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. Husband. 🏳️🌈 He/him.
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
Zack Whittaker
@[email protected]Security editor, TechCrunch
Email: [email protected]
Signal: zackwhittaker.1337
New York, NY
Lesley Carhart
@[email protected]
I am eminently qualified to speak from experience about a variety of dumpster fires.
Director of Incident Response at Dragos, 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' 🏳️🌈

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. More meme literate than I should be at this age. I mainly shitpost, then sometimes make you cry. ❤️
(I take #alt4u help, thanks)
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.
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.
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.
Stargirl
@[email protected]Thea (Stargirl) Flowers ✨ Creative technologist ✨ Literally the president of open hardware ✨ PSF Fellow ✨ She/her
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.
Jason Evangelho 🐧🎒
@[email protected]Music junkie, fledging photographer, 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 and Linux For Everyone.
Previously: Senior Tech Contributor @ Forbes, Marketing @ AMD and Mozilla.
Al Sweigart
@[email protected]Author of "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python" and other programming books. Mostly harmless. he/him
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.
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.
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. 🤷♂️
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 YouTube/Peertube channel (@gbryant) and my video games
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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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
Manuel 'HonkHase' Atug
@[email protected]20yrs Sec #CCC, Geraffel native, c-base, AG KRITIS, CSCB, #AGND #hacking, #Ethik, #KRITIS, OT & IT-Security, working at HiSolutions, http://Threema.id/X9H873XJ
Kevin Rothrock
@[email protected]hyper-professional #Russia guy, managing editor of @meduza_en, ugly American based in Portland, Oregon (USA). Signal: @KevinRothrock.01
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.