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R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵<a href="https://fosstodon.org/@tripplehelix" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@tripplehelix</a>No, I'm currently using <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/xscreensaver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#XScreenSaver</a> as my phone wallpaper ;)

C++ Wage Slave<a href="https://mastodon.philtanner.com/@Phil_Tanner" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Phil_Tanner</a> I'm sure there's an <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/xscreensaver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#xscreensaver</a> hack for flying toasters.Mrs Wife found the bouncing-cow hack really upsetting. I'm not allowed to use that one. 😄

R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵Good old <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/kumppa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kumppa</a>. I remember enjoying this <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/xscreensaver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#XScreensaver</a> on my 166 MHz Pentium I laptop 25 years ago.

R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵Saw this morning that the new light phone III is OLED-based (I've long said that OLED coupled with a well-tuned dark-mode OS could really rival e-ink), and I felt like reinventing my own Android phone similarly.I replaced my cat photo wallpaper with a simple <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/xscreensaver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#XScreensaver</a>, installed Arcticons, and turned on grayscale mode in Android (it was already dark mode).I'm loving it!

F-DroidThis week in <a href="https://floss.social/tags/FDroid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FDroid</a> (TWIF) is live:- <a href="https://floss.social/tags/K9Mail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#K9Mail</a> developer quits Mozilla, thanks <a href="https://social.int21.dev/@cketti" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@cketti</a> for all the good work - <a href="https://floss.social/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#surveillance</a> laws want <a href="https://floss.social/tags/backdoor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#backdoor</a> access in <a href="https://floss.social/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#France</a> again - <a href="https://floss.social/tags/FOSSGIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FOSSGIS</a> 2025 in March, get the app - <a href="https://floss.social/tags/onionshare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#onionshare</a> crash fix soon - <a href="https://floss.social/tags/RiMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RiMusic</a> might be in danger - <a href="https://floss.social/tags/SimpleX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SimpleX</a> has group growing pains - <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Termux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Termux</a> GUI is finally available - <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Threema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Threema</a> Libre reacts - <a href="https://floss.social/tags/VLC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VLC</a> with Remote Access - <a href="https://floss.social/tags/XScreenSaver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#XScreenSaver</a> has nice privacy policyClick for +218 lines of news: <a href="https://f-droid.org/2025/02/27/twif.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://f-droid.org/2025/02/27/twif.html</a>

Cuz :twit:Loving the anti-Google pettiness for this Android screensaver app<a href="https://twit.social/tags/android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#android</a> <a href="https://twit.social/tags/AndroidApps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AndroidApps</a> <a href="https://twit.social/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#google</a> <a href="https://twit.social/tags/PlayStore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PlayStore</a> <a href="https://twit.social/tags/openSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#openSource</a> <a href="https://twit.social/tags/ScreenSaver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScreenSaver</a> <a href="https://twit.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privacy</a> <a href="https://twit.social/tags/XScreenSaver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#XScreenSaver</a> <a href="https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/google.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/google.html</a>---------For a screen saver. A privacy policy. For a screen saver.This pantomime where Google pretends to care about your welfare would be hilarious if it wasn't so sad, but here we are anyway.Ok, strap in!

Todd KnarrBecause of course a screen saver absolutely has to have a privacy policy:<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/XScreenSaver" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#XScreenSaver</a>: <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Google</a> Store <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Privacy</a> Policy <a href="https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/google.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/google.html</a>

R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵28-year-old <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Unix</a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/screensaver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScreenSaver</a>This will blow the <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/zoomers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zoomers</a> away 😁🫰🏼<a href="https://loops.video/v/6zfXLL57Df" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://loops.video/v/6zfXLL57Df</a><a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/xscreensaver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#XScreensaver</a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/jwz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#jwz</a>

aspragg<a href="https://chaos.social/@strdst" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@strdst</a> Paging <a href="https://mastodon.social/@jwz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@jwz</a> - need inspiration for a new <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/xscreensaver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#xscreensaver</a> hack? 😉

Cuddy2977I have to say, the real version of the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/XscreenSaver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#XscreenSaver</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/LamentConfiguration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LamentConfiguration</a> screen saver is even quicker on an <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/M4" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#M4</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/MacMini" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MacMini</a> … !

