SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
Daniel Stenberg, author of the ubiquitous URL fetcher cURL and the libcurl multiprotocol file transfer library, and recipient of the 2017 Polheim Prize, has been blocked again from attending a US-based conference. Daniel has written a post in his blog about his two-year odyssey through the byzantine US bureaucracy to try to get permission to attend a work-related conference in California. He has been in the US nine times previously but despite pages of paperwork, hundreds of dollars in fees, and personal visits to the embassy, no dice. As a result the conference will have to move outside the US and probably Canada too if it wants to stay open to the world's top talent.
Earlier on SN:
US Visa Applications May Soon Require Five Years of Social Media Info (2018)
Reducing Year 2038 Problems in curl (2018)
cURL turns Seventeen Today (2015)
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 29 2018, @07:58PM (8 children)
This is the new America, where we only want white European immigrants. In fact, our illustrious Grand Poobah has specifically stated that he'd like more immigrants from countries like Norway. Sure, Stenberg is from Sweden, which is kind of like Norway, but not enough for us to let those people in.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 29 2018, @08:05PM (4 children)
You realize he is a white european, right?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 29 2018, @08:32PM (3 children)
I read it as an ironic and insightful joke. If this individual was not white, this story would get vastly more coverage and undoubtedly be framed as a racist action. But because he's white, you're reading this on his blog instead of nytimes.com.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 29 2018, @11:44PM (1 child)
Meh i doubt it. He is in tech, no one gives a shit about us unless there is more to the story. There are so many brown people waiting for visas that your point becomes yet another lame attempt at a political point.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @07:10AM
He has outstanding, as in the literal - out standing, qualifications. Most do not.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @06:16AM
I read it as a sub-standard troll. D+, left disappointed.
(Score: 3, Touché) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday July 29 2018, @08:08PM (2 children)
Look what happened in Malmo this morning. Dangerous Country, dangerous people!
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Monday July 30 2018, @12:37AM (1 child)
(cont) One of the critical lessons of 9/11 is that immigration enforcement saves lives. We must enforce the rules against visa fraud, illegal overstay, illegal entry and other immigration violations and crimes. And crimes they are. Believe me, crimes they are.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @02:46AM
You'd certainly know all about crime.