Dutch gov OSPO | Open Source | GovTech | Digital Sovereignty | IT nerd | 🇪🇺🇳🇱

Advocate for open, ethical alternatives to big tech. Posting on a personal title.

One of Fosstodon's admins. Boardmember of F-Droid. Staff of Pookie and Wessie. She/her. 🏳️‍🌈&🏳️‍⚧️ ally. 🇺🇦🍉

Package Management Nerd, working on mapping the world of open source software https://ecosyste.ms and blogging about package managers at https://nesbitt.io

KDE dev by day, hobbyist gamedev by night. Generalist FOSS contributor. Finnish AuDHD neurodisaster. I like metal, industrial and EBM music, and I love FPS, RPG and spacesim games. Pan enby. Panby? ​

I love FOSS and Linux. I want to help make gaming better on Linux desktop.

Does not want to talk about "AI", LLMs, cryptoscams.

My opinions are always my own. Like my shitposts.
Banner by @Neotheta
Check https://scalie.zone/@aks/112251862581578956 for full image
Avatar by [fefairy](https://www.furaffinity.net/view/59975526/)

My posts often include foul language. They also get deleted in one month.

🇫🇮 Tööttään ja paskon välillä myös suomeksi. Sori siitä.

I write free software. Firmware troublemaker.

#Teaching with #Emacs. he/him

Teaching Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, large university USA

Born at 326 ppm CO₂ [Unix Epoch time 21450000]

#Evolution #Science in #Humanities #Biochemistry #MolecularBiology #Microbiology #CellBiology #MolecularMedicine #Academia #HigherEd #Education #Unions #Solidarity #PSFA #SEIU #Debian #GNU #Linux #GNULinux #FreeSoftware #LibreSoftware #FLOSS #FOSS #GrapheneOS #OrgMode #EmacsLisp

✭ about me: undogmatic (socialist) anarchist ☆ intersectional ☆ radical leftist activist ☆ climate alarmist ☆ anti-capitalist ☆ anti-fascist ☆ anti-zionist ☆ anti-militarist (not pacifist) ☆ anti-tankie ☆ anti-campist ☆ neo-luddite ☆ pro-science ☆ autistic ☆ non-binary queer ☆ white (not proud) ☆ veggie ☆ atheist ☆ genx ☆ parent ☆ .nl ✭

✭ posting about: politics, activism, current affairs, journalism, human rights, climate crisis, history, sociology, tech (linux, open source, fedi, anti-AI, etc), music (70s/80s/90s, prince, funk, etc), sci-fi, free culture, geography, meteorology, climatology, astronomy, sociology, anthropology, biology, etc ✭

✭ more fedi: @joene (Pixelfed) for pics from various travels ☆ @joenetube (Peertube) for various vids ✭

✭ © BY-NC-SA 4.0. (only own (original) content) ✭

product designer who codes.
I design and build software.
both how it looks, and how it works.

🌱 laid off in 2026 and now running free design services for #FOSS projects. want to become a sponsor? https://planetpeanut.studio/sponsors 🌱

been doing design in #OpenSource like #GNOME, #Pidgin, #Intel, #RedHat, #Xamarin, #VSCode and more for 2 decades. enjoy creating #PixelArt #RetroGames for #GameBoy / #NES.

🍵 green tea lover
📷 lazy film photographer
🌌 #aurora chaser

#NoAI in my work.

Pirate 🏴‍☠️, Frisian in Rotterdam, FreeSoftware (free, as in freedom, not as in free beer) #Ubuntu, #PardonAssange 🍀 #music #politics #woke #leftist

Principal engineer at Wikimedia Foundation.

Interests: Language computing, Type design, Linguistics, Indian languages, Malayalam, Free and open source

Designer of Manjari, Chilanka, Nupuram & Malini Malayalam typefaces.

Cara estranho, anarquista, entusiasta de FOSS, escritor e podcaster responsável por cometer o Teatro Escuro do Pensador Louco. Siga-me por tua livre e espontânea vontade.

