Jwz: I told you so, 2021 edition

• xsecurelock

  13 860 3.3 C

  X11 screen lock utility with security in mind

  

> that will reload it unless XSS exits with code 0 or something

Sort of what https://github.com/google/xsecurelock recommends doing.

Also, xsecurelock doesn't run the input and PAM auth in the same process as the lock, making input bugs (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21224179) harmless as well.

• dstat

  3 1,243 1.0 Python

  Discontinued Versatile resource statistics tool (the real one, not the Red Hat clone)

  

This thread expands quite a bit more on the above topic:

https://github.com/dstat-real/dstat/issues/156

For anyone who (like me) hadn’t come across this before, it might be interesting to read.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• swaylock

  16 786 6.0 C

  Screen locker for Wayland

  

https://github.com/swaywm/swaylock/issues/10

• cinnamon-screensaver

  64 151 6.2 Python

  The Cinnamon screen locker and screensaver program

  

Replies from Linux Mint contributors to this point make for fairly interesting reading: https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver/issues/354...

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