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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.

Today I learnt about crossterm, a Rust crate for interacting with terminals in a cross-platform way: https://docs.rs/crossterm/latest/crossterm/ It handles things like is_tty() and terminal::size(), which are hard to support correctly in both Linux and Windows. I might port difftastic.

It's amazingly awkward to print a syntactic diff correctly. Even the lines before and after the changes may not line up, if whitespace has changed! Difftastic now inserts blank lines to help things line up. I'm reasonably happy with the result here.