A guide to emojis for 2020. Just for clarification: 😷 = happy😷 = angry😷 = laughing😷 = sad#COVID19 #emoji — Jack Yan 甄爵恩 (@jackyan) September 5, 2020 At least Twitter works. Google, as usual, doesn’t. I had a check to see how Lucire was performing in a Google search yesterday and noticed there was […]
Tag: bugs
Thoughts shared on Big Tech
Tip of the iceberg. Something happening with greater frequency: I can highlight ‘Répondez’ or ‘Write a reply’ in Facebook’s comment boxes, but I can’t actually comment or type in them. But I can make graphics outside of Facebook and paste them in. This was a bug I used to see perhaps once a year, but […]
Reaching the end of Facebook
With the new season of Alarm für Cobra 11: die Autobahnpolizei nearly upon us, I decided I’d pop into my Facebook group (I’m still an admin) to see what had been happening. I’ve been there a few times this week and I have discovered some of the site’s latest features. Groups: these now have […]
The latest phone factory reset was good for eight days
It looks like this latest phone reset lasted all of eight days, as today, all the bugs returned, all indicating to me that the M6 Note has some sort of read–write error. PB has offered a link to file a report and asked that I drop phone and form in to their Wellington store, but […]
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The first world problems of the cellphone (lockdown edition)
This Pukerua Bay Tardis was the last thing I shot before the cellphone’s camera and gallery failed First world problems: the cellphone. Right now my partner and I have half a phone each, so between us, we have one phone. She can receive calls on hers but no one can hear her answer. Mine […]
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Facebook still can’t get the basics right
For a guy who gave up updating his own Facebook in 2017, and uses it just for work stuff, I’m still amazed at how many bugs I come across. Two days ago: discovered that you can’t post links. The ‘Publish’ button is greyed out. Yesterday: I wanted to tag one of our writers […]
I prefer the 99 per cent who don’t rely on Google
Almost three screens of apps, none of which require Google. I had a good discussion on Twitter today with Peter Lambrechtsen, and if you want to have a peek, it’s here. He’s a really decent guy who makes some good points. But it does annoy me that my partner, whose phone is a stock standard […]
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Reconnecting Facebook on IFTTT
A few days ago, Facebook became disconnected with my IFTTT applet, which takes the Tweets made on the Lucire account (which themselves are fed through another service) and reposts them to Lucire’s Facebook page, so that none of us have to visit either. IFTTT is good enough to send an email to tell you […]
The newer the Instagram, the buggier; and why no one should use Google Drive
I’ve discovered that the newer the Instagram, the buggier it is. We’ve already seen that it can’t cope with video if you use Android 7 (a great way to reduce video bandwidth), and, earlier this year, filters do not work. I downgraded to version 59 till, last week, Instagram began deleting direct messages as […]
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I want to remove a My Business location, but Google won’t let me
I really should not have wasted my time with Google, as My Business (see yesterday’s post) reminded me just why I don’t use the site—it’s not only the privacy issues, but the fact that things don’t work as advertised, which has always been the case with Google. You’ve already seen that it’s impossible for […]
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