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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 29 2018, @11:00PM (2 children)
That sucks donkey balls. And it's stupid.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 29 2018, @11:41PM (1 child)
Well it did come from EF, pretty much the og sn troll. Too bad he has developed a following, though i am not convinced he is not using multiple accounts.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Subsentient on Sunday July 29 2018, @11:47PM
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In all seriousness, I find his deliberately offensive, racist, xenophobic brand of trolling to be... downright hilarious.
If Ethanol Fueled left, I'd miss him dearly. Keep doing your stuff EF!
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