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Found the story behind this bug neat, that is why I wanted to share it.

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[–] pancake@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 years ago (3 children)
[–] southerntofu@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago

Exactly. Both very good examples of why manual memory management is... untrustworthy? (that's the polite way i could say it)

[–] the_tech_beast@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago

Something similar to this.

I remember reading about a kid who bypassed the Xbox parental control just by inputting 0000. It was a bug in the software.

I can't find the source for this but I remember this.

[–] miguel@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)
[–] Helix@feddit.de 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)
[–] miguel@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago
[–] Thann@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 years ago

I swear my cat crashed GDM once

[–] qsu@fapsi.be 1 points 3 years ago

It's surprising how serious and how old and unresolved that bug and its related bugs are. Only the gnome bug was marked fixed. I'm tempted to see if this is still an issue on modern gnome lock screen...