The best humans on Mastodon.
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.
MrCopilot
@[email protected]Photographer, UI & Firmware Engineer, Software Developer, Embedded Linux Developer, Comic Media Enthusiast, Podcaster, Father, Nerd
$MrCopilot
#DontUseAI
despite the name
no relation.
In season posts may contain american football 
AltText:
Avatar is a pixel art penguin torso. Artwork by MrCopilot.
Header Image is a panoramic landscape of a sunrise just west of Nashville, gradient of white, yellow, green down the bottom black with dark treetops, Photo by MrCopilot
Wilma_Wein
@[email protected]Interessen: #MTB, #Fahrrad, #Reisen, #Photographie, #Debian #Linux, #Apache2, #Nextcloud #Tauchen.
Beiträge werden nach zwei Wochen automatisch gelöscht!
Fahre hauptsächlich seit meinem #MTB [EN] Unfall (10/2023) fast ausschliesslich #Rennrad.
Polar: Hat die Freigabe eingestellt :-(
Strava: https://www.strava.com/athletes/18076787
Komoot: https://www.komoot.de/user/1329079762225?ref=amk
Komme aus und lebe in #Mannheim #RheinNeckarKreis #BaWue
Was ich schreibe und was Andere verstehen oder verstehen wollen, ist nicht immer das Gleiche.
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.
🏴🏳️🌈⬜️ ⬛️
I love this, so I
@[email protected]I’m Joel, the WiFi whacker, network noodler, IoT idiot, Linux licker, and security spooner. Can C, a bit Rusty, also Bashing Pythons. Sandal appreciator. Anti-sock crusader. Now contains at least 65% shitpost by weight. Meets or exceeds ISO3533:2021 standards. Not for human consumption. Not for animal consumption. Not for quality or training purposes.
Geek for hire - if you’ve got a cool project let me know!
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.
Dave Lane
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@[email protected]
FOSS, OER, & CC. Nerd on many levels, re-establishing digital autonomy by day, increasing digital, intellectual, & physical autonomy, equity, & agency always.
I build, read (mostly scifi), bake, percuss, sing, strum, ponder, advocate, & use OxfordCommas.
SelfHost w/ DockerCompose & Linux DoughnutEconomics Degrowth
AntiColonial Herpotology Biodiversity Cycling SwingDancing Ultimate DiscGolf.
In Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa NZ
#searchable
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
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.
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.
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
❤️:⚛👨👩👧🛡🙊🌻🗽💻✏🎥🍦🌶🍫!
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
I can’t believe its not @twcau
@[email protected]…or so the Germans would have us believe. (Bonus points if you know the reference)
#Aussie #tech and support professional in the public sector; enjoys #technology, security, #travel, #cooking & #photography. Will have fun changing name, based on how I feel at the time, or sometimes just a most recent snack. Tinkers more than a bit with #HomeAutomation with #HomeAssistant.
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧
@[email protected]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
Bart
@[email protected]I work with mac and linux - I also write the odd app or two.
Brian
@[email protected]
Chemistry & web programming teacher in Michigan, hobby web developer (#Flask, #HTMX), beekeeper, wannabe homesteader.
slembcke
@[email protected]Open source Minnesotan, making Veridian Expanse (@vexpanse). I made the Chipmunk2D physics engine, and some other fun libraries. By day, I do a lot of game adjacent work like therapeutic VR, real time drone mapping, and math for heavy machinery.
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
Sluether
@[email protected]
Gay/Aroace Furry, Network SysAdmin and Linux/PS4 gamer. Big macro floofer.
Climate change is real. Trans rights are human rights. We're not going back.
"Fruity as a LaCroix" ~ April 2022
"Of course you attach to the gay one" ~ May 2024
"SLUETHER DOES IS A GAY LITTLE FURRY?" ~ August 2024
"I guess I'm a dog person after all, just not the way my parents thought" ~ October 2024
“I think I made you even more gay” ~ September 2025
@FlitsFlash has given me the power of neon... very bright, very flashy, quite colourful.
Hugs and headpats welcome; message me on Signal!
Header picture by @zeiroslion
Profile picture by @Lukar
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.