Marcos Dione<a href="https://genart.social/@scdollins" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@scdollins</a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/XScreenSaver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#XScreenSaver</a>!

lebochequiritDiese Karte ist nicht nur bildschön, man kann sie sich auch mit <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/xscreensaver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#xscreensaver</a> als Bildschirmschoner laufen lassen 🤩 <a href="https://zoom.earth/maps/pressure/#view=49.7,17.4,4.67z/model=gfs/overlays=wind" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://zoom.earth/maps/pressure/#view=49.7,17.4,4.67z/model=gfs/overlays=wind</a>

Trit’Problem with <a href="https://shelter.moe/tags/XScreenSaver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#XScreenSaver</a> not autostarting when opening a <a href="https://shelter.moe/tags/XFCE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#XFCE</a> 4.20 session resolved!Actually, the XFCE team removed a launcher to be put in ”/etc/xdg/autostart/” that ran XS, because it caused a conflict with their own xfce4-screensaver software (but it’s not installed on my PCs). I restored the deleted laucher in its original place. Hopefully it will work and won’t be removed again after a new XFCE update (I keep a copy of the .desktop file in such case)…<a href="https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-session/-/commit/9a63a6224466c17243fb192a70920133d1f2d3d3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-session/-/commit/9a63a6224466c17243fb192a70920133d1f2d3d3</a><a href="https://forum.hardware.fr/hfr/OSAlternatifs/Divers-2/version-recommandee-sgdsn-sujet_28532_37.htm#t1496272" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://forum.hardware.fr/hfr/OSAlternatifs/Divers-2/version-recommandee-sgdsn-sujet_28532_37.htm#t1496272</a><a href="https://forum.hardware.fr/hfr/OSAlternatifs/Installation/nouveaute-stabilite-simplicite-sujet_37691_463.htm#t1496269" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://forum.hardware.fr/hfr/OSAlternatifs/Installation/nouveaute-stabilite-simplicite-sujet_37691_463.htm#t1496269</a>

Trit’Hmm… It seems that <a href="https://shelter.moe/tags/XScreenSaver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#XScreenSaver</a> daemon does not autostart with <a href="https://shelter.moe/tags/XFCE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#XFCE</a> 4.20. Annoying… Can you confirm, <a href="https://mastodon.social/@jwz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@jwz</a> ? Or is it just on my two PCs running <a href="https://shelter.moe/tags/ArchLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ArchLinux</a> ?

R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:<a href="https://dialup.cafe/@vga256" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@vga256</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/@likesoldmacs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@likesoldmacs</a>It's not as... heh... varied as the wonderful <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/AfterDark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AfterDark</a> of yore, but <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/XScreensaver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#XScreensaver</a> is pretty flippin' cool, and available on every platform but Windows: <a href="https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/</a>I confess I don't run it right now, as I don't have too much use for a screensaver, but XScreensaver has a LOT of modules.

C.<a href="https://fed.qaz.red/@elithebearded" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@elithebearded</a> Fantastic.It occurs to me that processing video this way would be an excellent way for <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/XScreenSaver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#XScreenSaver</a> to spend some CPU cycles when my machine is idle...<a href="https://mastodon.social/@jwz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@jwz</a>

R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:<a href="https://social.tchncs.de/@JoergA" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@JoergA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@256" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@256</a><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/XScreensaver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#XScreensaver</a> has a lot of the old AfterDark modules, including the best version of Flying Toasters I've ever seen.

arihakThe simplest (and most entertaining) <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privacy</a> policy ever. For instance: Unlike <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Google</a>, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/XScreenSaver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#XScreenSaver</a> will honor deletion requests if you email us asking to delete all none of your user data that does not exist. <a href="https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/google.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/google.html</a>

datenwolfPublished a small tool I wrote some time ago, that will find every instance of <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/xscreensaver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#xscreensaver</a> running on the local machine, send it a lock command and turn off the lights.If run as a regular user, it will lock every xscreensaver to which the executing user has permissions to grab the XAUTHORITY token file.It will not reach instances running on remote hosts, i.e. if you `ssh -X` into a remote machine, it will not reach your local <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/X11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#X11</a> display and vice versa.<a href="https://git.datenwolf.net/lockall-xscreensaver/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://git.datenwolf.net/lockall-xscreensaver/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@jwz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@jwz</a>

