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~~CBC News called Arthur Irving what he was: an oligarch.~~

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/arthur-irving-death-1.7202701

I forgot an add-on I'd installed into Firefox. It swaps in "oligarch" for "billionaire" wherever the latter word appears.

If you want it for yourselves...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/billionaire-oligarch-replacer/

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: Ideas on CBC Radio One

I think that someone is impersonating Machiavel Studios. The latest e-mail seeking my application to be hired does not have a Canadian e-mail address, but Hungarian.

This is not what I want for the future of the Public Broadcaster:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cbc-radio-canada-layoffs-budget-1.7048530

Here and I've been listening to this year's edition of the Massey Lectures for most of the afternoon while I was working on the new day job...

Current Mood: scared
Current Location: Home-for-now

Is anyone else having trouble using the "y" key in typing stuff on Fandom.com's wiki sites?

Current Mood: curious

Coming back to this topic at the moment, as I'm visiting with a Meetup group called "DrupalYOW" (because Ottawa-based Drupal users), I want to refresh my memory: who in my circles here on Dreamwidth is already familiar with this software?

Current Mood: busy

So I've started setting up a presence there.

https://www.artstation.com/dwightwilliams-ottawa

Current Mood: busy
Current Location: Home-for-now
Current Music: "Truganini" - Midnight Oil

And now I know for certain that Facetime works on my current computer. Just had a brief and entertaining chat with people on the Pacific coastline.

Current Mood: pleased

~~Anyone else having issues with that instance at the moment?~~

Solved!

If I'm not reachable by any internet channels for hours to days after tonight, this might be part of why:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/warnings-roll-in-ahead-of-snow-rain-wind-flash-freeze-in-eastern-ontario-1.6694853

Just so you know.

Current Mood: worried

1. Someone sees the work of the Guardian as a threat.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/dec/21/guardian-hit-by-serious-it-incident-believed-to-be-ransomware-attack

2. If you're trying to get in or out of metropolitan Vancouver, Canada, you'll need more patience than usual:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/winter-weather-flight-cancellations-1.6693294

3. Same for Ottawa-Gatineau.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/don-t-travel-this-weekend-if-you-don-t-need-to-opp-says-1.6692802

4. Mon-Fri 9-5 may be over for many, but what's taking its place in the federal civil service may be problematic in other ways for the staff as much as for the public. Especially in Ottawa-Gatineau where we don't have mask rules back in place yet.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/federal-departments-hybrid-directive-responses-1.6692401

5. The Convoy Siege of Ottawa continues to have consequences for a lot of people living here.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/zexi-li-freedom-convoy-year-in-review-1.6205324

Current Mood: busy
Current Location: Home-for-now
Current Music: The Current on CBC Radio

This is why I'm staying away from Post: Marc Andresssen and his perceptions of the world.

https://fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom/109459499411846600

Current Mood: busy

Okay, I've got an account now. Not sure that I'll be staying with Mastodon Social yet.

https://mastodon.social/@DEWLine

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: Cross-Country Checkup on CBC Radio

Prof. Michael Geist: "The longstanding debate over whether Bill C-18, the Online News Act, requires payment for linking came to an end yesterday. Government officials admitted that even basic quotes from news articles that include a hyperlink to the original source would scope user posts into the law and require platforms such as Google and Facebook to negotiate payment for the links. As noted below, even that position may understate the impact of the bill, which appears to also cover a user post of a news quote without a link. In other words, merely quoting a few sentences from a news article on an Internet platform is treated as making news content available, which triggers a requirement for the platforms to negotiate payment. This position runs counter to Canada’s copyright obligations under the Berne Convention and has no place in a country committed to freedom of expression."

How will this be made to affect us as individual internet users/publishers?

Current Mood: worried

Yes, those are still showing up when I change web pages within Dreamwidth on occasion.

On to other topics...

Current Mood: busy

1. "BYOD = Bring Your Own Distaster"?

2. Concerns over the consequences of Ukraine further reversing Putinist armed robberies.

3. The ridicule-worthiness of the official Putinist position.

Current Mood: busy

Having trouble logging into my Indeed account again. Not sure why, and I'm looking for word from anyone else facing similar issues.

Current Mood: busy

Yes, I maintain a job-seeker's account with the federal tax authorities. You try to find work in Ottawa-Gatineau without resorting to the various federal departments and agencies and see how far you can get, okay?

Anyway, I've been trying and failing to log in since Thursday. Not sure what's going on. I've left notes with several people. Moving on to continue the job search through other resources while I wait for replies.

Current Mood: busy
Current Location: Home-for-now
Current Music: Ottawa Morning on CBC Radio

Today was warm, and windy...in a warm way.

The mess in progress at Rogers has not affected me too much, but for having to use my credit card when I'd rather use my debit card.

Extended family is mostly okay enough, so far as I can tell.

Found another job to file an actual application for. I'll know in four days if I can get into the candidate pool for it.

Current Mood: drained
Current Location: Home-for-now
Current Music: As It Happened, on CBC Radio

So I've spent the day in family conference - that gets discussed in "access list" entries - as well as a ByMUG meeting, some house chores, Clip Studio Paint practice, culling basement and e-mail clutter, and other stuff.

Current Mood: busy

It's weird getting e-mails from others sharing my own name...
Example: one guy in Georgia having subscribed to alerts from the local Home Depot. Another two were authors, one writing science textbooks, another in US law enforcement history. Then there was the "private military contractor"...

Current Mood: amused

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Entries tagged with internet

Oligarchy: Looking at New Brunswick + My Own Memory

Malignant Ad-Mails

Horror re: CBC Staffing

Fandom Wikis and the "Y" Key

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