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    Spotty got a reaction from brad fedick in Is Creator Warehouse / LMG Changing or am I just Nit-Picky?   
    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.
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    Spotty reacted to vincentv in LMG Sponsor Complaints   
    I have a concern regarding Vessi, though not directly related to the brand itself.
    Vessi isn't currently exporting to Europe. However, when I search for Vessi shoes in Germany or the Netherlands using Google, I come across websites like https://www.vessiinederland.com/ that seem to be copying the original Vessi website.
    These sites are offering unreasonable discounts on everything, and although I haven't ordered from them myself, I've found complaints about these sites online.
    Perhaps it could be highlighted on the WAN Show, especially when Vessi is sponsoring the show, that such websites exist, and European fans are unable to order Vessi shoes as things stand.
     
    EDIT: I forgot a clear mention that I am sure that these sites are SCAM and not associated with Vessi
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    Spotty got a reaction from Lurick in The forum is now in comic sans 😭   
    Set the font to comic sans in your sites CSS theme.
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    Spotty reacted to Murasaki in Unknown very regular buzzing sound   
    You should try to isolate it by testing components or removing/disabling them.
    Unplug your HDDs to see if the noise is gone Test GPU for coil whine with heavy loads such as games to see if higher usage affects it Unplug all possible fans temporarily (one by one if nessessary) to remove extra noise or narrow it down to specific fans if they're the culprit Also I've amplified the audio by 800% as it wasn't easy to hear it from the video at max volume.
    amplified8x.mp3
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    Spotty got a reaction from Lightwreather in Leave the Comic Sans font, or some other similarly easier to read/more accessible font as the default.   
    Recent budget cuts from LMG meant that we could no longer afford the license for the font pack we were previously using. Comic Sans is the best free alternative.
     
     
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    Spotty got a reaction from BlueChinchillaEatingDorito in Leave the Comic Sans font, or some other similarly easier to read/more accessible font as the default.   
    Recent budget cuts from LMG meant that we could no longer afford the license for the font pack we were previously using. Comic Sans is the best free alternative.
     
     
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    Spotty got a reaction from Needfuldoer in YouTube trying to combat fake/AI content?   
    *tin foil hat*
    YouTube is only introducing this so when they use YouTube videos to train Google's own video generation AI it allows them to easily filter out AI generated content that may be less desirable as training data.
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    Spotty got a reaction from CentreMetre in YouTube trying to combat fake/AI content?   
    *tin foil hat*
    YouTube is only introducing this so when they use YouTube videos to train Google's own video generation AI it allows them to easily filter out AI generated content that may be less desirable as training data.
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    Spotty got a reaction from Lurick in YouTube trying to combat fake/AI content?   
    *tin foil hat*
    YouTube is only introducing this so when they use YouTube videos to train Google's own video generation AI it allows them to easily filter out AI generated content that may be less desirable as training data.
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    Spotty got a reaction from Alex Atkin UK in does the Corsair RM850 (2021) include 12vhpwr   
    The RM850 does not come with a 12VHPWR cable.
    If you want a white 12VHPWR cable compatible with Corsair power supplies you will need to buy it separately.
    https://www.corsair.com/us/en/p/pc-components-accessories/cp-8920332/premium-individually-sleeved-12-4pin-pcie-gen-5-12vhpwr-600w-cable-type-4-white-cp-8920332
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    Spotty got a reaction from PDifolco in does the Corsair RM850 (2021) include 12vhpwr   
    The RM850 does not come with a 12VHPWR cable.
    If you want a white 12VHPWR cable compatible with Corsair power supplies you will need to buy it separately.
    https://www.corsair.com/us/en/p/pc-components-accessories/cp-8920332/premium-individually-sleeved-12-4pin-pcie-gen-5-12vhpwr-600w-cable-type-4-white-cp-8920332
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    Spotty got a reaction from RockSolid1106 in Zeeroq Data Breach   
    That article is AI generated. It's complete fluff. Look at where it says that the company put out statements and responded to the breach - that never happened. It looks like they asked chatgpt to generate an article about a website called "zeeroq.com" suffering a data breached. It's no more insightful than any generic post about what a data breach is and general advice about you should do.

     
     
     
    This did pique my curiosity though.
    zeeroq.com did indeed have data exposed in a data breach - or at least a dataset was found that was attributed to it. Leak-lookup.com indexed a databreach for zeeroq.com back in 2022. That was the date leak-lookup indexed it in to their archive (ie. after they found it shared on the dark web) not the date of the original breach.
    The dataset contained 231 million records stated to include email addresses and passwords.

