Gregory's ServerThe 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.
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@wordshaper 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"  @wordshaper @simontatham "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."  @pulkomandy @simontatham No, no, not the mouse. We still speak of the mouse. (I have heard the mouse is up for chairing the next round of the unicode committee but I dunno what its chances realistically are)   @simontatham  Re: 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 ... @trwnh@mastodon.social :sob:  @simontatham 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.  @can @anticomposite shitpost it may have been, but it's been a pretty popular one so far. Guess nobody else had seen RFC 6919 either! @simontatham @anticomposite definitely funny! The fact that there's an actual RFC for it makes it even funnier imo  But is it normative standard, non-normative standard, a request for comments or recommendation? 😅 @simontatham just now realising those instructions explain how to interpret "must", "should", etc but not "are to" :) :) :)  @simontatham Sir, I hereby declare you have been selected as the winner of the Internet today.  @simontatham@hachyderm.io the lack of these terms in RFC 2119 should be submitted as an erratum (to RFC 2119)  |
@simontatham Plus the ever popular "WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE WERE THINKING, IT WAS 3AM WE WERE EXTREMELY DRUNK AND THERE WAS ALSO A DONKEY WHICH WE SHALL NEVER SPEAK OF AGAIN"