The best humans on Mastodon.
Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦
@[email protected]On the open web since 1993, still writes HTML by hand. Day job at Open Education Global plus side crafter of SPLOTs, WordPress jamming, javascript web toys, silly mashups, long winded blog posts, and 75k flickr photos shared CC0.
I typo [often] therefore I am [human].
Images: Cartoon icon of a multi colored dog head inside a cog on background of the real dog named Felix in profile gazing out over an open prairie.
Chinga la migra! 🍉🌈
@[email protected]The Mascot with the Ascot, The Alpha Male Martha Stewart, The Sultan of Style... You love him, you hate him, The Gentleman of Leisure! #fedi22 #menswear #linux #anarchy #freesoftware #fashion #art #maker
Lot⁴⁹
@[email protected]Unabashed lefty married to a terrific woman. Animal lover, especially cats but also dogs, birds—heck all of 'em. Audiophile, vinyl collector. Retired urban planner. Failed novelist.USAF Vietnam vet. Currently a big John Fahey fan. Born in Chicago, lived in Denver, Colorado Springs, St Louis, DC; in San Diego since 1999 and not about to depart until climate change demands it.
Igel
@[email protected]Macht was mit diesem Internet (meistens PHP oder Python backend geraffel), Studierender Fachinformatiker AE, Mag Tux besonders gerne, 🔥, Nomnivor, schaut hier manchmal rein
he/er/feu
Just van den Broecke
@[email protected]Free source geospatial professional. Maphacker and mapmaker. OpenStreetMap mapper. GeoPythonist. Occasional blogger at https://justobjects.nl . My mapwork at https://map5.nl and https://map5topo.nl. OSGeo Charter member and founder/former chair OSGeo.nl. Learning Spanish.
Jonathan Kamens 86 47
@[email protected]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
Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD)
@[email protected]Structural biology (XFEL crystallography, cryoEM, electron crystallography) data processing methods developer. I use my degree in chemistry to write software to use physics to understand biology. As of 2024, based in Hamburg.
70% coffee by volume. I’m really into electronics and 3d printing right now. I have a very fluffy and affectionate cat. Big fan of bicycles and trains, better public infrastructure generally, and investment in collective wellbeing generally. Food motivated; very easily bribed with coffee and pastries. Always learning.
Brian Nicar
@[email protected]I am fascinated by all forms of musical expression, but I cut my teeth on heavy metal. I am an avid progger and free / classical jazz man, too. I welcome and encourage discussion.
Also a music gear nerd and Linux expert, questions are always welcome.
David Zaslavsky
@[email protected]Software engineer, former particle physicist, occasional blogger. I support the principle of cake.
Posting habits: ~60% #Monsterdon, ~20% #Python/#tech, ~20% funny/uplifting/entertaining content. Rare politics-related posts, always using popular hashtags so they can be filtered out. I typically don't boost posts with images unless they have #AltText.
#books #bookstodon #reading #scifi #fantasy #programming #C #CPlusPlus #Linux #Git #KDE #bash #fedi22
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)
@[email protected]
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
Frank Barton
@[email protected]IT/InfoSec in Higher Ed, Parent, instructor, Scout Leader - and Coffee Addict
Mark Reid
@[email protected]Work: Machine Learning Engineer at Apple, previously a Research Fellow in learning theory at the Australian National University.
Play: #trailrunning, #marathon, #eurorack, #jazz, #guitar, #piano, #bass, #snowboarding, #gogame, #photography
Based in Canberra, Australia 🇦🇺.
David Harrison 🇨🇦
@[email protected]Dad to adult twins, husband, software product security manager, (mostly!) former developer, progressive, climate-concerned, covid-cautious, suburban urbanist.
Trying to be optimistic but struggling sometimes.
ahistorical immaterialist
@[email protected]In unceded lutruwita (ex. croweater) somewhere north of nipaluna. Angry scientist (fire, forest and spatial ecology, gis and #rstats). Weird music maker, proud NTEU
Matrix: @ozjimbob:matrix.org
Signal: https://signal.me/#eu/A_wLsxe2etdSXKqgCTZxrnYCWpbIz5BPNtFAOIQsupLaAGFlG3BPv6YYncNWR5vj
Simplex: https://smp18.simplex.im/a#P539EhaH1v6kdTg-oYK78PcNUQOvUj0mFQ1zV1UkQXA
Dave Spector
@[email protected]Software Engineer & Writer in DevPubs @ • A #NewYorker in SF • ex-Wall St’er • Foodie • #Coffee roaster • #Maker • W2DHM • Opinions are mine, not my employer’s • Born at 318.43 ppm
Pro-tip: “LLMs generate statistically probable responses to prompts, not factual answers to questions.”
Outside of my day job, I’m thinking about #FoodInsecurity, #ClimateChange, and #cities. I experiment with #hydroponics, #UrbanAgriculture, and #SensorNetworks to try and create more #ResilientCommunities.
Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ
@[email protected]Raconteur, bon-vivant, man-about-town
Teacher, media designer, légétébéqouis
MTL QC CA 514-1312
Andres
@[email protected]he/him. from the birdsite (@Andres4NY and before that @NEGreenways).
#Dad #NYC #Bikes #FreeTransit #SafeStreets #BanCars #Debian #FreeSoftware #ACAB #Vegetarian #WearAMask
My wife's an #epidemiologist, so you'll get some #COVID talk too.
Trans rights are human rights.
Scott Wilson
@[email protected]29+ year information security “professional”.
I'm a middle-aged, middle class husband, dad, doggy-dad, and friend. Stage IIIB #ColorectalCancer survivor.
I like non-alcoholic #beer, #gardening and #yardwork, playing #guitar, listening to #music, and reading #books (mystery, thriller, suspense, #scifi, fantasy, #astrophysics, and #cosmology).
I’m supporter of #LGBTQIA rights, a #BlackLivesMatter advocate, a believer in #TransRights and proponent of equality. I support #Ukraine. I DO NOT support ICE.
0% of my profile and posts are AI-generated.
Posts are on auto-delete (1 week).
ThreeDollarBill
@[email protected]Photographer (botanicals, landscapes, people), surface design, gardener. Living in Vancouver, BC, Canada (Coast Salish terr). I mostly avoid posting or reading about politics on social media.
header: newly germinated Salvia patens 'Blue Angel', spring 2025
avatar: me against a white backdrop with a red maple leaf splodged on
DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄)
@[email protected]I'm a philomath (many interests; call it polymath-wanna-be) professional computer programmer in Silicon Valley, specializing in operating systems, languages/compilers, sometimes AI, usually non-traditional parallel software and hardware architectures.
Also:
#computer_science #unicode #unix #linux #bsd
#compilers
#operating_systems
#GOF_AI
#cognitive_science
#linguistics
#physics
#mathematics
Ex-springboard diver; scuba diver; free diver
Ars longa, vita brevis.
Roni Rolle Laukkarinen
@[email protected]CTO @dude (a WordPress agency), admin of several servers like this one, programmer, *nix user, and advocate for an open and ethical Internet. Creator of Mastodon Bird UI. I work with servers, websites, and open source for a living. I'm safe. 🌈