     
     
     
    Why are you being alerted to this now?
    Leak-lookup themselves suffered a databreach in January 2024 and all of the data breaches that they've indexed and stored were stolen. Data breaches from thousands of websites was stolen from leak-lookup 🤦‍♂️
    This data stolen from leak-lookup has made its way on the dark web and is being shared, data security monitoring services such as your Credit Karma are finding these datasets that were re-leaked from the leak-lookup breach and alerting their users.
     
     
    So what is zeeroq.com?
    zeeroq.com is currently a parked domain being hosted by a domain parking company called ParkLogic. This company places advertisements on parked (inactive) domains. Most likely the scam message you see when visiting the site advising you that your computer has a virus is an advertisement is being delivered by this domain parking company (probably unknowingly if they don't vet the ads they serve).
     
    Using the waybackmachine we can see prior to 2022 when the breached data was indexed we can see that the zeeroq.com website was being used by a digital marketing and web development agency operating under ZeeroQ branding owned by a company called Nirvign Web Solutions that was founded in 2019 and based out of Jaipur India.  https://web.archive.org/web/20200703203023/http://zeeroq.com/
     
    In many cases web development and digital marketing companies operating out of India is really just a fancy name for a spam farm. They even advertise themselves as providing marketing services through "Email Marketing" and "promote your business through [...] social media platforms, forums". In other words; Spam.
     
    Looking at the dataset of 231M records I extremely doubt those were registered users of this digital marketing and web development website. I think one of two things is far more likely.
    The dataset was actually hosted on (and stolen from) zeebroq.com. If that digital advertising and web development company really was a spam farm then it's very possible that they were using stolen user data from other websites and breaches for spamming purposes. It's possible Zeeroq was hacked and their collection of user data/credentials was stolen and that dataset/breach that is likely made up of data stolen from various other data breaches was attributed to zeeroq. [Unlikely] The databreach was incorrectly attributed to zeeroq.com. Whoever posted the data to the dark web attributed the data to that website, possibly to obsfucate the actual source. It's possible that hackers took over the zeeroq website at some point to host stolen data they were selling and that's why the breach was attributed to them, but that's also very unlikely.  
    Since you and many other people on Reddit reporting this aren't aware of what zeeroq is, it's likely not data you provided to them and would be data that was collected from other data breaches. Since it's reported to include passwords it wouldn't be a legitimate data brokerage firm selling personal data that you consented to be sold to marketing agencies in some long ToS when signing up to something. For it to include passwords it would have been obtained illegally. I don't see any legitimate reason for a web development/digital marketing company to have 231M records of usernames and passwords. The only reason they would have that data is if they were using it to spam/scam.
     
     
    TLDR; Your data was stolen many years ago from some other unknown website. A spam company from India had your username and passwords in a collection of data likely made up from a collection of other data breaches. The spam company was hacked and their collection of data was stolen. A security company that indexes data breaches that have been shared on the dark web found that data breach being shared back in 2022 and added it to their archive. That security company themselves were hacked in 2024 and the data was stolen again. That stolen data was recently shared on the dark web again after the most recent breach and detected by Credit Karma who alerted you of the breach.
     
     
    Pop your email address in to haveibeenpwned and the Cybernews data leak checker to see a list of known websites your data has been stolen from.
    If you're using the same password on other websites you should change them immediately. Use unique passwords for each website and enable 2FA where available.
  13. Informative
    Spotty got a reaction from Needfuldoer in Zeeroq Data Breach   
    That article is AI generated. It's complete fluff. Look at where it says that the company put out statements and responded to the breach - that never happened. It looks like they asked chatgpt to generate an article about a website called "zeeroq.com" suffering a data breached. It's no more insightful than any generic post about what a data breach is and general advice about you should do.

     
     
     
    This did pique my curiosity though.
    zeeroq.com did indeed have data exposed in a data breach - or at least a dataset was found that was attributed to it. Leak-lookup.com indexed a databreach for zeeroq.com back in 2022. That was the date leak-lookup indexed it in to their archive (ie. after they found it shared on the dark web) not the date of the original breach.
    The dataset contained 231 million records stated to include email addresses and passwords.

     
     
     
    Why are you being alerted to this now?
    Leak-lookup themselves suffered a databreach in January 2024 and all of the data breaches that they've indexed and stored were stolen. Data breaches from thousands of websites was stolen from leak-lookup 🤦‍♂️
    This data stolen from leak-lookup has made its way on the dark web and is being shared, data security monitoring services such as your Credit Karma are finding these datasets that were re-leaked from the leak-lookup breach and alerting their users.
     
     
    So what is zeeroq.com?
    zeeroq.com is currently a parked domain being hosted by a domain parking company called ParkLogic. This company places advertisements on parked (inactive) domains. Most likely the scam message you see when visiting the site advising you that your computer has a virus is an advertisement is being delivered by this domain parking company (probably unknowingly if they don't vet the ads they serve).
     
