Blogs / February 2018
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Instagram-created art
- Jack Yan
- I don’t know if Instagram does this on all phones, but when I make multi-photo posts, it often leaves behind a very interesting image.
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Review: Rushes
- The Wellingtonista
- Circa Theatre has been transformed into a series of performances areas featuring music, video, and contemporary dance.
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We need to heed the warnings that Harry Leslie Smith gives
- Jack Yan
- Not that Asian countries get this right all the time, but generally, when a 95-year-old speaks, we (as in many of us with Asian heritage, and by ‘Asian’ I mean a lot of cultures that make up the 3,700 million people on the continent) tend to listen and we revere their experience.
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Upgrading from Flyme 6.2 on a rooted Meizu M2 Note
- Jack Yan
- Since Flyme 6.
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Wired’s Louise Matsakis did what no other journalist could: break the story on Facebook’s forced malware scans
- Jack Yan
- With how widespread Facebook’s false malware accusations were—Facebook itself claims millions were “helped” by them in a three-month period—it was surprising how no one in the tech press covered the story.
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Kylie Jenner Tweets, Snapchat’s value down US$1,300 million
- Jack Yan
- All it takes is a single Tweet from Kylie Jenner—and Snapchat’s value drops 6 per cent, or US$1,300 million.
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From one school shooting survivor to others
- Jack Yan
- On February 14, 2008, my cousin Paul’s son Harold was shot and injured at a school shooting at Northern Illinois University.
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It’s Festivals time!
- The Wellingtonista
- It’s almost that glorious point in Wellington’s calendar when the New Zealand Festival (23 February – 18 March), the Performance Arcade (23-25 Feb, 1-4 March) the Pride Festival (24 February – 10 March) and the NZ Fringe Festival Wellington (2-24 March) are all on at the same time.
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TPPA-11: same thing, different face
- Jack Yan
- Neil Ballantyne/Wikimedia Commons How much has TPPA changed? Not a lot, according to this petition.
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Of course Facebook knew about stolen accounts, even back in 2014: I told them
- Jack Yan
- Official White House Photo by Pete Souza In Wired today: ‘Russian trolls stole US identities to hide in plain sight’.
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Why you shouldn’t sign up for Facebook’s two-factor authentication
- Jack Yan
- I know, you’re stick of reading my reporting on my experiences with Facebook et al, let alone what someone else is going through.
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When Microsoft says your Windows 10 needs a reset or full reinstallation, they might be wrong
- Jack Yan
- As many of you know, between around December 8 and February 2—dates during which I had Microsoft Windows 10’s fall Creators update without the January 31 cumulative patch—my computer suffered roughly three to six BSODs per day.
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Review: Aunty
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- AUNTY is billed as a family BBQ, and it certainly delivers.
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Orange may be the new black but the difference is less than you think
- Jack Yan
- Instruct Studio It’s easy to dismiss comedians as, well, comedians, there to tell a joke and to get a laugh out of us.
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The folly of Windows 10
- Jack Yan
- Now that I’ve gone four days without a BSOD, it does appear Microsoft realized it had rolled out another lemon, and, nearly two months later, patched things.
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The path of least resistance: we humans aren’t discerning enough sometimes
- Jack Yan
- I came across a thread at Tedium where Christopher Marlow mentions Pandora Mail as an email client that took Eudora as a starting-point, and moved the game forward (e.
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Windows 10, with the BSOD-prone Creators fall update, is calming down
- Jack Yan
- I wonder if we have finally got there with Windows 10’s many BSOD crashes.
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Social media: not the evolution you might have expected
- Jack Yan
- I’m getting a buzz seeing how little I update social media now.
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