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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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  • Tomorrow off from work, getting closer to annual leave.

    Today was rather uneventful, had some good calls although I had a few who wanted to talk to the supervisor – nothing I could do and the call was unrelated to me. It is funny how sometimes you can have a quiet day then suddenly a day filled with people wanting to speak to a supervisor and it isn’t worth my while trying to deal with something given that I don’t have the magic title therefore my words, no matter how correct they are, don’t carry the weight of ‘the office’ associated with being a supervisor..

    My Mac Studio was meant to be delivered today but unfortunately I didn’t hear them knock on the door so I’ve organised them to deliver it tomorrow. They normally deliver in the afternoon but I’ll get up early just in case they end up delivering it earlier because normally the deliveries work is that they’ll do business deliveries in the morning and then residential deliveries in the afternoon – I guess because businesses pay a premium for overnight delivery with the expectation it is available at the start of the day on the next business day.

    Apple has released the release candidates for their platforms with the expectation that, based on years prior, that it’ll be released next week sometime (normally Wednesday or Thursday), assuming there are no show stopper bugs. Most of the reports have noted that it addresses quite a few ‘fit and finish’ issues along with improved responsiveness etc. but for me the interesting part will be the improvements that Safari 26.2 will bring and how many of the improvements that appear in the current Technology Preview release make it into the main stream release of Safari (on the Web Platform Test website Safari is currently sitting at 99% thus inching very close to completing the goals set out at the beginning of this year).

    I have to admit, the new look and feel has really grown on me – it is the small things such as the ‘bounciness’ and ‘wobbliness’ that really takes me back to a time when technology had some whimsy and fun before it turned into the stark minimalism that we’ve been living under for the last decade and a bit (along with the whole ‘sad beige mum’ aesthetic that has made everything boring and monotone). Maybe we’re going to see a new aesthetic in response to 10 years of minimalism but I only hope that with this correction that there isn’t an over correction resulting in something that is just as bad but at the other end of the spectrum.

    On a side note, it is always funny how the term ‘liberation’ is distorted these days into the idea of rather than getting rid of the system but rather expanding who is included in the system resulting in the system being maintained and perpetuated. Bringing more women and minorities into the top echelons of the system doesn’t undermine it but rather it further legitimises it in the eyes of the very people who are being oppressed by it by convincing large numbers that since a few have made it that those opportunities are available for all. Through incorporating women and minorities into the power structure it perpetuates the illusion of a meritocracy which in turn justifies those at the top vs those at the bottom.

    This is much the same sort of justification that the capitalist class like to use in regards to the meritocratic argument because it provides them with ready to use moral justification for the status quo (a secular version of ‘the divine order of world’)- “I got to the top through hard work, the world is just and people are rewarded for how much hard work they’re willing to put into it”. True liberation is achieved not through perpetuating the the existing power structure with a few tweaks but rather tearing it down and replacing it so that all people have a say in regards to what as society are considered the priorities rather than a privileged few. A democratisation of the economy where we the people choose the direction of society rather than it being in the hands of a small number who are far removed from every day realities – insulated from the consequences of their decisions through their proximity to power and being able to leverage relationships.

  • Back into a good routine.

    Finished work today and although the weather was looking pretty lousy I was able to squeeze in an 11.6km walk even with the drizzle. After coming back home, I grabbed a warm drink, showered then jumped into bed to watch a few YouTube videos and just as I did that I noticed that it started raining a lot heavier so I’m happy I took the opportunity to go for some exercise when I could. It appears that the wet weather will be with us for today and tomorrow but hopefully over the weekend the weather will get better and progressively get better as I get closer to my two weeks off that start on 15 December.

    I’ve sold my Google Streamer and Samsung S25 Ultra so now I’ve got my Microsoft Surface Laptop – if I don’t sell it before Christmas then I might decide to give it to mum or just hold onto it for next year but there is no major sense of urgency since it isn’t a matter of needing the money. When I ordered the Mac Studio I got the base model since it has more than enough memory and storage for what I need it for:

    It is schedule to arrive on Friday however it may end up arriving on Thursday because it has already left the warehouse in Australia. I guess one of the benefits of not customising it means that it is already in stock to ship. I was going to get the Mac mini with a M4 Pro but then I realised that after the customisation that I was better off going for the base model of the Studio where I could get the M4 Max along with extra GPU cores and slightly more memory bandwidth which will be great when gaming – something I want to get back into. I’ve given AdGuard Mini another try and it appears that the slow down and freezing of the web pages has to do with one of the additional bits of functionality for advanced blocking but when disabled the issue goes away. Although uBlock Origin Lite isn’t perfect it is free and doesn’t have the draw backs of AdGuard Mini but that being said I’m always open to alternatives if a superior extension appears.

