The most popular humans on Mastodon.
Steve Troughton-Smith
@[email protected]App developer & mini painter. I make apps and break things.
UIKit. Swift. Gaming. Warhammer. Generative AI. Reverse-engineering. Husband. 🏳️🌈 He/him.
Glyph
@[email protected]he/him
You probably heard about me because I am the founder of the Twisted python networking engine open source project. But I’m also the author and maintainer of several other smaller projects, a writer and public speaker about software and the things software affects (i.e.: everything), and a productivity nerd due to my ADHD. I also post a lot about politics; I’d personally prefer to be apolitical but unfortunately the global rising tide of revanchist fascism is kind of dangerous to ignore.
Matt Blaze
@[email protected]Scientist, safecracker, etc. McDevitt Professor of Computer Science and Law at Georgetown. Formerly UPenn, Bell Labs. So-called expert on election security and stuff. https://twitter.com/mattblaze on the Twitter. Slow photographer. Radio nerd. Blogs occasionally at https://www.mattblaze.org/blog . I probably won't see your DM; use something else. He/Him. Uses this wrong.
Joe Ressington
@[email protected]Head of the Late Night Linux Family of podcasts https://latenightlinux.com/about/
I mostly get paid to talk to my friends about computers which is nice.
It seems I was radicalised by basic decency. 🤷♂️
Viss
@[email protected]D̒͂̕ᵈăᵃn̕ᶰ Ť̾̾̓͐͒͠ᵗe͗̑́̋̂́͡ᵉn̅ᶰtᵗl̀̓͘ᶫe̓̒̂̚ᵉrʳ
:: Founder, Phobos Group
:: Quad Flooper :: Scoville Addict
:: Public Speaker :: food pornographer
:: Twitter Alum (2011-2012)
:: security histrionics
:: finance histrionics
:: tattoo'ed nerd
:: security longhair
part george carlin, part bill hicks, part robin williams.
I run a tiny security consulting company, make hotsauce, watch cartoons and figured out how to weaponize home assistant. I found 118 dollars of btc in my garage.
Matthew Garrett
@[email protected]Former biologist. Actual PhD in genetics. Security at Nvidia, OS security teaching at https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu. Blog: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org. He/him.
AkaSci 🛰️
@[email protected]SatCom Scientist
Writing occasionally about science, space missions, astronomy, planetary science, satellites, Democracy and human rights.
He/Him
#science #space #technology #astronomy #satellites #Democracy
Kev Quirk
@[email protected]Used to help run Fosstodon. These days, I just hang out here.
I work in InfoSec and live with two kids, one wife, two dogs, a blind cat, a flock of chickens, and more fish than I can count.
Also into watches and motorbikes — both riding and wrenching.
Lesley Carhart
@[email protected]
I am eminently qualified to speak from experience about a variety of dumpster fires.
ICS cybersecurity person, @pancakescon organizer, martial artist, marksman, humanist, level 14 Neutral Good rogue, USAF retired. Speaker available for gigs.
Gin connoisseur. Rodent parent. Some dipshit from Chicago. Now an immigrant in Melbourne.
I post *very serious* things about infosec. Thoughts are entirely my own.
'they/them' 🏳️🌈

Christine Lemmer-Webber
@[email protected]Executive Director of @spritely (but this is a personal account). I'm here to fix the Internet.
ActivityPub co-author, co-host of @[email protected]. Lisp sourceress, decentralized network architect, occasional Blender artist. she/her https://dustycloud.org/
Recently moved here from @[email protected]
Lovely banner sketch by @juliaro https://mastodon.art/@juliaro/114489465896761273
Al Sweigart
@[email protected]Author of "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python" and other programming books. Mostly harmless. he/him
ploum
@[email protected]Joue de la machine à écrire dans un one-man-band pour défendre la liberté et l’imaginaire. Auteur de #Bikepunk.
Write SF and #cyberpunk books, free software and texts about freedom.
Pédale. Plonge dans l’eau froide.
Also on Gemini: gemini://ploum.net
Elena Rossini ⁂
@[email protected]Italian filmmaker, photographer and writer based in Paris, France who ❤️ #FOSS
🎬 Director of: The Illusionists documentary + a Fediverse promotional video (https://blog.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/)
💌 #TheFutureIsFederated
📝 blog: @ele
👩💻 self-hosting newbie: @elena
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ ally
Pronouns: she/her
Languages: English, French, Italian
Note: my posts are set to auto-delete* after 2 weeks ⏳
*unless I bookmark them
Karl Voit
@[email protected]
PIMfluencer
Influencing myself all the time. Rabbit-hole investigator.
Hide my German posts via selecting your preferred language(s) via:
Preferences→Other→Filter languages (will work in future)
I don't fav read toots.
#PIM #FOSS #Emacs
#orgmode
#Orgdown #bicycle #decentralization #security #privacy #Austria #Graz 
Joined Mastodon 2017-11
Indexed on tootfinder
NOT political correct!
amos
@[email protected]hi, I'm amos! 🍃 they/them 🫐 open-source witch & maker of snappy videos and articles at https://bearcove.eu ✨ be kind, be curious
Simon Willison
@[email protected]Open source developer building tools to help journalists, archivists, librarians and others analyze, explore and publish their data. https://datasette.io and many other #projects.
Sven Peter
@[email protected]forward/reverse engineer • porting Linux to Apple Silicon (AsahiLinux) • former console hacker (Homebrew Channel, BootMii, WiiU and PS3) • he/him
header picture by @yawnbox
Emmanuele Bassi
@[email protected]FLOSS project necromancer.
Geek, husband, lover, software developer, Londoner. Not necessarily in that order.
he/him
Proud #GTK and #GNOME dev; member of the GNOME Foundation.
"One of the people responsible for the failure of the Linux desktop", according to a random YouTube user.
Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad.
Gardiner Bryant
@[email protected]President of @heavyelementinc, FOSS fan, CSS/Web app nerd, Linux zealot, Steam Deck gamer, man of faith, #Mainer, Co-host of @OffTheConsoleShow
Known for The Bryant Review, my Peertube/YouTube channel (@gbryant) and my video games
Brodie Robertson
@[email protected]Follows do not equal endorsement
Memes do not equal endorsement
Certified Wayland shill/hater depending on which angry person is commenting
Aurynn Shaw
@[email protected]Your friendly neighbourhood Cloud Island administrator.
Aotearoa New Zealand immigrant.
Pōneke resident.
Founder of https://eiara.nz. Does DevOps, culture, and tells you how security impacts everything you design.
Yes, I'm that Aurynn: https://blog.aurynn.com/2015/12/16-contempt-culture/
Tech culture commentator.
Your cutest cyberpunk trans pocket friend.
Moth girl. Occasional voidkin.