    Using the waybackmachine we can see prior to 2022 when the breached data was indexed we can see that the zeeroq.com website was being used by a digital marketing and web development agency operating under ZeeroQ branding owned by a company called Nirvign Web Solutions that was founded in 2019 and based out of Jaipur India.  https://web.archive.org/web/20200703203023/http://zeeroq.com/
     
    In many cases web development and digital marketing companies operating out of India is really just a fancy name for a spam farm. They even advertise themselves as providing marketing services through "Email Marketing" and "promote your business through [...] social media platforms, forums". In other words; Spam.
     
    Looking at the dataset of 231M records I extremely doubt those were registered users of this digital marketing and web development website. I think one of two things is far more likely.
    The dataset was actually hosted on (and stolen from) zeebroq.com. If that digital advertising and web development company really was a spam farm then it's very possible that they were using stolen user data from other websites and breaches for spamming purposes. It's possible Zeeroq was hacked and their collection of user data/credentials was stolen and that dataset/breach that is likely made up of data stolen from various other data breaches was attributed to zeeroq. [Unlikely] The databreach was incorrectly attributed to zeeroq.com. Whoever posted the data to the dark web attributed the data to that website, possibly to obsfucate the actual source. It's possible that hackers took over the zeeroq website at some point to host stolen data they were selling and that's why the breach was attributed to them, but that's also very unlikely.  
    Since you and many other people on Reddit reporting this aren't aware of what zeeroq is, it's likely not data you provided to them and would be data that was collected from other data breaches. Since it's reported to include passwords it wouldn't be a legitimate data brokerage firm selling personal data that you consented to be sold to marketing agencies in some long ToS when signing up to something. For it to include passwords it would have been obtained illegally. I don't see any legitimate reason for a web development/digital marketing company to have 231M records of usernames and passwords. The only reason they would have that data is if they were using it to spam/scam.
     
     
    TLDR; Your data was stolen many years ago from some other unknown website. A spam company from India had your username and passwords in a collection of data likely made up from a collection of other data breaches. The spam company was hacked and their collection of data was stolen. A security company that indexes data breaches that have been shared on the dark web found that data breach being shared back in 2022 and added it to their archive. That security company themselves were hacked in 2024 and the data was stolen again. That stolen data was recently shared on the dark web again after the most recent breach and detected by Credit Karma who alerted you of the breach.
     
     
    Pop your email address in to haveibeenpwned and the Cybernews data leak checker to see a list of known websites your data has been stolen from.
    If you're using the same password on other websites you should change them immediately. Use unique passwords for each website and enable 2FA where available.
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    Spotty got a reaction from Godlygamer23 in Zeeroq Data Breach   
    Yeah, it was re-leaked in the leak-lookup breach that occurred in January 2024.
    https://cybernews.com/security/billions-passwords-credentials-leaked-mother-of-all-breaches/
     
    The demo.zeeroq paste was detected July 2020. Leak-lookup entered it in to their database in August 2022. Leak-lookup was hacked in January 2024.
    The data leaked on zeeroq in July 2020 is a collection of data stolen from other breaches. Your data was originally stolen from an unknown website some time prior to July 2020.
    Credit Karma was unaware of the demo.zeeroq paste from July 2020 despite it being a known and documented paste which had been indexed by haveibeenpwned (unknown when) and leak-lookup (August 2022). Credit Karma is only seeing it for the first time from the January 2024 leak-lookup breach when the same data was exposed again.
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    Spotty got a reaction from Hellowpplz in Nintendo Switch 2 & Ps5 pro   
    Moved to Console Gaming. Post does not comply with the Tech News Posting Guidelines.
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    Spotty got a reaction from Mark Kaine in Annoying Coil Whine on RX 6800 XT (Probably PSU?)   
    You've described coil whine on the graphics card. The culprit is most likely the graphics card.
    Your low end power supply will likely make the problem worse. Switching power supplies might help alleviate the issue, though it's entirely possible a better power supply might make no difference to the coil whine coming from the graphics card.
     
    Chieftec is a fairly large and well known brand.
    The power supply you have does not meet the minimum standards required for 80 Plus efficiency standards, which is the most basic efficiency standards a PSU can achieve. The 85+ logo is not genuine, it's just a fake logo they put on there to copy the 80+ logo. There is no "85+" standards.
    That low end power supply isn't really suitable for a graphics card with high power draw such as a 6800XT.
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    Spotty reacted to RONOTHAN## in Annoying Coil Whine on RX 6800 XT (Probably PSU?)   
    6800/6900 XTs are known for having copious amounts of coil whine due to them having very little input filtering. A bad/whiny PSU won't help that whine, but even the best PSU you can get will still likely have some whine coming from that card. 
     
