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"Crop the beaver"? Seriously? It also says "Shave the beaver"! Is it me? Is this thinly veiled high school innuendo?
by braindongle 9y ago
"Crop the beaver"? Seriously?
It also says "Shave the beaver"!
Is it me? Is this thinly veiled high school innuendo?
- y4mi 9y agoConsidering your username, it's probably just you.
- kuschku 9y agoUbuntu uses animal names as codename for releases. After Artful Aardvark now follows Bionic Beaver.
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoBB is some The GIMP level naming. Bison, Beetle, Badger, Baboon, ...
- isostatic 9y agoBreezy 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.
- ComputerGuru 9y agoI 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...”
- raquo 9y agoAs a non-native English speaker: this means nothing to me.
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoBeaver 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.
- isostatic 9y agoCropped beaver images unsurprisingly results in pictures of beavers, high have been cropped https://a-z-animals.com/animals/beaver/pictures/1724/ https://a-z-animals.com/animals/beaver/pictures/1724/ For instance.
- gatmne 9y agoIn 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.