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.
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.
Jason Evangelho 🐧🎒
@[email protected]Music junkie, nomad, nature enjoyer, and late-blooming hiker who's finally making his inner child happy. Photos shared are mine unless indicated otherwise. Occasional affiliate links to fund hiking adventures.
Previously: AMD, Forbes, Mozilla, Linux For Everyone.
NOTE: My handle (@killyourfm) is a nod to my old music podcast, Insomnia Radio, where I encouraged people to "Kill Your FM," turn off corporate radio, and embrace indie music. I also published a digital magazine called Kill Your FM.
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.
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 Rothrock
@[email protected]hyper-professional #Russia guy, managing editor of @meduza_en, ugly American based in Portland, Oregon (USA). Signal: @KevinRothrock.01
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 #satcom #Democracy
niconiconi
@[email protected]
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!
Troy Hunt
@[email protected]Creator of @haveibeenpwned. Microsoft Regional Director and MVP. Pluralsight author. Online security, technology and “The Cloud”. Australian.
Poul-Henning Kamp
@[email protected]Author of Vinyl-Cache (The FOSS project formerly known as Varnish-Cache), a lot of FreeBSD and various other stuff.
David Revoy
@[email protected]🍄 Webcomic Artist • Fantasy humor
🌱 Weekly comic strips (Wed) • Longer series brewing in background
🎨 Only use Free/Libre & Open Source tools • CC-licensed • No AI
Hynek Schlawack
@[email protected]• blogger 📝, speaker 📢, and YouTuber 📺
• 💗 Python 🐍, Go 🐹, DevOps 🔧
• Patron Saint of Shitty Air Travel ✈️💩
• works for a smol web host & domain registrar 🌐
• substance over flash, nuance over loudness, outcomes over ego 🧠
• HOA reply = block ❌
• PSF fellow 🏆
• 🗣🇨🇿🇩🇪🇺🇸
• 🏚️🐻🇩🇪
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tfr
@robpike.io
@[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
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.
Jordan Morgan
@[email protected]The cause of several bugs since iOS 4.
Working on https://alyxcaffeinetracker.com
Dev Rel at Superwall.
Wrote a book series over iOS dev.
I make a basketball app for coaches too, Elite Hoops.
Until next time ✌️.
Paolo Amoroso
@[email protected]Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding.
No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests.
Liam S-H
@[email protected]I run @gamingonlinux. Based in the UK.
By reading this you have formally agreed to buying me a pizza.
Posts set to auto-deleted after 1 year.
Doug Gregor
@[email protected]Dad, husband, Swift language designer and Swift/C++/ObjC compiler implementor, Author, Generic Programming aficionado. 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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Zack Labe
@[email protected]Climate Scientist (Atmospheric) at Climate Central | PhD | Sharing data-driven stories | Harrisburg, PA | Views, thoughts, and opinions expressed here are only my own
My research and communication interests coincide with disentangling patterns of climate change from climate variability using data-driven methods. Also, scary movie fan!
#Arctic #ClimateChange #DataViz #MachineLearning #OpenScience #Python #SciComm #Weather #wxMastodon #wxTwitter