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by LtWorf 482 days ago
I adopted the fortunes-it package on debian, after I think over 20 years of neglect.

Debian ships the offensive fortunes in a separate .deb so it needs to be installed on purpose, and it's not recommended by the regular one. But it's there.

I actually moved a bunch of stuff into the offensive section, or just removed them. Humour has changed a lot since the last time that package had been touched. Political jokes made little sense, talking about stuff that happened when I was a child and didn't really follow politics.

I was sad that some offensive cowsay ascii arts were removed, but I won't pick that fight so I just got them from the archive and made a .deb that I manually install on my own machines.

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>or just removed them.

How does it feel... to go through fortunes and decide what's OK for other people worldwide to see or not.

I'm quite sure that 99% of the people who install fortunes-it are in fact concentrated into a particular country and not evenly spread worldwide.