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Reminds me of a time that me and a co-worker stayed in late on a Friday night figuring out how to make our email alerts seem convincingly human through “random” typos in alert messages by performing human like keyboard adjacent miss-presses, extra key presses (either duplicate or keyboard adjacent), and occasional whole word omissions for things like “the” or “and”- but only for alerts sent between midnight and 2am on weekends. This of course, only after dissecting and trying to characterize what kind of typos we thought were common by drunk people using QWERTY keyboards.

It was a simpler time, before autocorrect errors dominated, and it was also a fun Friday night. The somewhat regular “Adam bot” in “party mode alerts were just little bit more amusing to be woken up by late at night when things were broken.




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