freshmeat for the world
by Patrick Lenz, in freshmeat - Thu, Apr 1st 2004 00:00 PDT
These are divisive times, and the once-lauded principle of respect
between peoples seems to break down more every day with us-against-them
boundaries on political, religious, and geographic lines. The
connective powers of the Internet offer one means of countering this
trend, and at freshmeat, we'd like to do our small part for celebrating
diversity.
Every now and again, we have major changes to announce
at freshmeat. scoop dumps the suggestion box on his desk, emerges from
a flurry of coding with a stack of new features, and waits for the
complaints to roll in. At other times, there's just a small tweak here
or there that we don't bother to announce and which only the
most observant see right away.
One of these of which we're most proud is a new set of Trove categories
named Translations, and
we'd like to take this opportunity to bring them to everyone's
attention.
The Internet has brought the world together in unprecedented ways, and
we all speak daily with people of many nations. When I first started
using email, every message I received was in English, but now I
regularly have the opportunity to broaden my horizons by contemplating
messages like "mi mir paii mirr", "amrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr", "hai
noteeeeeeee", and "????????????".
We've long regretted that we must limit ourselves to the use of English
at freshmeat. Some of you have even received this message from us, one
of the many boilerplates we use for responding to common problems:
- freshmeat is an English-language Web site. Please reply to this
message with an English version of the text you submitted.
We've always felt sad and regretted having to do this. Unfortunately,
we just can't afford to hire enough staff to handle every language in
the world.
We've decided that what we can do is the next best thing. In addition
to the new language categories, for the coming year, we'll be partnering
with Babelfish,
whom you'll know from their famous slogan, "In its property night
stories give/gives it two kind hanging belly pigs to Pickeldi and
Frederic." Using their automatic translation service, we'll be able to
celebrate 52 wonderful languages and the people who speak them at us.
Today, we're having a test run with pages translated into the ancient
and noble language of the Rotlanders. Then, starting next Thursday, the
entire site will be translated into Afrikaans. This will be followed by
a week each of Latvian, Swedish, Croatian, and Latin. At the end of the
year, you'll be able to vote on whether we should return to English or
your favorite of the 52.
We'll announce the upcoming languages a month in advance so you'll have
time to study and prepare. We realize that we've given you no time to
prepare for this week's selection, but if you're fluent in Rot or would
like to brush up your skills, we encourage you to cbfg nccebcevngryl in
your comments under this article. You can also visit our IRC channel, where we hope to
see some native speakers join from .rot domains to lead us in
conversational Rot classes.
Rawbl!
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Thanks for this :)
by Meble - Feb 2nd 2007 00:35:46
Enjoyed browsing through the site. Keep up the good work.
Greetings from Poland
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:-))
by cablemodem.ch - Jun 13th 2006 02:19:48
Not bad, not bad at all :-))
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Happy first april :)
by welt-blick - Apr 15th 2006 08:10:59
Happy first april :)
--
Greetz
welt-blick
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perhaps,
by BozMo - Jun 7th 2004 13:43:58
perhaps, amusing though this certainly was, we should now delete it
otherwise it will still be showing April 1 next year?
Or maybe these things can be obvious...
BozMo
--
BozMo
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fools-day jokes... :-(
by P.R.Faasse - Apr 2nd 2004 02:19:26
And my greatest regret is that i mostly see the comments long before the
actual joke :-( I 'missed' both last year's joke and this one completely.
In Europe, you'd have to scan freshmeat very late in the day to even see
the US-midnight-starting (?) change at all, and the next day the comments
are all over the place.... Would it be possible to 'synchronise' the
freshmeat's joke responses with the local-time of the one requesting the
page?
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Second rate cultures...
by Paai - Apr 2nd 2004 00:03:02
<b> to break down more every day with us-against-them boundaries
...</b>
There is a typo here. Should be US-against-them, so that
everybody realizes that there is one single 'Ueber' culture and one
single 'Ueber'language, and all other languages, cultures and states are
judged by their adherence to the
US standard, and at best second rate.
