The best accounts on Mastodon.
0xC0DEC0DE07EA
@[email protected]“Incredibly mediocre” dude. Programmer. Bad with words. Enthusiastic cat-botherer. Okay dad and husband.

Banner picture: a dumpster fire plush sitting on a bestickered laptop.
Profile picture: an aluminum laptop with stickers for Debian, git, bash, Python, and vim. Additional stickers: DevOops, Not Today VSCode cats, Linux Inside covering the manufacturer logo, a fragile sticker for moving boxes, a couple warnings about insecure technology.
Bradley Schaefer
@[email protected]He/him. Ruby developer, sometimes engineering manager, and recovering cynic.
Outside of tech: dad, reader of fantasy/sci-fi, player of videogames, haver of tattoos, and fan of baseball and stand-up comedy.
Michel Lind
@[email protected]
#Meta production engineer working on #Linux userspace, longtime #Fedora contributor, #Debian maintainer. Artisanal coder, AI skeptic #NeoLuddite in my spare time. He/him. Born at < 350 ppm. #Ireland #EU transplant, mostly harmless. avatar: bespectacled man wearing a blue mask and a blue hat
Donald Hobern
@[email protected]Biodiversity informatician, naturalist/entomologist/lepidopterist, Java/Python programmer, Ngunnuwal Country / Canberra, AU
Australian Plant Phenomics Network Data Management Director
Species 2000/Catalogue of Life International Engagement Officer & Chair of Taxonomy Working Group
Working to automate insect monitoring solutions.
Was: ALA Director; GBIF Director; TDWG Chair; IBM software engineer
Banner: #PlumeMoth, Gillmeria ochrodactyla, Copenhagen, DK, 23 June 2014
He/him
Royce Williams
@[email protected]Just doing my undue diligence.
ISP vet, password cracker (Team Hashcat), security demi-boffin, YubiKey stan, public-interest technologist, AK license plate geek. Husband to a philosopher, father to a llama fanatic. Views his.
Day job: Enterprise Security Architect for an Alaskan ISP.
Obsessed with security keys:
techsolvency.com/mfa/security-keys
My 2017 #BSidesLV talk "Password Cracking 201: Beyond the Basics":
youtube.com/watch?v=-uiMQGICeQY&t=20260s
Followed you out of the blue = stole you from someone I respect.
Blocked inadvertently? Ask!
Am I following a dirtbag? Tell me!
Suggestions welcome!
Photo: White 50-ish man w/big forehead, short beard, & glasses, grinning by a display of Alaskan license plates.
Boosts not about security ... usually are.
Banner: 5 rows of security keys in a wall case.
#hashcat #Alaska #YubiKeys #LicensePlates
P.S. I hate advance-fee scammers w/heat of 400B suns
❤️:⚛👨👩👧🛡🙊🌻🗽💻✏🎥🍦🌶🍫!
Bryan Ruby 🌤️
@[email protected]✍ Editor/Writer/Blogger focused on Tech, Content Management, Information Systems, and fun pursuits.
🎧 Music and Hi-Fi Stereo Enthusiast
🏍️ Can-Am Spyder Rider, Bicyclist, Camper, Hiker, and anything else outdoors.
🌤️ 💻 Former NWS Lead Meteorologist and Information Technology Officer
🌎 Location: Sioux Falls, South Dakota 🇺🇸
Started on Mastodon in April 2022 via Fosstodon.
Michael Bacon
@[email protected]Day job: #geospatial #datascience #python #security
Academic research: #LandReform #STS #Scotland #Ecology #Landscape #CommunityOwnership
STS, planning geography, ecology, geospatial data, stuff.
I live and raise a fuss in #Durham #NC
Currently block-happy. Too many dudes being basic in my mentions.
MA Geography
Ph.D. Constructed Environment
He/him http://git.io/vxjC7
Adam H. Sparks
@[email protected]
Professor studying/working with biometry, agricultural modelling and data analytics at Curtin University in Western Australia. Former geonerd, now just a nerd, and editor for @rOpenSci and Tropical Plant Pathology
Pronouns: He/Him/His
Header photo is of the Kansas Flint Hills in winter.
