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Re:Reflections on Distrusting xz by executesorder66 on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @08:15AM (#39916454)
>> what's on it is no one's -ing business in a professional context.

> The age of self censorship :)

I find this amusing.

I would also like to know what you hoped to achieve by self censoring the word fucking in your message above.

- HN doesn't block posts with any kind of "profanity" filter - You didn't spare anyone from the profanity, since we all knew exactly what you were saying/thinking

So I'm really curious what that actually achieved.

Re:Reflections on Distrusting xz by nottorp on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @09:01AM (#39916884)
That one amuses me because of a character in a (iirc) fantasy book that swore all the time but used just -ing everywhere. Sadly I don’t remember what character of which book…
Re:Reflections on Distrusting xz by jcurtis on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @09:46AM (#39917413)
It's Mr Tulip, of Terry Pratchett's The Truth.
Re:Reflections on Distrusting xz by nottorp on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @10:58AM (#39918349)
Thank you! I was pretty sure it was Pratchett (but not which book and character) but I self censored in case i was wrong :)