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It's Not Safe to Click Links on X (lifehacker.com)

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As noted by security researcher Will Dormann, some posts on X purport to lead to a legitimate website, but actually redirect somewhere else. In Dormann's example, an advertisement posted by a verified X user claims to lead to forbes.com. When Dormann clicks the link, however, it takes him to a different link to open a Telegram channel that is, "helping individuals earn maximum profit in the crypto market," he said. In short, the "Forbes" link leads to crypto spam

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[-] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 142 points 5 months ago

You mean twitter, it's called twitter.

[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 54 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

𝕏itter. In ~~spanish~~ (sorry, I was mistaken) some languages X sounds like sh, so it's Shitter now.

[-] Brewchin@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

I always refer to it as Xitter or Xchan. I'm yet to encounter someone who doesn't know which fallen brand I'm referring to.

[-] ElJefe@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago

I’m sorry, what? Can you give some examples in Spanish where the letter x makes a sh sound?

[-] dontpanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I don’t speak Spanish (helpful eh?) but I remember when I was in Mexico I went to a cool place called Xel-Há, which was pronounced shell-ha. So there’s one.

[-] nyan@lemmy.cafe 23 points 5 months ago

I don't think that's Spanish. Nahuatl, which is an indigenous language spoken in Mexico, does use x- to transcribe the sound commonly written as sh- in English, so that's probably a Nahuatl place-name.

In the case of Xitter, though, the reference is generally to Mandarin Chinese, which uses x- to transcribe one of the two or three distinct sounds in that language that all sound like sh- to Anglophones.

[-] dontpanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 months ago

That makes sense, thanks for teaching me something today :)

[-] criticon@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago

Those are Mayan words

[-] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Why didn't they use a Spanish word when they started that settlement in pre-first century (according to Wikipedia) history?

[-] drivepiler@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

The same reason half the state names in the US have indigenous origins, I suppose. Guess you'll have to ask the colonizers.

[-] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago

I was asking why the Mayan people didn't choose a Spanish name when they founded Xelha thousands of years ago.

[-] drivepiler@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Lol, I guess it was obvious now that you mention it

[-] Plasma@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

It's mostly places that carry the sound from old Spanish, as most old Spanish words with X's changed to J's.

[-] sholomo@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

xoloitzcuintle, sometimes xcaret is pronounced as shcaret (not common tho)

[-] ElJefe@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

Neither of those words are Spanish tho. Xoloizcuintle is a náhuatl word, and Xcaret is a mayan word.

[-] sholomo@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

that's true

[-] Pretzilla@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

*Chinese

[-] Ignacio@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 months ago

No, it doesn't.

Source: I'm from Spain.

[-] tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Portuguese, people. X sound like sh in Portuguese. So Xopping, xell, xelter and Xitter. Words in Portuguese where X sounds like sh: xarope, xerife, xícara.

[-] FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Maybe you were thinking of "ix" which is pronounced "sh" in Spain e.g. when referring to "la caixa", a bank. It refers to cash.

[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 2 points 5 months ago

xitter

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