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Andy Newton | Doer of stuff, arguer of things | PE @ ICANN | ART AD @ IETF | Organizer @ NoVaLUG | WorkCamp @ Saint James
We have a lot of really cool CLI tools these days, but few have changed my workflow in such a way as Atuin. No there is Atuin desktop.

https://blog.atuin.sh/atuin-desktop-open-source/

#cli #linux
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Boa 0.18 has just been released!

Boa is a engine written in . It now passes 85% of the official ECMAScript suite, and it's much more performant!

Check the full release post here:

https://boajs.dev/blog/2024/03/07/boa-release-18

/cc @rust @thisweekinrust

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AI slows down experienced open-source developers by 19%. That indicates that AI is falling short in software development. Instead of taking over boring and pointless tasks, we are hindering our most expensive developers from doing their creative and engineering work.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnwerner/2025/09/28/ai-safety-group-finds-agentic-tools-slow-down-open-source-devs/

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For anyone in need of writing tests that compare long textual output, this is a game changer: goldenfile. It makes writing and maintaining these types of tests much easier.

#rust

https://crates.io/crates/goldenfile
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It is strange how the EU advocates for open-source, but then is unwilling to put its money where its mouth is.

https://thenextweb.com/news/eu-budget-open-source

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@Mer__edith about Signal and potential Chat Control in the EU:
“We would continue to operate as long as we could. Similar to how we do in Iran, similar to how we’ve done in response to being blocked in Russia, working with our community to set up proxies so that people who are within these regions have access to Signal. ”
Think about that! They might be forced to do in the EU what they did in Russia and Iran. https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-09-14/signal-president-meredith-whittaker-in-technology-its-way-too-easy-for-marketing-to-replace-substance-thats-whats-happened-with-telegram.html

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Happy 10 year anniversary to this tweet! Has memory safety in C++ been solved yet?

https://x.com/CppCon/status/646386191617626112

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The old web was decentralized:

- Newsgroups
- Personal Websites
- Bulletin board
- Email as a service, not a platform
- Internet relay chat (IRC)
- Early blogs

Then corporations arrived with money and lock-in, turning the internet into centralized ad farms (Meta, X, TikTok). Users became consumers, trapped in algorithms, tracking, and enshittification. Revenue more important than people.
The Fediverse is a way back: no ads, no algorithms, no dark patterns. People first. A web worth reclaiming. And open source is the engine of this transformation.
Take back the web. Decentralize again 💪 Bring people to the Fediverse, promote open source, build decentralized and federated services.

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Ok so our next mission is to prove that @homebrew casks can be useful on

So we're dogfooding it. We've been slowly moving away from the need to have dedicated dx images. Another good candidate would be the jetbrains toolbox.

Useful for IDEs that don't work well in and a ton of people use these on Macs so it's a common pattern. Nice.

https://github.com/ublue-os/bluefin/discussions/3221

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From David Seymour’s statement of the DFW faults:

“While the FAA’s system integrator, L3 Harris, and telecommunications and data provider, Frontier Communications, have been working to restore service, it has not happened fast enough. In addition, we’ve all had a difficult time — including Robert and myself — reaching leadership at Frontier and L3 Harris. We are extraordinarily disappointed that neither provider seems to have any sense of urgency to resolve this matter.”

Spicy!
#networking #shithappens #tier9
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Saturday meeting
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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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