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You make me feel old.
by Cyranix - Apr 1st 2004 14:27:04
Rot-13 used to be all the hype back in the day on IRC, just like 1337 speak
and the ever present geeks who thought it was funny to UUENCODE everything
they typed. I'd pretty much forgotten about it until today. Ha ha, happy
april fools day everyone!
p.s. if you still don't know, www.rot13.com/info.php
--
God did not create man in his own image. Man created god in his.
--Cyranix Alloysious Nosnibor, as leet speak would have it.
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Double plus freakin good
by Richard Clark - Apr 1st 2004 11:33:36
HEY! Screw all you guys who knocked this. Get a sense of perspective here.
You can't live without your life being jello-easy for 1 day? the whole
point is to be able to step back from the grind and realise it just aint
that important.
Kudos to the freshmeat guys for having the guts to do it and stick with
it. All class.
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Bitte, ist schon genug.
by burqueNM - Apr 1st 2004 11:13:42
Wann kommen wir aus Rotland ins Lande der Vernunft zurück? Was werden
die Leute denken, die heute voll Vertrauen etwas Wichtiges melden wollten?
--
- res ipsa loquitur: sed quid infernos dicet? -
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Really stupid!
by wakebdr - Apr 1st 2004 11:01:03
I finally registered on freshmeat just so I could say that I think this
April Fool's joke is really stupid.
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Re: Really stupid!
by u235sentinel - Apr 1st 2004 12:24:08
You're joking ;-)
> I finally registered on freshmeat just
> so I could say that I think this April
> Fool's joke is really stupid.
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Re: Really stupid!
by Wallace86 - May 13th 2004 23:37:22
> I finally registered on freshmeat just
> so I could say that I think this April
> Fool's joke is really stupid.
This is not funny at all.:(
--
Carl Wallace
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Mozilla rules
by Scott Plante - Apr 1st 2004 10:29:18
If you're using Mozilla, just select the text and choose decode->rot-13
from the context menu.
--
Scott Plante, CTO
Insight Systems, Inc.
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Disappointed...
by david a thompson - Apr 1st 2004 10:23:29
I'm just disappointed things seem to have reverted to English... I guess
that's the price I pay for being on the west coast...
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cut -n- paste
by Jay Zach - Apr 1st 2004 09:44:38
You don't need to do any cut and pasting, just click on the project name,
and look at the project page, it's not obfuscated there.
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Re: cut -n- paste
by spacemanmatt - Apr 1st 2004 10:17:07
> You don't need to do any cut and
> pasting, just click on the project name,
> and look at the project page, it's not
> obfuscated there.
Thus the convenience of a filtered summary page is destroyed.
--
matt
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Re: cut -n- paste
by Jeremy Kister - Apr 1st 2004 10:20:49
> You don't need to do any cut and
> pasting, just click on the project name,
> and look at the project page, it's not
> obfuscated there.
At the time (midnight last night) everything was obfuscated. that's why i
whipped up my tool ;)
--
Jeremy Kister
http://jeremy.kister.net/
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Stay rot - stay root
by MatrixCoder - Apr 1st 2004 09:33:36
The best feature I've ever seen. Für the capitalists among us, if this
is an expensive april fool, this is not the right page for you ;)
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Haha (not)
by spacemanmatt - Apr 1st 2004 09:26:09
rot13 was funny when I was young & dumb. All I want is freshmeat
without usability impediments.
--
matt
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Perfect.
by JazerNorth - Apr 1st 2004 08:29:51
At first, I was starting to fall, then when I got to the voting, I realized
that it was a joke.
Very good.
JN
--
'This is a signature line.' #Debug of Signature line.
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Re: Perfect.
by JazerNorth - Apr 1st 2004 08:33:31
> At first, I was starting to fall, then
> when I got to the voting, I realized
> that it was a joke.
