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Difftastic is written in Rust, so I was surprised to get a user report of a segfault. After some investigation, it turns out that it's a segfault in git itself, which has existed since 2014! https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAFXAjY7XcL1APhLRXU8TO96z=f7957f2ieK56dHVsXUay55vpg@mail.gmail.com/T/#u (Upstream has already kindly written a patch.)

I'm playing with LambdaMoo again. It's still the most interesting multiplayer REPL I've ever seen. One cute feature I noticed today: @prog-option -rmverb_mail_backup @rmverb does not email you a backup Since you're working on a live environment, you can get email backups!

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