Canadian 🇨🇦 Linux🐧Sysadmin by day, average geek by night.

Ask me about my #homelab!

Disillusioned science and technology enthusiast.
I believe that we can make the world a better, kinder, more caring place together.

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"Unix: where there is a shell, there is a way"

#FuckAI #FuckLLMs #FuckCrypto #linux #sysadmin #homelab #maker #adhd #foss #tech #equality #sustainability #cycling #kitchener #ontario

Longtime open-source user, advocate, and contributor. I’ve been working with and writing about Linux and open source since 1999. Now writing for LWN.net (@lwn). Become a subscriber here if you're not already! https://lwn.net/subscribe/

I post about Linux, free and open-source software (FOSS), music, cats, politics, writing, and anything else that comes to mind. Hates gen-AI slop.

"When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction." Mark Twain

Geezer militant, retired healthcare IT programmer/analyst, long-time #socialist, #FOSS advocate, eternal student and advocate of #Esperanto, supporter of: #CubanRevolution, #Palestine, #BlackLivesMatter, #WomensRights, defense of the environment. Enjoy exercise, music, reading, nature.
For follow requests - need to have a bio, some posts, etc.
Started on mastodon.online on Oct. 31, 2022 - merged that into expressional.social on 9/30/24.

#FreePalestine #LetGazaLive #NoToAntisemitism
#NoArmsToIsrael #EndTheOccupation
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#LetCubaLive #CubaSi #VivaCuba #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#AbortionRights #LGBTQRights
#ClimateChange #EndFossilFuels

#Teaching with #Emacs. Teaching Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, large university USA, SEIU local 668

Born at Unix Epoch time 21,450,000 (326 ppm CO₂). he/him

#Evolution #Science in #Humanities #Biochemistry #MolecularBiology #Microbiology #CellBiology #MolecularMedicine #Academia #HigherEd #Education #Unions #Solidarity #PSFA #SEIU #Debian #GNU #Linux #GNULinux #FreeSoftware #LibreSoftware #FLOSS #FOSS #GrapheneOS #OrgMode #EmacsLisp

I follow science, history, & photography toots. Now retired, I've been a: mechanic, construction worker, cab driver, laborer, fabricator, electrical engineer, cable technician, community organizer, lobbyist, podcaster (energy & EVs), fine art framer, & professional photographer (among many other things). Linux user since the '90s. I use Darktable to edit photos. I'm an open culture advocate & my photos are in the public domain. I'm a Nov '22 dead bird site migrant. #NoAI #OpenCulture

Australian retired archaeologist, Emeritus Professor at University of New England, Armidale. Book on (mostly the evolution of) art--Art or Scribbles was published on 8 August 2025. Published on bones, stones, language origins, art etc. Worked with Gamilaraay, Wangkamadla, Yulluna, Kalkadoon and Mitakoodi people.
We must have a politics which encourages equality and fights climate change.

https://link.springer.com/book/9783031904578

Geboren um 329.43 ppm

Vater einer bezaubernden Tochter und Mann einer starken Frau.

Toots etc. werden nach 2 Monaten automatisch gelöscht.

Privacy advocate 〱 Malware analyst 〱 Cybersecurity
〰️ ⁠InfoSec 〰️ ⁠DFIR 〰️ ⁠CISSP 〰️ ⁠黑客 〰️ ⁠Katzenmädchen
⁽ʰᵒᵖᵉ ʸᵒᵘ ˡⁱᵏᵉ ᶜᵒʳⁿʸ ʲᵒᵏᵉˢ ᵃⁿᵈ ᶜᵃᵗˢ⁾

【 Professional Computer Booper 】
Even my brain has certs (asd,adhd,...)
Gender: a threat model (they/them/idc)

🐆🐈🐯🐱🐾😿😸😹😺😻😼😽😾🙀🦁🐈‍⬛
#Android #BLM #CatSalad #CyberSecurity #Developer #DFIR #fedi22 #GAYINT #Hacker #InfoSec #Malware #Privacy #Puns #Python #Security #tfr #Tor #TransRights #Unicode #Veilid #ಠ_ಠ #ʘ‿ʘ meow :3

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https://justmytoots.com/@catsalad@infosec.exchange

he/his
Director of Information Security at 4DMedical.
I work primarily in #infosec, #IT, and #SaaS infrastructure.
ex #USDS (fired by #DOGE)
Dad, old-school hacker, Righteous Indignation Man. Opinions are my own. Follow my blog at @jikblog.
#COVID #CovidIsNotOver #USPol #MAPol #BosPoli #Boston #MA #politics #linux #FOSS #OpenSource #ConsumerActivism #privacy #programmer #hacker #fedi22 #resist https://justmytoots.com/@jik@federate.social

The one with the braid (she/her)

Solidarity with women in Rojava. Defend Ukraine.

