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
Eric A. Meyer
@[email protected]Armchair rocket scientist graffiti existentialist. Old enough for it to hurt when I stand up, not old enough to have stopped noticing. Agnostic in principle, atheist in practice, #CSS guy, mzungu. I’m only here for the food.
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 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
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.
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. 🤷♂️
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' 🏳️🌈

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.
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.
Eleanor Saitta
@[email protected]Thinking about security, failure, change, art, and living. Recruiting barbarians; complicate your narratives. Fractional CISO to startups via Systems Structure Ltd. HEL/NYC/LON
Stargirl
@[email protected]Thea (Stargirl) Flowers ✨ Creative technologist ✨ Literally the president of open hardware ✨ PSF Fellow ✨ She/her
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
Gardiner Bryant
@[email protected]Editor-in-chief of @thebryantreview, 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.
Kevin Rothrock
@[email protected]hyper-professional #Russia guy, managing editor of @meduza_en, ugly American based in Portland, Oregon (USA). Signal: @KevinRothrock.01
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.
I also run @purecommons.
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
Liam
@[email protected]I run @gamingonlinux. Based in the UK. By reading this you have formally agreed to buying me a pizza.
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)
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.
Axel Rauschmayer
@[email protected]Topics: #JavaScript #TypeScript #fedi22
Other interests:
– Languages: German, English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Mandarin
– Sustainability, degrowth, permaculture, urbanism
– Tiny houses
– Education
– Psychology, getting out of one’s head, heart-centered living
– Minimalist spirituality: Advaita, Daoism, Buddhism, Christian mysticism, J. Krishnamurti, …
I live in Munich. http://pronoun.is/he
Non-tech:
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Photos: @rauschma
– 💬 Languages: @langtales