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Elon Musk’s X botched an attempt to replace “twitter.com” links with “x.com” (arstechnica.com)
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[-] slimarev92@lemmy.world 64 points 6 months ago

Regex is hard y'all

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 40 points 6 months ago

Well, they can be, but fucking this particular one up took outright ineptitude

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 26 points 6 months ago

If "Twitter" in urlField then Replace urlField "Twitter" "X"

Jobs finished boss

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 27 points 6 months ago

With skills like this you too could be working for the fascist billionaire manbaby's personal vanity social media service

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

Thank you capitalism 🤗

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Meet the new Gilded Age, same as the old Gilded Age.

[-] rammer@sopuli.xyz 8 points 6 months ago

Which one do you mean?

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 6 points 6 months ago

Good point, I should probably have said "working for a fascist billionaire manbaby"

[-] rammer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago

Again, that doesn't really narrow it down.

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 months ago

It wasn't supposed to narrow it down, quite the opposite

[-] cygnus@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

At this point I have to assume it's malicious compliance by staff to make Elon look bad.

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

to make Elon look bad.

why would he need any help when he's doing so much on his own?

[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 months ago

actually url/uri spec is surprisingly complex, I'm not even sure it's possible to fully/correctly match it with regex without false positives or negatives, especially in twitters case where even things like "google.com" are accepted as valid urls (without the protocol part, which is otherwise mandatory)

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 3 points 6 months ago

But something that you should probably be able to figure out over the course of 12 months of development and testing.

[-] pup_atlas@pawb.social 3 points 6 months ago

It’s really not though. It’s actually pretty simple under the hood.

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