    One of the good things about moving back to the iPhone is being able to delete WhatsApp and being able to use iMessage instead along with cancelling the Pocket Casts subscription now that I’ve got Apple Podcasts which is so much better than YouTube Music which is the default podcast app on Android. It truly is amazing how Google had a perfectly good podcasting app aka Google Podcasts which was simple, straight forward and very responsive only to then replace it with the bloated behemoth that is YouTube Music. There is a reason why there are separate apps because Podcasts are different to Music which is different to the traditional YouTube yet for some reason the powers that be decided that throwing it all in one app makes a whole lot of sense.

    Oh, and before I go, it appears that once again on a day that ends in a y we have conservatives playing the persecution card when they don’t get their own way (link) – wrote a lousy essay but apparently it’s everyone else’s fault that ‘because god said so’ isn’t a coherent argument when writing an essay at a university level course. I remember reading the article and I thought, “there are so many ways you go talk about this subject matter in interest ways and that was the way you decided to write an essay?”. I really do have to ask how on earth such people get into university when their critical thinking skills are that bad. Imagine if in response to someone asking me to justify my left wing world view my only response was ‘because Marx said so’ I wouldn’t blame them for marking my essay with a big fat zero.

  • Back to work on Wednesday.

    I had a quiet day at home today – went for a walk around the block, sent off a the Google Streamer I sold online via courier as an overnight (it is easier for me to courier it than for the buyer to pick it up or me drop it off even though we’re in the same region). I did some organising around the house but I think I’ll be doing a lot more when I go for my two weeks off over Christmas. I’m tempted to replace my current desk along with getting some new chairs for my office desk as well as the desk in the lounge room but it is something I want to go and sit in as well as measure up when sitting so I can compare it to the height of the desk to ensure that it is comfortable.

    I finally ‘bit the bullet’ and ordered a a desktop replacement – Mac Studio along with a monitor, keyboard and touchpad which will arrive in the next week along with a Snakehive case for my phone. I’ve been asked what colour phone I got, I ended up getting a silver one because I looked at the orange one and given the reports of fading and other issues I decided to stick with silver but it isn’t a major issue given that I always keep my phone in a case hence it remains in pristine condition.

    The one thing I noticed with iOS when compared to Android is how responsive it is – everything is so far as fluid not to mention the fact that when Apple makes updates available it is made available globally on day one rather than the situation with Samsung of “will it be this month? my guess is as good as yours” not to mention the fact that as of 2 December 2025 NZ time that the Play Service was still stuck on the September release. All I can say is that thank god I’m not a prominent person with thousands of people trying to hack my phone.

    Another thing I noticed is that the App Store on my Mac receive extension updates a lot quicker than with the Chrome and Edge stores. I have uBlock Origin Lite installed on Safari but I’ve also given the new AdGuard 2.0 – unfortunately I found that with AdGuard it would freeze the web page – I’ve enabled all the filters that are available so I am wondering whether there Is a performance hit because it maybe the result of having to wait until the filters are converted over to the native content blocking filter format (since the Declarative Net Request (DNR) API is built on top of the native content blocking API rather than it being a native implementation from the ground up.

    Safari 26.1 is a big improvement over the 18.7 that was included with macOS 15.7 – I’m wondering whether they made some big under the hood changes that were too intensive to include a minor updated so instead they rolled into the next major version of macOS instead. I’ve uploaded the passwords along with setting up 2FA integration rather than having to use an external application which makes the experience a lot smoother. It’ll be interesting to see the improvements that come with Safari 26.2 (link) and how it’ll improve the experience when using it. The link is for the beta release of Safari 26.2 which is an upgrade of Safari for macOS 15.x series so there maybe functionality differences but it does give a good insight on how things are progressing.

