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Is the sun setting on Alarm für Cobra 11: die Autobahnpolizei?
- 3 Aug 2021
- Jack Yan
- It does seem the sun is setting, after 25 years, on Alarm für Cobra 11: die Autobahnpolizei on RTL.
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Can a no-name mouse take the place of a Microsoft Intellimouse?
- 1 Aug 2021
- Jack Yan
- I’ve occasionally had good luck with ultra-cheap Chinese mice.
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Admiral doesn’t understand that I’m not blocking ads, only trackers
- 21 Jul 2021
- Jack Yan
- It’s pretty bad that Admiral, which detects whether you are using an ad blocker or not, now advises this with Privacy Badger.
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It feels like half of Facebook is bot
- 21 Jul 2021
- Jack Yan
- Here’s a screenshot from the new members of one of my Facebook groups—actually the only public one I still have.
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Scheduling posts on Facebook and Instagram? Forget it, it’s not worth the trouble
- 21 Jul 2021
- Jack Yan
- If someone who has never been authorized to have a role on a Facebook page can have full admin access to it, then it stands to reason that a legitimate owner of a Facebook page cannot do what she needs with it.
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When New Zealand is the subject of misinformation
- 12 Jul 2021
- Jack Yan
- This thread echoes what a lot of us feel in New Zealand when we see intentional misinformation on Twitter, possibly from the US.
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Facebook continues to give in to fake accounts, much like the UK with COVID-19
- 10 Jul 2021
- Jack Yan
- At the beginning of July I noticed Facebook had changed its reporting options.
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Nostalgia in Grenoble
- 8 Jul 2021
- Jack Yan
- Andrea Berlese If you’re around my age with a similar interest in model cars, this mural, Re-collection, by Leon Keer on a block of flats in Grenoble, France, will appeal.
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July 2021 gallery
- 2 Jul 2021
- Jack Yan
- Here are June 2021’s images—aides-mémoires, photos of interest, and miscellaneous items.
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Facelifting the Lucire licensing site after 13 years
- 30 Jun 2021
- Jack Yan
- After 13 years, it was time to facelift the Lucire licensing website.
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COVID-19 infections as a percentage of tests done, June 28
- 29 Jun 2021
- Jack Yan
- I haven’t done one of these since February, where I look at the COVID-19 positivity rates of selected countries.
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Why the British people still prefer Boris Johnson
- 27 Jun 2021
- Jack Yan
- When you see the utter dog’s dinner the British government has made of COVID-19, namely turning their country into a petri dish for mutations while they plunder the place with impunity, you have to wonder why many there still prefer these current Tories, when even Max Hastings and Sir Nicholas Soames don’t.
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Cream cheese bagels make them angry
- 25 Jun 2021
- Jack Yan
- When I was in NYC in the summer of 2001, I stood at a Lower Manhattan bakery trying to order a cream cheese bagel for a friend of mine.
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How to stop tailgating
- 21 Jun 2021
- Jack Yan
- I thought if we were serious about stopping tailgating, then the solution in the form of public service announcements would be remarkably simple, as far as the men are concerned.
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Nine years of promoting Duck Duck Go in Lucire
- 20 Jun 2021
- Jack Yan
- Promoting DuckDuckGo: ‘Glancing back’ in Lucire KSA, June 2021.
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Putting on the breaks
- 20 Jun 2021
- Jack Yan
- Being self-employed my whole adult life, I haven’t exactly been let go from any jobs, but there have been some gigs, paid and unpaid, that came to an end without me expecting it.
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Autocade hits 24 million page views—a new record
- 14 Jun 2021
- Jack Yan
- Above: The latest entry to Autocade at the time of writing: the new Hyundai Tucson (the short-wheelbase one is pictured).
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You can remove and turn off your off-Facebook activity
- 14 Jun 2021
- Jack Yan
- I chanced upon a mention of off-Facebook activity on this page, and here’s a good page explaining what it is.
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Why does my landline phone dial by itself?
- 13 Jun 2021
- Jack Yan
- As sent to Vodafone New Zealand today.
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Fixing Wordpress’s problem of fake bolds and italics
- 11 Jun 2021
- Jack Yan
- I haven’t been able to find anything on this bug online, but it’s very common.
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Facebook allows ad preference editing again
- 11 Jun 2021
- Jack Yan
- I was surprised to find that I could access my Facebook advertising preferences again, after the section stopped working in January 2019.
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Dear Gmail user: your industry has worn me down
- 11 Jun 2021
- Jack Yan
- After three messages I decided I would answer one of those Gmail users asking about advertorial.
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Finished replying to 2005 and 2006 emails
- 7 Jun 2021
- Jack Yan
- I’m not exactly proud of this, but last month I replied to all my emails from 2005.
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Remember, Facebook usually says one thing, then does the opposite
- 5 Jun 2021
- Jack Yan
- Don’t take what Facebook says about Trump seriously.
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Time to stop entertaining advertorial enquiries from Gmail
- 4 Jun 2021
- Jack Yan
- Last month, I Tweeted that I would stop replying to advertorial queries sent to us from Gmail, since over 99 per cent of them result in no deal whatsoever.
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