Jorge 🇺🇦🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈Jun 15
JP
digging around in my 2K Marin-era (2008-ish) archives and came across this outstanding error message, props to whatever IT(?) person decided to phrase a simple seat license conflict as "Human Combat Required":
Jun 9 at 6:46amWeb
Show threadMistyJun 9
@jplebreton This is beautiful. I want to write error messages this good.
Show threadhextheplanetJun 9
@jplebreton very adventure games-esque wording there. just need to type in the 17th word on page 53 of the manual and it should unlock 
Show threadStephen WardJun 9

@jplebreton Reminds me of the old Windows 95 Tips

https://web.archive.org/web/20220425015623/https://windows95tips.com/

Show threadRiQuY (Ricardo-Stryki)Jun 10
@aukondk @jplebreton it has to be the hand? 🤔
Show threadNilsJun 9
@jplebreton Don't show this to Autodesk or Adobe.
Show threadBrialaJun 9

@jplebreton A friend I had in a previous workplace a few decades ago got to build a custom print server for some branch hardware. And one things printers love doing is throwing errors. So there was an error handler. He was feeling a little whimsical that day, though and one of the messages was "Orange marmalade? No! Paper jam!".

Then he promptly forgot he'd done this and never documented it. When the support desk learnt about it, from someone in the field, they were definitely amused. The only negative was they they would've liked it to have been documented. :)

Show thread/dev/urandomJun 9
@jplebreton ah, yes, they must have hired klingon intellectual property lawyers for that one
Show threadPastor of MuppetsJun 9
@jplebreton @lysdexic This reminded me: In retrospect, I should have known that my last job wasn't going to work out the day I got an enhancement ticket that said "please make the access token error logging less amusing"
Show threadLysdexicJun 9
@middleclasstool @jplebreton That's just wrong.
Show threadI see Dud people!Jun 9
@jplebreton "If Klingon's wrote system messages..."
Show threadsolastalgia krisJun 9

@jplebreton

Ah yes, the Klingon Public License (KPL)

Show threadpatterJun 10
@jplebreton love it, injecting a bit of personality & whimsy into our interactions with The Machine
Show threadNazoJun 14
@jplebreton It has been several days now. How did the battle turn out? Who gets to own the software?
Show threadJPJun 15
@nazokiyoubinbou it was a screenshot, so alas the battle occurred many many years ago...
Show threadNazoJun 15
@jplebreton Are you saying we will never know what the outcome was?