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Vienna researchers retrieved all WhatsApp numbers. The 3.5 billion profiles represent the largest data leak in history:
3.5 Billion Accounts: Complete WhatsApp Directory Retrieved and Evaluated - Heise Online
Lots of “Meta” data (that’s a pun :wink: ).
You are using WhatsApp: Enumerating Three Billion Accounts for Security and Privacy - GitHub

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I banned the use of WhatsCRAP years ago when my roommate kept getting scammed. No device in the home is capable of installing the app and it and Facebook /Meta are blocked at the modem level.

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The ARM supoer sound good, wonedr if when this gets don’t in Proton, if you could game ona Mac? Iqish they would go ARM on PC already, I would love to have a equal PC in a case the size of.a small shoe or a NES.

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The way they’ve been handling Windows, with its forced updates, aggressive telemetry, and questionable AI features, has sent more people to Linux than any marketing campaign ever could.

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Hmmm, Snapdragon will have a killer GPU, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, RELEASE ARM FOR DESKTOPS ALSO…

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A post was merged into an existing topic: Share Some funny things :grin:

Where is the Nvidia Wayland sever settings guys…

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Wow, this is a lot…

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By the end of 2022 they went ahead and removed JPEG-XL support from Chrome/Chromium to the frustration of many web developers and end-users interested in this image format. Now though as we get ready to roll into 2026, Google engineers are looking at bringing back JPEG-XL support to the Chrome web browser.

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KDE Plasma 6.6 Will Provide A Much Better Experience For High Refresh Rate, hope they make kgamma word in Waylans soon…

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Great video!

Full discussion is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2XYrhqjwBQ

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Dune: Part Two

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Crap, inux is getting Viruses.

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I literally installed rkhunter, chkrootkit and lynis yesterday. :astonished_face:

You will likely get many potentially false positives that will be hard to discern. Could still be an interesting way to deep dive into system hardening if you’re up to it.

Also, @Edward78 npm is not Linux per se, but it is certainly a showcase of the pitfalls of a centralized repository

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AI to turn the world into the theme of Soylent Green? I use Mistral Small 3 and Claude Haiku 3.5 now and then when I’m pondering hard.

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Have a vid on GhostBSD, byt the seems wrong to link here.

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