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A Common Mistake to Watch Out for When Designing Identity Masking in Personal Information Display Systems

A Common Mistake to Watch Out for When Designing Identity Masking in Personal Information Display Systems

Due to the strengthened awareness of personal information protection in recent years — the Republic of China has even specially enacted a Personal Information Protection Act — many information display systems for lotteries, competitions, hospital queue numbers, and so on have begun to load applications that mask identity information. For example, "Vedfolnir" would become "VedfOlnir."

How to Manually Look Up a Facebook ID

How to Manually Look Up a Facebook ID

In the process of developing blogs and business websites, sometimes you need to look up a Facebook ID in order to get support from Facebook developer tools. Although many websites offer online search tools where you just enter your account URL and the system automatically gets the ID. However, perhaps due to Facebook's redesign, many tool websites have basically become junk that simply tricks ad clicks without any actual lookup function.

Screen Dead Pixel Online Test

Screen Dead Pixel Online Test

When you buy a new computer monitor or TV screen, after the delivery person finally brings the big box and you've connected all the cables, the very first thing to do is test whether the screen has bright dots, dark dots, or color-shifted dots — product defects commonly known as dead pixels.

Bitcoin Scam Letter Tactics: Hacker Surveillance and Vile Voyeurism

Bitcoin Scam Letter Tactics: Hacker Surveillance and Vile Voyeurism

An email titled "Payment from Your Account" caught my eye. Although I knew it was probably another scam, who can resist a subject line like that? If even the author couldn't resist opening such an email, you can easily imagine how many people with no cybersecurity awareness would fall straight into the hacker syndicate's trap. In the article "[Bitcoin Scam Case: You've Been Hacked—Pay the Ransom to Get Your Secrets Back!]("

Sharing My Experience with YouTube Premium — Paying for a Subscription to Watch Ad-Free Videos

Sharing My Experience with YouTube Premium — Paying for a Subscription to Watch Ad-Free Videos

In the article "[Cutting Off Cable TV: Canceling the Lease and Switching to MOD 🎉](/cable-tv-cancellation-lease/)," this author mentioned the process of my old home terminating its cable TV contract and switching to Chunghwa Telecom MOD to watch shows. Then within a year I successively added paid subscriptions to the playback services of several media streaming providers.

Leaving and Reporting a Discord Server (Discussion Group) and Closing Conversations

Leaving and Reporting a Discord Server (Discussion Group) and Closing Conversations

As the price of [NFTs](https://mountos.com/nft/) rises, whether artists or people selling chicken cutlets on the street, everyone has recently jumped into this virtual digital market, all wanting to make money along with everyone else in this new blue ocean. I myself am also at the stage of learning and exploring, and I have observed that everyone seems to have learned from a cram school, all following templated initial steps, such as the feeling that one must have a D...

Tripod Heads: Recommendations and Introduction to Super-Telephoto Lens Heads for Bird and Aircraft Photography (Fluid Gimbal Head Comparison)

Tripod Heads: Recommendations and Introduction to Super-Telephoto Lens Heads for Bird and Aircraft Photography (Fluid Gimbal Head Comparison)

Handholding multi-kilogram super-telephoto cannons to shoot birds or aircraft, a traditional ball head is prone to dangerous nodding and dropping. This article deeply analyzes the center-of-gravity balance physics of the fluid gimbal head, buying reviews of the Gitzo GHFG1, Wimberley WH-200, and Benro GH series, and the rules for pairing them with tripods.

Recommended Uses of Sidebar Widgets and Quick Notes on Apple iPad

Recommended Uses of Sidebar Widgets and Quick Notes on Apple iPad

Building on the convenience of the existing **sidebar widgets** (which Apple calls **Slide Over**), Apple's latest iOS version for the iPad tablet introduces a Quick Note feature, making the hidden tool menus on screen even more versatile and letting users immerse themselves more deeply in the operating experience. ## Sidebar Widgets (Floating Windows) The sidebar widget (also known as a floating window) feature has been available for some time now

Pi Network Mainnet Rocket Gets Bigger, Pi Coin Rumors Fly Everywhere

Pi Network Mainnet Rocket Gets Bigger, Pi Coin Rumors Fly Everywhere

As the date announced by the Pi Network official team for Pi Coin to go to the mainnet at the end of the month draws nearer, all kinds of street-corner news are running out in the chat rooms. Of course, there is still a bit more purely fictional rumor than anything else. For example, a bunch of people are excited about whether the rocket 🚀 getting bigger means something, whether KYC identity verification is faster, or whether the mainnet queue is closer, and so on, leaving me quite baffled.

PayPal Users Only: Claim a Free NT$300 Reward

PayPal Users Only: Claim a Free NT$300 Reward

The internationally renowned third-party payment service provider "PayPal" launched a free reward event at the end of 2021. This offer applies to eligible individual PayPal account holders in Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu, who can unconditionally receive a year-end gift of NT$300 for free. ## How to Claim the PayPal Reward Eligible PayPal users only need to, during the event period...

Transfer Pi Coin to Wallet for Mainnet Trading, or Lock It Up for Three Years to Exchange for π Mining Power Coins

Transfer Pi Coin to Wallet for Mainnet Trading, or Lock It Up for Three Years to Exchange for π Mining Power Coins

If you are using Pi Network (π Pi Coin), which is also somewhat of an oddity in the cryptocurrency market, you should have noticed a new announcement on the homepage today. It is the last mile toward the mainnet. This time the feature being rolled out asks us to "pre-select" whether to **lock up**, or, after KYC identity verification, transfer the base coins already mined to the wallet to begin trading on the mainnet. So which one do you actually want to transfer...