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Accessible from the internet != connected to the internet
PS: reCAPTCHA is getting better and better. I choose the audio version and they played: 1st attempt: nothing 2nd attempt: a bit of instrumental music 3rd attempt: white noise 4th attempt: some gibberish language (I entered some gibberish text and they actually accepted this. Mission accomplished!)
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The shipping part seems like the bug report for https://thedailywtf.com/articles/a-steady-ship
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The Avast one might be referring to "you have the web admin interface exposed on the WAN side", in which case it is actually something to address, unless you have a good reason not to.
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Your package will be sent via cargo ship, so you should be glad that it's floating.
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Agreed, probably not an error, but they could have worded it better
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Let me float this by sales and see what they think...
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That last one is quite odd. So let's speculate. We may approximate that the first two circles represent $1M and the third represents $250. Then $1M is the total fundraising goal, $250k is the remaining possible funds to be allocated ($1M minus $570k already allocated minus $130k administrative expenses).
Additional WTFs are the different shades of green and the crappy JPEG encoding. It's not wise to hire your high-school aged nephew as your graphic designer.
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Are we back to making Pentium jokes?
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@Beast in Black: The message the group URL can contain alphanumeric and underscores. Maybe hyphens are not allowed even they are allowed in the group name? (Still a WTF).
I had to look this up. PriorityDdpDelcon = Priority International, Delivery Duty Paid (DDP), Delivery Confirmation (DelCon).
Addendum 2025-05-09 10:54: The message says that the
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Quick, could someone float me 0.9999999999998 cents?
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The fields look a little as if there could be a space at the beginning of the name (or maybe at the end, hard to say), and a space like that is probably even more toxic than the . or - at the beginning/end. Either way, the error messages are desperately unclear...
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The "humorous quote" at the bottom of each Slashdot page is generated by the standard Unix utility "fortune", which has a database of funny messages of which it will pick and display one at random. There's two possibilities here: They may have actually flubbed invoking fortune and got back a usage message. That should have included a error message of what they did wrong, though. The other possibility as that one of the messages in the database of their fortune includes the mock usage message as a joke, which I believe is done in some distributions of fortune (It's not in mine, however).
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Tracked it down, and, yes, that is a mock usage message found in some fortune databases. No WTF here. Hanlon's razor or no, it is an intentional joke.
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I think Richard Prior is still collecting those partial pennies.
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Actually! Awesome is a TIME period. It started 20th of January 2025. There is a presidential decree saying so!
Ok, just kidding. I have no clue if there is an awesome period or presidential decree, but you believed me there for a while... and I wouldn't bet my hat there isn't...