Comment by torben-friis

(Let me start clarifying that this is not at all a criticism of the author)

I am usually amused by the way really competent people judge other's context.

This post assumes understanding of:

- emacs (what it is, and terminology like buffers)

- strace

- linux directories and "everything is a file"

- environment variables

- grep and similar

- what git is

- the fact that 'git whatever' works to run a custom script if git-whatever exists in the path (this one was a TIL for me!)

- irc

- CVEs

- dynamic loaders

- file priviledges

but then feels important to explain to the audience that:

>A socket is a facility that enables interprocess communication