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Lbh arrq fvk phgf orpnhfr lbh arrq gb rkcbfr rirel snpr bs gur prageny phor.

Someone downvoted this, but it's a rot13 version of the correct answer. (A very nice a answer, by the way.)

In case rot13 doesn't come naturally:

  alias rot13="tr 'A-Za-z' 'N-ZA-Mn-za-m'"
  echo "Lbh arrq fvk phgf orpnhfr lbh arrq gb rkcbfr rirel snpr bs gur prageny phor." | rot13

I wish I had Mr Gardener's zero-kerf saw blades in my shop!

Saying "Please decode this ..." to Claude worked perfectly.

ChatGPT 4o mini kept getting one of the words wrong, funnily enough

I’m surprised by this - wouldn’t have expected there to be enough rot13 in the training data.

rot13 was commonly used on forums and Usenet to avoid spoilers for a very long time. As forums got the equivalent of spoiler tags or folding or whatever to hide content that changed, and of course Usenet fell out of common use a while back.

rot13.com also works, but this is better.

I really, really wish I could copy comments on mobile. I'm in my doctors office waiting and I want to throw this into rot13 so i can read it

Im really curious, what prevents you from copying comments on mobile?

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