Chemical Engineer working in biotech in 🇨🇦.
Profile picture is of a smiling man (me!) with salt-and-pepper hair and beard, wearing a plaid blazer and dark shirt, standing indoors with a softly blurred background.
Header picture is of my wife and I in bright orange inflatable kayaks paddling down a calm, wide river on a sunny day.
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Cycling enthusiast. Husband & father & brother & son. Executive Director at Cycling Guide Foundation. Strummer/plucker of stringed instruments with frets.
I like cycling 🚴🏼
I like craft beer 🍻
I’m proud of https://ChoiceConnect.ca, an abortion referral app that we made with SHORE Centre.
I’m proud of @CyclingGuide, a free mobile app for cyclists in Halifax NS, London ON, Ottawa ON, Sarnia-Lambton ON, Saskatoon SK, and Waterloo Region, ON.
I aspire to be seen as woke.
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[hometown] [job] [favourite food] [pets] [embarrassing pastime]
I don't agree with all I write, let alone all I boost.
This is the currently most active/chatty fragment of my rather distributed fediverse identity. I help out at CoSocial.ca, mainly on community admin and sandboxing some new fedi services.
If you would like to follow alternates or multiples of me, my aggregated FediProfile and Community Credentials badge wallet can be found at @johannab.
Packets from the edge of Toronto...
A downtown city boy heads to the country
but with Gigabit fibre.
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He/Him :qcflag:/:caflag: Fr/En
Mechanical Engineer & Developer.
Fellow of Digital Engineering in the aerospace sector.
Amateur astrophotographer - UOS images by me and licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Lover of #Privacy #Python #Linux #OpenSource #OpenKnowledge #CreativeCommons #Design #3DPrinting #Coffee #SciFi #SynthPop #Murderbot
Equal rights for all!
No alt = no boost
Opinions = mine
Toots != Engineering advice
Fedizen since March 2023.
I have friends everywhere.
Working in infosec, from my island paradise.
Fascinated by how tech is (ab)used in real life, and how it might help, or hinder our lives.
Love messing with programming languages, photography, getting outside.
Canadian 🇨🇦 Linux🐧Sysadmin by day, average geek by night.
Disillusioned science and technology enthusiast.
I believe that we can make the world a better, kinder, more caring place together.
Eat the rich. Abolish capitalism. End fossil fuels.
#FuckAI #FuckLLMs #FuckCrypto #linux #sysadmin #homelab #maker #adhd #foss #tech #equality #sustainability #cycling #kitchener #ontario
Western Canadian Select human. Prairie boy (he/him) with an unfortunate dislike of toxic masculinity and rugged individualism. Grim as that may sound, humour keeps me alive. Tech and/or tech adjacent. Politics matter. Kindness is the coolest.
Edmonton / amiskwaciwâskahikan (Beaver Hills House) / Treaty 6
Inveterate liker of toots. Toots do not necessarily constitute strong endorsement.
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism.
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
He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.
Research Director, Social Web Foundation.
Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media.
Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.
Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.
Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.
Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.
Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montréalais.
Toronto. Geek. Space. TTRPGs. Injury prevention. IT. Italian greyhounds. He/him.
On the open web since 1993, still writes HTML by hand. Day job at Open Education Global plus side crafter of SPLOTs, WordPress jamming, javascript web toys, silly mashups, long winded blog posts, and 75k flickr photos shared CC0.
I typo [often] therefore I am [human].
Images: Cartoon icon of a multi colored dog head inside a cog on background of the real dog named Felix in profile gazing out over an open prairie.
I AM a Luddite.
There are always alternatives, not "there is no alternative".
Believer in the Politics of Care.
Married to a wonderful wife w/ 2 adult sons in Calgary. I like getting out on my bike. I care about social justice.
Unemployed or semi-retired? I would actually love to work (part time? consultation?) w/ purpose on something not destructive.
Ph.D. in physics & nearly 28 year career in IT.
"Debts that cannot be paid will not be paid."
"The purpose of a system is what it does."
I like making things, fixing things and helping people. None of us are free until all of us are - and trans rights are human rights.
Start where you are, do what you can; it is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little.
I'm Renata Rocha, I'm from #toronto :caflag: and do a lot of #tech stuff. I also love #cats (that is my cat Agata). I do: #bike, #yoga , #ballet and have way too many hobbies.
Interested in #foss #digitalsovereignty and saving tech from big tech
I mute anyone who posts/retoots disturbing topics without a cw or hashtag I can filter. I get my disturbing content on my own terms.
🖥️ 📸 🚲 🚎 🌈 Interests: Computers, film photography, camping, fixing stuff. I collect Polaroids and other old cameras!
I do curling for fun and also play Dodgeball! 🥌 🤾♂️
✨ Pure-O OCD since '03 ✨ 🤔
🤓 Libraries, not AI. 📚
Boycott and divest the United States 💪 👋
#boycottusa
Nova Scotia, Canada. (Nouvelle-Écosse - Acadie)⭐️
Settler on Mi'kma'ki - Kjipuktuk (Halifax)
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Hi Gay 👋
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