From the article:

"Do you see any other opportunities for savings? Can you help us crop the Bionic Beaver images any further? Is there something that we've culled, that you see as problematic? We're interested in your feedback"

"Crop the beaver"? Seriously? It also says "Shave the beaver"! Is it me? Is this thinly veiled high school innuendo?

In an industry where "kill and reap all children" is a valid technical statement, I see no issue with shaving beaver images. Both have valid technical meanings.

As a non-native English speaker: this means nothing to me.

Beaver is a euphemistic way of referring to a vulva.

Searching for "cropped beaver images" is going to raise some interesting HR conversations somewhere along the line.

Cropped beaver images unsurprisingly results in pictures of beavers, high have been cropped

https://a-z-animals.com/animals/beaver/pictures/1724/ For instance.

I thought you were kidding, but then I read the article and it certainly is either innocence bordering on naïveté or indeed an unfortunate “hahaha this is funny but fortunately no one will realize” type of thing.

“To date, we've shaved the Bionic Beaver minimal images down...”

Ubuntu uses animal names as codename for releases.

After Artful Aardvark now follows Bionic Beaver.

Breezy Badger being already used (before they moved to incrementinf letter based system - having done hoary hedgehog and waryy warthog.

It wasn't until the first LTS version, dapper drake, that the letters started matching the release number. The second LTS, or 8th release overall - Hardy Heron, in April 2008, was the second "hh" version.

Shockingly we still have 6 hardy heron boxes on our network in far flung locations.

BB is some The GIMP level naming.

Bison, Beetle, Badger, Baboon, ...

Considering your username, it's probably just you.