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Re:X.org Security Advisory: multiple security issues X.Org X... by justin66 on Sunday November 02, 2025 @01:23PM (#45792289)
> That sort of solution is cancer if you want to do anything the display server authors didn't think of.

Hey come on man, a locking screen saver is a totally niche application. No demand for that.

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Re:X.org Security Advisory: multiple security issues X.Org X... by mikkupikku on Sunday November 02, 2025 @01:42PM (#45792405)
xscreensaver works just fine. It only needs to keep nosy roommates out, not the NSA. Not that Wayland would stop spooks anyway.
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Re:X.org Security Advisory: multiple security issues X.Org X... by udev4096 on Sunday November 02, 2025 @02:20PM (#45792682)
Totally unrelated, I like your nickname :)
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Re:X.org Security Advisory: multiple security issues X.Org X... by justin66 on Sunday November 02, 2025 @06:30PM (#45794355)
It doesn’t lock the screen properly under Wayland. There’s an abyss of complaining about Wayland on jwz’s blog.

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/07/xscreensaver-wayland-and-lo...

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Re:X.org Security Advisory: multiple security issues X.Org X... by ethin on Sunday November 02, 2025 @07:36PM (#45794738)
For some weird reason I can't access it, it just redirects me to this image about hacker news. Did he just configure his webserver to just universally display that image? Even if I manually enter the address into my address bar it does that so I assume that that's what he did...
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Re:X.org Security Advisory: multiple security issues X.Org X... by justin66 on Sunday November 02, 2025 @08:46PM (#45795117)
The author of xscreensaver holds hn in a certain amount of contempt, yes. Just go with it.
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Re:X.org Security Advisory: multiple security issues X.Org X... by josefx on Monday November 03, 2025 @03:01AM (#45796838)
The page sets a cookie when you visit it from hackernews and will redirect you to the image until you delete the cookie.
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Re:X.org Security Advisory: multiple security issues X.Org X... by justin66 on Monday November 03, 2025 @06:45AM (#45798062)
That’s new. Argh.
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Re:X.org Security Advisory: multiple security issues X.Org X... by jonway on Monday November 03, 2025 @08:05AM (#45798574)
like 10-15 years
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Re:X.org Security Advisory: multiple security issues X.Org X... by justin66 on Monday November 03, 2025 @09:03AM (#45799030)
The cookie is new, AFAIK. The expressed contempt for hners is of course eternal.
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Re:X.org Security Advisory: multiple security issues X.Org X... by justin66 on Sunday November 02, 2025 @06:31PM (#45794357)
Also balls
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