    Tomorrow I’ll post about the announcements that Labour have made regarding healthcare, capital gains tax etc. I’m cautiously optimistic about the idea of the current National led government being a one term government but I’m also realistic that one term governments are very rare – just because people are unhappy with the current government doesn’t automatically translate to the majority of voters wanting to vote for parties on the left. This is the reason why I’m cautious about influencers online talking up a ‘blue wave’ in the mid terms given that I’ve heard similar rhetoric being put out there into the ether only to find that when election day came that rather than unhappiness translating to more voters for Democrats it actually resulted in a lower voter turn out with Republicans still winning.

    I really don’t want this to be the case but I also have to be realistic and not to get caught up in the hopium that many online engage in. I understand the need to have something to look forward to particularly when you see the world in the state that it is in but equally it is important to remain grounded and understand that it is an uphill fight. The fact that the party in power is shooting themselves in the foot is no assurance that it’ll translate into an automatic victory for the centre left. With that being said, it is encouraging to see there is a realisation of what Obama said one time “don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good” or was Biden said “don’t compare me to the Almighty, compare me to the alternative”.

    The holding out for the perfect candidate with the perfect policy has resulted in what we see today with Trump – hopefully it’ll act as a reminder to the Democratic base that politics is a marathon not a sprint or to use another metaphor, when you’re playing football you have to gradually move the ball from one end of the field to another which may involve passing backwards, or simply holding on the ball then taking opportunities when they’re provided. You’re not going to score a goal by booting it down the field then holding it lands in the goal given thee is a high likelihood you’ll lose possession resulting in not having to push back to ensure the other team doesn’t gain ground but also working to take the ball back.

  • A busy day, lots of rain and moving back to Mac.

    Rather than being a hermit on my day off I decided to get out of the house and head down to the store to have a look around, check out what iOS 26 is actually like rather than the early judgements I made which were based on screenshots and videos. I decided that, after much mulling over what I should do, that I went all in and decided to move back to the Apple ecosystem after giving Windows a good college try – I really wanted it to work but I’m so used to the way things work in the Apple world – everything is rather disjointed when trying to get the Google and Microsoft ecosystem to work nicely together.

    I have to admit, I was hasty when I saw the whole Liquid Glass but I think the experience of being in the Windows ecosystem was a much needed wake up call to remind me that although I have my laundry list of issues to complain about that the issues pale in comparison to what the alternative is. I bought an iPhone 17 Pro Max, Apple TV 4K and a MacBook Pro 16″ however I ordered a Mac mini, keyboard, touchpad and monitor online because Apple was having a Black Friday/cyber Monday specials so that’ll be arriving in the next few days (I’ve ordered a Snakehive case for my phone because I like having a nice leather case). On a side note, although it doesn’t have the latest and greatest chip in it, it does have WiFi 6E which means it supports 6GHz that my access point broadcasts so it is getting a decent amount of bandwidth along with good latency.

    Today was fine weather so I was able to combine a good amount of walking in during the day, taking the bus to Courtenay place then walking back to the train station not to mention the walking around Lower Hutt between the the various parts of the city has I compared prices etc. Before heading off I put my groceries away – I’m all set for the coming week with everything I need which should make life pretty easy. On Friday I’ve got the company Christmas party so I’ll jump on the train and getting back home should be pretty easy given that they have a late night service even after midnight.

    On a side note, I saw a video entitled “Why American Capitalism FAILED The Working Class” – sorry to be the bearer of bad news but capitalism is working as intended and what we see regarding the concentration of capital and the massive disparity between rich and poor is by design not by accident. It is always interesting when you can see someone get so close to ‘getting it’ but something stops them from getting to the conclusion that the solution is to replace capitalism with a entirely new system rather than the endless tweaking that always ends up resulting in new problems that are sometimes even worse than the problem that was attempting to be fixed.

  • Start of the weekend.

    Work was good today, felt a lot better after a few days of rest and I was fairly productive getting through quite a few emails as well as answering phone calls and following up with past enquiries. After work I decided to have tonight off since there is rain that is on and off so while I had something to eat I checked the shopping I had ordered online to see whether I left anything out – I added a few more items to the order to cover myself for another week. Next week on Friday I have a work Christmas party that I’ll catch the train to – I decided to take the whole day off so then I could sleep in rather than having a early start after a late finish on Thursday then the week after on 15 December starts two weeks off over Christmas to spend time with the family. I think it’ll just be mum, my sister and her partner, along with the two nieces but I don’t see my brother, his partner and kids coming over given the chaos of having to deal with kids who aren’t used to travelling and staying in unfamiliar surroundings.

