Alex Schroeder alex@social.alexschroeder.ch

Voted Best Psychic Of 2026

Non-practicing intellectual

https://www.metafilter.com/user/99809

Certified freak, seven days a week.

謙虚だが弱くはない、自信に満ちているが誇りに思っていない、神秘的だが不魔法ではない

I try to understand the relationshop between freedom and computers. I participate to the free software/culture movement since 1998. I love GNU Emacs and contribute to Org-mode.

Right now working at Etalab/DINUM as head of the Free software unit: https://mastodon.social/@codegouvfr.

Compte en français: https://pouet.chapril.org/@bzg

DigitalGarden/wiki, startup, product management junkie. #searchable http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki

IT mastermind, avid music listener and plant lover. RO, EN + some DE, EO

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Pinch of doubt, dash of empathy, heaps of sarcasm.

Dislikes: cocksure stupidity & bad statistics.

Rambles on:
#data #climate #genomics #bioinformatics #machinelearning #japanese #biking #electronicmusic #coding #deOmniReScibili

Can be occasionally spotted in or near:
#tokyo #japan #london #uk #lyon #france

Does climate and data stuff at https://tenko.ai

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Smolnet yokel, muggle scriptkiddie, your eccentric aunty.
I live a hairshirt solarspinster life - like a mediaeval eremetic, but with more amperes …and less discipline.

Melbourne Indie Dev

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(location) The unceded, stolen land of the Wadjuk people of the Nyoongar nation. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land!!

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. ~winnie-the-pooh

While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. ~eugene-v-debs

you know this boogie is for real! ~jamiroquai

Quetiapine Dreams ~me

- permacomputing
- social ecology
- anarchism
- atheist humanism
- epicurean materialist
- common lisp
- GNU without stallman characteristics

(current operating system) EMACS+GUIX
(code) https://git.sr.ht/~vidak/
(peertube) https://diode.zone/a/vidak/video-channels
(email) vidak@riseup.net
(xmpp) bootlicker@magicbroccoli.de
(smolnet) gemini://tilde.town/~vidak
(smolnet 2) gemini://awkward.company
(friendly computers) gemini://awkward.company/friendly-computers/

open source software, vegan cooking, cycling, sailing, and thinking of ways to build a more sustainable society.

you can find the latest of my projects, ideas, and writings on my website. it's slow going, but I try to keep it updated and write things down when I have spare time.

I use he/him pronouns.

Founder, Dazzle. We take back our personal data from the big platform overlords. https://dazzle.town/

Co-organizer, FediForum, an unconference that aims to bring the people together who move the Fediverse forward. https://fediforum.org/

Technologist, entrepreneur, cat herder. Amateur hydroponics guy. Ex-foster parent. Ex-musician. Owns -- and uses -- too many Raspberry Pi's.

He/him. tfr

explorations of joyful and human-scale computing.
developing computers that are dances, rituals, games.

[ joy in nerdy dances ]

exploraciones de computación alegre y a escala humana.
creando computadoras que son danzas, rituales, juegos.

langs=es-mx, en
we use alt-text and prefer if you do to.

actualmente en / currently based in:
madrid

✨ 1960s-70s, music, movies, counterculture, veganism, classic books, free software, DIY, Japan, Greece, Ancient Mediterranean.

Expect unsolicited music recs and random posts at a motorik pace. Mostly in English, sometimes in Spanish. 🎩

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