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Stories by JordiGH

DiffX - Next-Generation Extensible Diff Format (diffx.org)
nvidia-patch: This patch removes restriction on maximum number of simultaneous NVENC video encoding sessions imposed by Nvidia to consumer-grade GPUs (github.com)
Merry Christmas! What are you doing this week?
If you're in a country that has this week off, hopefully you aren't working very much this week. But if you are working, what are you working on? Feel free to ask for help or advice. And if you're not working, enjoy the holidays!
Write yourself a Git (wyag.thb.lt)
Advent of D (jordi.inversethought.com)
Finally wrote my retrospective of Advent of Code in D. Many thanks to those who discussed the problems with me in #lobsters. :-)
Meet Mastodon (webinista.com)
Linux Foundation quietly drops community representation (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
Help us name a new Mercurial feature
Jun Wu of Facebook is proposing [a new hg feature](https://bitbucket.org/facebook/hg-experimental/src/58116ed0eb7387e1b3bf94b1df0999e64c32c550/hgext3rd/smartfixup.py?at=default&fileviewer=file-view-default) which helps editing a commit stack. Basically, it looks through your recent draft commits (co...
What are you working on this week?
You know the drill, comrades. Weekly Lobsters stand-up. Someone really ought to write a bot to automate these. Someone! ;-) Feel free to ask for help or advice or just talk about whatever it is you're doing, work-related or not.
John Wiegley is the new Emacs maintainer (lists.gnu.org)
The interreGNUm is over! Hail to the new maintainer!
kandria: A post-apocalyptic actionRPG written in lisp (github.com)
465k patients told to visit doctor to patch critical pacemaker vulnerability (arstechnica.com)
Want to piss off your IT department? Are your links not malicious looking enough? (phishyurl.com)
Sioyek is a PDF viewer designed for reading research papers and technical books (github.com)
Game of Trees (gameoftrees.org)
No Starch Press Foundation (nostarchfoundation.org)
Chrono Trigger (socksmakepeoplesexy.net)
I like the thesis of this blog post analysing Chrono Trigger's game design, which I take to be: "So why the hell would anyone choose to use such a restrictive format to get a point across? Precisely because it is so restrictive. Being forced to process your message through such a form forces you to ...
Addressing Mercurial misconceptions (mail.python.org)
The time has come to stand up for the GPL (sfconservancy.org)
Ubuntu SSH Ads (2018) (patdavid.net)
Git: design doc for the evolve command (spinics.net)
What are you working on this week?
This is the weekly thread to discuss what you have done recently and are working on this week. Please be descriptive and don’t hesitate to champion your accomplishments or ask for help, advice or other guidance.
gg: GG - Gui for JJ (github.com)
Rust compiler cannot be built without test failures on Debian and Fedora (salsa.debian.org)
Please Please Please (we.phorge.it)
Love in the Time of Cryptography (backchannel.com)
Docker (icculus.org)
Update to GCC copyright assignment policy (gcc.gnu.org)
In Defense of Free Software: My Case Against Lenovo in Mexico (globalvoices.org)
Dr Stoll: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the GPL (earth.li)