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Rarely have I see ROT13 in the wild. A surprisingly sipid and not at all nocuous way of earthing spoilers.
by compscistd 6y ago
Rarely have I see ROT13 in the wild. A surprisingly sipid and not at all nocuous way of earthing spoilers.
- _wldu 6y agoIf you double rot 13, they'll never crack it!
- jpmattia 6y agoThey won't even try to crack it!
- jolmg 6y agoUnfortunately, it only makes sense to use with this type of crowd. I can't imagine it'd be that useful for spoilers in other groups that don't have easy access to a ROT13 encoder. EDIT: BTW, is there another ROT13 encoder in a typical linux installation besides vim's g? command or emacs's rot13* commands? EDIT2: Looks like the most practical one is: tr 'A-Za-z' 'N-ZA-Mn-za-m'
- ghaff 6y agoMore common with HTML is to set the text to the same color as the background which allows you to see it when you highlight. (Which is probably easier in general.)
- klodolph 6y agoI see a lot more ROT13 text on Twitter when people want to make comments about recently released media.
- foobarian 6y agoWhat good is a ROT13 encoder? They would need a ROT13 decoder.
- jolmg 6y agoSame exact thing...
- nl 6y agoTo the people downvoting: 13 is half 26. If you Rot13 "encode" something twice it ends up with the cleartext. Try it here if you don't believe me: https://rot13.com/ https://rot13.com/
- winstonewert 6y agoI think the downvotes are because that's the joke.
- jolmg 6y agoIf they're joking. I'm still on the fence on that. The thing with text is that you can't really hear the sarcastic tone of voice, and people are so varied, it's believable that one isn't aware, as at least one user has mentioned here[1]. It's always best to just append an /s or a :P or something. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25461026 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25461026
- ce4 6y agoThere's plenty of online dencoders (i just abbreviated de+encoding as its the same when shifting by 13 either to the left or right with an alphabet of 26 characters). Not everyone recognizes rot-xx though.
- mixmastamyk 6y ago⏵ rot13 Command 'rot13' not found, but can be installed with: sudo apt install bsdgames # version 2.17-28build1, or sudo apt install hxtools # version 20200126-1build1
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- jolmg 6y agorot13 executables not available in all distros apparently. In Archlinux, bsd-games has caesar to which you can pass 13 as an argument, though.
- bzbarsky 6y agoI'd think pretty much everyone has access to https://rot13.com/ https://rot13.com/
- lukeschlather 6y agoOn Ubuntu or Debian I make a habit of installing the bsdgames package, which includes rot13 among other things.
- dredmorbius 6y agoAlso caesar, which is quite good at decrypting arbitrary transposition ciphers.
- dredmorbius 6y agobash function: rot13 () { tr [A-Za-z] [N-ZA-Mn-za-m]; }
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- maxerickson 6y agoThere's lots of bookmarklets. I just tried the one from https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/pagedata.html https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/pagedata.html in Firefox, worked fine.
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