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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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[–] 55 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

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

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  • [–] 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?

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  • [–] 4 points 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.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Those are Mayan words

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [+] -9 points 2 years ago (5 children)
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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    So it's shenobiology? 🤔

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    X is read as sh

    The fuck?

    xrays now shrays?

    Xylophone (Zy) is now pronounced Shylophone?

    Xenon (Zenon) is now Shenon?

    Xerox is Sherox?

    Xylitol (Zy) is Shylitol?

    I cannot think of a single word starting X pronounced Sh and not Zh

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