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No, there was no leaked database of 3.5B #WhatsApp users. Researchers from Vienna simply used the contact discovery method with all possible phone numbers to get contact data of 3.5B users. They informed WhatsApp who kinda fixed it by setting rate limits for contact discovery and the researchers deleted their collected data. Read the paper instead of clickbait :)
github.com/sbaresearch/whatsap…
whatsapp-census/Hey_there_You_are_using_WhatsApp.pdf at main · sbaresearch/whatsapp-census
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Ca. 15 Jahre nutze ich nun #ubuntu auch beruflich fast ausschließlich. Aber erst dieser Tage habe ich so richtig gecheckt, dass man dem Terminal sagen kann, in welcher Fenstergröße es starten soll:
Menü [Einstellungen]->[Profile]->[z.B. Unbenannt]->[Anfängliche Größe des Terminals]
... wieder ein Klick weniger
Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max 256GB, Watch Series 11 GPS 46MM with sportloop textile band, Airpods Pro 3, USB-C fast charger, Apple TechWoven Case With MagSafe for iPhone 17 Pro Max, and Apple Care Plus addedon to all newly acquired devices last night. It would seem the CC company enjoyed all charges, totaling over $3,300, as they posted a $2,500 credit limit increase offer to my account meer hours later. LOL. The experience tuckered me out, so as soon as I got home, I just set the most expensive two-pound-bag of goods I've ever acquired in my life down, and crashed out for a few hours. I'm now up, and ready to provision and transfer services to the new hardware.
I basically did that last year, then a couple of months later, bought a Macbook Pro M4 Max. Jerks didn't even offer me a credit increase, not that I wanted one anyway,
People are probably going to hate me saying this but...
I do not like Addictive Drums.
I don't even see how it's accessible on Windows (using Ableton) so yeah obviously for now I dislike it as well. If I could actually use it...
Ich hab’ ehrlich gesagt keine Lust mehr auf so glattgebügelte selbstverliebte Silicon-Valley Menschen, die mit dem viertausendsten Heilsversprechen erzählen wieso ihr Framework/Produkt/Vision/Browser/AI die Welt rettet, oder zumindest mein Leben verbessert.
Ich hab Lust auf merkwürdige Gedichte, schräge Musik, Single-Purpose-Websites, kleine Konzerte und RSS.
Alles ziemlich random, aber das isses.
the existence of a hand grenade implies the existence of a foot grenade.
/erin
Wow, Vienna scientists received the complete WhatsApp member directory, containing 3.5 billion user entries. Yes, it’s just the directory, no messages, but the whole directory was available online - totally unprotected.
Any more reasons for not using WhatsApp required
heise.de/en/news/3-5-Billion-A…
3.5 Billion Accounts: Complete WhatsApp Directory Retrieved and Evaluated
Vienna researchers retrieved all WhatsApp numbers. The 3.5 billion profiles represent the largest data leak in history—and it's worse than you might think.Daniel AJ Sokolov (heise online)
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An die NVDA-Fraktion: Welchen Sprachsynthesizer verwendet ihr? Gerne auch mit Begründung :)
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@svenja Auch ich habe überall, wo's geht, die erweiterten Vocalizer-Stimmen; bin froh, dass die "Anna erweitert" auf der Watch wieder geht. Nur auf dem BTSpeak (Raspi) habe ich den kompakten Viktor.
@SandiPavkovic @svenja Ich mochte sie auch mal. Und dann kamen immer mehr Aussprachefehler dazu, die mich in die Arme von Elloquence getrieben haben, obwohl ich sie nicht besonders mag.
@WestphalDenn @SandiPavkovic Mich an sich auch, aber die Elo in NVDA ist so oft einfach nur broken nach nem Update, dass ich doch lieber wieder die anna nehme.
@svenja @SandiPavkovic Schade. Dann werde ich das vielleicht nachher mal machen. Muss mir eh eine neue Portable für die Arbeit erstellen.
@WestphalDenn @SandiPavkovic und ich sollte meine installierte auf Arbeit mal aktualisieren. Kann hier die elo nicht als Addon installieren, also arbeite ich zur zeit noch überwiegend mit jaws und vergesse immer, dass mein NVDA mal aktuellgehalten werden will.