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Lightfighter
@[email protected]Grew up in Beautiful Downtown Burbank, spent 10 years in the US Army (Infantry). Attended Southern Cal (IR degree) and CUA(JD). And I work currently as an SRE supporting a cloud SIEM product for which I have absolutely no education for, all hands on. Currently loving my adopted State of Colorado. Interests include #books #linux #politics #philosophy #hiking #cycling #motorcycles #veteran #photography
Francis (is looking for work)
@[email protected]I eat cringe for breakfast. I produce content for @antaresphdev
Toots include:
- #HTML and #CSS
- #GenshinImpact
- #Pinoy ukay-ukay finds
- #LadyGaga
- Gawking on red carpet events and outfits
- Religious trauma as an ex-Jehovah's Witness
- Pinoy #drag excellence
- Philippine politics
- Encantadia
#fedi22 #Philippines #lgbtq
villon
@[email protected]Grundschullehrer mit heftigem Interesse an OER, opensource, linux, H5P und dass es meinen Schüler/innen gut geht. Tröties die ein leeres Profil haben denen folge ich nicht. Antisemiten oder solchen mit einem pro Hamasanliegen dürfen sich gerne gepflegt irgendwo anders hin bewegen. KI-Slop wird geblockt. Ebensolche User, die dauerhaft keine alttexte schreiben.
Jay 🆘
@[email protected]Art-house goon
Developer, designer, writer, and @wmbr DJ living in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
· webdev · vim · movies · music · uspol · design · typography · wordpress ·
corq
@[email protected]That threat analyst from around the 'way, https://infosec.exchange/@corq,
https://mas.corq.co/@rogue_corq < #ukraine war news & #cats feed. Or, you know, just some #RANDO.
da1ca288c5f88da7b714105caf9cf661 You don't buy Degas from Signor Benati. Threat Analyst. Honeypot/OSINT. DXer. Linux Shill. Esterhase's Lamplighter.
I'm a software engineer by trade, an electronics hobbyist and amateur guitarist by night, and a house-rabbit enthusiast and ambassador all the time.
I live in the windswept prairies of Canada.
#RabbitsOfMastodon #rabbit #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #RodentsOfMastodon #electronics #retro #1970s #70s #blinkenlights
GhostOnTheHalfShell
@[email protected]opinionated lurker of the intarwebs.
Used to write code, still do. c/c++, java, php, js, c#, gdscript, gnawed on sql, sparql, unix/windows etc etc billions of years ago.
tech, graphics, anything STEM
anything anthropology, history, linguistics
anything blender, gimp (although i scream using it), audacity
prefers not to be run over by cars
I drink Philz.
I do a (non-monetized) video or so a week on yt.
Tyranny and poverty are everywhere a mainstream economics phenomenon.
Eider
@[email protected]No original commentary here, I mostly share news texts in Spanish 🇲🇽 and English 🇺🇸 that I happen to read. The flags are just to F with the Spaniards and British.
Kansas, México, Puppy Linux, Photography, Soccer, those are some of my interests, not topics that I'm an expert at.
Taffer 🇨🇦
@[email protected]
My job? Computer Sisyphus and Meme Historian. I work on cryptography and I like video games, books, and riding my bike. I use Arch, btw.
I work for Chainguard, but I definitely don't speak for them.

Jo Etzel
@[email protected]Working to increase the likelihood we can trust the what comes out of our fMRI analyses.
Staff scientist (PhD) at Washington U in St Louis (#wustl #WashU #STL #Missouri USA), Cognitive Control and Psychopathology lab. Very keen on #baseR #rstats (esp. for graphing).
I'll occasionally post about (in no particular order): task #fMRI, QC/QA, MVPA, permutation tests robust stats, #knitr, #OpenScience, and research ethics, particularly in the current "red-state" context. Plus a few cats.
she/her
Frédéric Menou
@[email protected]I mostly pouet about software development, do bad puns, and troll acquaintances. Also #haskell, #nix, #rust and alikes.
My main achievements : I have a most likely sane teenager, and I've completed all 3 saves of The Binding of Isaac Repentance.
Currently freelance at the French NAP: https://transport.data.gouv.fr
Iain Collins
@[email protected]Mostly post about games and software and people stuff.
Recovering from news, media, civic tech and that one time I started a popular FOSS project. I sometimes relapse and post about these.
Still making FOSS but mostly just fun stuff now.
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