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Andy Newton | Doer of stuff, arguer of things | PE @ ICANN | ART AD @ IETF | Organizer @ NoVaLUG | WorkCamp @ Saint James
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Elixir, Erlang, and Gleam: in-person in MoCo
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​If you’re interested in Elixir, Erlang, Gleam, or any other BEAM language, join us for our first in-person gathering in the DC area since before the pandemic. We’ll start with introductions, do some planning for future meetups, and have a bit of show-and-tell.

​Depending on time and interest, we’ll wrap up by heading to a nearby restaurant for some casual socializing.

​All experience levels welcome—whether you’re just curious about the BEAM or a long-time practitioner.

If you'd be making the trek from Northern Virginia, thanks for trying to make it! Seeing where people show up from will help guide us for where to hold future meetings.

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Also, here is a link to RackNerd: https://www.racknerd.com/specials/
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Great talk on the Fediverse this morning at the NoVaLUG meeting.

Here is a link to the Mobilizon instance I mentioned: https://mobilizon.us/

And I got a question about GoodReads but for the Fediverse. A quick search as revealed Bookwyrm: https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm
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Reply to @paulehoffman@infosec.exchange
@paulehoffman By general, I meant intended to be used by other types of applications. RPSL is geared toward routing database and can be used by IP registries in general. It can be used for domain registry information with the addition of some more object types. However, it would fall apart if used by an accounting application or an event organizing application or a microblogging application.

There is an option for non-pretty JSON... but users find it hard to read (as do I). That option is great when using the client to fetch the data, do caching etc... but passing the results out to another process for specific needs.

But even that is *meh* for custom processing. I'd like to embed a Lua interpreter and allow users to access to the API. But there are other fixes that are needed first.
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Reply to @paulehoffman@infosec.exchange
@paulehoffman It can be cut-and-paste but with RDAP that means cutting two or three screen-fulls of text if it is pretty JSON. RPSL is more concise and readable for this application however it is not a general purpose language.
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One of the things I don't like about the rdap client I maintain is that the text output is great for viewing the information but not so good with cut-n-paste. So I started hunting around for a text serialization format that works with serde, and really the only one (other than JSON) is YAML. So I tried it. Yuck. It was too verbose.

The alternative is to create a custom text serialization, and that sound awful. So I thought, why not RPSL? And well... I have started down that path. There is a good bit of custom logic in doing this as RPSL mixes object type / role / contact kind into one attribute name. But the format is good for conciseness and readability.

Of course, RFC 9537 redactions start causing problems, but there will just need to be some more custom logic for that. Ugh.
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Reply to @niqdanger@social.linux.pizza
@niqdanger I think there has been some sorta outbreak of those things. We had a nest that we exterminated and I have talked to a bunch of people with the same problem all of a sudden.
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Reply to @emacdona
@emacdona people run it on macOS. I like the concept of Nix (and NixOS), the execution not so much. My understanding of devbox is that it takes away the complexity of Nix for dev containers.

For my needs, I'm moving to Homebrew and lima-vm. Dev containers sound like a great idea for complex needs. I am not there yet.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) - Awards Celebration
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For 35 years, our friends at the Electronic Frontier Foundation have presented awards recognizing key leaders and organizations advancing innovation and championing digital rights. The EFF Awards celebrate the accomplishments of people working toward a better future for technology users, both in the public eye and behind the scenes. Help us celebrate at this year’s EFF Awards honoring, Just Futures Law, Erie Meyer, and the Software Freedom Law Center, India. Join us at the San Francisco Design Center Galleria on September 10th and take advantage of the EFF member rate of $45! Register now Each ticket includes a strolling dinner with desserts, as well as a hosted bar with cocktails, mocktails, wine, beer, and non-alcoholic beverages. Claim your ticket today! If you have questions about this event, reach out to events@eff.org, they are happy to assist.
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Reply to @emacdona
@emacdona you still doing this? Have you played with devbox?
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I thought the big masto servers were supposed to be well policed.
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The woodworkening has begun.
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It feels like Fall weather and new work lights are now up in the garage… this means one thing: time to do some wood working.
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@pmevzek joy in quotes is appropriate.

RE: https://framapiaf.org/@pmevzek/115056707631804245
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Orhun Parmaksız 👾

Another win for embedded Rust & Ratatui 🦀🔥

🌀 **yap** — A friendly TUI for serial ports.

💯 Supports auto-reconnect, flashing ESP32 devices, decoding raw bytes and more!

🚀 Cross-platform!

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/nullstalgia/yap

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Reply to @woody@pch.net
@rwa @woody Now you have my curiosity up. What are the requirements that require you to target #riscv if you don’t mind me asking? And how usable is the DC board for the Framework? From what I can tell, there are still no desktop-class processors on the market, though things are close.
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@jpmens It has gotten a lot better over the past 9 months. If my presentation for ROW gets accepted, maybe I will show some stats on this.
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Reply to @mnordhoff@infosec.exchange
@mnordhoff
Hi Matt, you are interpreting the profile correctly. The link on the domain with a "related" relation is suppose to have an "href" pointing to the domain at the registrar and many clients (though not all) do follow it. The link on the registrar entity with the "about" relation is suppose to have a "value" with the RDAP base URL.

If you are having issues, you can send email to global-support@icann.org and they will look into it. Additionally or alternatively, there is also the gtld-tech mailing list: https://lists.icann.org/postorius/lists/gtld-tech.icann.org/
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