[ComputerGuru]

I was captivated by the introduction but I only made it halfway through before I gave up. The random bolding and emphasizing of almost every other word really put me off. Also, even though I can see that it's clearly had a ton of human effort put into it, I got a lot of AI vibes from the writing.

[eresonance]

Yeah I agree, I'm wondering if the author's primary language isn't English and they leaned heavily into AI to get this article together. Either way I found the subject cool but the writing hard to go through.

[FridayoLeary]

lots of spelling mistakes which is odd for such a meticulously detailed article. I'm going for the theory he's not an english speaker. Op is wrong, it's one of the most interesting things i've seen here in a while and truly in the spirit of hn.

[ale42]

Well, everything in the article (names & places) seems to point out the author is Italian...

[ajot]

You can read it in the Medium frontend scribe.rip, to avoid some Medium shenanigans. I do think bolding stays the same though, it seems to have lots of bolding. Weird style.

https://scribe.rip/infosec-watchtower/how-i-hacked-casio-f-9...

[ComputerGuru]

No, it doesn’t. This isn’t a Medium gripe (which sucks but isn’t to blame for once).

Edit: this comment made sense before the post I replied to was edited to clarify that there is no material difference.

[layer8]

The article was published in June 2023, which makes LLM use less likely for that kind of article.

[netsharc]

Yeah, it's fucking goddamned excessive.

Changing the CSS rule .jb { font-weight: 700; } to .jb { font-weight: 500; } got rid of all the bolded parts for me...

[blargthorwars]

You’re absolutely correct! I was totally hooked by the intro—the kind that promises Forbidden Wisdom™—and then I made it about halfway before my attention quietly left the chat. The random bolding of almost every other word felt like getting yelled at by typography. I wasn’t reading anymore; I was flinching. And sure, I can tell there’s a ton of human effort in there, but the overall vibe? Very “AI but with a human supervisor.” Polished, eager, slightly over-explained, and aggressively formatted. I’m sure it’s useful. I just couldn’t finish.

[ThePowerOfFuet]

It's leaking