Month: March 2019

• March 24, 2019

  Twitter’s half-truth about its app settings

  Bill Ben­nett, a local tech­nol­o­gy jour­nal­ist I respect, tweet­ed a CNN Busi­ness arti­cle about Twit­ter’s overzeal­ous algo­rithm. That arti­cle quot­ed a Twit­ter spokesper­son: … We will con­tin­ue to work to improve our efforts here, and peo­ple always have the option of turn­ing off our cura­tion if they just want to see con­tent from the peo­ple they fol­low. This quote is… Read more

• March 20, 2019

  I ♥️ NZ

  Rea­son num­ber 1143 why I love NZ. https://twitter.com/mcspocky/status/1107674528870813697?s=21 Read more

• March 13, 2019

  Well done, New Zealand!

  #BREAKING The Civ­il Avi­a­tion Author­i­ty is sus­pend­ing oper­a­tions of Boe­ing 737 MAX 8 air­craft both in and out of New Zealand. — RNZ (@radionz) March 12, 2019 Read more

• March 11, 2019

  Fibre upgrade

  After about four­teen months on 100 Mbps fibre con­nec­tion, I asked to dou­ble the speed of my inter­net to 200 Mbps for a $15 extra per month. I will see how long I go before I get used to this new, high speed and stop appre­ci­at­ing it. So far so good, although I am a bit sur­prised at first that… Read more

• March 4, 2019

  Twitter is changing my timeline preferences

  Recent­ly I wrote about how I reduced the noise on my Twit­ter time­line by chang­ing the default time­line pref­er­ence from top tweets to the lat­est tweets. Since then I noticed that from time to time my time­line pref­er­ence is falling back to top tweets with­out my inter­ven­tion. But I was­n’t total­ly sure because I did not think Twit­ter may be… Read more