    I was hoping that maybe on Saturday NZ time (Friday US time) that maybe there would be an upgrade to Chrome 143 would be released but it appears that’ll probably happen next week (Microsoft Edge will probably be released around the same time). I’ve also been keeping an eye on Webkit to see whether Safari Technology Preview 233 had been released but that’ll probably be released next week as well. I’m going to head down the road on Monday to have a look around at the store, see what specials are on, maybe get myself a coffee and also have a look at the new iPhone along with having some hands on experience with the new iOS 26.1. I’ve been kind of negative about the whole ‘liquid glass’ but I think it is about time that I have some experience using it hands on rather than relying on screenshots and what other people have posted about because it doesn’t exactly give a fair representation if you’re not using it first hand to make the judgement call.

    In terms of my diet, I’ve been focusing on getting a good amount of fibre in my diet along with protein because I spent a good amount of time making sure I got a decent amount of protein to keep my feeling full but I’ve found that increasing my fibre has also helped not only feeling fuller for longer but ensuring I don’t even up having an energy crash. I’ve been eating the John West tuna meals that come with brown rice etc. and I’ll pair that up with a unsweetened yoghurt that I add some psyllium husk along with some low calorie sweetener. I’ve found that if I have that for brunch then for dinner along with a coffee at the first 15 minute break and the final 15 minute break that I don’t feel hungry although I do have a sweet tooth I try to keep that in moderation – a balance between a good diet with the occasional treat.

    On Monday I’ve got my grocery order being delivered – hopefully the weather get better so I can get back into going for a walk because I enjoy getting some fresh air but at the moment the wind is blowing crazy and lots of rain. According to the Metservice the weather should be find but with wind but showers later on in the evening/overnight so I guess it’ll be a matter of seeing what happens rather than planning too far in advance.

  • Relaxing at home. Taking it one day at a time.

    On the road to recovery by spending today at home and while at home I was watching a great interview over on YouTube – it is great to see an ecosystem that is building particularly when it comes to one with centre left to left wing unafraid of calling a spade a spade vs in the past with the obsession about decorum and presentation over substance.

    It is great to see that the sort of independent/non-traditional media ecosystem is building on the centre left to left wing. It is ging to be a long uphill slog given that millionaires and billionaires aren’t exactly going to give money to independent media which advocate changes to a system that they benefit from. With that in mind, it is probably for the best that slow organic growth will result in an audience that stays around for the long term because there is a tendency that fast growth can result in an audience that doesn’t hang around for the long term.

    With that being said, what is also needed is an ecosystem that moves beyond commentary to include in depth reporting – Democracy Now does a good job but ideally there needs to a single organisation that can bring together freelance journalists together so that resources can be pooled. You’d think that after Washington Post published 16 negative articles in 24 hours about Bernie Sanders that maybe the centre left and the left wing would realise that they have very few friends (if any at all) in the establishment media but I guess it is a situation of ‘better late than never’.

    When it comes to politicians, it is amazing how bad so many of them are – continuously having to be briefed about subject matter that they should be fluent in such as Kamala Harris getting frustrated about not being briefed about healthcare before an interview. With all due respects, if you’re getting into politics it is because you’re wanting to make the world a better place and I would assume if that is your goal then you should be sleeping, eating and working on policy. The idea of a politician having the distinction of being called a ‘policy wonk’ makes me wonder why the heck are all the other politicians are there to do if they’re not engaged in crafting policy. No one expects fine granular details but you should be able to talk off the cuff at a macro level regarding what you want to do for healthcare or any other area that interviewer wishes to ask you about.

  • A day off from work.

    Woke up today with stomach cramps and felt under the weather so I decided to have the day off, resting in bed, drinking plenty of water to keep hydrated. I’ll need to have a good night sleep and see how things work out tomorrow but depending on what happens I’ll make the decision when I get to it. I went for a small walk tonight just for the sake of some fresh air but nothing more than that.

