The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

Error'd features fun error messages and other visual oddities from the world of IT.

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by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2021-09-17

We generally don't like to make fun of innocent misuses of a second language. Many of us struggle with their first. But sometimes we honestly can't tell which is first and which is zeroeth.

Whovian stombaker pontificates "Internationalization is hard. Sometimes, some translations are missing, some other times, there are strange concatenations due to language peculiarities. But here, we have everything wrong and no homogeneity in the issues."

14 comments - Last comment @ 2021-09-20

Swordfish

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2021-09-10

Despite literally predating paper, passcodes and secret handshakes continue to perplex programmers, actors, and artists alike.

For our first example, auteur Andy stages a spare play in three acts.
Nagg: Hello I'm not the account owner and shouldn't be logged in to this account. Can you help me?
Nell: Sure, here are the owner's credit card details. Please use those to say that you are the account owner.

14 comments - Last comment @ 2021-09-17

Just Doer It

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2021-09-03

Testing in production again, here's five fails for the fifth day of the week. Or the sixth. Or is it the fourth?

Anonymous Ignoronymous declares "Dude! Science tests were never popular!"

10 comments - Last comment @ 2021-09-06

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