Indians comprised 72.3% of all H-1B visas issued by the United States in the financial year 2022-’23. scroll.in/latest/10867...
Kushal Das
@kushaldas.se
Public Interest Technologist. CPython core developer. PSF fellow and director. Tor Project core team member. Digital security trainer.
🗳️ I've voted in @thepsf.bsky.social board elections! 🗳️ Remember to vote! 🗳️ Remember not to vote for FK! #Python #PSF #election #vote
Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit System closes UK facility targeted by Palestine Action www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Israeli arms manufacturer closes UK facility targeted by Palestine Action
Exclusive: Elbit Systems UK Bristol site was subject of protest days before direct action group was proscribed
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Here goes nothin'...I'm the Release Manager for Python 3.16 and 3.17, y'all! discuss.python.org/t/welcome-th...
Welcome the 3.16 and 3.17 Release Manager: Savannah Bailey!
Each release manager shepherds a pair of consecutive Python versions through alphas, betas, release candidates, bugfix releases, and security releases to end-of-life. Following 17 months of prerelease...
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🌍✨ EuroPython just ended. In many hallway chats and community organisers open space, one issue came up again and again: Sponsorship. Now that AI is taking the spotlight, I’m asking: Who's left behind? My thoughts here: ✍️ georgiker.com/blog/is-ai-l... #EuroPython #OpenSource #AI #Python #community
Is AI Leaving the Python Community Behind?
Georgi’s Official Website
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Thanks to everyone for taking part in the #CPython sprint at #EuroPython2025! Across all CPython repos this weekend: * 122 PRs created (69 the previous weekend) * 79 PRs merged (65) * countless invaluable in-person discussions (a few?) #EuroPython #Python #sprint #Prague
This week, what is a new thing you learned in #python ? Can be any tool/language feature/module/community, anything?
Not “liberal states,” New York Times. Pro-democracy states.
Designing for scale: core contributors @laymonage.bsky.social and @thibaudcolas.bsky.social discuss their plans to better benchmark CMS performance for larger sites! 🚀 youtu.be/61E09NdJ2ZI Looking into all aspects from #Django ORM performance to JS bundle size and perceived performance
Design for scale: planning CMS performance benchmarks
YouTube video by Wagtail
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People from #Sweden in the timeline, what do you think about govt's steps on attracting international talents to Sweden?
Paul Graham's latest piece is the hottest piece of garbage he's ever written -- which honestly is really saying something. But I take solace in the HN comments, the most upvoted of which observes that his mind has turned to mush. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4268...
The Origins of Wokeness | Hacker News
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Anyone knows any #Mac #Apple #virtualization application with ""com.apple.vm.device-access" entitlement? Will help for #USB passthrough. I want to use a mac vm on Apple silicon with USB pass through. Please boost so that more people can see.
The just-announced NIST SP 800-38D Rev. 1 Call for Comments asks how NIST should address the low message limit of AES-GCM with random nonces (yay!): whether by defining Rijndael-256-GCM, or by blessing a nonce-key generation method. It cites: @soatok.bsky.social, Shay Gueron, and me. Love it.
![[1] “Extending the AES-GCM Nonce Without Nightmare Fuel,” December 2022. Available at: https://soatok.blog/2022/12/21/extending-the-aes-gcm-nonce-without-nightmare-fuel/
[2] Shay Gueron, “Double Nonce Derive Key AES-GCM (DNDK-GCM),” October 2024. Available at: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-gueron-cfrg-dndkgcm/00/
[3] Filippo Valsorda, “The XAES-256-GCM extended-nonce AEAD,” September 2024. Available at: https://c2sp.org/XAES-256-GCM](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x2nsupeeo52oznrmplwapppl/bafkreifmyvdot6ssipzvrzubvwdwqnj3suk5uulolj5kh2j3penpnuuh6u)
For the end of the year, i did some reflecting on my life. “My core belief is that fulfillment and happiness comes from deliberate commitment to meaningful work, relationships, and personal growth and purpose.” lucumr.pocoo.org/2024/12/26/r...
Reflecting on Life
Things I learned and believe, condensed into some sort of guide.
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My wife sent me this a few minutes ago and I haven't stopped laughing. Read the description: "A colorblind elementary school teacher meets an optometrist who helps bring color into his life in time for the holidays."
My local nightclub is raising money to replace their toilets. If you sponsor a toilet, they will engrave a name on it. Anyone's name. So if you have $5k and someone you truly hate, all I'm saying is that you have the opportunity to do something really funny right now.
I used to know Sriram a long time ago; had coffee with him and met his wife and he told me he used to read my blog. After he fell in with the Andreessen types and became their pet during the Clubhouse era, I told him it was gonna end like this. We haven’t spoken since, but… lie down with dogs. 🤷🏾
Ryan Mac 🙃@rmac.bsky.social · 2y agoLaura Loomer, the conspiracy theorist and Trump surrogate, as well as other far right accounts are pushing the idea that Sriram Krishnan, an Indian-born, US citizen who was selected to advise Trump on AI policy is not fit for the job seemingly because he was born in India.
The problem with eating the rich is that there’s so much wealth inequality that the 1% simple don’t have enough protein to feed the full 99%, so you also need to eat other food too
Following the tradition I started in 2023, I kept track of all the community contributions, participation, and collaborations of 2024 (monthly distribution in the plot) Compared to the 531.7 hours I spent during 2023, I spent 650.4 hours in 2024 which is a 22% increase.