Lives in #Alsace / #Elsàss but spends way too much time in France & Germany.

- Does #matrix for work.
- "Her OHing breaks end-to-end encryption."
- Proudly wearing her #Kêfî 🧕🏽🌈.

Usually tooting in English and #Elsàssisch, spelling disorder.

Other accounts :

- @lewd : lots of railway content, sometimes lewd trains, open to follow
- @braid : If you maybe know me a bit further

[matrix] https://matrix.to/#/@braid:alsace.hair

I write code for fun, and for profit.

Currently working on:

- real-time chatting, and trying to throw graph theory into the problem
- AI assistant for managing notes

Also, I'm a Honda owner

#activitypub #fedi22 #go #typescript #react #nextjs #SoftwareDeveloper #programmer #programming #coding

"There is no sanctum or honor among technophiles."

Creator of the Wyng backup system. Lifelong student of the personal computing condition (and human one as well).

#wyng #infosec #pcs #containers #vm #hypervisor #microkernel #backups #storage #linux #qubes #python #foss #oshw

Kia ora! I'm a #nature nut, addict of #iNaturalist NZ — Mātaki Taiao, and an #ecologist at #LincolnUniversity in #Aotearoa-#NewZealand.

I spend an inordinate amount of my time counting nature to watch what's changing (see https://wildcounts.org/).

#TwitterMigration #NZTwits #ecology #EcologicalMonitoring #NaturalHistory #iNaturalistNZ #iNaturalist #wildcounts #RStats #Biodiversity

Born when there was 326 ppm carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Not a Westerner 🇮🇩 | suicide survivor

A reader-funded political writer. A self-taught half-assed techie thingy. I build mutual aid infrastructure and political education space. Rebuilding the system here.
📌 Intro: https://kolektiva.social/@wrzky/116362344939423095

Feel free to tag me in your mutual aid requests for a boost. I can’t always provide financial support, but I can help with amplification.

🙌🏻 Jin, Jîyan, Azadî.

🚨STILL UNACHIEVED‼️ https://ko-fi.com/wrzky/goal

I write light(ish) romantic fantasy fiction & family-friendly puzzle walk trails while enjoying farm life with goats, alpacas & bees in WA's South West Boojarah region.

I follow & boost writing, reading, books, knitting, science, history, linguistics, environment, art & Stoicism.

She/her. Avatar AltText: silhouette of a woman in profile, with glasses & bobbed hair; header is my book covers (alt texts and CWs on website).

40-something girl from Michigan in the US. Quiet, unobtrusive, purple-flavored. Recreational computer toucher. Disabled and neurodivergent but trying to make the best of what I have. Owned by two cats.

#RetroComputing
#RetroWeb / #Gopher
#RetroGaming
#SegaGenesis / #MegaDrive
#SNES
#N64
#PS1
#PS2
#Wii
#WiiU
#NintendoSwitch
#HamRadio
#Linux / #Debian / #KDE
#Programming / #C / #Python / #PHP
#Cats
#Bloomscrolling
#FuckTrump
#NoAI

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High school Computer Science teacher.
9-time Academy Award watcher.
he/him.

Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/QuackHomework/

#ComputerScience #teacher #CSed #CS4all #STEM #botALLY #p5js #generativeart #creativecoding #codeart #genartclub #birds #monsterdon

Hi! I am a member of the team that runs the new social web space at SocialBC.ca. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns! Posts here are instance and BC related. Mostly politics and some weather.

You can see my personal account at @chris with much more varied content, I also run @alberniweather.

Profile picture is me dramatically eating a cookie.

Header is the SocialBC Logo. A Mammoth walking in front of a triangular mountain over "SOCIAL"

#dotNet #dotNetMaui with #cSharp UI
Maths/Computer Science teacher/tutor
Facts aren't "arbitrary"
searchable

sysadmin, devops, sre, linux. TTRPG, gaming, DIY

Interests include #TranspoEquity, #UltraRunning, #BloomingtonIN, #DevOps, #UrbanPlanning, #Mapping, #Linux

Boosting questions and helpful or actionable posts. Let’s build better together.