@WestphalDenn @svenja @SandiPavkovic Prinzipiell ja, allerdings muss die neuste Tiflotecnia für jeden PC aktiviert werden und man hat nur 3 Aktivierungen frei. Und wenn man einen Rechner, auf dem NVDA einmalig portabel ausgeführt wird, aktiviert, darf man nicht vergessen, die Lizenz danach wieder zurück zum Server zu übertragen.
Beim alten v2-Add-On war die Lizenz noch eine Datei ohne Online-check, für den portablen Einsatz sehr gut geeignet.
Beim alten v2-Add-On war die Lizenz noch eine Datei ohne Online-check, für den portablen Einsatz sehr gut geeignet.
@WestphalDenn @svenja Ja, die Aussprachefehler oder gar falsche Wörter; schönes Beispiel: Insolvenzverwalter.
@WestphalDenn @SandiPavkovic @svenja "Reisetagebücher" oder "Kohletagebau", die kompakte Anna zumindest macht da immer ein "Etage" draus, also eben z.B. "Kohl-Etagebau".
@WestphalDenn @svenja Ja, diese überzüchteten Wörterbücher. Mir ist ja lieber, wenn eine Sprachausgabe z. B. Gendermainstreaming knallhart nach deutschen Regeln ausspricht (dann höre ich wenigstens die Schreibweise), als wenn die Wörterbücher bis zur Unkenntlichkeit angereicherte Aussprachen enthalten. Ist natürlich eine Gratwanderung, aber gerade von Abkürzungen sollte man die Finger lassen. Acapela ist berühmt-berüchtigt dafür.
@SandiPavkovic @svenja Sehe ich auch so. Ausschlaggebend war bei mir übrigens die Ansage von Aufzählungen. Aus zwei Punkt vier wurde regelmäßig zwei komma vier. Das macht mich nach wie vor wahnsinnig und ich habe nie eine Möglichkeit gefunden, das leicht zu ändern.
@WestphalDenn Ich stimme auch zu. Es gab mal so ein Tool namens LiteX, ja, ist entstanden, weil der Lehrer LateX nicht barrierefrei fand, das führte aber dazu, dass dem armen Jaws Wörterbuch so viele Sachen hinzugefügt wurden, dass sämtliche Texte unlesbar wurden. also warf ich es wieder runter. @SandiPavkovic @trison
@svenja @WestphalDenn @SandiPavkovic Oh ja, das habe ich auch mal ausprobiert, als ich mit der Darstellung von mathematischen Formeln in elektronischer Form experimentiert hatte. Das kam zu der Zeit auf, als JAWS mit dem Math Player diese wunderbare Darstellung von Formeln im Web bekam, was aber nur auf englisch gut funktioniert.
@marcozehe Cool, irgendwie dachte ich damals, das wär nur unter den Schülys bekannt, aber der gute Herr L. hatte sicher eine Webseite wo er das angeboten hat. @WestphalDenn @SandiPavkovic @trison
@svenja @WestphalDenn @SandiPavkovic Ja, gab es, ich habe es durch Tante Google gefunden. Aber so richtig ans Laufen bekam ich es nicht, das Chaos mit den Wörterbüchern passierte aber durchaus auch bei mir. Ich hab das vor ein paar Jahren gemacht, während ich auf die Rente gewartet habe und viel Zeit zum Spielen hatte. Heute habe ich kein Windows mehr. Daher könnte ich das auch gar nicht mehr nutzen.
@marcozehe Krass, dann scheint es das immer noch zu geben. Er war aber auch damals einer der wenigen Lehrkörper, wo ich heute noch gern Kontakt hätte. @WestphalDenn @SandiPavkovic @trison
It's official! #PicoIDE, the open source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator I've been working on for the better part of this year, will be launching at Crowd Supply! Go there to sign up for updates and to be notified when the campaign is live: crowdsupply.com/polpotronics/p…
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#Rehabilitation: Ist eine #Reha bei ME/CFS sinnvoll? – Deutsches Ärzteblatt
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Martina Breňová pro #tydenikrespekt v anketě o neziskovkách:
„Nesmíme zapomínat na to, že sektor zaměstnává 74 tisíc lidí a dobrovolníci ročně odpracují 37 milionů hodin v hodnotě 8,3 miliardy korun. Shrnuto, neziskové organizace a jejich přínos ekonomice tvoří 0,9 procenta celého HDP. Podstatou státu není vše zajistit sám, ale vytvářet podmínky pro to, aby lidé byli aktivní a starali se o společnost společně. A k tomu právě občanská společnost všem bez rozdílu slouží.“
RE: hapyyr.com/@bogo/1155651689455…
One more try ;)
Hello #FOSDEM crowd. If you know someone attending 2026 who creates some form of an #openart - under a free license, let them know that there could be a small community gathering for them. Theater producers, visual artists, actors, musicians, painters, photographers and more and more are welcomed.#Foss
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#Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A tiny human (2?) runs his fastest down a garden path to greet his big brother (5?) home from school.
