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We had a pretty quiet week, overall. I did succeed in transferring my cold to Esther, though thankfully for the moment my mom seems to be immune.

I made a [https://8th-dev.com/forum/index.php/topic,1784.0.html new release of 8th], mostly new features and some bug fixes. This is the first release where I didn’t send out announcement emails to our users: there’s just too many, it clogs up my mail server (and I’m too cheap to spend money on a mailing service for this).

Here in Israel, our army has been involved this week in finally addressing the ''Ḥezbolla'' incursion tunnels on our northern border. That’s nice, and way beyond time; but it doesn’t address [https://www.zehutinternational.com/single-post/2018/12/05/When-the-Tunnel-is-the-Enemy-Destroying-it-Turns-into-an-%E2%80%98Operation%E2%80%99?fbclid=IwAR3VPG1pSzq56fymVNn0mSg0jn_b2ULrraJlsrWJ5QdB39C7pAQ_d-yDVSM the actual problem].

The Powers of the Internet are becoming more and more crazy. At Facebook, employees are so paranoid about what will happen to them for expressing [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime wrongthink], they are resorting to using [https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-employees-paranoid-burner-phones-2018-12 burner phones] to talk to each other. The Powers at Twitter have [https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/twitter-deadnaming-misgendering-ban-superstition-magical-thinking/ declared “deadnaming” an actionable offense], among others. El Supremo at Apple, Tim Cook, assumes the rôle of [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkh9kj4H4HY Courageous Censor]. Can you stand all this posturing?

Think about where this is going. Think hard.

Not being as crazy, Microsoft is [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/12/06/goodbye-edge/ abandoning its “Edge” browser] in favor of a Chrome derivative. So sorry for anyone who actually believed Microsoft and put full-effort into supporting “Edge”. Anyway, this further reduces your freedoms as MS gets in bed with Google. Sorry, too, for that mental image…

Some interesting things:
* Tim Sebastian [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MJVJ4jyCQs&feature=share confronts Saeb Erekat], the “Palestinian Chief Negotiator”. Watch, if you can stomach it.
* Australia tries to put the [https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/12/australia-passes-new-law-to-thwart-strong-encryption/ lid back on Pandora’s box]. Good luck, mate.
* Tax the rich! [http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reason/Articles/~3/DJ0sa-penGg/frances-high-taxes-breed-populist-revolt France as a cautionary tale].
* The [https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/12/amazon-automated-machine-punctures-bear-spray-can-24-employees-hospitalized/ robots’ revenge].

We got rain, a lot of it! Still raining this morning as I write this, but the rain will presumably stop and we’ll just have cold weather (high 14C, low 8C) for the next couple days.

This ''shabbat'' the three of us will have:
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''ḥalla'',
chicken schnitzel,
orange soup,
roasted veggies,
rice,
various ''salatim'',
slow roasted beef,
smoked salmon,
and spice cake.

Until next time,<br>
''shabbat shalom''!

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