Matisyahu's Blog

"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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Category: Technology

  • From the school of ‘you learn something new every day’.

    I mentioned earlier about adding a declarative net request filter for websites that you want to allow ads on – I’ve just realised that I made it a whole lot more complex than it is meant to be but I had a good reason. Normally when you click on the extension icon in the toolbar…

  • Two more days to go.

    Went to the work get together to catch up with work mates, share a few drinks and to round off the line there was a free dinner so I hung around for a couple of hours then on the way to the bus stop I picked up a few things then caught the bus home.…

  • A good power walk tonight and back to work on Wednesday.

    I went for a lvery long walk tonight – 17.4km (it took 2.55 hours to complete so if I round it up to 3hours then my speed of walking is 5.8kmph). I don’t know how many calories were burnt but given that I’ve indulged a bit on my break and on my birthday I needed…

  • Productive weekend so far.

    Went and had brunch at the local cafe with the family – eggs bene with extra poached eggs along with a bowel of mochaccino. After enjoying that nice start to the day I popped down to the mall to get my drivers licence redone however I find it difficult to use those eye testing gizmos…

  • One more day to go.

    uBlock Origin Lite for Chrome has been updated to 2025.619.2143 however the ‘Allow List’ has been removed so if you do wish to add a list of websites that you want to exclude from having content blocking to it then you’ll need to open up the settings in uBlock Origin Lite, put a tick next…

  • Work, software updates and walking to the shops.

    I had work today which wasn’t so bad – the morning was quiet but in the evening it started to get a bit busy but it’ll be interesting to see whether it is busy tomorrow with the Matariki public holiday result in a quiet day because families are going away to take advantage of the…

  • A late start but not too busy.

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  • Back to work tomorrow, learnt something today.

    Well, the wheels are in motion to sort out the ‘impulse buy’ yesterday but in the process of tidying up iCloud I came across ‘Codes’ in ‘Passwords’ then it struck me that I didn’t need to sue third party authentication apps because Apple already has it built in. I feel like such a fool purchasing…

  • Getting back into the groove of things.

    I finally got myself back into a good routine tonight by going for a 10km walk after having a bit of an anxiety riddled day – impulsive decision followed by hardly any sleep and then attempting to try and undo the damage of an impulsive decision. After that rollercoaster I find that a good long…

  • I have de-Samsung’ed my phone.

    I went down to One NZ to buy a Samsung S25 Ultra with 512GB storage – after getting it setup the first thing I did was de-Samsung’ed the phone but uninstalling all the Samsung software they pre-install then installing all the Google software such as the Phone, Clock, Calendering, Contacts, GBoard etc. resulting in a…