Mitja Kolsek, 0patch co-founder, Acros Security CEO

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

Ich bin Brita und tröte für unseren Verein BEOZ Association. Wir kümmern uns hauptsächlich um das Jahr 2038 Problem #y2k38. Aber auch der gesellige Teil kommt nicht zu kurz.

Beyond the Edge of Time!

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👨‍💻 Senior Machine Architect, Rube Goldberg Division
✍ Comments his code
🦸‍♂️ Optimizes slow SQL Queries
🖥️ Linux convert/disgusted longtime Windows user
📷 Aspiring mediocre photographer
🧠 Atheist
🔠 Defines his acronyms

Topics I post frequently:
🔘 #SQLServer
🔘 #Celtics/#NBA (Nat'l Basketball Assoc)
🔘 #UCF (Univ of Central Florida)
🔘 #Bucs/#NFL (Nat'l Football League)
🔘 #RStats (R programming language)
🔘 #EV (Electric Vehicles)
🔘 #Photography
🔘 #Privacy

Tech lead @Rabobank ✦ Python, TypeScript & Elixir ✦ father of two ✦ philosopher by training

Corpro rat during the day, Linux gamer and a streamer in the evenings. MSc in computer science. Editor at gamingonlinux.com. I spread subversive Linux ideology on my blog sometimes.

Building Superluminal (https://www.superluminal.eu / @superluminal), a user-friendly CPU sampling profiler for C/C++, Rust & .NET on Windows & consoles. Ex-Guerrilla Games (H:ZD). Mostly toots about tech.

Into FOSS and abstracts like Go, Hex, Chess and Shogi.

Part of the #Fosstodon Admin team with @Gina & @btp
Community Manager and Ambassador for The #OpenSearch Project & OpenSearch Software Foundation (at AWS) #OpenSource | (opinions are my own) | father | husband | #Buddhist | #meditation | garage gym #powerlifting | minimalism | he/him | Portland

Previously:
https://mastodon.sdf.org/@krisfreedain
https://mastodon.social/@krisfreedain

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

Dungeon Webmaster, Open Sourcerer, and breakfast THAC0 enthusiast. Are you a friend of DeSoto? All paladins are bastards.

#IndieAppDev building #Village to help you maintain connections to your friends, family, and coworkers.

#ruby #rails #swift #PrincipalEngineer #Mothership #Lego #politics #ethics

#bookliberationist - making open source publishing pipelines - improve publishing tech and we'll have a better world #citationneeded - ping me for a roadmap :-) #Tag - Computational Publishing Service #CPS & #ClimateKG - Open Science Lab @tibosl @tibhannover @NFDI4Culture ❘ #Nacht - @semanticClimate #kernewek

Free Software dev, Ecomodernist, into Rust, flying, and EVs. Maintainer of @zbus

❤️ 🐈 . he/him

My opinions are purely my own and do not represent that of my employer or FOSS communities I happen to work with.

Maker of vegan homebrews, hype-averse engineer, hiker, terrible musician, person with waaaay too many hobbies.

Pronouns: He/Him

I post mostly wholesome hobby and tech stuff here. Read my rants about German politics over at @gruener_skatbruder.

Support local breweries! Kein Bier für Nazis! Frak the Reinheitsgebot!

CONTENT WARNINGS:
* Alcohol
* Mild language

SwiftUI @ 🍏 | 🗺️ Navigation 🧐 inspector 🎁 presentations

Hobbyist woodworker 🪵🪚🗜️

Mastodon just so happens to be a great place to meet great people in both of these areas.

#RTOS and #Linux #software #developer in #OpenSource, #networking, and #time. Patches in GNU #glibc, #OpenCV, on #Mars. #cooking, #hiking, performance/outdoor #photography, #astronomy, #geology, #radio (KN1X), cooperative #BoardGames, #TableTopGames, #electronics projects, #weather, #CatsOfMastodon, #BlackLivesMatter. #liberal but I vote strategically. #Eugene, #Oregon, US. #bisexual and #queer, #widow, awesome spouse is #trans #enby, but I am he/him.

Many flavours of open, background in media/TV & cultural studies • working @ @Thoth_metadata previously project manager Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (@copim) project • co-editor @ CSTonline

#fedi22 #OAbooks #openaccess #openeducation #openscholarship #scholcomm #hss #humanities #radicalOA #floss #opensource #openinfra #openinfrastructure #mediastudies #commodon


My current interests are #democracy, #space, #energy, anything #data related and learning #python.
I built my own #epaper solution, I want to go bigger now.
I talk and boost about anything that interest me.

Powered by unhealthy amounts of caffeine | Senior tester of pens | Specializes in initial network access | OSINT, Social Engineering, Physical Security, Hardware | FFXIV | MCR | fast cars | Opinions are my own | She/her

I like creating software solutions to solve problems. I am also a speaker, podcaster, and author on technology. I love htmx, server-side web dev, data, Web APIs, baseball and bourbon. .NET/Web Dev MVP

All of my posts are created using recycled electrons