Notices by Sarah L. Fossheim :they_them: (fossheim@queer.garden)

obligatory "first snow of the season"-post ⛄️

current mood: just wrote "happy to discuss the scope in a cake" instead of "call" in an email 🍰

good morning :BlobCat_Coffee: say hello to today's bug catching mascot: a ringed plover (from Finnmark, northern Norway).

In 2020 I wrote about the (quite bad) state of the dataviz accessibility of the US presidential result dashboards. Norway had elections this week, so you know what that means...

📣😎 I finally wrote something again! Good, bad, and interesting examples of the state of dataviz accessibility in the Norwegian media:
https://fossheim.io/writing/posts/dataviz-accessibility-review-norwegian-elections-2023/

Had a bad mental health week so last weekend I went for a hike between the sheep here, always helps 💚

guess where I am based on the birds I spotted around me :BlobCat_Whoa:

Oslo(-ish) people! What are your favorite hikes in Oslo or within a 2 hour driving distance of Oslo?

I’m trying to go out more for hikes before and after work this summer (or work from location 🏔️☀️), but most of the spots I love are 4+ hours away, so I’m looking for more options closer to home.

Also please don’t tell me to check UT.no, Norgeskart, or other hiking apps. I use those a lot already. There’s just a lot of choice everywhere and it’s hard to know from the map/description/one shitty phone picture and a vague google review what’s interesting and what’s not.

Something I honestly don’t understand is people claiming using chatGPT (and similar tools) will make writing emails more efficient:

1) writing a good prompt, and then proofreading and editing the response takes as much time as just writing the email.

2) if it’s straightforward enough that LLMs output an accurate email, it’s straightforward enough to write it yourself.

3) if the content is too advanced or important to quickly write yourself, why trust a potential nonsense generator with it?

@eys @amora Norwegian class didn’t teach me this! ? What are the two words?