Teacher, researcher, technologist

@sigcpp @nityakrishna

Tech, edu, society, humor, justice, health, finance, entertainment, languages, cultures,…

I strive to:
- Keep open mind
- Engage in good faith
- Follow whole person
- Be objective, respectful, social
- Share and seek diverse, new topics

Engagement is not endorsement. searchable

Bio: https://smurthys.github.io
Formerly: https://mastodon.social/@smurthys
https://justmytoots.com/@smurthys@hachyderm.io

#NoBots

retired RIT Prof, longtime hacker, former Moffett Field cubicle monkey, once upon a time an Army Sgt & SignalPuke™, now WA2RRB… personal acct


“In Gawds we trust, all others must bring data”



#pedagogy #coding #systems #W3C #vet #AmateurRadio #data #FOSS #fedi22

A technology enthusiast in #DuluthMN #fedi22 #linux #greyhounds #dnd5e #hamradio

"nʉf". They/them, 🏳️‍🌈, 🏳️‍⚧️, 🖧, ΘΔ🐲. A nerd's nerd. Computer security and architecture researcher, CHERI weenie. Anti-fascist, anti-theist. Work for myself right now, so opinions are those of my employer!

You know the bit of systems' architecture maps labeled "Here Be Dragons"? That' us; we're the dragons.

Late-30s in Missouris 🥲

Job: teacher #CPlusPlus #CompSci ; previously software/web dev.

Hobby: makin #opensource #indiegames , videos, animations, zines

Tech: #emacs , #Linux Mint

Languages: #Esperanto , learning #हिंदी

Queer: Panro/Ace/Enby (they/them)

Lore: Formerly homeschooled, husband from India, dealing with infertility, late diagnosed ADHD, mom died from cancer 2024.

you should really carry no less than 5 computers on you at all times, like a sensible person.

I make things for the #Fediverse & #smallNet

Talk about #DeSo #FediDev #FediverseUX #P2P #Privacy #SpreadFediverse

I post #SciFiArt

Vlog at #AllYourBases #FinalForm

Work on #CrowdBucks #FediCon #FediverseAcademy #FediverseCity #FingerProtocol #GreatApe #Microdon #ProToGo #SocialFed

I life-cast at @reiver

Code in #golang

I like to understand things. I like to make things.

The meaning of life — first survive, then reproduce 🌞

Formal b/g: comp sci, math. Pro b/g: soft eng, ml, research

Intellectual (Non practicing, Lapsed)
Mostly Harmless.
Biological.
NB
Kaurna land.
Autodidact, Polymath, Honoris Causa Ignoramus.
#AI #Infosec #Consciousness
Prefigurative Social & Technological Innovation enthusiast
(#SocialInnovation, #TechForGood, #SystemicChange, #EthicalAI)

#REGULATEAI !

"Humans are the larval form of AI"
- me

"Only thing that stops a bad guy with an AI...
Is a good guy with an AI."
- me

"I fight for the user."
- Tron

Webby: https://dodgy.link/ is very dodgy.

Header art:
Luv, a replicant from the beautiful movie "Blade runner 2049", is having her nails done...
... simultaneously she rains death onto bandits with heavy ordinance from a drone through her augmented reality glasses.

Avatar:
Motif from a SA Amalgamated Metal Workers union banner.
South Australian Museum.
United, the workers,
will never be defeated !

Long career as a dilettante at Bell Labs Research and Google, mostly building weird stuff no one uses, but occasionally getting it right, such as with UTF-8 and Go.

Also: tootfinder

A lot into #procgen, #gaming, #gamedev, #3D, #writing, #roleplaying, #pnp, #sf, #fantasy.

Distribute my forces evenly, so nothing ever gets done.

Daring a new attempt at social media. I'm a he/him from #Germany, noobing around happily on #Linux since 2017.

I like #HeavyMetal and #spiders.

Listen to the silent majority. #niewiederistjetzt

⁂

Musician. Interested in science, politics and current affairs. Hobbyist developer (C, Go, Python, Javascript). Shouting into the void about climate change and the dangers of dependency on US Tech. #FOSS #DigitalSovereignty

Since 2001

Ingegnere civile ed informatico col pallino del software libero. Ho fatto calcestruzzo per una vita.
Civil and IT engineer with a passion for free software.
I have made concrete for a lifetime

Twitter migrant! Boomer here (aka OLD)Brooklyn NYC born and raised, but live in hell in DeSantis land now🤮 My family, politics, tea drinking, Whovian, raising Monarch 🦋, dogs, plants, books and golf are my jam! PS I am a Senior Swiftie!

the curious stray boy
🌏 meanjin, aus
━━━━━━━━♡━━━

interests: low poly, pixel art, godot, programming, autoluw, degrowth, small; local; fedi platforms, hytale, foss/linux, risc-v, vegan, queer rights

picture: me! a femboy with fluffy curly brown hair 🐕

banner: a 2D pixel art scene I made! a black cat, and person with brown hair sitting on a blue carpet floor. An empty studio apartment with grey walls; a window with red curtains, moonlight and rain.

Twitter refugee wandering around the Fediverse. Frequent donater to various causes ranging from Linux distro maintenance, privacy, humanitarian aid, and so on.

Occasional nsfw favorites or posts, so minors DNI.
Profile picture by @casterdawg.bsky.social

Wallpaper origin - https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:45cmcrgdqydyuuthook2xcta/post/3luijmi5k2k22

Open source developer, researcher in computer graphics & vision, strong interest in software optimization, hardware reusability, right to repair (and repurpose).

Developer of [Splash](https://splashmapper.xyz), the immersive videomapping engine.

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.

#NonAIContent

#hashcat #Alaska #YubiKeys #LicensePlates

P.S. I hate advance-fee scammers w/heat of 400B suns

❤️:⚛👨‍👩‍👧🛡🙊🌻🗽💻✏🎥🍦🌶🍫!

Inspirational Quotes on Mastodon is an account that delivers you artificially generated (AI) quotes that can inspire your life.

This account is created by TheDoggyBrad Software Labs as his first experimentation with Google AI Studio API (Gemini Pro, now upgraded to Flash Lite).

Updated Publishing Schedule: Every 1 Hour (Usually)

Credits: Cron-Job.org (Current)
Source Code License: Modified ISC License (No Attribution)

©TheDoggyBrad Software Labs. All Rights Reserved.

Armchair rocket scientist graffiti existentialist. Old enough for it to hurt when I stand up, not old enough to have stopped noticing. Agnostic in principle, atheist in practice, #CSS guy, mzungu. I’m only here for the food.

Bike riding occasional coder with too many houseplants living in #MadisonWI. #AI, #Aquaponics, #BariSax, #Bikes, #Brains, #C, #Carfree, #CargoBike, #CleanEnergy, #Coffee, #Cycling, #Debian, #Decarbonization, #Ebike, #Gardening, #Houseplants, #IPFS, #Jazz, #Jupyter, #Jupyterlab, #Linux, #ML, #Madison, #Neuro, #OpenSource, #P2P, #Piano, #PublicRadio, #PyTorch, #Python, #Recycling, #Rustlang, #Science, #ScienceFiction, #Space, #Sustainability, #Unix

#Ecology & #Ocean #Scientist now doing Scientific #HPC, #SRE, #DevOps, #PlatformEngineering, and #Supercomputing

I also talk about #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #Linux #PhDLife

Born below 340ppm