miniblog.

Friday's xkcd is blunt but fair: it's very hard to secure any part of a modern computer stack, and we depend on all of it:

Buttery Smooth Emacs https://www.facebook.com/notes/daniel-colascione/buttery-smooth-emacs/10155313440066102/ (a blunt but fair summary of Emacs' heritage)

Diff is a blunt instrument that don't understand syntax. E.g. https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f5db4b31b31504a1058339bc00488bf56ad1f0aa the line wrapping makes it hard to see what was added.