>
> Very good.
>
> JN
Ng svefg, V jnf fgnegvat gb snyy, gura jura V tbg gb gur ibgvat, V
ernyvmrq gung vg jnf n wbxr. Irel tbbq.
--
'This is a signature line.' #Debug of Signature line.
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announcements non-rot13
by mk - Apr 1st 2004 07:33:52
Hey,
you didn't do this 100%, you should have converted your release
announcements to rot-13, too!
;-)
Cheers
Michael
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Something to help you through the day
by Arnar Birgisson - Apr 1st 2004 03:44:08
If you are like me and can't go a day without watching FM from time to time
and you are using Mozilla/Firefox or similar, try this:
Create a bookmark in your Bookmarks Toolbar with this location (remove any
line breaks):
javascript: var t = window.getSelection().toString();
window.getSelection().getRangeAt(0).deleteContents(); for (var s =
'',i=0;i<t.length;i++) { c = t.charCodeAt(i); if ((c >= 97
&& c <= 109) || (c >= 65 && c <= 77)) s +=
String.fromCharCode(c+13); else if ((c >= 110 && c <= 122)
|| (c >= 78 && c <= 90)) s += String.fromCharCode(c-13);
else s += String.fromCharCode(c); }
window.getSelection().getRangeAt(0).insertNode(document.createTextNode(s));
Then select any text on a web page and click the button and the text is
rot13'd. Enjoy.
FM doesn't allow me to put javascript hrefs in <a> tags in HTML
mode, but at the following url, you cant simply drag the link to your
bookmarks toolbar:
http://www.hi.is/~arnarbi/rot13.html
-- Arnar
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Re: Something to help you through the day
by CowboyFromHell - Apr 1st 2004 06:11:17
now that's a pretty cool tool...
> If you are like me and can't go a day
> without watching FM from time to time
> and you are using Mozilla/Firefox or
> similar, try this:
>
> Create a bookmark in your Bookmarks
> Toolbar with this location (remove any
> line breaks):
> javascript: var t =
> window.getSelection().toString();
> window.getSelection().getRangeAt(0).deleteContents();
> for (var s = '',i=0;i<t.length;i++) {
> c = t.charCodeAt(i); if ((c >= 97
> && c <= 109) || (c >= 65
> && c <= 77)) s +=
> String.fromCharCode(c+13); else if ((c
> >= 110 && c <= 122) || (c
> >= 78 && c <= 90)) s +=
> String.fromCharCode(c-13); else s +=
> String.fromCharCode(c); }
>
window.getSelection().getRangeAt(0).insertNode(document.createTextNode(s));
>
> Then select any text on a web page and
> click the button and the text is
> rot13'd. Enjoy.
>
> FM doesn't allow me to put javascript
> hrefs in <a> tags in HTML mode,
> but at the following url, you cant
> simply drag the link to your bookmarks
> toolbar:
> http://www.hi.is/~arnarbi/rot13.html
>
> -- Arnar
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Re: Something to help you through the day
by Wil Cooley - Apr 1st 2004 08:53:39
I have to say, this is crazy cool.
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Re: Something to help you through the day
by Buy Gifts - May 21st 2004 21:10:27
> I have to say, this is crazy cool.
I was just trying to find the words in which I would express my self lol,
and this is exactly what i was gonna say, this is a CRAZY cool tool ;)
--
Digital Cameras - Biz
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Re: Something to help you through the day
by orthoorange42 - Apr 1st 2004 10:06:34
for vim users (after copy/paste into vim):
ggvGg?
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Que?
by Scorpitron - Apr 1st 2004 03:39:52
God, I was laughing and crying at the same time when I
realized what I was reading. Good one, gents ;-)
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Re: Que?
by Tottigol - Jul 25th 2006 04:15:16
> God, I was laughing and crying at the
> same time when I
> realized what I was reading. Good one,
> gents ;-)
Hehehheeee, yeah, quite cool.
