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1. musicman (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 14-May-2020 11:25:46 EDT musicman
   I missed this at the time...or had forgotten: "On 30 November 2018, complying with the Code of Conduct, Jarkko Sakkinen of Intel sent out patches replacing instances of "fuck" appearing in source code comments with suitable versions focused on the word 'hug'."
   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 14-May-2020 11:58:18 EDT lnxw48a1

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      @musicman LOL.
      
      Reminds me of the late 1990s or very early 2000s: I was taking a class at the local college. I had dial-up and an ancient Win95 machine at home, so I tried to do most of my work in the campus computer lab.
      
      Some young students had found a chatroom for Mormon teens that substituted swear words with words like ‘butterflies’, so they all kept trying to find a way to post something that would get past the filter. It was funny, but they’d stay in there for hours at a time, blocking people that needed to do homework from getting computer time.