Matias shared a standard sort of flubstituted fail-merge error'd; not really egregious, just routine. "I am {{emotionType}} to hear this." And another mail-not-merged from Reinier B. "When the package from [SELLER] seemed to be lost in the mail, I was very [EMOTIONAL_STATE] with the refund of [AMOUNT]. I can now buy another [ITEM] instead." Dave A. didn't care for this mail flub, though it's hardly egregious in my opinion. He suggested we just label it with "A short description of snarky comments." "I've_missed_you_too" Willy wrote in response to this earnest email. "Long lasting…
We have for you this week a full set of the Error'd we most love to hate: the perverse password policy. An anonymous reader drops this, with little to say except to note "Speciaal passwords". Evidently they supplied a password which satisfied each of the five green critera, but still it was rejected. It would be nice to know where this offense originated, Intrepid Michael R. explains "note: Handy is the German term for mobile phone (UK) or cell phone (US)." Sacha R. observes a secret policy at play, saying "Oracle try to do the right thing by showing you the password policy requirements when…
I know it's not nice to mock mistranslations, but would you believe we're laughing with them, not at them? In response to recent criticism of the difficulty of identifying precisely what is at issue, two of our readers have chosen to highlight the offending element. Thanks for saving me the trouble!" "Bad Dutch translation, or is't?" asketh Mike V. "I visited the Dutch Dell site https://www.dell.com/nl-nl and noticed the bad translation on the "Accept All" cookies button. Then I visited the UK page on https://www.dell.com/en-uk and was not so sure anymore about the bad translation. Funny…
It seems like only yesterday we were mocking the AIs for their limits, and tomorrow they're going to be mocking ours. In the meantime, here's a look back at some humorous moments from the last year or so. "Mathing is hard" wrote Timothy W. "I for one welcome our new AI overlords." "AI is replicating" quipped a clever anon who styled themselves AInonymous. "I don't want AI features on my phone. And yet, I'm now getting not just one, but two AI items on my context menu." "AI is for the birds" chirped The Beast in Black. "Looks like someone's AI tool for image classification needs less of the A…
Some new and some old entries this week, from people who find zero profoundly unrewarding. "A scary blue button from The North Face" warns Dmitry K.. "Northface has just proudly rewarded me with nothing. I am not sure whether I want to try adding such a non-positive amount to my wallet. I am afraid I can trigger a chain reaction that will crash the financial system of the whole world..." "0% Steam discount" advises Renan "As much as I love Final Fantasy, I guess I'll pass on this 0% discount." "Give me my money around zero" demands Reinier B. "The Nederlandse Spoorwegen (Dutch Railways) owe…
Astute readers noticed last week that this editor (that is to say, me) had his own error'd failure to remember what day it was. Thank you for pointing it out promptly, and then proceeding to send in a bunch of examples of other sites calendar failures. Misery loves company! Traveler's travails, from C_Chell "Trying to complete the form on https://www.ihg.com to tell when I plan to arrive at the hotel, I can't complete the form because of this little time problem." "You Have -1 Month(s) To Order!" announces dragoncoder047. "Ah, GradImages... the company that told all graduates that they'd get…
We have a couple from Foo (AKA Foo) today, include a special text copy-paste Foo shared "I know you usually post image WTFs here, but here's a text output from chromium: [...:ERROR:components/viz/service/display/display.cc:273] Frame latency is negative: -0.18 ms While this issue might be fixed by now, at least on some platforms, I think it's remarkable that someone actually wrote this message without wondering if it ever makes sense ... And also commented "I visited Spain to see the eclipse (which was great BTW). I had heard that temperature may drop during totality, but was surprised by how…
Peter G. shared with us yet another ordering bungled example of. "Should really say "please engage in an Easter egg hunt to find your language"." "Google can't count" claimed Peter S.. It adds up. "Yet another proof that 0=1, this time from Google." "Thanks, Microsoft" groused Ivan "Ever since Microsoft ate university e-mail services worldwide and became responsible for major free software mailing lists, quality of service has been steadily dropping. In order to report delivery problems to Outlook, you need a Microsoft account. You're prevented from creating it at first because of "suspicious…
"So many zeroes! I'm in." W00H000! Kivi S. "found this ad in the wild. This must be a very large jackpot, look at all those zeroes!" "I knew it!" groused an anonymous cynic. "Yes, SignUpGenius. We all know that SUCCESS is just an illusion." Another anonymous grouch reported "I guess JustWatch has suddenly become a bit precious about their sources" "These boots are made for crashing" thundered Michael R. "PII of the developer have been removed to protect the not so innocent." You can't hide PHP so easily. And again from prolific Michael R. "El Reg has been around for 30+ years and their code…
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