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`xneko` brings back memories. My freshman year at university we were on X terminals where they came in a little pack of several stations. Each of them had X aut

• supportengineer 3y ago
  Someone did it to me with a single Xeyes window. I was in my dorm room by myself at the time!
  • jghn 3y ago
    At some point people figured out they could plaster another person's screen with porn via `xv`. But then someone else discovered that meant you could go in and Save File to the original user's directory. Once people realized that giving people write access to their directory wasn't a wise idea, this practice stopped.
    • em-bee 3y ago
      xv was the wrong tool, there are others that would have been able to project images without giving the receiver the ability to write to your directory. the most obnoxious would have been to set the background, because that's not easy to undo if you don't know how. when i was a student i used to hang out in the computer halls until late at night. being one of the last ones there i was often able to get use of the one sun workstation that had a color screen. one night the sysadmin logged remotely into the machine i was using and played "always look on the bright side of life"
• watersb 3y ago
  There was a mode, included with the After Dark screen saver for classic macOS, that was basically an xneko port, named “Neko Neko”.