Greetz,
Tottigol
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Funny ...
by Dany K. - Apr 1st 2004 03:34:39
Ok, i have to admit i was laughing ... For two seconds. Now can somebody
disable the (no longer funny) rot-encoder ?
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Re: Funny ...
by David Walker - Jun 21st 2004 07:15:58
> Ok, i have to admit i was laughing ...
> For two seconds. Now can somebody
> disable the (no longer funny)
> rot-encoder ?
lol, yes, i sencond that...
--
David Walker
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something is working
by digitalSurgeon - Apr 1st 2004 02:47:57
lol, well atleast the search engine is working ok. that's what i need to
use today ;-)
--
Ahmad Mushtaq
ahmed.zabvision.edu.pk
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ayw ewlk
by Maddoc - Apr 1st 2004 02:40:06
I had to check to make sure I was not on the planet Vulcan or Klingon!
Happy April Fools Day.
I was wondering what new and exciting trick would be played here on FM
today.
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WAS SOLL DIESER MÜLL?! WHAT ABOUT THIS TRASH?!
by Bernhard J. M. Grün - Apr 1st 2004 02:07:41
This text is written in german language because I like to do another april
fool! Happy decrypting!
Was soll bitteschön dieser Unfug am 1. April hier alles unbenutzbar
zu machen?! Auch wenn ich rot13 ohne Probleme entschlüsseln
könnte. Es ist ein unnötiger Mehraufwand - sowohl diesen Quatsch
zu programmieren, als auch ihn zu entschlüsseln. Habt ihr euch
eigentlich mal gedacht, wieviel Zeit - und damit Geld - am 1. April (und
einige Tage davor) verbraten wird, um sich "gute" Scherze
auszudenken? Nutzt eure Zeit vernünftiger und macht nicht solch einen
*Unfug*!
Fröhliche Zeitverschwendung!
Bernhard Grün
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Re: WAS SOLL DIESER MÜLL?! WHAT ABOUT THIS TRASH?!
by Patrick Lenz - Apr 1st 2004 02:49:49
Which is please-beautifully to make this mischief on 1 April
here everything unbenutzbar?! Even if I could decode rot13
without problems. It is an unnecessary additional expenditure
- both this Quatsch to program to decode and it. You you
actually times thought, how much time - and thus money -
will verb-guess/advise on 1 April (and some days before it), in
order to invent "good" jokes? Your time uses more reasonably
and does not make for such one * mischief *!
Merry waste of time!
--
It's all my fault!
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Re: WAS SOLL DIESER MÜLL?! WHAT ABOUT THIS TRASH?!
by CrazyGFreak - Apr 27th 2006 15:40:46
> Which is please-beautifully to make this
> mischief on 1 April
> here everything unbenutzbar?! Even if I
> could decode rot13
> without problems. It is an unnecessary
> additional expenditure
> - both this Quatsch to program to decode
> and it. You you
> actually times thought, how much time -
> and thus money -
> will verb-guess/advise on 1 April (and
> some days before it), in
> order to invent "good" jokes? Your time
> uses more reasonably
> and does not make for such one *
> mischief *!
>
> Merry waste of time!
Ha ha sehr lustig. Ich finde 1. April mega scheiße, aber ich lach hier einfach mal mit.
Finde es total lustich ha ha. 1. April ist auch schon lange vorbei.
