Re: [9front] proposal: raze fortunes

[Lucas Francesco <lucas.francesco93@gmail.com>]

the patch looks good to me, i'm also in favour of removing/merging
/lib/troll and fortune.

maybe we should have an fortune tarball with the extra stuff like the
suggested ngate fortunes?
thanks!

On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 at 23:51, Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net> wrote:
>
> Our fortunes file is too big, most of it is boring, some of it (the
> parts that predate 9front) include bad things like joking about sex &
> abuse (there's a line that basically repurposes an old joke to accuse
> Jim McKie of sheepfucking, for instance), other parts of it (both pre-
> and post-9front) contain hitler jokes that once were edgy and now are
> stark reminders of an existential threat to modern society, and a lot of
> quotes from an ircnet which is ostensibly no-logging and can't bring
> receipts for people being quoted as being ok with being quoted.
>
> In addition, a LOT of stuff isn't even formatted correctly (lines are
> hard-wrapped at a specific line length) with the result that the
> fortunes file as it sits *doesn't even work with fortune(1)*.
>
> I started by deleting all the detritus from the Before 9front Days and
> then went through and deleted anything that didn't meet my arbitrarily
> high bar for comedy and/or poignancy.
>
> The remaining few things that DID meet my bar, but were quotes from
> ircnets, I removed anyway, because no logging!
>
> Anyway, here's my proposed replacement for /sys/games/lib/fortunes
>
> xoxo
> khm