• DQ (unregistered)

    I think Philipp H. needs to brush op on his German. It's the message that is in a chat he is not so they can't show him.

  • Hanzito (unregistered) in reply to DQ

    You're right. It is "die Nachricht". The give-away for the correct interpretation is the lower case "sie" in the first relative clause. Die spinnen, die Deutsche.

  • KeyJ (unregistered)

    The German message is a bit complicated, but 100% correct. The submitter probably didn't read it properly. It says "we cannot show you to this message because it's from a chat which you're not part of".

    Also, the weird file size is actually just a unit error: It says MB (megabytes), but they really mean MiB (mebibytes). The number works out to exactly 7533532 bytes.

  • Argle (unregistered)

    Is this website up?

  • tla (unregistered)

    The German sentence is misleading, but correct. The grammatical indicator is the ending on the verb: "befinde>t<". "sie befindet sich" must refer to "die Nachricht" ("message", feminine in German), if the "sie" would refer to the reader, it would be "Sie befinde>n< sich". Hard to spot, though, easy to misread.

    So, what's the real WTF? The submitters unwillingness to read twice? The German translators lack of rethinking their translation? (Assuming the software is originally in English and then localized to German, as most are.)

  • Foo AKA Fooo (unregistered)

    These WTFs are so funny that I sit down right now.

  • (nodebb)

    Luckily there are multiple "is it down?" sites. I usually use downforeveryoneorjustme.com, I'll add the other one to my bookmarks just in case it goes down.

  • Randal L. Schwartz (github)

    Ooooh. that's not "I sit down". I wondered what the joke was. Hyphens, people. Please use those hyphens in your hostnames.

  • Tim (unregistered) in reply to KeyJ

    Gah - why did I work that out myself instead of checking the comments section to see if anyone else already had !?!?

  • (nodebb) in reply to Randal L. Schwartz

    Took me a moment too. But with hyphens (or underscores or whatever), there wouldn't be anything funny about Powergen-Italia, Pen-Island, etc.

  • Hmmmm (unregistered)

    They are probably requiring everyone to click 'yes' on every instance of that form with some air of authority, even when someone gets in touch with them, because being dysfunctionally high-and-mighty is preferred to humbly admitting an administerial mistake (and fixing it).

    Also, meals and snacks.... mmmmmMMMmmmm....

  • (nodebb)

    With that permission form, I'm the guy who answers 4 of the 5 blank ones "Yes", and one of them "No".

  • seebs (unregistered)

    If we assume they actually meant MiB, they're probably right, because 7,533,532 bytes is 7.184535980224609375 MiB.

  • (nodebb) in reply to Randal L. Schwartz

    At least it's not expertsexchange.

  • Officer Johnny Holzkopf (unregistered)

    Is "80085" a fun fact?

  • (nodebb) in reply to Hanzito

    It's "Die spinnen, die Römer".

    I think the submitter misread it as "befinden" when it was actually "befindet", and I did too the first time. Befinden would refer to the reader, befindet refers to the message.

  • Kotarak (unregistered)

    This first checkpoint on the school checklist baffles me again and again. My son goes to an excursion with the school this week. I had to sign, that he may stay in Frankfurt after the excursion is finished, but then he is not insured by the school anymore. The different point of views on health care... Die spinnen, die Amis.

  • (nodebb) in reply to KeyJ

    Yes, I've seen the English version of that message from Teams. It's something like "We cannot take you to that message as you are not a member of the chat". How it happens is that someone posts to a chat while you're offline (so you get an email notification). Then they remove you from the chat - or some meetings automatically remove everyone when the meeting ends. Then you open the email and click the link to the message, and it tells you you're not allowed to see it. It would perhaps be more helpful if it said "you are no longer a member of the chat", but most likely it can't distinguish between someone who was a member previously and has been removed and someone who never was a member clicking a forwarded link.

  • (nodebb) in reply to SteelCamel2

    Which is something I really dislike about Teams. Logically, one should be able to view any message that occurred up to the point that they were removed. This is why I use both the web client along with Pidgin IM with the purple-teams plugin which does a good job of keeping logs of chats with my clients that insist on using it.

  • 516052 (unregistered) in reply to gordonfish

    Logically one should not be using Teams.

  • Steve (unregistered)

    Funny on the numeric fun fact...the first thing that came to mind was to enter "42", before I read that's what submitter said they had entered. I'd love to see the statistics on that prompt to see what percentage of people responded with 42.

  • (nodebb) in reply to 516052

    Agreed. Unfortunately, plenty of business folk apparently must, especially those who previously used Skype.

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