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owenblacker

@owenblacker@dataare.cool

🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿♿⧖ Mainly-gay, mainly-Welsh political geek; proud social justice warrior and trans ally. Queering Wikipedia, Open Rights Group, ex-mySociety. he/him, cis.

English, français, Cymraeg. (Español, Deutsch; sometimes learning: العربية, Gàidhlig, ייִדיש)

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seldo, to random

I would say a solid 30% of my questions that used to be google searches are going to ChatGPT these days. Google should be (and is) worried.

owenblacker,
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@seldo @sminnee But doesn't ChatGPT specialise in plausible wrong answers?!

theresnotime, to random

I wrote a blog post with some shallow insights into the Community

https://words.theresnotime.co.uk/2023/shallow-insights-into-the-wikimedia-community/

owenblacker,
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@theresnotime Excellent essay 💖

theresnotime, to random

Can any devs recommend a mentoring program I should get involved in?
I've really enjoyed mentoring an intern at work and would love to impart more of my minimal knowledge and experience 😇

owenblacker,
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@theresnotime I asked on workslack and the first answers so far mention Codebar, MentorCruise.com, OneMillionMentors.org.uk and a friend added “I highly recommend engaging with at least some of the online mentoring articles which talk through things like effective active listening, intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation during goal setting etc”

theresnotime, (edited ) to random

Do I post too much?

owenblacker,
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@theresnotime You post quite a lot, but it's your feed. Post as much as you want to; if people don't want to read all your posts, they can unfollow you, innit.

Your space, not theirs.

theresnotime, to random

Someone decided to try to upset me (?) by leaving this message on my Commons talk page 🤷🏻‍♀️

It's a YouTube video titled Vanessa Vokey - If a person has a penis he's a man, a song to the tune of If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands — now, I dunno about you, but I watched a few minutes of it and just felt bad for the amount of effort they've put into trying to upset people.. personally I'd have spent that time getting singing lessons but whatever.

owenblacker,
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@theresnotime Eurgh I'm sorry you have to deal with this shit.

Is someone running checkuser to do something about the sock owner?

owenblacker,
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@theresnotime valid

theresnotime, to random

With yesterday's drama barely contained, today starts with a phone call from the hospital reminding me of a meeting with my consultant this afternoon — a routine phone call, if I'd been aware of the appointment 🙃

tl;dr I have a mystery appointment at the hospital today

owenblacker,
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@theresnotime good luck

seldo, to random

Today's entry in is Margery Kempe, an extremely Christian woman who went gunning for sainthood by going on pilgrimages and demonstrating what she considered to be a variety of miraculous abilities. She then wrote what is considered to be the first autobiography in the English language about her adventures, giving us great insight into her life and times and the fact that she was just absolutely hands-down the worst travel companion you could ever possibly imagine.

owenblacker,
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@seldo bemusingly, this just showed up in my podcast feed https://open.spotify.com/episode/3boxRUlE0f9CdZOB9KdxHm?si=28wukWfnSHm2BAncbVVA1Q

owenblacker, to random
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Not sure I ever expected to see these from where I grew up

Plymouth City Council: Labour gain from No party majority

seldo, to random

She schnooze

owenblacker,
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@seldo our cats do the same

seldo, (edited ) to random

The 2023 Web Development survey is OPEN! Help your community by making your voice heard on topics like the risks and rewards of AI, whether mobile-first is real, and the right way to do ecommerce: https://surveymonkey.com/r/F9S667L

owenblacker,
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@seldo no demographic questions?

owenblacker, to random
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If I had communications with an Amazon UK Marketplace seller about an order, does anyone know how I find those comms? There doesn't seem to be a link from then order page?

owenblacker,
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@neil oh, that sounds plausible. I'll take a look. Thanks!

owenblacker,
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@neil Nope, that has the one I just sent, but not the previous conversation with the same seller 🫠

owenblacker,
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@neil they said something similar in Twitter, so you're probably right and they probably broke it 🤷🏼

owenblacker, to random
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So has Twitter broken web login or something?!

theresnotime, to random

Is it a crime to circumvent (and provide ways of circumventing) blocked websites in the UK? Say, for example, if Wikipedia gets blocked here?

Asking for a friend 😇

owenblacker,
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@theresnotime Paging @alecm 😉

theresnotime, to random

I'm very privileged to be able to self-fund all of my HRT etc., but damn it sucks to see so many others needing to resort to fundraising :((

owenblacker,
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@theresnotime I'd suggest talking with existing organisations like @tsn and the LGBT Foundation and so on.

seldo, to random

The future is now

(base) seldo@greg gpt % node langchain.mjs AIChatMessage { text: "J'adore programmer. Saviez-vous que les baleines à bosse peuvent chanter des chansons qui durent jusqu'à 20 minutes ?", name: undefined }

owenblacker,
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