Re: [9front] proposal: raze fortunes

["Özgür Kesim" <oec-9front@kesim.org>]

I suggest to save the entries prior to the 9front days - after
correcting wrapping - as '/sys/games/lib/misfortune'.

It is always good to know where culture came from and how it developed,
instead of trying to hide its past.

-oec


Thus spake Kurt H Maier (khm@sciops.net):

> 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

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