No. There was malware in the releases. The issue was most likely accidental, something that spread from their computer. But they didn't handle it well.
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The emulation on android community definitely has a problem with ungrateful trolls though, particularly on the discords, which is why I am annoyed whenever projects bother to create one. I've seen 2-3 projects get shut down because of harassment on their discords.
I find this comparison unfair becuase k3s is a much more batteries included distro than the others, coming with an ingress controller (traefik) and a few other services not in talos or k0s.
But I do think Talos will end up the lighest overall because Talos is not just a k8s distro, but also a extremely stripped down linux distro. They don’t use systemd to start k8s, they have their own tiny init system.
It should be noted that Sidero Labs is the creator of Talos Linux, which another commenter pointed out.