Mathew Packer

  • Safe Social Media & Kids

    🔗 The Instagram Changes Are Not Enough

    I think the solution to keep minors safe on social media requires a combination of social media companies, hardware companies, and parents.

    It’s easy to point the finger and demand a Government response to the growing issue of online safety for kids on social media, and of course they should play a part in it.

    However, as we are the ones that buy our kids mobile devices that access these social media networks, we need to take responsibility and be the ones that are managing how our kids are accessing these ones.

    I’m not kidding myself for one second thinking that our kids won’t try and find a way around whatever restrictions we apply, but if we’re not trying and we’re just passing the buck, then what example are we setting for our kids.

  • 🎥 Watched: Leave the World Behind

    A family’s getaway to a luxurious rental home takes an ominous turn when a cyberattack knocks out their devices, and two strangers appear at their door.

    Leave the World Behind on IMDB

    Netflix has the worst volume differential between the dialogue and the music in their movies.

    If you adjust the volume so the music doesn’t blow your ears out, you can’t hear the dialogue, so you turn it up and some more music plays and it’s loud as fuck!

    Ugh I’m so old! 😜

  • 🎥 Watching: Hot Tub Time Machine

    Rob Corddry is so funny, absolute classic!

    A malfunctioning time machine at a ski resort takes a man back to 1986 with his two friends and nephew, where they must relive a fateful night and not change anything to make sure the nephew is born.

    Hot Tub Time Machine on IMDB.

  • 🎥 Watching: Sucker Punch

    Haven’t watched this movie in a while, came up as a suggestion on Binge so I figured why not.

    A young girl institutionalized by her abusive stepfather retreats to an alternative reality as a coping strategy and envisions a plan to help her escape.

    Sucker Punch on IMDB

  • 🎥 Watching: Deadpool & Wolverine

    Great movie, love it!

    Deadpool is offered a place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe by the Time Variance Authority, but instead recruits a variant of Wolverine to save his universe from extinction.

    Deadpool & Wolverine on IMDB

  • 📺 Started Watching: SHŌGUN

    When a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village, Lord Yoshii Toranaga discovers secrets that could tip the scales of power and devastate his enemies.

    SHŌGEN on IMDB.

  • ⚽️ Arsenal 4 – 2 Leicester

    Good win by The Arsenal over Leicester last night, especially with Manchester City drawing with Newcastle!

  • 🎥 Watching: Knocked Up

    On the Apatow roll now.

    For fun-loving party animal Ben Stone, the last thing he ever expected was for his one-night stand to show up on his doorstep eight weeks later to tell him she’s pregnant with his child.

    Knocked Up on IMDB

  • 🎥 Watching: Superbad

    Absolute classic!

    Two co-dependent high school seniors are forced to deal with separation anxiety after their plan to stage a booze-soaked party goes awry.

    Superbad on IMDB

  • WordPress v WP Engine

    WordPress.org bans WP Engine, blocks it from accessing its resources

    WordPress drama went up another notch on Wednesday after WordPress.org, the open-source web hosting software, banned hosting provider WP Engine from accessing its resources.

    Well that escalated rapidly!

    You’d hate to be a WP Engine customer at the moment, caught in the middle of the drama, not being able to auto-update plugins, wondering whether to move to a different host, or even a different platform!

    This will get worse before it gets better, I’m not confident WordPress or WP Engine will make smart decisions here.

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