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Comment by boblivion | Hacker News Reader

https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/toolkits.html Good post on the topic

Judging by the redirect to the image macro of a testicle in an egg cup, specifically calling out HN, I think we can assume the author of that article does not appreciate links to his website from HN

I clicked the link specifically seeking out this testicle in an egg cup, however, all I got was an article on XScreenSaver.

How do I get the testicle in an egg cup?

Make sure your browser sends in the Referer header.

Otherwise, this is the image that gets displayed:

NSFW. This is a testicle in an egg cup.

https://cdn.jwz.org/images/2016/hn.png

Thank you! I'm using plain Safari with no extensions.

An interesting website and blog, I like it! I wonder what their problem with HN is, although I don't mind being a testicle!

Safari doesn't do referrers for what I assume is privacy reasons.

Jamie wrote xscreensaver...

So what. This is how the web works. If you don't want people linking to you, don't have a website. He puts this blog out there for people to read, is it so weird that tech sites like HN would want to link to it?

And really if you're being DDoSed by a small thing like HN comment links you really have to up your game :) Wait till you get featured on reddit (previously called slashdotting when slashdot was still a big thing).

He doesn't think he's getting DDoSed from here. He doesn't respect anyone who comes from here.

Nor should he, not least because the redirect reliably results in ~90% of comments in any thread where jwz is mentioned being about the testicle in the eggcup rather than anything substantial.

But he refers to DDoS specifically in his eggcup image :)

PS: I have no idea what he means by "finance-obsessed"? I think the community at HN is tech-obsessed which is what I like about it. But finance? This is not yahoo finance or wherever all the finance guys hang out.

It sounds more like he had a clash with someone specific on a finance-related issue and bases his view of the HN community on that. The eggcup is a bit of an immature way to deal with this IMO. Especially as he has good points to make about X11 security, and this undermines them.

Venture capital is finance. So is cryptocurrency.

I don't know what prompted the redirect; it predates my awareness of Hacker News. I could guess, but why bother? The man has a nightclub to run, and I'm sure that's plenty all by itself to fill his days.

"Finance obsessed" is a pretty accurate description of what's going on here. A huge number of people on this site have trouble understanding that there's a world outside of the Bay Area where rent isn't $3000+ a month, and that its possible run a company without involving venture capital and ballooning to multi-million dollar revenues in less than five years. Even the tech discussion here revolves around this stuff -- almost every thread has some mention of "scaling" even if what's being discussed is a niche product that will have a customer base of a few thousand people over its entire life.

I like this site a lot, but I have a lot of patience when it comes to deciphering what is being affected by the Software Hub City Reality Distortion Bubble. Some people don't, hence the eggcup testicle, and people that think something like that undermines the technical argument aren't thinking clearly enough to even debate the technical point with anyway.

This link does not show what you think it will show (pretty much NSFW).

The thread was linked below (or above, to this same parent), or see: https://web.archive.org/web/20210116101222/https://www.jwz.o...

Uhm, this link doesn't lead where you think it does. Or the owner of the website is specifically redirecting HN traffic.

They are, if you copy paste the link you can read the article.

He's specifically redirecting HN traffic, if you copy the link you won't have any issues.

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