jwz (rss, unofficial)<a href="https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/07/your-personal-information-is-very-important-to-us-part-two/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">"Your personal information is very important to us.", part two</a> Barely six weeks after the <a href="https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/06/your-personal-information-is-very-important-to-us/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">XScreenSaver for Android Privacy Policy fiasco</a>, Google, is up to brand new fuckery. As far as I can tell, they're saying that if I don't give them a copy of my <a href="https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/03/is-this-not-a-reasonable-form-of-id/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">driver's license</a>, they're going to remove <a href="https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">XScreenSaver</a> and <a href="https://www.jwz.org/xdaliclock/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">XDaliClock</a> from their "Play" [sic] store. So that's obviously not going to happen. And gosh, I'm all broken up about the consequences. <a href="https://cdn.jwz.org/images/2024/google1.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://cdn.jwz.org/images/2024/google2.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/06/your-personal-information-is-very-important-to-us/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Previously</a>, <a href="https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/03/is-this-not-a-reasonable-form-of-id/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">previously</a>, <a href="https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/12/google-agrees-to-settle-5bn-lawsuit-claiming-it-secretly-tracked-users/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">previously</a>, <a href="https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/12/gmail-sucks-water-is-wet/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">previously</a>, <a href="https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/09/webp-is-going-great/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">previously</a>, <a href="https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/09/today-in-email-hegemony/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">previously</a>, <a href="https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/09/breaking-scorpion-stings-frog/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">previously</a>, <a href="https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/08/today-in-google-broke-email/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">previously</a>, <a href="https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/08/today-in-google-broke-email/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">previously</a>, <a href="https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/04/contra-chrome/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">previously</a>, <a href="https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/01/google-says-it-is-good-for-their-business-if-their-competitors-cars-kill-more-people/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">previously</a>, <a href="https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/12/google-facebook-agreed-to-team-up-against-possible-antitrust-action/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">previously</a>, <a href="https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/10/im-the-googlebot-im-here-to-index-you-please-hold-still/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">previously</a>, <a href="https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/01/they-are-turning-our-atmosphere-into-their-atmosphere-2/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">previously</a>, <a href="https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/01/chrome-will-prevent-any-ad-blockers-that-arent-adblock-plus/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">previously</a>, <a href="https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/11/today-in-youtubes-joke-of-a-fair-use-appeal-process-5/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">previously</a>, <a href="https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/10/youtube-can-go-duck-itself/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">previously</a>, <a href="https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/03/today-in-youtubes-joke-of-a-fair-use-appeal-process-4/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">previously</a>, <a href="https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/03/today-in-youtubes-joke-of-a-fair-use-appeal-process-4/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">previously</a>, <a href="https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/02/today-in-youtubes-joke-of-a-fair-use-appeal-process/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">previously</a>, <a href="https://www.jwz.org/blog/2015/04/youtube-has-finally-destroyed-their-rss-feeds/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">previously</a>, <a href="https://www.jwz.org/blog/2015/01/google-never-would-have-taken-the-lords-name-in-vain-had-they-known-the-mic-was-live/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">previously</a>, <a href="https://www.jwz.org/blog/2013/11/drowned-in-a-sea-of-ascii-penises/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">previously</a>, <a href="https://www.jwz.org/blog/2014/10/youtubes-joke-of-a-fair-use-appeal-process/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">previously</a>, <a href="https://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/09/i-for-one-welcome-our-new-algorithmic-snitch-overlords/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">previously</a>, <a href="https://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/05/youtubes-privacy-violation-policy-is-a-steaming-pile-of-horse-shit/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">previously</a>. <a class="hashtag" href="https://xn--y9azesw6bu.xn--y9a3aq/streams/tag/computers/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#computers</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://xn--y9azesw6bu.xn--y9a3aq/streams/tag/conspiracies/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conspiracies</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://xn--y9azesw6bu.xn--y9a3aq/streams/tag/copyright/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#copyright</a> <a class="hashtag" 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