For real though, the shortest license is probably the WTFPL:

0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.

Might’ve used it a couple of times myself.

Excellent. I’m on Stage 4 on the Thursday afternoon: “Brewing Tea Over The Internet”.

Should be fun times, see you there.

Did the predilection for tea give me away?

I never understood the beef people had with that. The Internet is a series of tubes, of various widths and sizes, with inputs at random points in the stream.

Plumbing analogies are apt.

So replicators are kind of a special case: they can make anything already fully prepared, without the need for a brewing command to be sent. It’s possible that by the 24th century, there’s a compatibility layer between Replicator Intermediate Language and HTCPCP, but I’ll leave that to future generations to establish.

Out.

Can’t stand pineapple at the best of times, on pizza is another level of wrong.

I quite like the idea of HTTP 256 Binary Data Follows, which is just 200 OK but you asked for a non-text content type file.

You’d have to catch up with Mr Masinter to get his opinion on adding error 418, I’m afraid; that piece of the business wasn’t my work.

I’m happy it’s there though: it may have sparked flamewars, but at this point what hasn’t. It does bring somewhat of that sense of humanity to the whole enterprise of working on the Internet.

As it turns out, one of the Apr 1st RFCs for this year covers AI Sarcasm Detection, but I can see more serious protocols arising for the transfer of AI model data and/or training procedures in the coming years.

I’d also hope ActivityPub reaches Internet Standard level, though it may fall outside the IETF’s scope of operations.

My endorsement is at the bottom of that page, in fact. I wasn’t an active campaigner, but a word in favor was the least I could do.

The incident you mention is probably the most impactful, but there’s also the time the Russian military blocked IPs outside Russia by returning 418 instead of the more logical 403.

I enjoy that the original draft for the Referer header spelled it wrong, and now we’re all stuck with the typo forever…

I think it’s excellent out here. I was stuck on Reddit for the longest time, and this recent debacle has pushed me to explore the networks at the edge; this feels a lot more like the Internet of old. The analogy of email is apt, I think, with the accounts on multiple servers and the interplay between.

Glad to hear it, you should walk around with a HTTP 418 hat so more people know you’re not a teapot.