Jack Yan (甄爵恩)

CEO, Jack Yan & Associates; publisher, Lucire and Autocade; co-chair, Medinge Group. Favourites = bookmarks; boosts = interesting. He/him.

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2024-11-08 04:04:20

In my blog
New Zealand’s 3G switch-off: you might be fine despite the warning messages
https://jackyan.com/blog/2024/11/new-zealands-3g-switch-off-you-might-be-fine-despite-the-warning-messages/ #Aotearoa #NZ #OneNZ #VodafoneNZ

2024-10-24 04:50:28

Rocking to Arabic music at the Fade barber in Tawa. Friendly bunch!

2024-10-22 20:34:14

I knew he was once the mayor but I didn’t know he used to be the entire city!
Source: https://www.iheart.com/content/2024-10-22-rudy-giuliani-ordered-to-hand-over-nyc-apartment-to-georgia-poll-workers/
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/352/980/904/658/501/original/c439af802296b533.png

2024-10-14 11:43:42

Another #disinformation page bites the dust, thanks to #Hostinger.
Again, this could have been solved in May when I told these folks that they were publishing rubbish, and asked that they take down the disinformation page about me. Instead they chose to ignore that and lose their entire site. FAFO.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/305/589/401/656/386/original/010e77b3259c6baa.png

2024-10-11 03:47:46

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@npub1trd…ussx They make more sense than certain parties right now!

2024-10-10 06:28:27

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Exactly. Agreed with Simon Weston with what he just said on #GMB. #ITV1 #TV

2024-10-09 01:40:42

Totally missed this, so the folks out there must be doing a good job.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113274343620089198

2024-08-17 09:57:03

#Underworld: Rise of the Lycans: Michael Sheen shows he’s big enough to join his ex-wife’s and her new partner’s franchise … Saw it years ago, when Dad was still alive (he was into traditional horrors). #film #TV2

2024-08-16 09:51:50

So weird to see the glee with which #KimDotcomʼs extradition is being reported—people are treating him worse than pædophile Ron Brierley. Is it because heʼs an immigrant, or is it because of his weight?

2024-08-12 03:24:25

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@npub1mmf…eknq Thank you. Sadly, one piece of disinformation per day since the start of 2024.

2024-07-29 04:39:57

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@npub1lrv…tth9 This is why none of our publications are on Kindle. I couldnʼt even sell on my own site for less.

2024-07-22 08:50:01

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@npub1alq…mnj6 That last para was interesting, too: US PSAs shown here. I remember Dick Van Dyke from The New Dick Van Dyke Show giving us fire safety tips. Iʼd say they ran well into 1982.

2024-07-22 07:50:44

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@npub1mmf…eknq Crazy there are still people on OnlyKlans, and that those still on there act surprised!

2024-05-26 06:09:09

I imagine I won’t get the Civil Defence alert tonight … only phone that worked was a Chinese-spec Meizu M2 Note that I bought in 2016 …

2024-05-24 03:46:13

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@npub1trd…ussx All good, I think we were both misinterpreting the other and I apologize for my part!

2024-05-24 03:39:20

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@npub1trd…ussx This is why I said, 'Iʼm sure you were alive,' rather than, 'Before you were born'. 🌝

2024-05-24 00:50:44

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@npub1trd…ussx The problem is both. If they made it, Iʼd watch it, which was the original point. Iʼm sure you were alive when this was what everyone did, so this isnʼt exactly a stretch of the imagination. Call me lazy.

2024-05-23 21:53:36

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@npub1trd…ussx Correct. I just want to turn on the TV. Even now itʼs a hassle getting the foreign ones other than Aljazeera English.

2024-05-15 00:08:50

No 1 News Midday, but hey, we can watch Deal or No Deal Australia. #TVNZ

2024-05-07 10:03:14

Just finished a wonderful book written by a friend of mine in the rainbow community. He and I are of a similar age, and we have some similar beliefs, but one thing we differ on is that I never visualized Jon and Ponch on CHiPs naked!

2024-05-02 21:41:56

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@npub16uk…pv7k Wow, that sucks. Aroha to their family and whānau at this time. Had a similar experience many years ago with a neighbour, too. Went in for something minor, never came home.

2024-04-26 02:46:33

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@npub1fha…3ru0 Sorry to hear she tested positive, but rest is good and being fairly up to date with the boosters is good news! I was long overdue when I caught it for various reasons and it knocked me.

2024-04-25 22:59:22

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@npub1hde…de0r Good on you, Eddie. A fantastic piece.

2024-04-17 00:33:41

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@npub1y7x…jrl4 So beautifully put!

2024-04-13 08:03:23

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@npub1fha…3ru0 Oh wow, thank you. Those kurī were cute as. 🐶

2024-04-06 22:42:24

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@npub1mmf…eknq That would be marvellous! I didnʼt come here for Twitter redux, or they can stick his stuff behind a US politics CW.

2024-04-01 03:01:58

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@npub1x8g…tf0f Maruti Esteem! I saw a few of these in India. But way more 800s when I was there.

2024-03-26 07:13:54

Holy crap. The 1 per cent is on Mastodon.
https://mastodon.nz/@pezmico/112154716390198860

2024-03-25 04:08:08

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@npub12uf…6hdv Does he not realize that bots are not people? 😂

2024-03-24 20:18:10

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@npub1alq…mnj6 I agree! Iʼd turn mine on if I knew how, but each time this comes up, I look, then I give up.

2024-03-17 23:24:30

Honda made the Prelude but I’m not sure what followed it. Geely makes a car called the Preface and again I’m not sure what will follow that. #car #anorak

2024-03-14 23:27:40

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@npub1fha…3ru0 Thank you. I havenʼt seen the piece though the story itself is well known to me. Probably should have a disclaimer since the authorʼs grandfather was the first editor. But the kaupapa here is really important and Kerry is someone in our iwi who has a ton of mana and can speak with authority to this.

