On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Okay. This was inspired by someone else's avatar. I resorted to bing.com's translator page again, and I know that it gets things Wrong fairly often. So corrections are likely to be needed here:




What can I say? Any excuse for practicing with design software is welcome these days.

I'll get to Remembrance next post.

Right now...I see that the Metro grocery chain wants me to switch from web site to cellphone app to get my Air Miles points offers.

I object to that. Too many people and organizations get to track too much of what I do with my cell phone as it is now. So I'm digging in my heels on this one.

Get rid of your DRM measures regarding refilled ink cartridges!

Four years of this nonsense is more than enough!

https://www.wired.com/2016/09/hp-printer-drm/

"If you refuse to back off of fact-checking my propaganda, I'll put you all out on the streets! With no clothes!"

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-trump/trump-to-sign-executive-order-on-social-media-on-thursday-white-house-idUSKBN2331NK

Their news site pages didn't use to freeze my browser for minutes at a time. Yes, my preferred browser is older than many consider preferable, but still, it's been getting problematic in the last few weeks. And it shouldn't.

Another dental appointment today to fix things going wrong in a place that was already supposedly fixed. But, this is the wear and tear that human teeth undergo we're talking about here. So perhaps this should never be a surprise to me when it happens.

At least this appointment will cost me less paid-work time than the checkup did.

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 is programmed to complain to me every time I use a refilled ink cartridge. I find that obnoxious enough as it is.

This is worse.

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.

Permanently.

(And is this happening in Canada, and whom do we speak with at which level(s) of government if it is?)

https://boingboing.net/2019/02/08/inkjet-dystopias.html

I miss the variety of designs for the mood icons I used to have at LJ.

(Which reminds me that I've yet to finish fixing some video and image links.)

...it isn't that much better for the time being.

More on other topics later.