#FreePalestine #Anarchism #FreeSoftware #Antifa

On eight billion screens
tragedy without justice.
Speak about Gaza!

Profile picture is a studio portrait of a brown haired, middle-aged white man.

Header picture is the flag of Palestine.

Sometimes quiet but always checking daily. I cannot help with money, but I can offer friendship and sharing of skills. He/him.

No alttext, no boost (w/ Palestine exception).

Ⓐ.🎉️ 🇵🇸️ ☯️🍞️🌹️🌹️ 🏴️ 🏳️‍🌈️

Humanism, open source, some music, art, and nonsense.

Account is locked; a significant fraction of what I post is followers-only. Got a blank or nonsensical avatar, no visible activity, no pointers to your identity? I'll ignore your follow request. I might choose not to accept it for other reasons, too. 🙂

Sometimes I ask questions here. When I do, I would ask you to please reply with your own thoughts, not an LLM's.

Tröts auf Deutsch derzeit unter @xahteiwi.

back up at @amiserabilist

Avatar: penny farthing i am not a number
Header: plague island

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books.
What Huxley feared was that there would be no one who wanted to read one.

gen x
amab/cis/het standing with 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈
he/him
probably on the spectrum.

if you think i am being rude to you, i am not.
it is a joke that i have not properly conveyed.

#memes
#minimalism

#scifi
#comics

#design
#architecture
#vectorgraphics

#FOSS
#linux

I mostly talk about 🦀 Rust and 🧑‍💻 Open Source. Host of 'Rust in Production'.
Reach out for Rust contract work / consulting!

https://corrode.dev

Some of my other projects:
https://search.corrode.dev
https://analysis-tools.dev
https://openpodcast.app
https://lychee.cli.rs

Technical Writer @ UJET.cx (Portugal). PhD in Communication Sciences (ISCTE-IUL). Past: technology journalist, blogger & communication researcher.

#TechnicalWriting #WebDev #WebDevelopment #OpenSource #FLOSS #SoftwareDevelopment #IP #PoliticalEconomy #Communication #Media #Copyright #Music #Cities #Urbanism

Longtime open-source user, advocate, and contributor. I’ve been working with and writing about Linux and open source since 1999. Now writing for LWN.net (@lwn). Become a subscriber here if you're not already! https://lwn.net/subscribe/

I post about Linux, free and open-source software (FOSS), music, cats, politics, writing, and anything else that comes to mind. Hates gen-AI slop.

"When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction." Mark Twain

He/him
Hacking on and maintaining #gnomemaps

#gnome #mapstodon #maps #openstreetmap #pki #codesigning

Dedicated to joy, simplicity and kindness in software and its organisations. Open Source and startup leader/founder/advisor.

Past and current obsessions include dancing ballet, singing, acting, playing guitar/ukulele, qigong, cycling, climbing, cooking, street photography, mountain running and moving house internationally. Currently based in west Ireland.
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* This account is managed in part by a social media team composed only of cats

Lives in The Netherlands, EU. Works as self-employed tech consultant & software developer. Likes to tinker & has way too many interests :)

Likely to toot in NL/EN/DE on:
#technology #techpolicy, #opensource #openstandards #opencontent #publicdomain #creativecommons #copyright #sustainability #diy #infosec #security #data #privacy #accessibility #ui #ux #interactiondesign #ethics #webdevelopment #devops #sysadmin #climatecrisis #food #music #linux #debian #ubuntu

Toots vanish after 3 months

Ich lebe und arbeite im Linuxhotel.
Open-Source Business Alliance, GUUG, LinuxTag

Hacker, IT Infrastructure, Open Storage, Open Source, ProcoliX Hosting, Open Internet Discourse Foundation, HackerHosting, Protagio, Fediversity #Privacy #Sustainability #Transparency 
Husband of Tessa, father of Emma, Huub and Lieke.
Plays Viola, rides horses. Always busy, seldomly quiet.