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It's an ASCII art of a nude woman. So what? It just seems like such a busybody thing to get one's feathers ruffled over.

sweezyjeezy 1y ago
It's teenager-ish, and the kind of thing that would make people uncomfortable if they saw it at our own workplaces. We can argue about whether companies 'should' punish people for stuff like this, but I can say for sure that I don't feel like I'm missing out on much here.
- bayindirh 1y ago
  I still design and add banners to my servers' MOTD to add a little fun to my day. No NSFW stuff, however.
  - msgodel 1y ago
    Mine is a corporate style # rectangle but instead of legal crap it just says "msgodel's laptop/vps/robot/whatever\n Be Nice!"
    - bayindirh 1y ago
      Mine are old BBS style banners, generally glorifying the hostname, and a small tagline for the server itself, related to its function. A hypothetical DNS server might greet you with "All your zones belong to us!".
      - selcuka 1y ago
        > A hypothetical DNS server might greet you with "All your zones belong to us!". DNS is usually UDP, so it's tricky. Maybe a database server? We don't even have to modify the original quote.
gortok 1y ago
How about ascii art of a male penis every time you opened your IDE? The point isn’t what you (MyPasswordSucks) would find objectionable, the point is what the median would find objectionable in a professional setting. Luckily we’ve gotten away from the locker room behavior being the median and now the median is approaching good-manners behavior. This is one of the situations where the Overton window shifting makes us better as a species instead of worse.
- msgodel 1y ago
  [flagged]
  - n_plus_1_acc 1y ago
    I have reported your homophobic comment.
    - selcuka 1y ago
      Interesting. How is that comment homophobic? Might be factually incorrect, but not homophobic. Quite the contrary, it implies that women prefer looking at women too.
  - toxican 1y ago
    Why would you assume other men want to see that shit either? It's weird, creepy, unprofessional, and weird and creepy. Mostly weird and creepy though. Like are you so lonely and horny that you need to plaster your shit with half-naked women?
    - doublerabbit 1y ago
      None of those things. I personally laugh at it for shits and giggles. "Andy, lol." It's not weird, nor creepy. Unprofessional maybe, but it's a developers morning shit post and humorous for its time. 1999. Stop applying the future on to past antics. If a women had posted a half naked man in ASCII this thread would have different tune.

sweezyjeezy 1y ago

It's teenager-ish, and the kind of thing that would make people uncomfortable if they saw it at our own workplaces. We can argue about whether companies 'should' punish people for stuff like this, but I can say for sure that I don't feel like I'm missing out on much here.

bayindirh 1y ago
I still design and add banners to my servers' MOTD to add a little fun to my day. No NSFW stuff, however.
- msgodel 1y ago
  Mine is a corporate style # rectangle but instead of legal crap it just says "msgodel's laptop/vps/robot/whatever\n Be Nice!"
  - bayindirh 1y ago
    Mine are old BBS style banners, generally glorifying the hostname, and a small tagline for the server itself, related to its function. A hypothetical DNS server might greet you with "All your zones belong to us!".
    - selcuka 1y ago
      > A hypothetical DNS server might greet you with "All your zones belong to us!". DNS is usually UDP, so it's tricky. Maybe a database server? We don't even have to modify the original quote.

gortok 1y ago

How about ascii art of a male penis every time you opened your IDE? The point isn’t what you (MyPasswordSucks) would find objectionable, the point is what the median would find objectionable in a professional setting. Luckily we’ve gotten away from the locker room behavior being the median and now the median is approaching good-manners behavior. This is one of the situations where the Overton window shifting makes us better as a species instead of worse.

msgodel 1y ago
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- n_plus_1_acc 1y ago
  I have reported your homophobic comment.
  - selcuka 1y ago
    Interesting. How is that comment homophobic? Might be factually incorrect, but not homophobic. Quite the contrary, it implies that women prefer looking at women too.
- toxican 1y ago
  Why would you assume other men want to see that shit either? It's weird, creepy, unprofessional, and weird and creepy. Mostly weird and creepy though. Like are you so lonely and horny that you need to plaster your shit with half-naked women?
  - doublerabbit 1y ago
    None of those things. I personally laugh at it for shits and giggles. "Andy, lol." It's not weird, nor creepy. Unprofessional maybe, but it's a developers morning shit post and humorous for its time. 1999. Stop applying the future on to past antics. If a women had posted a half naked man in ASCII this thread would have different tune.