The most popular humans on Mastodon.
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.
Al Sweigart
@[email protected]Author of "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python" and other programming books. Mostly harmless. he/him
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
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.
Karl Voit
@[email protected]
PIMfluencer
Influencing myself all the time. Rabbit-hole investigator.
Hide my German posts via selecting your preferred language(s) via:
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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!
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.
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.
Catalin Cimpanu
@[email protected]Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business
Quinn Norton
@[email protected]Writer, migrant, surprisingly nice in person. I write, these days mostly explainers. Old queer. I would rather be blocked than tone policed. It's all warnable content. More meme literate than I should be at this age. I mainly shitpost, then sometimes make you cry. ❤️
(I take #alt4u help, thanks)
Kevin Rothrock
@[email protected]hyper-professional #Russia guy, managing editor of @meduza_en, ugly American based in Portland, Oregon (USA). Signal: @KevinRothrock.01
abadidea
@[email protected]the hex is silent
professional source code complainer, Pwnie Awards 2014 Best Song, will decipher ancient writing systems for free
Access to Odin photos is a privilege contingent on not being the reason I’m regretting the internet today.
English: native; Nederlands: nog niet helemaal vloeiend; 中文:走马观花
Amsterdam
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 25 chickens, 8 goats, and more fish than I can count.
Also into watches and motorbikes — both riding and wrenching.
Ned Batchelder
@[email protected]Python, software, coverage.py, typography, juggling, Boston, autism (dad). Laughing at the world doesn't mean I don't take it seriously. He/him.
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
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
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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Khrys
@[email protected]Libroféministe
Doctor ès boules de glu
Apôtre en maths
Commet un Khrys'presso tous les lundis matins à 7h42 sur le Framablog
Genre : bizarre
Qualificatif : sacro-saint·e
En trottinette (non électrique)
Mute plus vite que son ombre
#FDN
#FFDN
#Gitoyen
#Globenet
#Parinux
Pas la bonne personne pour 2-3 autoritaires de l'#April
Brent Simmons
@[email protected]Writes NetNewsWire, a free and open source RSS reader for Mac and iOS.
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 #satcom #Democracy
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
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