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canopic jug [soylentnews.org] writes:

Daniel Stenberg [daniel.haxx.se], author of the ubiquitous URL fetcher cURL and the libcurl multiprotocol file transfer library [curl.haxx.se], 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 beauracracy to try to get permission to attend a work-related conference in California [daniel.haxx.se]. 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 [soylentnews.org] (2018)
Reducing Year 2038 Problems in curl [soylentnews.org] (2018)
cURL turns Seventeen Today [soylentnews.org] (2015)

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