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Looking at how my servers update themselves and the recent Copy Fail vulnerability, I'm considering an automated weekly restart to make sure services and kernels are up to date. It'd also ensure that services are correctly configured to start on boot. Any thoughts? Feels crude.

I'm a fan of the Software Unscripted podcast, and I particularly enjoyed this recent episode about CrowdStrike and security culture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzjaZssBEiI The guest (Kelly Shortridge) compares attackers to lawyers trying to find loopholes. This is such a great analogy.

I haven't used resumable exceptions much at all. I keep coming across scenarios where I wish the current language had them. Most recent example: writing a tree-walking interpreter with a step counter. I'd love to throw ScriptExceededLimit with an option of resuming.