tag:dreamwidth.org,2016-12-28:2649088 On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams 2020-09-07T01:33:42Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2016-12-28:2649088:1556047 2020-09-07T01:33:42Z 2020-09-07T01:33:42Z The House - CBC Radio contemplative public 0 Usually, on Labour Day, I'd be downtown photographing the parade, and uploading the pix that suited me to <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dwight_ew/">Flickr</a>. Because, usually, there would <i>be</i> a Labour Day Parade organized by the local unions and allied organizations. This year, it looks like, thanks to the Time of Pandemic - yet again - that parade is <i>not</i> going to happen.<br /><br />Instead, there's going to be online events all over the Ottawa-adjacent cyberspaces, hosted by those same labour groups and their allies. I'm not sure which, if any, I'm going to be participating in.<br /><br />Until then...what did I do today?<br /><br />I was involved in a video chat with assorted members of <a href="https://bymug.ca/">ByMUG</a>. Details for today's session were <a href="https://bymug.ca/september-6-2020-meeting-information/">here</a>. Shadow-dot-tech as a gamer's workaround. RSS resources. That sort of thing.<br /><br />I mowed the front lawn for my household and the next-door neighbours. <br /><br />I've been adding brushes from my previous Clip Studio Paint version to the current one. That's taking more time than I'd like, because the current version is not set up to batch-import brushes and other materials. Over a hundred brushes involved.<br /><br />Yesterday, I looked at a script for an old project that never got finished. I was never happy with pencils that I'd handed in, nor with the tech I'd used to paste together the scans of each page. Now that I have both a scanner that can handle an 11 x 17 art board in one pass, <i>and</i> Clip Studio Paint as options to work with...should I revisit that script? I'm tempted.<br /><br />I am tempted to see if I can do a better job now than I did then.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dewline&ditemid=1556047" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2016-12-28:2649088:1229496 2019-02-11T01:01:13Z 2019-02-11T01:01:39Z distressed public 4 I currently own and use a Hewlett-Packard-made scanner-printer device. I didn't buy into such plans as described in the article by Cory Doctorow, but it <i>is</i> programmed to complain to me every time I use a refilled ink cartridge. I find that obnoxious enough as it is. <br /><br />This is worse. <br /><br />If Hewlett-Packard wants me to keep buying their scanner-printer devices when my current machine "dies", it would go well for them to cease and desist in the practices Mr. Doctorow describes here.<br /><br />Permanently.<br /><br />(And is this happening in Canada, and whom do we speak with at which level(s) of government if it is?)<br /><br /><a href="https://boingboing.net/2019/02/08/inkjet-dystopias.html">https://boingboing.net/2019/02/08/inkjet-dystopias.html</a><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dewline&ditemid=1229496" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments