you’ve been following the election so far there are the usual suspects whipping the population into hysteria about how the whole system is going to collapse in on itself due to Labour’s free spending ways (link) (link) – put ‘nz increase public debt’ into Google News and see the avalanche of doom and gloom…
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I thought it would be best to write a follow up to a toot/post I made over on Mastodon to expand upon the point I was making – the benefit of microblogging is that it is easy to get ideas out into the ether of the internet but many times they’re terse and lacking the…
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I was hoping that Nothing OS 2.0 would be Android 14 based but with the launch of the Nothing Phone 2.0 the Nothing OS 2.0 is based on Android 13 which will be coming to the Nothing Phone 1 – it’ll be interesting to see whether the kernel is upgraded to a newer version but…
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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…
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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…
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