Poruri Sai Rahul

CEO, FOSS United (npub10dc…ul8g). Head of Software, SoftCircuits Labs. Advisor, Saryan Vigyan Foundation.

Website: rahulporuri.github.io
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahulporuri/

Last Notes

2026-02-02 06:40:46 UTC

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“Algorithmic governance, when left unregulated and concentrated in corporate hands, is a tool for eroding democratic accountability. When platforms use algorithms to control wages and hours, suppress organizing and prevent collective contestation, they are building unaccountable power structures that operate outside democratic institutions. This is a form of private authoritarianism enabled by algorithmic opacity.”

2026-02-02 06:34:04 UTC

https://techpolicy.press/why-gig-platform-wage-theft-is-a-governance-crisis
“The problem is not that algorithms manage workers — it is that they have become employers without accountability, and our legal system has not caught up.”

2025-10-26 05:43:06 UTC

“The problem with the plague of 1994, really, was that unlike so many other diseases, it refused to occur and remain ‘out there’ in the rural areas. Nor would it confine itself to urban slums . Plague germs are notorious for their non-observance of class distinctions. Methods are yet to be devised to prevent their entry into the elite areas of South Bombay or South Delhi. Worse still, they can board aircraft and fly club class to New York. Too many beautiful peple felt threatened”

2025-08-19 03:33:57 UTC

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- 5 USD a month (60 USD per annum) to @npub163h…mv0n, because we need a decentralized social media platform
- 5,200 INR per annum to forgejo/Codeberg e.V. (https://liberapay.com/forgejo), because we need a better software forge
- 15 GBP per annum to @npub1are…fcch, because digital maps have become fundamental to our lives, and we shouldn't have to rely on closed platforms like Google Maps

2025-08-19 03:33:23 UTC

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- 100 EUR annual donation to @npub1ncy…3x0q (https://kde.org/), because KStars (https://kstars.kde.org/) was my first exposure to Free and Open Source Software as an astronomy geek in college
- 5 USD a month (60 USD per annum) to Kovid Goyal (https://github.com/kovidgoyal) because Kitty (https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/) is my go-to terminal, and Calibre (https://calibre-ebook.com/) is my go-to e-book manager

2025-08-19 03:32:51 UTC

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- 50 USD for @npub1vv8…6fhk Supporting Member - Sliding Scale (https://www.python.org/psf/membership/supporting/) because Python made me want to write software again after miserably failing my undergrad course on programming with C
- 50 USD one-time donation to the @npub1pkl…j4my foundation (https://numfocus.org/), whose sponsored projects NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, were what we built customer solutions on top of at my previous job

2025-08-19 03:32:18 UTC

Giving up to 5% of my annual salary to FOSS
On Sunday, I decided that I would start giving up to 5% of my annual salary to FOSS. Here's how I am starting
50 USD for @npub1fku…yhvh (https://tug.org/) because the resume that helped me land my previous job was made using TeX/LaTeX, and my Master's Thesis was written using LaTeX

2025-06-27 04:20:48 UTC

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You should immediately subscribe to the https://www.dataforindia.com/ newsletter. If you’re already a subscriber, tell a friend to subscribe too!

2025-06-27 04:09:43 UTC

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Rukmini, from Data from India, starts the talks for the day https://hasgeek.com/VizChitra/2025/schedule/the-data-is-here-but-whom-is-it-serving-EyrnqLzfjinxTLk2rTkKxY

2025-06-27 03:59:20 UTC

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https://vizchitra.com/editorial to understand discourse and editorial for #vizchitra2025

2025-06-27 03:49:50 UTC

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Starting the day off with a musical performance, especially a percussion instrument, really wakes people up! https://hasgeek.com/VizChitra/2025/schedule/finding-your-rhythm-djembe-solo-LRnBwW6MscizaHr7rk8Jrv

2025-06-27 03:47:20 UTC

At vizchitra, presented by hasgeek. There are 350-ish folks but the conf deserves a much larger audience. #vizchitra2025

2025-03-14 11:50:14 UTC

@npub1kx0…hnqj talked about the history of FOSSMeet at NITC and about the @npub1eyk…ndu6 app
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/160/628/680/279/925/original/2bb939519085ce4b.jpg

2024-11-25 13:22:20 UTC

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applied to join as a member. I only see one other person from Telangana and i suspect i know who that is.
We can bring this up in the Dec FOSS United meetup if that helps.

2024-10-16 02:48:29 UTC

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i havent gone through this material but the carpentries material is trustworthy to me - https://swcarpentry.github.io/shell-novice/

2024-10-01 13:18:21 UTC

@npub1hv5…xq0v has been an inspiration to me, ever since I started following her work on [@pypi](https://fosstodon.org/@pypi ) and pip at the [@ThePSF](https://fosstodon.org/@ThePSF ) , because her work showed the value of a Project/Product manager for FOSS projects.
https://youtu.be/JE5u5mUT6gQ?feature=shared - her talk at the recent PyCon US was inspiring