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Re: WAS SOLL DIESER MÜLL?! WHAT ABOUT THIS TRASH?!
by welt-blick - Apr 18th 2006 08:19:29
Ach was solls, einmal im Jahr kann
man das ruhig machen :)
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Re: WAS SOLL DIESER MÜLL?! WHAT ABOUT THIS TRASH?!
by CrazyGFreak - Apr 27th 2006 15:42:34
> Ach was solls, einmal im Jahr kann man
> das ruhig machen :)
Hehe du bist echt super lustig. Danke :). Aber bitte nur einmal im Jahr, ok! :)
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Re: WAS SOLL DIESER MÜLL?! WHAT ABOUT THIS TRASH?!
by Afrika - Aug 24th 2007 02:15:08
I think you HAVE to do things like this once a year;-)
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Re: WAS SOLL DIESER MÜLL?! WHAT ABOUT THIS TRASH?!
by Brautkleider - Jan 7th 2007 09:06:27
one time in a year it is no problem to produce jokes like this. And it is
not a vaste of time, because first of April will apear every year again
and again.. So wait till next time. Greatings from Germany
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translation
by Jeremy Kister - Apr 1st 2004 00:50:56
for all those interested in cutting and pasting:
http://www.jeremykister.com/cgi-bin/unrot.pl
not as good as babelfish, but it'll do.. :)
--
Jeremy Kister
http://jeremy.kister.net/
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Re: translation
by Sam - Apr 1st 2004 06:43:05
> for all those interested in cutting and
> pasting:
>
> http://www.jeremykister.com/cgi-bin/unrot.pl
>
> not as good as babelfish, but it'll do..
> :)
>
>
Ha! Real geeks grew up on USENET, and are proffecient at reading ROT13
already. No simple single letter substitution is going to fool me!
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Re: translation
by welt-blick - Apr 27th 2006 14:59:42
not bad...
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Re: translation
by Meble - Feb 2nd 2007 00:37:30
> for all those interested in cutting and
> pasting:
>
> http://www.jeremykister.com/cgi-bin/unrot.pl
>
> not as good as babelfish, but it'll do..
> :)
>
>
Thanks Jeremy. Sweet :)
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funny
by lucipher - Apr 1st 2004 00:42:11
Shaal ab bar abgvprq vg'f ncevy 1fg lrg? :>
--
''Where solitude ignites and dark shadows slain, O' er the soul between the flow from flat sillhouette to darkness again''
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All in favor of banishing April Fool's day forever.
by binesh - Apr 1st 2004 00:28:02
This is perfect. HA HA very funny. Let's celebrate April Fool's day by
making freshmeat.net utterly useless for 24 hours. Yes, I know it's
rot-13'd. very clever.
Blech.
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Re: All in favor of banishing April Fool's day forever.
by Arnar Birgisson - Apr 1st 2004 00:39:49
> This is perfect. HA HA very funny. Let's
> celebrate April Fool's day by making
> freshmeat.net utterly useless for 24
> hours. Yes, I know it's rot-13'd. very
> clever.
>
> Blech.
What do you mean unusable?? Can't everybody read rot13? :)
Arnar
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Re: All in favor of banishing April Fool's day forever.
by binesh - Apr 1st 2004 00:47:34
>
>
> What do you mean unusable?? Can't
> everybody read rot13? :)
I dunno. Let's see. Vqvbg.
> Arnar
>
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Re: All in favor of banishing April Fool's day forever.
by u235sentinel - Apr 1st 2004 12:33:45
I can read it just fine.
http://www.degraeve.com/translator.shtml
Oops.. Hit cut/paste. Oh well.. Enjoy the translation :-)
>
> % This is perfect. HA HA very funny.
> Let's
> % celebrate April Fool's day by making
> % freshmeat.net utterly useless for 24
> % hours. Yes, I know it's rot-13'd.
> very
> % clever.
> %
> % Blech.
>
>
> What do you mean unusable?? Can't
> everybody read rot13? :)
>
> Arnar
>
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it got me
by Jeremy Kister - Apr 1st 2004 00:27:34
because I was browsing when the descriptions all changed, but there was no
post on the front page yet.
is the fm2 system un-usable until tomorrow??
--
Jeremy Kister
http://jeremy.kister.net/
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Re: it got me
by Patrick Lenz - Apr 1st 2004 00:30:21
> is the fm2 system un-usable until
> tomorrow??
