Flammie A Pirinen on github pages
This page is part of my rant essay collection but first a short practical summary for anyone looking for informations:
| Contact | Address (link) |
|---|---|
| flammie@iki.fi | |
| (work) | flammie.pirinen@uit.no |
| IRC | Flammie on libera.chat |
| Flammie on OFTC | |
| github | Flammie on github |
| Zulip | GiellaLT Zulip (work) |
| matrix | @Flammie:matrix.org |
| tommi-pirinen | |
| Google¹ | ffflammie@gmail.com |
| ffflammie | |
| Vkontakte | ffflammie |
| none | |
| Telegram | search |
| Zoom | search |
| ??? | |
| Mastodon | Mastodon |
| Mastodon | |
| bluesky | @flammie.name |
| Mail (work) | UiT Arctic University of Tromsø |
| NO-9037 | |
| PO Box 6050 |
¹ if you need to send an invite to a google-hosted app: Google calendar, Google forms, Google Plus, Google Duo, Google Docs, Google Happy Beer Hour or such, use this email address, actual emails sent to this address go to spam folder.
Traditionally I would’ve told everyone to use email for 99 % of things or IRC for real time discussions and it was good enough.
This was a good standard but has been breaking down as of late. Ironically, in times of where we are most reachable, most online, I have much less capability or possibility to actually respond than I used to. Things have become less reliable, more full of spam, and fair and square less usable than before.
To explain a bit more I wrote this page. The main point I have is that I am theoretically reachable online most of the time, but need to protect myself from distractions when working in flow state for example. I have compiled a list of features that communication channels have that are relevant:
Email used to be the obvious ideal choice, but recently we have been forced to use sub-optimal email systems: both microsoft and google are locking us to their products with multifactor authentication that doesn’t play with other email clients. The spam filtering is done by them, badly. This means I miss a lot of mails, and cannot reply properly since I only have access to web page with no quote feature and forced top posting. Email does not interrupt me in flow state, I can setup notifications and pull interval. Email leaves perfect record of the conversation and if people inline post all, it’s easy to follow, but that’s a lost battle now I suppose.
I do not have my mobile phone on me at all times and I have disabled all notifications. I read my messages when I get to them, I will not be interrupted by a telephone. It may take several days for me to notice a message in Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram or Facebook Messgenger.