Software License Warning

This software license is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it! Writing this software and associated documentation files (the "Software") was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture. This Software is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here. What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger. The danger is in a particular location... it increases towards a center... the center of danger is here... of a particular size and syntax. The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours. The danger is to the mind, and

A monochrome screenshot shows a block of numbered programming-style text describing software as a warning message from a powerful but disturbed culture. The joke is the ominous, cosmic-horror framing applied to software documentation, making ordinary code sound like a dangerous artifact or cursed message. It can be used as a reaction to alarming code, legacy systems, or documentation that feels far too serious. EN: A monochrome screenshot shows a block of numbered programming-style text describing software as a warning message from a powerful but disturbed culture. The joke is the ominous, cosmic-horror framing applied to software documentation, making ordinary code sound like a dangerous artifact or cursed message. It can be used as a reaction to alarming code, legacy systems, or documentation that feels far too serious.

• @gentoomemes / 12866 2024-08-18