    I was watching the following video and there were some interesting points being made particularly regarding the whole shut down situation that occured in the United States:

    I disagree with a few points that David Frum raised in the video – the idea of having a single payer healthcare policy isn’t ‘militant left wing’ is merely bringing the United States inline with almost every other country in the OECD. Are there issues that I disagree with regarding what Zohran Mamdani proposed? yes, but the reason why he won was because he dealt with the ‘bread and butter issues’ – didn’t get bogged down in BS culture wars so if there is something that Democrats can learn then it is the need to stay on message and no get distracted with sideshows that the Republicans put up to derail to conversation away the very topics that they’re failing to address.

    As for what should have been done – they should have held out and forced the hand of the Republican Party to get rid of the filibuster to then get them to pass the budget with a simple majority. The only reason why the Republican Party don’t want to get rid of the filibuster is because they know their ‘big beautiful bill’ is very unpopular so instead what they need to do is to spread the blame as wide as possible then play the game, when there is the obvious backlash, that the budget was passed with bipartisan support so therefore the Democrats are as guilty as the Republicans for the negative consequences of the bill. To force the Republican Party into that position where they get rid of the filibuster you need shape the narrative in the media and the only way you can do that is for every senator to go out and speak to a unified voice, go onto every media outlet and podcast, carpet bomb the airwaves with your narrative and that includes going into hostile territory such as Fox News.

    If you create the narrative, control the narrative and push that narrative then the onus falls back on the Republican Party – make it abundantly clear that the Republican Party have a majority in both chambers so therefore the responsibility of getting it passed falls on their shoulders, that it isn’t the Democratic Party’s responsibility to carry water for the Republican Party. If you truly believe that the policy you’re advancing is good for the country and popular then you would remove the filibuster, pass it with a simple majority, go off to the mid terms boasting about how you kept the government open and got the budget passed then if that is what the US public want then it should translate to a thumping victory and possibly an even larger majority in both chambers.

    Getting back to home, it is interesting how the National Party is already getting themselves prepared for election time next year with discussions regarding privatisation being back on the agenda which kind of puts them in a situation that their only coalition partner left being the Act Party. If the only party they can form a coalition with is the Act Party then either one of two things will need to happen – the both of them will need to get enough seats to form a majority or they form a minority government but find that their ability to get anything through is severely crippled by the lack of a majority.

    When it comes to New Zealand First, Winston Peter’s whole raison d’être is opposing privatisation and foreign ownership of strategic assets – New Zealand First like Jim Anderton’s New Labour came as a response to the neoliberalism of the 1980s when both Jim and Winston found themselves at odds with the neoliberal orthodoxy sweeping both parties and found that the party they joined no longer represented their philosophical world view. National have boxed themselves into a corner which makes me wonder whether they’re setting themselves up to lose the election because they don’t have the numbers rather than losing the election because the New Zealand public rejected their three years of ‘getting back on track’ only to find that after three years they’re no where near the track.

  • Raining and more rain.

    Today it was raining all day and raining at night – it really didn’t stop until around 2am which by that time was far too late to go for a walk. I decided to stay at home, have some vegetarian chilli for dinner while watching some YouTube videos (the vegetarian chilli would actually go well with mince or firm tofu that is fried and then the chilli mix added to it).

    It looks like the update to Chrome, Edge as well as Safari Technology Preview has been delayed probably either until Friday or maybe next week. It is an indication that if there are security fixes in the next version those issues are either low severity or if they are high severity that there are not active exploits out in the world. There are rumours that the next version of iOS and macOS scheduled to be version 27 will be a a ‘Snow Leopard’ release where the focus is on ‘fit and finish’ where there will be no new features other implementing the AI features talked about at this year’s WWDC. Even at version 26.1 I still see a lot of people complaining about the half finished nature of version 26 which kind of feeds into the narrative that the whole ‘liquid glass’ was something that was hurriedly slapped together at the last minute.

    For me the most disappointing part of the whole Apple M5 refresh is the fact that it didn’t include the N1 chip and still relying on the Broadcom wireless chip lacking WiFi 7 support. It is the year 2025, if you’re shipping WiFi 6 products and you’re charging a premium for your products then what you’re really doing is just ‘taking the piss’. Yeah, I have my laundry list of things I can whinge about regarding Microsoft but holy heck when both Apple and Microsoft are just half assing their product quality and adoption of the latest technologies then it is difficult not to feel negative/pessimistic about the future of technology.