    Getting a PSU upgrade is still a good idea though, 6800 XTs are known for having massive power spikes, and realistically you should have a well reviewed 750W+ unit to handle them and not risk random shutdowns. 
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    Spotty got a reaction from Fat Cat11997 in Is 20 yr old gpu better than modern igpu?   
    Unscrew the GPU from the rear bracket and then push/lift the retention clip on the motherboard slot to release the card.
     
    Also a good point that I missed. Lack of HDMI/DisplayPort connectors. A 20 year old graphics card will most likely only have VGA and DVI output.
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    Spotty reacted to BlueChinchillaEatingDorito in Is 20 yr old gpu better than modern igpu?   
    I mean a 20-year-old card, we're talking mid-late 2000s. You'd be lucky if the damn thing even outputted to 1080P to be honest. And even then, it'll probably struggle just doing that. 
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    Spotty got a reaction from ThundyUK in Two Systems, One Result   
    Skylake (i5 6600) supports TPM 2.0. Microsoft's decision to not support Skylake CPUs for Windows 11 is not related to TPM support. Microsoft just did not add Skylake to the approved CPU list. I'm not sure if Microsoft ever gave an official reason for not including them.
    Microsoft is still supporting Windows 10 until October 2025. End of Life for Windows 10 is over 18 months away. Not "very soon" like you claim. It's not like Windows 10 is going to become unusable after that date, it just won't receive further security patches. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-10-home-and-pro
    Microsoft is not going to force install Windows 11 on systems that do not support it.
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    Spotty got a reaction from ThundyUK in Two Systems, One Result   
    Moved to CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory.
     
    The i5 6600 will perform better than the i5 2500k and will support DDR4 memory, PCIe 3.0, and depending on the board M.2 NVMe boot storage.
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    Spotty got a reaction from Holmes108 in Two Systems, One Result   
    ... Can you play Valorant on Linux? You didn't bring that up when you recommended Linux so why bring it up now when somebody recommended Windows 11?
     
    OP asked which of two CPUs are better and you come in telling them to switch to Linux. Don't be that annoying Linux user that goes around everywhere telling people to use Linux when they aren't even asking about it.
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    Spotty reacted to Somerandomtechyboi in Two Systems, One Result   
    got a z170 that has a bclk bios? non k skylake can be oced via bclk on z170 usually to 4.6-4.8ghz
     
    though id just sell both systems or atleast both cpu + mobo + ram combos and get a used 3100/3300x/3500(x) for ~30$ or a 3600(x) for ~50$ and a used b3/450 like the gaming plus/tomahawk for ~50$ or less which will obliterate both the 2500k and 6600 even if they are overclocked, you even get an upgrade path to a 5800x3d (200-250$ used)
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    Spotty got a reaction from BLKBRDSR71 in Post Linus Memes Here! << -Original thread has returned   
    Inspired by
     
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    Spotty got a reaction from Needfuldoer in ChatGPT data leak exposes limited user chat history, ChatGPT Plus customer information   
    Summary
    Due to a bug introduced to OpenAI's ChatGPT on March 20th limited user chat history was exposed. The issue also exposed customer information of a small number of ChatGPT Plus subscribers, including payment details.
     
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    The reason that only 1.2% of ChatGPT Plus customers were affected is because it only affected customers who were active during a 9 hour period between 1am and 10am Pacific Time on March 20th.
     
     
    It's too long to share here but more details about the data leak have been shared by OpenAI in their blog post here, including details about the bug that caused it: 
    https://openai.com/blog/march-20-chatgpt-outage
     
     
    My thoughts
    It's worth noting that this was the result of a bug, not a hack. It's not part of any hack or ransom attempt. The exposed customer details were not widely exposed. It was only when a user opened a subscription verification email or went in to the "manage my subscriptions" settings during the 9 hour window that the details of another user were incorrectly displayed instead of the correct user information.
     
    The bug was caused by the Redis-py library which OpenAI uses to cache user information. Due to a change made by OpenAI, Redis returned errors when attempting to retrieve requested data and as a result in some cases caused Redis to deliver the wrong customer information when requested. For more technical details see OpenAI's Blog Post
     
    This issue is what caused a recent outage of ChatGPT. https://status.openai.com/incidents/jq9232rcmktd
     
    Exposing the first message from a conversation a user has sent to ChatGPT isn't really a big deal, and you shouldn't be sharing any sensitive information with ChatGPT anyway. The customer information and payment details that were exposed for a small percentage of ChatGPT Plus users pose a much bigger concern, though thankfully it seems that the data exposed is limited to a very small number of accounts and that data was not widely available.
     
     
    Sources
    https://www.securityweek.com/chatgpt-data-breach-confirmed-as-security-firm-warns-of-vulnerable-component-exploitation/
    https://openai.com/blog/march-20-chatgpt-outage
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