Jack Yan (甄爵恩)

@collin@ruby.social Boosted in solidarity, Collin. Lost my dad a few years back but I didn’t get to his grave site for the usual clean-up on his birthday on August 15 so I feel like shit for not doing it. He had dementia, too. The disease sucks arse. Hope you get your new gig. And yeah, definitely spend some time with your mom. I promise it’s worth it.

Simple stuff. Applies here, too.

As an experiment, we put up some “AI” content for work and gave it its own Instagram account. Of course, we honestly toggled the switch to say the content was done with the aid of theftbots. Each time we returned to edit the profile, Meta had switched it off. Just like Facebook, they want the bots, and they want you fooled.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/116926090279456591 Better having some laws around this than none, I suppose—I believe part of a wider suite of “AI” legislation there.

‘#AI makes shit faster.’ Like hell it does. #WordPress #Automattic

@IceNine@social.vivaldi.net @GruffHarding@mastodon.nz @BobLefridge@mastodon.nz A marque that had some great cars reduced to a booted Mini. And if you paint flames on a Riley then you do not have any idea of what a Riley is.

Twenty minutes in, still fiddling with the tech. Hopeless shit.

As this place gets more racist, I feel even more strongly about what I wrote here. https://jackyan.com/blog/2023/01/the-expectation-of-invisibility/

@GruffHarding@mastodon.nz @IceNine@social.vivaldi.net @BobLefridge@mastodon.nz Such a sad end to the Riley marque!

Logged into Facebook to check a work thing and this was the highlight, 13 years ago. It was in my old college magazine. So many of those ideas could have worked, fixing inherent problems that mayors ignored. #TheyNeededSomeoneMayoral

Is that snow? #hōtoke

The start of Pipiri is Monday week, so that’s close enough to the public commemoration of #Matariki on Friday. Since our peoples used the same calendar (right down to which years have leap months) it’s very easy to calculate when it is: basically near the start of 六月 for us (thrown out occasionally by when we add leap months—Māori are more practical on this and append Ruhanui to the end, which makes it all simpler)!

For those of you who didn't believe me when I said the New Zealand economy is a train wreck and worse than the USʼs and UKʼs.

@IceNine@social.vivaldi.net @GruffHarding@mastodon.nz @BobLefridge@mastodon.nz Those little Hyundais were good as manuals. Way more reliable than a Daewoo!

@IceNine@social.vivaldi.net @GruffHarding@mastodon.nz @BobLefridge@mastodon.nz Thatʼll be the Daewoo!

@exlibrarykris@cloudisland.nz Weird to see it out this way. And now blue skies, just like that.

Traffic from #Google to my #blog “coincidentally” dropped massively after this post in 2022. https://jackyan.com/blog/2022/12/googles-advertising-business-is-a-negligence-lawsuit-waiting-to-be-actioned/ #BigTech

Useless crap. Twenty-four minutes wasted so far.

In my #blog Sixteen years on, farewell to WordPress’s #Akismet plug-in https://jackyan.com/blog/2026/06/sixteen-years-on-farewell-to-wordpresss-akismet-plug-in/ #WordPress #enshittification

@IceNine@social.vivaldi.net @GruffHarding@mastodon.nz @BobLefridge@mastodon.nz I hope so. They were dangerously underdeveloped even when new. When the Craptiva was their high bar, that tells you everything!

@mcfly@milliways.social @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange Plus Persona has ties to Peter Thiel and Palantir.

@BobLefridge@mastodon.nz @GruffHarding@mastodon.nz @IceNine@social.vivaldi.net And the Cyberster is not very sporting, unfortunately. Had one on test and it was all high-tech, even if it looks stunning. https://autocade.net/index.php/MG_Cyberster

@IceNine@social.vivaldi.net @GruffHarding@mastodon.nz @BobLefridge@mastodon.nz I actually would trust a VW more than a Daehol. At least the VW is guaranteed to break down, so that brings greater predictability.

@IceNine@social.vivaldi.net @BobLefridge@mastodon.nz @yakmoose@cloudisland.nz @GruffHarding@mastodon.nz Wondered if Fiat was taking the Mickey … 😉

@IceNine@social.vivaldi.net @BobLefridge@mastodon.nz @yakmoose@cloudisland.nz @GruffHarding@mastodon.nz Sad to see that GTI in such a state. They want too much for it, especially Japanese spec with the smaller wheels.

@IceNine@social.vivaldi.net Not a bad price considering they had the valves reseated a few years back!

@IceNine@social.vivaldi.net @GruffHarding@mastodon.nz @BobLefridge@mastodon.nz Noooo! Not a Daehol!

@IceNine@social.vivaldi.net @GruffHarding@mastodon.nz @BobLefridge@mastodon.nz Thank God there are still people making manuals āe. https://www.topgear.com/car-news/first-look/manual-box-rwd-and-most-powerful-nat-asp-v8-world-meet-hennessey-blackbird

@exlibrarykris@cloudisland.nz I have video proof! Unless the files have disappeared … 😶

In my #blog ‘I am the death of real’ https://jackyan.com/blog/2026/07/i-am-the-death-of-real/ #AI #AndrewNiccol #Simone #film #SocialMedia #Instagram #Facebook #bot

@IceNine@social.vivaldi.net @yakmoose@cloudisland.nz @GruffHarding@mastodon.nz @BobLefridge@mastodon.nz Not bad for the age!

Cousin Martin is cooking live on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/chefmartinyan/live/18452412916189452 #YanCanCook #MartinYan

@LALegault@newsie.social I submit appeals and one (Lucire) came back instantly but another work account is still under review.

So weird, getting kicked off Instagram, account by account.

Thirty-two minutes. Basically Zoom works for a few minutes and then the sound goes. No picture or sound on my end for Teams. I have done Zoom and Teams with others before but no joy today. Half-baked, Big Tech junk that’s basically not supposed to work. Have sent Signal link.

Stoked that my friend Austin Holmes has uploaded this fun interview from #OverPressure on to YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjTHijYGTcs #entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #business #interview

@IceNine@social.vivaldi.net @BobLefridge@mastodon.nz @GruffHarding@mastodon.nz Could be “AI”.

@exlibrarykris@cloudisland.nz For me this has generally held true but there are exceptions: https://jackyan.com/blog/2022/06/the-very-simple-maramataka-and-chinese-lunar-calendar-conversion-table/ I always buy a proper lunar calendar so I know when the phases are … I find theirs fascinating as generally they map on to ours remarkably well.

@IceNine@social.vivaldi.net @GruffHarding@mastodon.nz @zl2tod@mastodon.online @yakmoose@cloudisland.nz @BobLefridge@mastodon.nz I dig them. Used to rent the 2.0s all the time.

@monkeyninja@10base2.dev Thank you, great to know!

Please help my friend doing her thesis on costumed interpretation at heritage sites by answering this survey! https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=xEculd4FgkKDr19LRrFij30Aool_DYJIqDdV9-FTJaRUNlNKVFdVMEVMVEU5MU5JR1BVRk5JSE1SSi4u&route=shorturl

@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social Thank God for the resistance. Any restraint on Temu Göbbels is a good thing.

@anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz Holy moly. There's a part of me that admires the effort, but the bloat!

In my #blog Making something out of nothing https://jackyan.com/blog/2026/06/making-something-out-of-nothing/

@exlibrarykris@cloudisland.nz I thought Pipiri followed Ruhanui?

This has gone on for months. If you use te reo Māori, there is no way you can pay for parking in te Whanganui-a-Tara. You are forced to use English.

@Styler@cloudisland.nz How odd! So much for once every 70 years …