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  1. Set up Google ad account

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    Search Google for "Where to buy 92iut834qgj8j3g89ju3548g" and "Best vgm390gjq340gj" repeatedly

    Cancel costly monthly subscriptions to websites whose main/only subscription benefit is removal of ads

    Browse the internet only getting served your own non-intrusive ads

    ????

    Profit

  2. textb The text in tweets was modified but the URL was not. This meant if you posted a link to netflitwitter.com it would show the link as netflix.com but if you clicked the link it would go to netflitwitter.com For example: netflix.com The reason I suspect they didn't change the URL as well is because x.com currently just redirects to twitter.com anyway. There's no benefit to changing the URL to x.com since it would just redirect back to twitter.com. Twitter just wanted it to display in the app as x.com but actually direct to twitter.com
  3. Why would that problem be unique to single letter URLs? If you type "x.com" in the URL bar it will take you to x.com. The only problem would be if you type "x" and then choose one of the suggested URLs - but if you end up somewhere you did not intend then that's the users fault for relying on the suggested URLs and selecting the wrong suggested URL. That's not a problem that is unique to single letter URLs though, or even typing just a single letter in to the browser bar and letting the browser do the rest of the work. If you type "linu" and then let it autocomplete (choose one of the suggested URLs) then you might end up at linustechtips.com, or you might end up at linusmediagroup.com, maybe linux.org, or possibly something completely different depending on your browsing history.
  4. Spotty

    Venue "Alright, we need a small, light micropho…

    1960s FBI agent taping this to an informants chest about to send them in to a meeting with the mob: "Nah, trust me bro. Nobody will notice. This is the latest recording technology"
  5. Der8auer has also posted a video weighing in on the EK stuff. @FlyingPotato_is_taken Please update your post to comply with the Tech News Posting Guidelines. Posting a link to the source is not a quote. You need to include actual quotes from the source. Your thread should also include quotes from the cited source(s). While you shouldn't just copy the entire article, your quote should give the reader a summary of the article in a way that gives the key details, but also leaves room for them to read the full article on the linked website. Please use quote tags to show that you have copied this content from another site.
  6. It sends the email to the new email address you provide.
  7. Threads merged. Don't repost topics. No spamming or non-constructive posts, including: Posting the same topic multiple times
  8. Still better than people who take a photo of their screen.
  9. Too old to be useful and too new and mass produced to be interesting from a retro standpoint. Unless you have a "smash room" where you charge people to go in to a room with a baseball bat and smash some junk and need some cheap computers for people to go office space on then I don't really see much use for those old systems.
  10. Takedown TV shows also okay? Limitless NCIS FUBAR - Episode 6
  11. > Moved to Off Topic. Door handles and motor vehicle safety are not Tech News. Tech News means news regarding technology or gaming. Please don't post topics in this forum that don't have a strong relation to technology/games.
  12. Can you describe what the actual performance issues are? Gaming? If so, what game(s)? What resolution and settings are you playing on? What fps are you receiving on the 4070? How does it compare to the 2070S? If you swap the card back to the 2070S does performance improve? It can be a good idea to enable an on screen performance display or logging while checking this to help diagnose the issue. MSI afterburner has an OSD built in that will display things like CPU, GPU, memory usage, temperatures, etc.
  13. Just some garbage website writing fake articles putting popular key words on the page to trick people in to visiting the site.
  14. Likely your email address was exposed in an unrelated breach and now attackers are trying that email and password combination to try and access your account. Hopefully the reason it's unsuccessful is because you're using unique passwords. For extra protection you should enable MFA (Multi Factor Authentication) to the Microsoft account.
  15. Moved to Programs, Apps, and Websites. A requirement for the Tech News section is reputable news articles reporting the topic. Tech News Posting Guidelines. Just cancel and migrate to a different password manager. There's plenty of options to choose from and most will allow you to import passwords stored in another manager.
  16. Yes. You only need to use the adapter cable that goes to 3 PCIe cables if your power supply does not have a 12VHPWR cable. Since your power supply has the 12VHPWR cable you can just use that instead of the adapter cable and PCIe cables.
  17. The 4k versions will typically have a higher bitrate and should provide better visual quality even when displayed on a lower resolution monitor. Here's an example of the most recent LTT video at 1080p and 4k displayed on the same screen with the same viewing window (2236x1118). There's some noticeable difference around the face and hair. The eyebrows, cheeks, nose, and hair look a little smudgey and less detailed on 1080p compared to 4k.
  18. Oof. At least they encrypted it, I guess? Also looks like - for the birth dates at least - the encrypted data wasn't salted. The dataset has birth dates in an encrypted state. It includes a separate file (rainbow table) for birthdays which just includes every possible birth date combination and its encrypted value. It's possible to compare the encrypted value from the dataset to the table of birth dates to get the true value. I'm actually surprised that birth dates were encrypted at all. 2021 was when an attempt was made to sell data stolen from AT&T. Apparently this data has been confirmed by AT&T to be from 2019 and include data on current and former customers from 2019 and prior. If it was 2019 then the attacker would have generated every possible birth date combination since 1900 (1900 - 2019 = 119 years). I wonder if that is also the same for the SSNs, since that also includes a separate table for decrypting the values. If SSNs weren't salted and they had the encryption key they could have just generated a table of every possible social security number and their encrypted value.
  19. It's stated on the store page that the images are a digital mock up. For limited edition t-shirt prints they will do a digital mock up of the design and only print the t-shirts after all of the orders have been placed. Printing the shirts after selling them allows them to produce the limited edition shirts in smaller quantities, in a single production run, and with minimal excess inventory. It also allows for a faster turnaround from design -> sale which is usually essential for their limited edition runs to catch the demand while whatever topic is still relevant (in this case April Fools). They've done this for their previous limited edition shirts such as the Gone Phishin (LTT hack) shirt and more recently the Tax Write Off shirt. Digital mock ups allows them to quickly design a shirt and make it available for sale, sometimes within a day, whereas designing a shirt and sending it off to the printer and scheduling it in to be printed, printing samples, receiving the samples, and doing modelling shoots could take weeks to organise by which time they've missed the hype. There probably wouldn't be as much demand for an April Fools shirt sold in June. I believe they're printing the shirts on their standard LTT shirt. If you've purchased any of LTT's shirts recently it should be the same blend. You could also view photos for other shirts, though I'm not sure how much information you could get about the blend from a photo.
  20. These are scam websites. They have no affiliation to Vessi. Only purchase from vessi.com If they do not ship to your country reach out to the customer support on the official site https://vessi.com/pages/contact and ask if there are any authorised sellers. As far as I know they only sell within North America. They also have a list of authorised retailers (NA only): https://vessi.com/pages/retailers If Vessi does not sell in Europe then any website claiming to be Vessi selling in those regions is a scam. I have seen several complaints regarding scam websites impersonating Vessi. For whatever reason the Vessi brand seems like a popular target for scammers. Likely because they're a brand that is heavily promoted on social media and by influencers and likely also because they aren't available in all regions creating demand for the product in regions they do not ship to that the scammers can market to. Here's an older post on the forum from somebody who was scammed by one of these websites. Instead of receiving shoes they received a cheap hat. It's not the only case of scammers impersonating Vessi I've seen though. https://linustechtips.com/topic/1428939-lmg-sponsor-complaints/?do=findComment&comment=15996291 There's only so much LMG (and Vessi) can do to stop scammers impersonating the brand, but like you suggested I think it would be worthwhile calling it out and mentioning to only buy from the official store.
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