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Re:Should Error Messages Apologize? by rzzzt on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @03:33PM (#39293923)
A Salon article inspired many examples from readers: https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/error-haiku.en.html

(I could swear that one of these appeared in BeOS' NetPositive browser if you visited a site without network access... but now I'm not so sure.)

Edit: now I'm sure: https://8325.org/haiku/

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Re:Should Error Messages Apologize? by seabass-labrax on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @06:01PM (#39295517)
I find this one hilarious, and rather relevant to this thread:

"Errors have occurred.

We won't tell you where or why.

Lazy programmers."

Thank you for sharing them :)

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