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Post #1952304

2024-12-16 15:23 UTC

The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED BUT REPULSIVE", "WRONG BUT WROMANTIC", "FREQUENTLY MISUNDERSTOOD", "NOBODY BOTHERS WITH THIS BIT", "SHOULDN'T REALLY BUT WE WON'T JUDGE", "REQUIRED IN ORDER TO WORK AROUND EVERYONE ELSE'S BUGS", "YOU DO YOU", and "OBVIOUSLY ABSURD BUT VERY COMMON FOR SOME REASON" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.

Replies (27)

  • @simontatham@hachyderm.io 2024-12-16 15:31

    @wordshaper@weatherishappening.network a certain piece of software I regularly use, which shall remain nameless unless anyone else in this thread recognises it, currently has the official version number "wtf 11pm pub"

    Open ##2822763

  • @wordshaper@weatherishappening.network @simontatham@hachyderm.io Wasn't it a mouse? "Mouse now present. 6.502 members represented. [149-A94] Action Item for Landlord: Capture and exile the mouse that just fell out of the light fixture." https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16325.htm#149-A94

    Open ##2822767

  • @wordshaper@weatherishappening.network Relevant trope: Noodle Incident https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoodleIncident

    Open ##2822768

  • @wordshaper@weatherishappening.network Relevant trope: TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife

    Open ##2822769

  • @jyrgenn@mas.to 2024-12-16 15:39

    @simontatham@hachyderm.io Nice. But damn, it doesn't fit into four lines.

    Open ##2822771

  • @geichel@mastodon.ie 2024-12-16 15:44

    @simontatham@hachyderm.io Y'ee be reading the Irish building codes again? https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2119 #rfc2119

    Open ##2822776

  • @saphire@dragon.style 2024-12-16 16:33

    @simontatham@hachyderm.io my first thought is about Mastodon and Matrix

    Open ##2822782

  • @trwnh@mastodon.social 2024-12-16 16:52

    @simontatham@hachyderm.io rfc 6919

    Open ##2822783

  • @Foxboron@chaos.social 2024-12-16 17:06

    @simontatham@hachyderm.io "HERE BE DRAGONS"

    Open ##2822786

  • @anticomposite@wikis.world 2024-12-16 17:15

    @simontatham@hachyderm.io The key words "MUST (BUT WE KNOW YOU WON'T)", "SHOULD CONSIDER", "REALLY SHOULD NOT", "OUGHT TO", "WOULD PROBABLY", "MAY WISH TO", "COULD", "POSSIBLE", and "MIGHT" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 6919. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6919

    Open ##2822787

  • @tml@urbanists.social 2024-12-16 18:42

    @simontatham@hachyderm.io Sir, I hereby declare you have been selected as the winner of the Internet today.

    Open ##2822799

  • @amyipdev@transfem.social 2024-12-16 18:52

    @simontatham@hachyderm.io the lack of these terms in RFC 2119 should be submitted as an erratum (to RFC 2119)

    Open ##2822800

  • @doti@pl.catboyindustries.co 2024-12-16 19:31

    @simontatham@hachyderm.io a terry davis like temple os word/phrase generator list of words

    Open ##2822808

  • @fanf@mendeddrum.org 2024-12-16 21:34

    @simontatham@hachyderm.io The key words "WHAT", "DAMNIT", "GOOD GRIEF", "FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE", "RIDICULOUS", "BLOODY HELL", and "DIE IN A GREAT BIG CHEMICAL FIRE" in this memo are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119]. https://fanf2.user.srcf.net/hermes/doc/qsmtp/draft-fanf-wtf8.html#anchor2

    Open ##2822809

  • @tryst@meow.social 2024-12-16 22:15

    @simontatham@hachyderm.io I'm stealing "wromantic". It gels nicely with "scareoused".

    Open ##2822811

  • @sabik@rants.au 2024-12-16 22:18

    @simontatham@hachyderm.io @xssfox@cloudisland.nz See also RFC 6919 Further Key Words for Use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels

    Open ##2822813

  • @tojiro@mastodon.social 2024-12-16 23:28

    @simontatham@hachyderm.io No, but really I would use "REQUIRED IN ORDER TO WORK AROUND EVERYONE ELSE'S BUGS" All. The. Time.

    Open ##2822814

  • @dickon@splodge.fluff.org 2024-12-16 23:44

    @simontatham@hachyderm.io You must be writing an SMTP server.

    Open ##2822821

  • @SidFudd@4bear.com 2024-12-17 01:27

    @simontatham@hachyderm.io The temp who was keeping that document in the shared directory quit, and we don't have his password, so..."do what thou wilt" shall be the whole of the law (until the first quarter of FY25).

    Open ##2822822

  • @jawnsy@mastodon.social 2024-12-17 03:45

    @simontatham@hachyderm.io "Recommended but repulsive" describes so many things in software tbh

    Open ##2822823

  • @TerrorBite@meow.social 2024-12-17 03:46

    @simontatham@hachyderm.io The key words "MUST (BUT WE KNOW YOU WON'T)", "SHOULD CONSIDER", "REALLY SHOULD NOT", "OUGHT TO", "WOULD PROBABLY", "MAY WISH TO", "COULD", "POSSIBLE", and "MIGHT" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 6919. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6919

    Open ##2822824

  • @bernardlyons@mastodon.ie 2024-12-17 09:36

    @simontatham@hachyderm.io These look like β€œWORTHY” extensions to COBOL.

    Open ##2822826

  • @sigmasternchen@comfy.social 2024-12-17 13:28

    @simontatham@hachyderm.io THIS should be an RFC. xD

    Open ##2822827

  • @simontatham@hachyderm.io oh, so it's not just me πŸ˜…

    Open ##2822829

  • @simontatham@hachyderm.io Huh, so I'm NOT the only one who sees all that. I also interpret half of the "SHOULD" as "DEPENDING ON WHICH SIDE OF THE WARS YOU WERE ON"

    Open ##2822830

  • @bruce@darkmoon.social 2025-02-08 15:12

    @simontatham@hachyderm.io Is anyone getting RULE 34 vibes from this, or is it just me?

    Open ##2822831

  • @sboots@mastodon.sboots.ca 2025-11-16 12:22

    @simontatham@hachyderm.io @deshipu@fosstodon.org πŸ˜‚πŸ‘

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