The most popular humans on Mastodon.
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.
Julia Serano
@[email protected]writer. performer. biologist. author of Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us & How We Can Fight Back, plus Whipping Girl, Excluded, & 99 Erics. current music project is *soft vowel sounds*. more at juliaserano.com. she/her
rob pike
@[email protected]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
Brett Cannon
@[email protected]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.
Jonah Aragon
@[email protected]Sometimes people read things I write or watch things I say • I work at @privacyguides, president @triplebit (ASN 401332), infosec educator • Instance admin @ https://mstdn.party, https://mstdn.plus, and https://neat.computer • Formerly @techlore
Minneapolis, MN, USA 🇺🇸
Kevin Rothrock
@[email protected]hyper-professional #Russia guy, managing editor of @meduza_en, ugly American based in Portland, Oregon (USA). Signal: @KevinRothrock.01
Greg Wilson
@[email protected]I program, write, and teach. Co-founder of Software Carpentry and It Will Never Work in Theory; co-editor of The Architecture of Open Source Applications.
Catalin Cimpanu
@[email protected]Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business
Danielle Foré
@[email protected]Founder at @elementary. Inclusive designer. Open Source developer. Raging feminist. Anime nerd. AuDHD Anxiety girly ⚢🌻
Alt text: avatar is of a white-passing woman with dark maroon lipstick, winged eyeliner, and wavy hair dyed in blonde, light red, and dark brown chunks. She’s wearing a dark brown moto jacket and a mesh top with a black bralette. Banner shows an autumn scene from Midtown Sacramento California where trees line the streets
BrianKrebs
@[email protected]Independent investigative journalist. Covers cybercrime, security, privacy. Author of 'Spam Nation,' a NYT bestseller. Former Washington Post reporter, '95-'09. Signal: briankrebs.07
krebsonsecurity @ gmail .com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bkrebs
Kevin Beaumont
@[email protected]Cybersecurity weather person and award winning shitposter. Shitposting is an anagram of Top Insights. You may be surprised to know I am not representing my employer here and these are not their opinions.
I have Direct Messages disabled - you can send them, but I will never receive them.
Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮
@[email protected]News + Opinions. One person mostly. Creator of many forms. Support on Patreon: http://patreon.com/liamdawe https://www.gamingonlinux.com (official account)
If you want me, email me: [email protected]
Steve Bellovin
@[email protected]I'm an affiliate scholar at Georgetown's Institute for Technology Law and Policy, and a computer science professor emeritus and former affiliate law prof at Columbia University. Author of "Thinking Security". Dinosaur photographer. Not ashamed to say that I’m still masking, because long Covid terrifies me.
David Revoy
@[email protected]🍄 Webcomic Creator | Fantasy humor
🌱 Weekly comic strips | Longer series brewing in background
🎨 Only use Free/Libre & Open Source tools | CC-licensed | No AI
Filippo Valsorda
@[email protected]@FiloSottile elsewhere / Cryptogopher / Go crypto maintainer / Professional Open Source maintainer / RC F'13, F2'17
https://mkcert.dev / https://age-encryption.org / https://filippo.io/newsletter
🕳️ “Gaze not into the abyss, lest you become recognized as an abyss domain expert, and they expect you keep gazing into the damn thing.” —@nickm
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
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
Matthias Kirschner
@[email protected]The @fsfe 's President
. Working for #FreeSoftware (also known as #OpenSource), so every individual in our society can self-determined use, study, share, and improve software ➡ #SoftwareFreedom
Author of the book "Ada & #Zangemann - A tale of software, skateboards, and raspberry ice cream".
Public Money? #PublicCode ! #DeviceNeutrality #RouterFreedom #ilovefs #YH4F #REUSE #DigitalRights #TechnicalDistributionOfPower #Democracy
Brent Simmons
@[email protected]Writes NetNewsWire, a free and open source RSS reader for Mac and iOS.
He/him.
Milan
@[email protected]Autodidactic sysadmin (which kinda escalated of the recent years) and sometimes the guy with a camera.
I run #tchncs
among other things.
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