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  • How To Hide Replies On Twitter

    A few years ago, Twitter replaced its chronological listing of replies to a tweet with “conversation ranking,” prioritising replies from people you follow and the author of the original tweet. In 2018, in a move to curb abuse, the ranking system began incorporating other factors like the number of accounts a user ha and their…


  • How To Hide Your Neighbours’ Wifi Networks

    How To Hide Your Neighbours’ Wifi Networks

    Hiding your neighbours’ wifi networks, not to be confused with blocking, is entirely possible. After all, your device automatically connects to your wireless network if you’ve saved the credentials. And in Windows’ “wifi connection box”, for lack of a better name, your OS automatically sorts all the wifi networks it sees from the strongest signal…


  • How To Prevent Robocalls And Minimise Phone Spam

    How To Prevent Robocalls And Minimise Phone Spam

    Photo: Tom Holmes (Unsplash) It’s the Year of the Robocall, it seems. I haven’t noticed this directly, but a number of friends, colleagues, and internet posters seem to be inundated with bullshit phone calls now more than ever before. What great times we live in, where anyone with an auto-dialer can blast out millions of…