26 Jul 2024
hello page for Don Marti
This is a Hello page for me.
How to get in touch
The best way to reach me is email: mailto:dmarti@zgp.org You can email me for Signal or phone info if you want to communicate that way.
This blog has an RSS feed, or if you want to get this blog by email, I recommend Feedrabbit. Go to their site and put in this URL: https://blog.zgp.org/feed/
Please do not send me “AI”-generated email. Just sending me the prompt you were going to use is fine. That saves us both some time and computing resources, avoids confusion, and is better for security and privacy.
I don’t do age verification. If you are trying to contact me on a service that has both child mode and adult mode, I could be in child mode whatever that means on there. So far this has not been a problem and on some sites it might be better.
Services I check
Besides email, I generally check these fairly often.
Fediverse: I’m @dmarti@federate.social
In-person events I attend
I can usually make it to Southern California Linux Expo and it’s a good place to meet up with me in person.
Other services
These are places I have accounts for certain purposes but aren’t a good way to reach me in general.
@dmarti.bsky.social is me, but I don’t check it much.
Slack and Discord (just because I have an account on a Slack or Discord server doesn’t mean I regularly check messages there)
dmarti (Don Marti) | Keybase is a way to check that it’s the same person behind all these accounts, and the info on there should be right, but I don’t regularly check messages on there.
@dmarti on “X” (former Twitter) is still me, but not a good way to reach me. I mainly use it for seeing how bad the bot problem is over there now.
dmarti on Facebook is also not a good way to reach me. I have most people muted and mainly use this account for getting screenshots of terrible scam ads and testing privacy stuff like the code for Each Facebook User Is Monitored by Thousands of Companies.
don.marti@gmail.com should forward to my normal email. Please use this address if you want to invite me to read or comment on a file on Google Docs or other Google services.
Services I might have an abandoned account on
I don’t know about the status of my accounts on these. Might have been taken over by spammers by now. These are not a good way to reach me.
YouTube
Telegram (if I have an account, I won’t use it. See Kremlingram — Dangers of Telegram — Kremlingram.org.)
LiveJournal
I made accounts on Meta Instagram and Threads to try something on Threads but don’t check them.
Services I know I don’t have an account on
WhatsApp: I know some people say it isn’t enshittified yet, but I don’t feel the need to be in suspense about when. (update 19 Jun 2025: the enshittification has begun, glad I don’t have contacts on there.)
Apparently Google has some kind of new chat thing now again—I don’t have time to learn these before they go away, so don’t expect an answer (even though I do have a Google account).