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- How to get your Facebook ad account shut down: do something honest
  - 5 May 2021
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  - ‘We can’t level, you crazy bastard, we’re in advertising!’—Paul Reiser as Stephen Bachman, in Crazy People (1990) Signal You can run ads with misinformation, and you can launch bot nets of thousands of accounts, but what can’t you do on Facebook? Buy ads that expose their tools with which you have bought their ads.
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- Classic example of tech firms passing the buck
  - 4 May 2021
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  - Just another day dealing with US tech firms then.
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- May 2021 gallery
  - 1 May 2021
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  - Here are May 2021’s images—aides-mémoires, photos of interest, and miscellaneous items.
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- A brief misadventure into the Chinese internet
  - 28 Apr 2021
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  - When I was a kid and wanted to hit back at someone for being mean to me, my parents would often say that successful people, true leaders, would be 大方, which is roughly akin to saying that one should rise above it.
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- Farewell to Feedburner
  - 24 Apr 2021
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  - This is why the Feedburner links have disappeared from the left-hand column of this website (desktop version): Now I need to figure out a way to get off Google Podcasts. I had no idea that Anchor syndicated to them. Certainly there was no mention of that when I joined. Google really has too many tentacles everywhere.
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- Time to abandon Meizu Music: 8.2 is a lemon
  - 21 Apr 2021
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  - That didn’t last long.
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- Facebook whistleblower gets fired; and a workaround for Meizu Music’s inability to find your SD card
  - 19 Apr 2021
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  - This is a pretty typical story: find fault with Big Tech, try to alert the appropriate people in the firm, get fired.
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- Autocade reaches 23 million page views—and it’s more satisfying than Twitter
  - 7 Apr 2021
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  - Above: The Levdeo (or Letin) i3, not exactly the ideal model with which to commemorate another Autocade milestone.
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- April 2021 gallery
  - 5 Apr 2021
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  - Here are April 2021’s images.
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- What Vodafone’s Super Wifi is really like in practice
  - 4 Apr 2021
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  - While I saw Vodafone’s Super Wifi commercials, I never thought to act on them, since (mistakenly) I thought it was something to do with cellphones.
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- Despite being blatantly obvious, Facebook does nothing about thousands-strong bot nets
  - 1 Apr 2021
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  - We already know that Facebook does nothing if you want to use scripts to join groups, even if the scripts all give roughly the same answers.
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- I can finally identify with the main character in a New Zealand TV show
  - 31 Mar 2021
  - Jack Yan
  - While I care much more about when John Simm will grace our screens again (pun intended), it was hard to avoid the reality TV that gets beamed into our living rooms during prime-time.
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- Computing in 2021: Gmail’s advertorial spammers, Facebook bots, and Twitter fatigue
  - 25 Mar 2021
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  - I’m not entirely sure I need to block out the email addresses here since they’re likely to be burner Gmail accounts, but I’ll give these spammers the courtesy they don’t deserve.
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- It’s not hard writing clear terms and conditions
  - 25 Mar 2021
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  - We’ve had a ‘Highlights’ section in our T&Cs for a while, but today I thought I’d take another look at them.
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- March 2021 gallery
  - 5 Mar 2021
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- There goes the neighbourhood
  - 5 Mar 2021
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  - Demolition has commenced on 1–4 Māmari Street, across the road from where I lived for over three decades.
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- Helvetica in metal, 1985
  - 3 Mar 2021
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  - This was the back of Mum’s 1985 tax assessment slip from the IRD.
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- Reduced Facebook? Australia is the lucky country
  - 18 Feb 2021
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  - Whichever side you are on with Facebook imposing a ban on Australians sharing news content, this says it all about the level of intelligence over at Menlo Park.
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- Brand, sub-brand or model? China’s getting into a confusing phase
  - 16 Feb 2021
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  - The Dongfeng Aeolus AX7.
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- COVID-19 infections as a percentage of tests done, February 16
  - 16 Feb 2021
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  - It brings me very little pleasure to do these calculations.
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- The colourless world
  - 14 Feb 2021
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  - This is a development proposed for my old street in Rongotai.
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- More TV Dregs, please
  - 12 Feb 2021
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  - I was looking through the old JY&A links’ section, which dates back to the beginning of the site in the 1990s (indeed, back to Windows 3·1, as we couldn’t use a file name with more than three letters in the suffix).
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- How is your ad network different from this?
  - 11 Feb 2021
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  - No point beating around the bush when it comes to yet another advertising network knocking on our door.
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- Facebook fooled us into thinking we were being creative
  - 11 Feb 2021
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  - My friend Keith has been away from Facebook for six weeks, for work reasons, and hasn’t missed it.
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- When fashion magazine websites begin looking the same
  - 8 Feb 2021
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  - Above: Vogue Korea’s website follows the æsthetic of a big lead image and smaller subsidiary ones.
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