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		rzzzt on Feb 7, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Should error messages apologize? (2013) 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/

seabass-labrax on Feb 7, 2024 [–]

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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