• Rob Bos@lemmy.ca
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      12 hours ago

      They tag some of their military assets with ‘Z’ for battlefield identification

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        11 hours ago

        Because the Russians liked the movie world war z or what? Also I’m still confused why people on Lemmy would adopt that spelling regardless

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          10 hours ago

          They needed a symbol to spray paint on their tanks to easily differentiate them. Z is simple and it’s not a a Cyrillic letter.

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        11 hours ago

        So they think this will avoid bots astroturfing? I’m pretty sure they could update their filters in seconds to account for that, if so.