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Stepping up its war on gangs, El Salvador sent 10,000 soldiers to seal off a crime-ridden suburb of the capital city. Rights groups have already expressed concern over the government's tactics. pic.twitter.com/bNsqPILEO7— DW News (@dwnews) December 4, 2022

Context: The CIA intern picked the wrong tweet to unleash the bot farm on. It's totally natural to talk about Iran in some tweet about El Salvador.

  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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    2 years ago

    I wonder if this got triggered by "10,000 soldados irán en San Salvador". No intern mistake, just a homonym.

    That would be the funniest case and so I will it in my mind to be true.

    • buh [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      There’s gonna be a workshop on regex in Langley this weekend

    • replaceable [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      That shouldnt be possible, this mistake can only be made by humans, to computers these are completely different words

      • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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        2 years ago

        Whomst among us has never forgotten to ensure that a query is case sensitive?

        • replaceable [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Its not case sensitivity a and á are just different letters to the computer

          • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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            2 years ago

            That would be a great point, if "they will go" and "Iran" weren't both spelled with an á in Spanish.

            They are exactly the same spelling.

          • blobjim [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            depending on how you do string comparisons they can be. See Java's Collator class.