2026-01-08 00:40 UTC
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@timjclevenger@infosec.exchange 2026-01-08 01:59
@nblr@chaos.social sudoers has a similar bug. Can't remember what it is exactly but it's just as dumb and nobody could log in because of it.
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@duke_of_germany@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-01-08 07:23
Things like this made me paranoid a long time ago. Since then I add an extra line to *every* file I create, no matter what it is. 😅 @nblr@chaos.social
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@jjacobsson@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-01-08 07:36
@nblr@chaos.social ”we can detect that it isn’t there, but we refuse to fucking add it for you.”
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@robin@daugherty.nl 2026-01-09 07:36
@nblr@chaos.social @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange POSIX standard says that a Text File is made up of 0 or more Lines, and a Line is a sequence of zero or more characters terminated with a newline character. https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap03.html So this is true of many tools, and it’s why many tools such as GitHub warn you when a file is missing its last newline. And yet I still find projects and even whole engineering organizations that standardize on “no terminating newline”.