Notices by Jack Yan (甄爵恩) (jackyan@mastodon.social)

One reminder after re-reading Nineteen Eighty-Four is that we all need to fight #disinformation …

Two more websites nuked due to #disinformation—thank you, #Hostinger. I wrote to one of them in April, again politely. They were quite happy to spread drivel, and here is the consequence.

For #Microsoft users, how to turn off the “AI” stuff so you donʼt get charged for it.

https://digipres.club/@timixretroplays/113802712550757572

So glad I stuck with WordPerfect for the last 35 years.

The #Facebook logo has been removed from the #Autocade website again. We did it years ago, but put it back last year to see if it would resonate with the 600 followers we had on that platform and get some yearbook sales, and … I don’t think we sold a single one to our Facebook followers. We may have gained a couple of followers who were customers who found us elsewhere, but Facebook itself drove no sales (in line with my theories). Why not? Because it’s not 2012. Facebook peaked long ago. #Meta

In my blog
The world is waking up to what #Meta has been for a long time

https://jackyan.com/blog/2025/01/the-world-is-waking-up-to-what-meta-has-been-for-a-long-time/ #Facebook

Am I the only one who finds 'British Hong Kong' a strange way to refer to the place for that period under British rule? Iʼm from Hong Kong, and Iʼm a British national, but in my mind the place is simply Hong Kong. It just happened to have had a period as part of the Empah.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Hong_Kong

@atomicpoet In 2014, I was going, 'There is a bot epidemic on Facebook!' and no one cared. Cambridge Analytica and other scandals came and went, and Facebookʼs share price only diminished briefly before rebounding. I really hate to say this, but there are a lot of sheep out there, and I want to see a heck of a lot of people wake up.

@atomicpoet They literally killed organic engagement in c. 2013, forcing people to pay for boosts to get what they used to get. They are reaping what they sowed.
I agree with you that trust will diminish—at least for people like you and me. But given that Facebook is at least half bot, reporting does nothing, and there are a lot of sheep online who leave bot comments on their Facebook and Instagram, I truly wonder.

A friend just told me he and his elderly parents have COVID. Another reminder that it is still very present. Definitely vindicates my choice to mask up while shopping.

Love the ease of #Christmas decorations for the house on the right. #Wellington #WhanganuiaTara #Aotearoa #NZ

Been on Mastodon seven years, and this is the post I get the most reactions from. Found the level then! 😁

https://mastodon.social/@jackyan/113641932626013110

Guessing this is the USA where you need to make these disclaimers? #Ikea

This is an awesome thread from @chu on words in Cantonese and Mandarin that have no direct English equivalent.

https://climatejustice.social/@chu/113572242925848019 #language

In Flash Gordon, Mongo has a whole planet named for him.

@madeindex Must be worth millions! 😁

@madeindex This does give me an ego trip on how we must be perceived as a company. No money, but great trip …

@madeindex Only inasmuch as there is a recession … so you would think some professional journalism would be the order of the day.

One international publication—I won’t say whom—said they declined to run a review about the #Autocade Yearbook because the owners see us as a competitor.
We have maybe a hundredth of their annual revenue and Autocade contributes about a hundredth of that … so are we a competitor or is this another case of a big company stepping on a little independent to make life hard?
This is not just a foreign thing—the local newspaper does this to us as well.
Both times their own journalists told me …

@kityates Took them a while but glad they are doing it. Weʼre small fry in comparison but thought this was obvious over a year ago (having observed the decline for a period before that)—and we removed our Twitter gadgets from our pages in 2021, since even then it was obvious where things were heading.

https://lucire.com/insider/20230905/time-to-disconnect-from-x-the-site-formerly-known-as-twitter/

Don’t really know what this means, but I guess it’s to do with a broken promise somewhere. Sounds pretty serious that it’s destroying objects. #Signal