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I can't help but be reminded of the feud between xscreensaver's author and Debian maintainers.

For the curious, the post: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/04/i-would-like-debian-to-stop...

And the instigatory thread: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=819703

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Because jwz appears to have a very short fuse and at one point in time one or a group of users on HN didn't agree with him (as best as I can remember), referrals from HN are redirected to an image of a testicle.

Here is a wayback machine link to avoid the image:

http://web.archive.org/web/20190810115358/https://www.jwz.or...

JWZ has always been opinionated. I remember his epic rants on email client backends and other technical details.

lol he's escalated; before he just had text complaining about brogrammers at HN. I've wondered for years what the original beef was.

This is great.

Wow, if you pull shit like that that immediately is 1 point for the other team in whatever beef he had

Links on HN were generating huge amounts of negative traffic.

I don't blame him for having a redirect.

OK, a redirect, but to a pornographic image?

It's a testicle. Not people having graphic sex.

Careful, that first link redirects you to a NSFW image coming from HN

Party-pooper.

If it's not safe for your work, you need a different job.

It may surprise some people on HN, but for most people in the world, changing jobs is a hard thing to do. And yes middle managers can be that petty.

If it's safe for your work, you're probably the intended audience.

I never understood what the big deal is about the warning on the lockscreen. I've seen that before and it didn't bother me.

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