Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48290881 ("Unicode 18.0.0 Beta", 3 months ago, 66 comments)

ITYM https://status.d420.de/

yes, sorry

They do this by setting cookie "redesign_optout=true" for www.reddit.com (and then using that domain).

Currently on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49695459 (over 100 comments)

LSM = Linux Security Module

What's TCB though?

I would guess Trusted Computing Base

Also, fallocate+chmod is racy: between the two calls, an attacker could open the file, and then keep it open until next reboot. OTOH, mkswap creates the swap file with the correct permissions straight away.

The --size and --file options are relatively new, though: they were added in util-linux v2.40, released in 2024.

> between the two calls, an attacker could open the file, and then keep it open until next reboot.

I feel like if there's a malicious user (or program) on your system with the necessary access for this, you have much bigger problems.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49603335 (30 comments at the moment)

Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562262 (22 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49538096 (4 comments)

You can use www.reddit.com (yes, this domain, not old.reddit.com) with the old UI if you set cookie "redesign_optout=true".

Thanks for that tip. Works like a charm.

It's a soft keyword: https://docs.python.org/3.15/reference/lexical_analysis.html...

> As soft keywords, their use in the grammar is possible while still preserving compatibility with existing code that uses these names as identifier names.