Big Brother stoically accepting all hero worship.
Little Brother doing a happy skip-dance of welcome as he leads the way back into the house.
A very serious man (60s?) is doing some cycling along a beach path on a no-nonsense trail bike.
But what is this?!
A little black dog sitting on a special basket in front of the handlebars? Ears flapping in the wind and a goofy doggy grin on its face?
Ah, maybe opposites attract.
A young human (8?) is practicing doing bunny hops on his scooter.
He doesn't quite have the hang of it and there're a few stops and starts but it's okay.
He's having fun.
Grinning when he gets one right.
Six young humans (9?) are playing volleyball after school. Five have their game faces on, taking epic dives at the ball.
Meanwhile, one is doing a dreamy on-the-spot dance.
Yes there's a bit of fuss going on, but she's happy in her own wee world.
A big man (20s?) in business casual is lounging on his tummy on some grass in a park. Big Man's big dog (white staffy) is affectionately nuzzling his human's beard with his nose, tail wagging with helicopter-enthusiasm.
Birdsong in trees overhead.
A city settling in for the night.
Any typos spotted in this post are Comma Hopping Ampersands. If spotted, please suggest they spend a little while hopping off the life rollercoaster and snoozing in a park.
And my Enafore refuses to load the home TL for whatever reason. No Mastodon for me then. Heh.
Edit: K it fixed itself.
Nice, no Tweesecake for me then... Unable to obtain license. Please make sure you have a license on your account and you have not reached the device limit.
Nice, no Tweesecake for me then... Unable to obtain license. Please make sure you have a license on your account and you have not reached the device limit.
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being a good girl and buying the bolts I need to secure my new lathe to its stand and the stand to the floor, instead of going "I have a lathe now, I shall just make bolts" and probably dropping a lathe on my foot in the process
Gemini 3 is out, but NVDA still doesn’t enter focus mode when pressing Enter on the Gemini edit field. Tested with Google Chrome. The work-around is pressing Insert+Space on the edit field instead of Enter. JAWS doesn’t have this issue.
github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue…
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github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue…
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nvda does not enter focus mode when pressing enter in gemini edit field
Steps to reproduce: go to the gemini website https://gemini.google.com/app After making the current options such as accepting contracts and logging into google. It is important to mention that my n...fernando-jose-silva (GitHub)
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WhatsApp anyone?
heise.de/news/3-5-Milliarden-K…
#datensicherheit #datenschutz #security #kommunikation
3,5 Milliarden User: Gesamtes WhatsApp-Verzeichnis abgeschnorchelt
Wiener Forscher haben alle WhatsApp-Nummern abgerufen. Die 3,5 Milliarden Profile sind der größte Datenabfluss der Geschichte – und übler, als man meinen würde.Daniel AJ Sokolov (heise online)
see the slides here if you look for an inspiration to replace it ;) pretalx.linuxdays.cz/linuxdays…
Disobey: FOSS tools to fight back! LinuxDays 2025
**Everyone** is trying to control your communication. The reasons vary from simple curiosity to pure commercial interest, all the way to using it to control one's thoughts. Are there any ways to fight back, and why are [free software](https://www.pretalx.linuxdays.cz
I continuously experience a #cybersecurity conundrum.
A manufacturer/developer isn't investing in security because the customers don't demand security. And even less are running to pay a premium for security.
With the end users there still seems to be an "I have nothing to hide" attitude.
So I'm looking for ideas, suggestions and experiences on how to increase and generate security awareness both on the management side as well as on the end user side.
Regarding end users there is the additional challenge of another layer of indirection.
