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It's Not Safe to Click Links on X (lifehacker.com)
submitted 2 years ago by Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] ElJefe@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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 2 years ago (1 children)

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 2 years ago

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

[–] criticon@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Those are Mayan words

[–] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 2 years ago (1 children)

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 2 years ago (1 children)

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 2 years ago

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

[–] sholomo@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] ElJefe@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] sholomo@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

that's true

[–] Plasma@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

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