The Usenet post I linked to claims it’s originally from the 1st quarter of 1990, but who knows if that’s accurate or not. I actually can’t find a good source for whether Stumpf is the original author or just the one who posted it to rec.humor.funny.reruns, but it’s usually attributed to him at any rate.

But yeah, fairly ancient by internet standards. I remember first running into it in the 90’s

Gamers aren’t persecuted anywhere near enough

Some plans less so than others.

Also, I like this framing of users as the enemy. Matches my experience, really.

Wasn’t expecting a fucking rainforest

Orders a

Hey we don’t know how many takes his scenes needed 😀

Just goes to show that cat memes have always been a thing.

Needs more compression artifacts though:

It’s awesome that the Library of Congress page had TIFF files of the kitty

It just irritates the fuck out of me when people write an obvious swear word but either omit letters or “censor” them with eg. *, like that somehow makes it not swearing even though EVERYBODY KNOWS WHAT THAT FUCKING WORD IS.

Either don’t swear if you think it’s so bad, or just write the naughty words out instead of pretending “f*ck” isn’t a bad evil naughty word because you hid one letter like a fucking mentally deficient child.

FUCK.

Me too, buddy. Me too

Well, only one session left for that to happen. Let’s see, who knows?

Jesus fuck, I didn’t even know about this. That’s an actually dystopian draft, holy shit that’s bad – here’s to hoping that either the final is much saner than what the current draft is, or that it just doesn’t get signed by eg. EU countries, but I’m not exactly feeling hopeful

Ah surprising that Poland’s still got copyright laws that relaxed, I thought they’d been more or less harmonized in the whole EU. Finland’s laws used to be pretty much like what you describe too, but they were changed… uh, fuck, I think 10 – 20 years ago to be stricter and I have a vague memory that they claimed it was to be more in line with how most other countries are in the EU, but it’s very much possible that either the politicians behind this lied, or that I remember wrong

That’d depend on your local copyright laws, but it’s probably illegal.

Getting caught without your friend calling the cops on you is extremely unlikely, at least assuming you don’t do anything fantastically stupid

Javascript bad.

Applause please.

I’m not sorry and I will do it again

which is something they care deeply about.

They care about quarterly profits. Preventing fuckups of this scale requires long-term effort which is not profitable by itself, it only prevents possible future fuckups, and this is why proper QC etc. aren’t done. Short term profits over everything else.

Well, if the executive leech class wants workers to have bossware, there’s not all that much people can do about it. Can’t just decide to not use it if your employer demands it

I do believe the comment about the ball wearing out was what humans refer to as “humor”