Comments by "" (@SRG-Learn-Code) on "Brodie Robertson" channel.

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  16. GENTOO X SCRENSAVER PENIS While talking to my boss and her visiting niece and nephew (<10 yrs old), they remarked about my screensaver. It happened to be GLsnake, a part of the xscreensaver package. This screensaver takes a common child's toy and manipulates it into different shapes (like a bendable linear lego set). Anyway, the niece (who happened to have one of those toys with her at the time) instantly became amazed at the shapes on the screen. As it cycled through the models, she would try to guess the shape (which is described in the upper left corner of the screen). Unfortunately the GLsnake bent itself into the shape of an "Erect Penis", then a "Vagina", and then "Flaccid Penis" and then to "Penis". To my horror my bosses' niece started asking everyone what a erect penis was, and some less than pleasant faces looked at me asking why my bosses' neice was seeing genitalia on my screen. These "shapes" were added in the latest release of xscreensaver (and very quietly mind you). It is a trivial "patch" to remove those "shapes" from the GLsnake source code. Should I submit the patch to bugs.gentoo.org, ask the xscreensaver package to give an option to show genitalia, or just keep my mouth shut? I realized that this suddenly became a "censorship" issue, so what is everyone's take on censoring this kind of stuff? Completely harmless, but potentially troublesome (especially from your boss). Should a patch be provided by Gentoo, or should it only come from the original developer (unlikely), or should no such alteration be done?
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