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I saw a few of livestream scams happen real-time so let me explain what I saw. I didn't see it on YouTube but I saw it on Twitch a few times and I never saw anyone mention it before.

Short answer is it's an evolution of the Elon Musk Twitter scams where people are told to send crypto (Usually bitcoin) to an address to double it. The main difference than the traditional scams is with livestream you have an audience - the chat.

Tens of thousands of viewbots to bring the counter on the livestream high and then the chat is flooded with chat messages but fake accounts that I can see how people could think they were real. Things trying to convince you that it is safe, that it worked, and even talking with each other asking how easy it is. It doesn't matter if the account is banned after 20 minutes or more, it's already done the damage.

First time I saw this was about ~6 months ago. It was a fake account with a similar name for a Dota streamer. They had fake footage of the game and I was pretty shocked. It had something like 10,000 viewers and after reporting the channel it was still up for a while.

Other times I've seen it with Elon Musk with footage of the Tesla plant talking to a reporter about crypto. I can see how the voices can be fakes as well and how much potential it can have when combined with the chat. These were up for less time.

If anyone has the issue with Windows and it taking forever try uninstalling, wiping all your user data in AppData and then reinstalling. Worked for me at least after being extremely frustrated. I think they are converting the windows version to the same platform.

Not saying it doesn't frustrate me with other things. I haven't used the Mac client in a while but I remember it being really good though

I noticed in the Powertoys devdocs[1] it mentions the settings[2] uses React. This looks to be for the settings. Windows 11 had some multi-tasking changes which look very similar to Fancy Zones and I wouldn't be surprised if they are using React in Windows 11 itself.

I assume they are probably using React Native through their FluentUI[3]. Would be curious if anyone knows more info on it.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/tree/fa92f2e581e8c74c...

[2] https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/tree/fa92f2e581e8c74c...

[3] https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/fluentui#/get-started/...

Removed by Reddit 5 years ago

The post has was restored by reddit and an admin responded with their explanation of it being human error.

This will sound a bit flippant or trite, and I'm sorry about that - but this really was just a human error when handling multiple reports on the post. The person reviewing misunderstood what they were seeing, didn't realize the significance of the image and erred believing the name was PII.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/o2d4fc/officer_john_p...

the extension "Google docs offline" was renaming files form Photopea to .TXT. You are using the same extension.

https://github.com/photopea/photopea/issues/2294#issuecommen...

"Google docs offline" is an official extension from google which you get prompted to install when you go to Google Drive in Chrome without the extension installed. I don't think that caused anything and it looks like there was an actual bug you had:

There really was a bug in Photopea. If you opened a file, whose name started with a dot . , like .myfile.psd, It was always exported as .TXT_ I have fixed this bug. You can open files with any names now, and they should be saved under the right extension.

https://github.com/photopea/photopea/issues/3116#issuecommen...

It did seem like the issue was on your end and not the extensions though.

Jetbrains provides plugins for Intellij that support almost every other language they have a "dedicated IDE" for. That's what I do and it supports almost every language I throw at it. The exceptions that I know of are Rider and parts of Android Studio