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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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NoVaLUG

Saturday meeting
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Mackenzie

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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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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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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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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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Things IPv4 doesn't have that you get with IPv6: a Mastodon instance. https://ipv6.social/public/local
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Who has two thumbs and native #ipv6? This guy! Yeah, not much of a brag in 2025, but now my IP is 96 bits more secure according to the marketing brochure.
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HUH!? Since when does the gateway of a network not allowed to be the first address of the network. I have been racking my brain on why an #openwrt config wasn't working only to find that things like iphones, ipads, smart tvs don't like the net gateway to be the first address (e.g. 172.16.0.0). Naturally, Linux has no problem with this.
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If you're worried about Google and Meta collecting data, and your TV spying on you...

Just remember - your vacuum has been gathering dirt on you for years.

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New RVA23 RISC-V Chips are Coming Sooner than You Think - OMG! Ubuntu

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/ubuntu-risc-v-rva23-hardware-coming-soon

#riscv
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IETF

The meeting is underway! More than 1500 participants around the world—in Madrid and online—are working on emerging Internet technologies through 25 July 2025. Thanks to host Ericsson, and to all the meeting sponsors, for their support: https://www.ietf.org/meeting/123/

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Benno Overeinder

Kicking off this weekend in Madrid, began with the on Saturday and Sunday. A fantastic way to start the week coding and connecting. Nearly 500 people registered and almost 60 projects. The Hackathon rooms are buzzing!

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Orhun Parmaksız 👾

Found the perfect package manager for Rust binaries 🔥

📦 **cargo-seek** — A TUI for searching, adding and installing cargo crates.

💯 Supports searching, installing, opening docs/repository & more!

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/tareqimbasher/cargo-seek

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The Northern Virginia Linux Users Group (NoVaLUG)

We are a curious, informal, and friendly mix of IT professionals, hobbyists, students, and others with an interest in Linux, Free and Open Source software, and open knowledge. The Northern Virginia Linux Users Group (NoVaLUG) is the oldest LUG in the Northern VA area and likely in the whole of US, established in 1993.

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