The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

A Horse With No Name

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2025-12-05

Scared Stanley stammered "I'm afraid of how to explain to the tax authority that I received $NaN."

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On the Dark Side

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2025-11-28

...matter of fact, it's all dark.

Gitter Hubber checks in on the holidays: "This is the spirit of the Black Friday on GitHub. That's because I'm using dark mode. Otherwise, it would have a different name… You know what? Let's just call it Error Friday!"

8 comments - Last comment @ 2025-11-28

Untimely

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2025-11-21

Sometimes, it's hard to know just when you are. This morning, I woke up to a Macbook that thinks it's in Paris, four hours ago. Pining for pain chocolate. A bevy of anonyms have had similar difficulties.

First up, an unarabian anonym observes "They say that visiting Oman feels like traveling back in time to before the rapid modernization of the Arab states. I just think their eVisa application system is taking this "time travel" thing a bit too far... "

11 comments - Last comment @ 2025-12-03

Will You Still Need Me?

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2025-11-14

... when I'm eight thousand and three? Doesn't quite scan.

Old soul jeffphi hummed "It's comforting to know that I'll have health insurance coverage through my 8,030th birthday!"

9 comments - Last comment @ 2025-11-17

What Goes Up

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2025-11-07

As I was traveling this week (just home today), conveyances of all sorts were on my mind.

Llarry A. warned "This intersection is right near my house. Looks like it's going to be inconvenient for a while..." Keeping this in mind, I chose to take the train rather than drive.

14 comments - Last comment @ 2025-11-08

Once Is Never Enough

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2025-10-31

"Getting ready to!" anticipated richard h. but then this happened. "All I want are the CLI options to mark the stupid TOS box so I can install this using our Chef automation. "What are the options" is too much to ask, apparently. But this is Microsoft. Are stupid errors like this really that unexpected?"

11 comments - Last comment @ 2025-11-03

It's Daniel Time Again!

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2025-10-24

It's been several years now that our reliable contributor Daniel D. has been sending us the same gripe time after time. We get it, really we do. It irks us too, but it is astounding just how many times he's been able to find this!
With no further ado, here is Daniel's pet peeve. See if you can figure out what it is.

~~640 kB~~ 40 characters must be enough for anybody," right? Daniel bemoaned "US Banks, brokers, financial institutions. You would expect them to put heavy safeguards with stronger the password the better, right? But then you find out they require just 8 to 40 and not a bit more."

38 comments - Last comment @ 2025-11-01

Domino Theory

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2025-10-17

Cool cat Adam R. commented "I've been getting a bunch of messages from null in my WhatsApp hockey group."

7 comments - Last comment @ 2025-10-19