"When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called 'the People's Stick'"
Category: Technology
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There have been some massive announcements so far this week such as AMD with hits Zen3+, RDNA 2 GPUs as well as Pluton (security processor). AMD will be the first out of the gate to support Pluton – it’ll be interesting to see articles explaining how Windows 11 makes use of it now and what…
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The first week back at work didn’t go too badly – it is annoying how holidays go quickly but what I’m going to do (because I have such a surplus of annual leave) is to see whether I can cash in a week’s annual leave (clear off the ‘interest free’ deal I have with my…
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Well, that was rather unexpected. After posting about using Chrome and the problem I was having with iCloud in regards to removing an alias that would keep reappearing. Well, I came home tonight after work and thought, “might as well see if I can remove that alias” and amazing enough it actually was able to…
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Another day and a new uBlock Origin release – although I can install it via the Chrome extensions store the problem is that the Chrome extensions store always seems to lag behind so instead what I do is download the .zip file and side load it (going to the extensions page, enabling ‘developer mode’ then…
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Ah, the ongoing saga that is Manifest V3 with the current schedule (link) continues as Google insists on pushing forward with it’s schedule: Even in the light of the growing list of issues that need resolving (link) not to mention unhappy developers who are trying to keep their new projects moving forward while they liaison…
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There was an interesting video uploaded by Louis Rossman regarding who consumers trust with their data (link): It appears that Louis was confused (along with I) regarding how the average person has more trust in Google than they do with Apple regarding keeping their personal data safe. I wonder when the question was asked to…
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Starting into the first week of the holidays and Ubiquiti has release an firmware update for their UDM 1.11.0 which introduces bug fixes, optimisations such as improved PPPoE throughput, making WPA3 available for mainstream adoption and lots more (link). A nice little early Christmas present which, as of the time of this writing having used…
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Almost at the end of the week and looking forward to next week when I have time off from work – using three days of my annual leave but getting 9 days off in total due to my normal week being Wednesday to Sunday (Monday and Tuesday being my weekend) so I end up with…
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Writing this on Sunday 12 December I’m looking back at the week that was. I took my scooter in on Monday and have found that the cost of fixing the big moved from, “oh, maybe a couple of hundred dollars” to “you can pretty much buy a whole new bike for that amount” which I…
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Back to using Safari – Chrome has its benefits but I think I’ve got things nailed down with Safari and Ad Guard. I think the problems I’ve had in the past is that I haven’t gotten it setup properly before I started ‘surfing the net’. What I’ve done this time is when I installed Ad…
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