2024-02-18 05:38:27

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@npub1mmf…eknq I agree with her. I have no idea what the red eye image was all about, and still donʼt.

2024-02-02 21:41:03

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@npub16uk…pv7k @npub10tx…crtk Just fed the numbers in the calculator, and it was 86 per cent. Hetznerʼs interface is vastly superior. Tech should be democratizing, or at least I expected it to be, and AWS does the exact opposite. It should be considered offensive to anyone who believes in the promise of technology. Sounds like Azure is even worse.
Our email is through Zoho, which does the job for lay people like us. It will never be on Google et al.

2024-02-02 21:30:26

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@npub16uk…pv7k @npub10tx…crtk AWS is awful, isnʼt it? Got moved there in the early 2010s by a friend who specializes in IT and it was basically IT prison. Couldnʼt do a damned thing without him since it was so poorly designed. Price doubled over a decade. Eventually we moved to Hetzner (literally took years to find people who could do it), and like you, saved 80 per cent, and now we can do stuff again, like set up PHP and MySql ourselves. Lots of OSS as a result.

2024-01-19 01:12:21

In my blog
We need to serve the #technology with the new pay-by-plate meters
https://jackyan.com/blog/2024/01/we-need-to-serve-the-technology-with-the-new-pay-by-plate-meters/ #WhanganuiaTara #Wellington #Aotearoa #NZ

2024-01-13 10:15:49

Just had to copy a whole Word document into #WordPerfect to do some edits. I guess it’s my familiarity with WordPerfect, but I really have no idea how people put up with Word!

2024-01-12 22:48:06

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@npub19xu…e8yd All the best, Bill, wise to treat it as the virus and take it easy. Hope it passes quickly.

2024-01-04 04:11:06

Discovered that if you turn on web protection in #Avira Pro, it makes Firefox flag secure websites as insecure, because Avira appears to issue its own self-signed certificate, which doesn’t pass Firefox’s own security. They must have only tested it on Chromium browsers.

2024-01-01 21:38:41

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@npub1fha…3ru0 Sadly, yes. 🙁

2023-12-30 10:31:17

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@npub1alq…mnj6 In the words of the great Mel Brooks … 😁
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/668/900/174/362/230/original/e91811e6448fafcf.jpg

2023-12-29 22:28:49

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 Iʼd love to see what those surnames look like in their original tongue. Iʼm going to look it up. Well, itʼs nice to meet someone who can trace part of their lineage back to original Americans.

2023-12-01 05:44:46

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@npub1wup…ydzp The future (1980) is groovy!

2023-11-13 06:19:26

E koekoe te kōkō, e ketekete te kākā, e kūkū te kererū.

2023-11-12 11:45:15

What a pleasure to return to the judging panel for the #ASPAs (Aotearoa Student Press Association Awards). Congratulations to #Salient for winning my category (design) and best publication! #VUW #VicUni

2023-11-08 22:47:19

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@npub1up2…k6en This takes me back! Very sure we had Chinons.

2023-11-06 05:29:25

To the Toyota driver who hit the car next to them and didnʼt leave a note: I found the owner of the car you hit, gave them your rego, and offered to be a witness. So sick of these clumsy, dishonest drivers here.

2023-10-06 00:18:56

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@npub1trd…ussx I donʼt disagree on your second point. Finlayson was one of the finest Treaty Settlements Ministers we ever had. Anyway, it seems my first contention was wrong. I guess you canʼt believe everything you read on Mastodon. I thought I had left that behind on OnlyKlans.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/election-2023-top-leader-raf-manji-on-maori-issues-and-why-treaty-referendum-doesnt-make-sense/V37Q5OIONFH6LBQOPEWIMSETYA/

2023-10-05 09:20:47

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@npub1trd…ussx I understand from Mastodonians that TOP is anti-Tiriti so they have some common ground.

2023-09-29 22:14:11

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@npub16uk…pv7k @npub19xu…e8yd @npub1gj5…7kjc @npub18p3…t9gh Like sending Mel Gibson in to run a synagogue.

2023-09-23 01:10:39

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@npub19xu…e8yd Nice to be proved right though. I could never understand the hype—which of course has a direct parallel with tulip mania.

2023-09-17 12:29:44

Very sure I didn’t subscribe to all of these at Ray White—if any. Oh well, removed every one … #spam
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/080/487/246/972/408/original/5bbdbfb03dbfdeda.png

2023-08-08 05:24:27

In my blog
From the fediverse: saving the news from Big Tech, and why you shouldn’t use Brave browser
https://jackyan.com/blog/2023/08/on-the-fediverse-saving-the-news-from-big-tech-and-why-you-shouldnt-use-brave-browser/ #BigTech #media

2023-08-05 14:34:39

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@npub1fha…3ru0 It doesnʼt block much so I might as well remove the rule. I want the buggers to pay me if they use my mahi!

2023-08-05 10:29:30

Is this a smart move for my personal site, or am I doing myself out of traffic? #ChatGPT
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/836/537/237/928/499/original/d5ffe5dba07a11cb.jpg

2023-07-13 09:41:28

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@npub1ws0…0jhw Apparently in seasons 1–3, but Iʼve only just started it, many years late.

2023-07-08 06:09:56

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@npub1xzm…eykm Of that 70 million, many will have popped by to look, or to grab their username, and immediately became inactive.

2023-06-10 01:36:48

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@npub17hz…cj9z @npub1jjt…3kck @npub1xzp…twt5 Captain Chaos is the man!