No, of course not. We'll obviously not enforce this for 24
hours.
--
It's all my fault!
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Re: it got me
by Jeremy Kister - Apr 1st 2004 00:48:33
> is the fm2 system un-usable until
> tomorrow??
To all those who'd like to copy and paste during this April Fools
hysteria:
http://www.jeremykister.com/cgi-bin/unrot.pl
:)
--
Jeremy Kister
http://jeremy.kister.net/
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Whats This??
by Vaxxipooh - Apr 1st 2004 00:24:11
whats that language?
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narf
by Tobias Schlottke - Apr 1st 2004 00:19:02
that is not funny, we however gladly about would help to
translate this web page if necessary steps it please with us in
contact
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Re: narf
by Jamie - Apr 1st 2004 00:31:32
V gubhtug vg jnf shaal!
-PuneyrfQnejva
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Rotlander's language is rot13 (caesar's cypher)
by Gene Pavlovsky - Apr 1st 2004 02:48:53
For those of you who don't get it (I've spotted it even before opening this
article), this 'language' is just a simple rot13 cypher.
From Jargon File (4.3.3, 20 SEP 2002) [jargon]:
rot13 /rot ther'teen/ n.,v. [Usenet: from `rotate alphabet 13 places']
The simple Caesar-cypher encryption that replaces each English
letter
with the one 13 places forward or back along the alphabet, so that
"The
butler did it!" becomes "Gur ohgyre qvq vg!" Most Usenet news
reading
and posting programs include a rot13 feature. It is used to enclose
the
text in a sealed wrapper that the reader must choose to open --
e.g.,
for posting things that might offend some readers, or {spoiler}s. A
major advantage of rot13 over rot(N) for other N is that it is
self-inverse, so the same code can be used for encoding and
decoding.
See also {spoiler space}, which has partly displaced rot13 since
non-Unix-based newsreaders became common.
If you're on Unix, and have bsd-games installed, you can use the rot13
program to decode. Too bad browsers don't have 'rot13' in the
encoding/charset list. Previous year's Fool Day's joke was much funnier,
though, because this site is utterly unusable now - the task of
cutting'n'pasting every description into xterm running rot13 is too
tedious for me.
--
Still looking for something interesting to put in here...
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Re: Rotlander's language is rot13 (caesar's cypher)
by Patrick Lenz - Apr 1st 2004 02:53:34
> Previous year's Fool Day's joke was much
> funnier, though, because this site is
> utterly unusable now - the task of
> cutting'n'pasting every description into
> xterm running rot13 is too tedious for
> me.
Hey, it's not that bad! It's just the frontpage.
The project
pages, search results, browsing and lounge pages for logged
in users haven't been touched.
--
It's all my fault!
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Re: Rotlander's language is rot13 (caesar's cypher)
by Michael Shigorin - Apr 1st 2004 06:13:57
> Hey, it's not that bad!
...but SCO *will* sue you for using their patented encryption technique on
high-profile site. :)
--
Michael Shigorin
mike SOMEWHERE AT altlinux PLUS DOT org
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Re: Rotlander's language is rot13 (caesar's cypher)
by binesh - Apr 1st 2004 07:11:52
>
> Hey, it's not that bad! It's just the
> frontpage.
> The project
> pages, search results, browsing and
> lounge pages for logged
> in users haven't been touched.
No, it's not that bad now... For hours, everything on the
site was rot-13'd...
I want OS writers to have April Fool's day jokes builtin as well... A
day full of Block read failure on /dev/hda7 to find out the NEXT day after
you've purchased a new hard drive that oh, it was an april fool's
joke...
Or, compiler writers...
error: parse error before `}' token
Which you find the next day that oh, haha! April fool's...
That would be awesome.
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Re: Rotlander's language is rot13 (caesar's cypher)
by burqueNM - Apr 1st 2004 07:17:54
Okay, maybe time for rot26 instead?
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