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Antimundo
@[email protected]Game developer from Madrid, Spain. Interested in educational games, and libre software! 🌈✨
Working at @nokorpo
Andy Piper
@[email protected]communities person 💗💜💙
technologist & #PenPlotter artist.
I do things with code, & tinker with gadgets
co-runner of #Maker meetup 🛠️ @hackwimbledon
one-third of a weekly #Podcast 🎧 @gamesatwork_biz
#3DPrinting #MicroPython #PlotterArt #LEGO #OpenSource #DoctorWho #fedi22
Frank Karlitschek
@[email protected]Founder and CEO of Nextcloud, Co-founder and Vice Chair Eurostack, Board Member MariaDB Foundation, Founder of ownCloud, Free Software Developer, former KDE e.V. board member, Photographer
Gina
@[email protected]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. Staff of Pookie and Wessie. She/her. 🏳️🌈&🏳️⚧️ ally. 🇺🇦🍉
Hylke Bons 🥜
@[email protected]product designer who codes.
I design and build software.
both how it looks, and how it works.
🌱 laid off in 2026 and looking for $1/month sponsors to help #FOSS projects with design: https://github.com/sponsors/hbons 🌱
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 is used in my work.
blinry
@[email protected]Computer science, art, game design. Values autonomy, creativity and curiosity. Polyamorous. Introverted, organized. Humanist. Recurse Center alumn. Feelings: @nibryl
Curator of the https://glitchgallery.org, working on @teamtype.
Alex / catileptic
@[email protected][she/they] Move slow and fix things. CTO @ apti.ro. Senior dev @ darc.li. Open-Source Dev, Human Rights Advocacy. Queer, Relationship Anarchist 🏳️🌈
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
@[email protected]Hacker, activist, free-softie ◈ techie luddite ◈ formerly information security and infrastructure at https://isnic.is/ and https://occrp.org/ ◈ my opinions are my own etc.
(he/him)
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profile image: drawing of a head and shoulders of a cat-person, in a space suit.
banner image: long-exposure photo of a large tent, brightly illuminated from inside, looking as if it is made of lava
#foss #libre #privacy #infosec #fedi22
(public toots CC By-SA 4.0 if applicable)
🇪🇺 🇵🇱 · 🇧🇦 🇮🇸 · 🇺🇦
Joe Brockmeier
@[email protected]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
Jan Vlug
@[email protected]Free software (#FOSS) - vegan 🌱 - sustainability - #OneRights - finance - environment - transparency - Linux - freedom - fairness - politics - NL - 🐷 - 🤍❤️🤍 - 💙💛 - 🍉
Pensador Louco
@[email protected]
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.
Eric Schultz
@[email protected]FOSS and #DigitalAutonomy activist. Senior Software Engineer Software for Good. Engineering Lead CommitChange. Houdini Project Leader. Opinions are my own. Genderfluid. Cover photo from: https://t.co/7rVeNC
☑️ Cath
@[email protected]Pirate 🏴☠️, Frisian in Rotterdam, FreeSoftware (free, as in freedom, not as in free beer) #Ubuntu, #PardonAssange 🍀 #music #politics
Koen de Jonge - SynQ
@[email protected]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.
paul
@[email protected]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.
tobru 🇨🇭 🧑🚒
@[email protected]Fan of Open Source, Kubernetes and the whole Cloud Native ecosystem. Love to tinker with IoT, LoRaWAN, sensors, ESPs and a lot more.
Ben Lockwood, PhD
@[email protected]Ecologist & Geographer @ Penn State University | Founder/Editor of @briefecology | Featured in Nature, Clarkesworld Magazine, Area, Literary Geographies, and elsewhere
Interests include: #ecology #geography #forests #biodiversity #carbon #theory #rstats #writing #photography #socialism #anarchism #ecofiction #FOSS #unions #cycling #basketball
Kunal Mehta
@[email protected]1L, Wikipedian, Debian Developer, MediaWiki core dev. Boba journalist, believer in free software and free knowledge. Professionally I work on SecureDrop.
Posts auto-delete after 1 year.
Larvitz
@[email protected]
IT Consultant from Germany, Linux enthusiast, BSD fanboy and firmly convinced that Ancient Domains of Mystery is the greatest video game of all time (and always will be).
You'll find me here talking about Open Source, self-hosting, advanced networking (proud operator of AS201379), smart home shenanigans, and anything you can torment with a terminal. Cat pictures also welcome.
Left, antifascist, vegan. The trifecta your uncle warned you about.
Daniel Appelquist
@[email protected]Open Source Strategist at Samsung and general Open Web Curmudgeon.
Co-chair of the W3C @ab and ex-chair of W3C @tag; @openwebdocs co-founder; @openssf contributor; Gov UK Open Standards Board member.
Immigrant, UK/US Dual National; Film, MST3K, Science Fiction, Anime, HoYoverse fan; anti-fascist & card-carrying “tofu-eating wokerati.”
Banner art credit: Mr Doodle (photo by me).
He/Him.
Kirk Smith, PhD
@[email protected]🧪 Research scientist and engineer fed up with the status quo (electrochemical engineering: batteries and electrocatalysis).
⚙️ Into appropriate technology, open-source hardware, co-ops (of all kinds), solidarity economy, and that sort of thing.
🐣 Grew up across the Mississippi River from Cahokia Mounds (St. Louis, Missouri)
📍 Drôme, FR
🏕️ Distance running, bikelife, getting off-grid
🏴 In the lower left of the political compass
he/him
EN/FR