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Kaspersky says hackers are distributing malware via anime girl wallpapers on Steam Workshop's Wallpaper Engine (securelist.com)
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[โ€“] Quadrexium@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Wallpaper engine allows for animated/video wallpapers. When I used windows I had this cool neutron star wallpaper that would spin around

[โ€“] flameleaf@lemmy.world 12 points 2 hours ago

I thought those were a waste of resources when that kind of feature debuted with Windows Vista, but I'm the kind of guy who runs Xfce with animations turned off, so...