I need to enable the "sellers" to create the security awareness, as they talk to the end users.
I'm NOT looking for advice like "just tell them what can go wrong" because i don't think it works. Or at least not if it is abstract and isn't personal.
@NASA Discovered a Rock on #Mars 🔴 That Doesn't Belong There. Via @sciencealert #RedPlanet #Martian #Space #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #Astronomy #NASA 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️
NASA Discovered a Rock on Mars...
NASA Discovered a Rock on Mars That Doesn't Belong There : ScienceAlert
More than five years into its mission, NASA's Mars Perseverance rover is still ambling across the surface of the red planet, doing what any five-year-old loves to do – stopping to look at every rock on its path.David Nield (ScienceAlert)
RE: mastodon.social/@mellifluousbo…
Only 1% of Mastodon users donate to support the team? Sure, not everyone can afford to do so, but that's still sad. Just made my own donation.
We’re still an absolute skeleton crew of 14 people, competing with teams sometimes 100x as large as ours. To get to our humble team size was only possible through the less than 1% community members who donate to Mastodon, a handful larger donations, & EU grants, all of which we are forever grateful for. We still have a large funding need for 2026, so please consider making a donation before the year-end if you’d like us to continue building and improving Mastodon joinmastodon.org/sponsors#dona…
(12/13)Donate to Mastodon
Donate or become a sponsor and help us build the social web for everyone!joinmastodon.org
I've always found this discussion on timezone mismatch for both (Peninsular) Malaysia and Singapore, that is, being GMT+8 instead of our supposed GMT+7 or GMT+7.30, very interesting lol.
Eastern Malaysia (Borneo), ofc, already have it right at GMT+8 - and supposedly, that single hour daily makes a huge difference in terms of 'quality of life' for those who are lucky to be born/stationed there.
I honestly don't care either way, time is 'fiction' after all 
, but I wonder just how feasible it is to even change it, should we want to - and if it's worth the trouble. Or maybe a fucked up 'solution' would be to keep the GMT+8 timing but enforce a GMT+7 lifestyle lmao, for example, have schools start at 8.30am GMT+8 (7.30am GMT+7) instead of 7.30am GMT+8 (6.30am GMT+7).
Today is my first day on Cloudflare!
Just had Claude clean up my code while I was vibe coding.
Committing it to main right now!
Happy to be part of the team
Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.
Tratando con atención y respeto a los ciudadanos, a mis superiores y a los restantes empleados públicos.
Y vosotros, ¿qué tal?
New game added to the Accessible Android apps directory: Glory Frontline accessible accessibleandroid.com/app/glor… #Android #Game
Glory Frontline - Accessible Android
Glory Frontline is the first Audible FPS, featuring multiple modes such as Lone Hero (single-player tower defense campaign), Squad Assault (co-op PVEAccessible Android
We're building something for the Fediverse. #Holos
ActivityPub running on your phone. Your own server, your data stored locally. A relay handles your stable identity when you're offline.
One account, all formats. Short text, long articles, photos, videos. The UI adapts to your mood. Switch between text mode, photo grid, video feed, article editor based on what you feel like sharing.
Same network, same followers.
Early stages, but the foundation is solid. We wanted to share the progress.
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Why would you sleep when you could wonder if aliens find you attractive
consolidation of my finances just began.. 2025 was about uhm I spend a lot of money so 2026 can be/should be I saved a lot of money
It's Dark In There
WhatsApp, le produit de Meta (ex-Facebook), vous savez, la messagerie qui prétend protéger la vie privée, a laissé fuiter 3,5 milliards de numéros de téléphone suite à une faille de sécurité...signalée il y a 8 ans. Les mots me manquent. 9to5mac.com/2025/11/18/whatsap… et web.archive.org/web/2020010808…) ;
WhatsApp security flaw exposed 3.5B phone numbers – inc yours
Update, 7:11 p.m. ET: A Meta representative reached out to 9to5Mac and provided the following statement: “We are grateful to...Ben Lovejoy (9to5Mac)
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This is insane and worth reading
blog.zakkemble.net/hyperoptic-…
Hyperoptic: IPv6 and Out-of-Order Packets
Troubleshooting Hyperoptic IPv6, covering suppressed router advertisement responses and MAC-related out-of-order packet issues.Zak Kemble (Zak's Electronics Blog)
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