    I remember in the past I used to excited about a new hardware or software release, that there was a leap forward but now I recoil in horror wondering what useless crap they’ve foisted upon the end user (see Microsoft and their ‘agentic OS’ fixation) mean while they cannot get the basics correct (see Safari and the Declarative Net Request API implementation being broken six ways from Sunday). I can deal with features that I may not be interested – plenty of them on my Samsung phone but I just ignore them but when the basics aren’t done well while all the focus is on pointless features then it does raise the blood pressure a bit.

  • Rather uneventful day.

    Finished work tonight, went for my 11.6km walk, jumped in and had a shower and now relaxing in bad watching some YouTube videos. The day so far has been rather uneventful, got up, had brunch, logged into my computer and found that Google hadn’t released an update for Chrome – maybe something happened and it had to be pushed back to Thursday NZ time (Wednesday US time)? I guess we’ll need to wait and see for what happens tomorrow when I check for updates.

    If Microsoft want to know why there is backlash against their whole ‘agentic OS’ idea then here is another article pointing out problems that have been left unaddressed with Microsoft demonstrating via the lack of progress that they actually care about fixing the problem (link). I’ve been lucky enough to not have any of the issues expressed in the article but others have – when you cannot get the basics done well then don’t be surprised there is push back online for dopey ideas such as ‘agentic OS’ – something no body asked for and no body wants other than the insufferable people you hang out with in silicon valley that are completely divorced from the real world.

    On the Microsoft 365 saga and how it has been impossible for me to close the account – it appears that if you cancel a licence that the licence isn’t officially cancelled until the end of the billing cycle. The reason why I bring this up is because when I try to cancel the account it keeps coming back saying that I have an active licence even though all the licences are cancelled on the account.

    I’ve been watching a few YouTube videos of synth music playing to a video montage of photos and videos and there is a feeling of not only nostalgia but also a feeling that there was a time where there was an optimistic vision of the future only for the future to arrive and it has been a giant disappointment. The internet was envisaged as being a way for the world to come together only to find that the optimism about social media has turned into a dystopian hellscape – providing a platform of people to show the worst side of themselves and there being no shame for behaving in such a way then algorithsm amplifying and rewarding such behaviour.

    Products that were exciting have now become boring, what is being launched is filled with crap no one asked for meanwhile said companies can’t even get the basics working. Let’s not get started on the pointless waste of resources and energy the whole AI LLM is going to turn out to be all the while we have an environmental calamity coming our way but silicon valley dude bros have got their head firmly planted up their own backside while they enjoy their yacht that has another yacht inside it along side a sports car that costs more than the average house.

    Oh well, maybe I’m becoming cynical in my old age but the optimistic future seems to be replaced with faux futurism – the illusion of progress without an real meaningful progress. I think a good part of this has to do with neoliberalism – where as in the past the government would engage in big nation building based forward looking vision of where to take the nation where as today what the government now does is little more than managed decline at best and at worst indifference to the fact that things that were taken for granted in the past, eg building public housing, is now marked in the ‘too hard’ basket as politicians come up with elaborate PPP because god forbid the government directly build something for the common good.

  • Three more weeks to go.

    I decided to go all out tonight and go for a 23.2KM walk – I really needed to go for a walk after a lazy day on Monday and after coming back it felt good having accomplished what I wanted. On my walk I like to use it as a time to consolidate my thoughts and plan what I am going to do for the coming week – I’ve decided that going forward what I’m going to do is buy all my groceries online and get it delivered because when I go shopping I buy things I don’t really need (aka ‘junk food’) because I browse where as online I have a list of things I need to purchase and just get those delivered. Three more weeks to go before I go on my two weeks off at the end of the year.

    uBlock Origin Lite 2025.1123.1640 is now in the Chrome extension store – most of the time you should find that the update is transparent and you won’t need to do anything yourself. On Wednesday NZ Time (Tuesday US Time) Chrome 143 will be released and depending on the nature of the security updates (if there are any) then we may see an update for Microsoft Edge but that is unlikely due to Microsoft tending to release the update after Chrome releases their update. Not next week but the week after Microsoft will be releasing patch Tuesday and based on the notes from November it’ll be purely a bug and security fix so don’t expect any new features.