The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

Kaids Hen 2025

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2026-07-03

On the recurring transport beat, this week brings us a handful of wtfs relating to mass transit. Nothing private.

"Thank you for traveling with Deutsche Bahn" sneers Philipp H. bitterly, explaining "The German railroad company sadly is famous for often being late and also has lots of other issues. While booking my next trip I'm asked to pick my seats for the reservation. - Looks like they now stack seats on each other or on the table. - hopefully the seats facing the wall at least have a window there. - winning the jackpot lottery also seems more likely than understanding their seat numbering system."

2 comments - Last comment @ 12:53

Fi fa foe

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2026-06-26

First up this week is a little story about a fifafail. I do wonder if this was a failure of the television station, or whether there was something more to it than that.

Hercules wrote to alert us to these World Cup shenanigans, explaing "At least the flags were correct. And yes, this was live TV. The host got the country names correctly, and even called out that the written text was wrong"

15 comments - Last comment @ 2026-06-30

Microbits

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2026-06-19

This week we have got a couple of Mathanon's. Maybe they're the same person, maybe they're not, there's really no way to know!

Frist anon has a "Numeric fun fact" for us: "Got a form sent from work to express interest in some event. They actually enforced the validation that the answer must be a number, so I submitted "42"." Bravo.

23 comments - Last comment @ 2026-06-28

No Rush

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2026-06-12

This week, friend Adam R. sent in an entry and included with it a link to a short-form YouTube video. Presumably this was a mistake, because I watched that video and the next one and the next one and the next one and after two hours I still haven't got this column ready. I won't share the video link with you. You're welcome.

What Adam really wanted to say was: "The USPS offers a sincerely service called Informed Delivery that, every morning, emails you scans of the exterior of your postal mail that you're expected to receive that day, which is a genuinely useful service (#not-sponsored). In today's digest, however, the subject line had an extra None thrown in there. Some Python script gone wrong that wasn't tested before production, perhaps?" We get lots of NaN, null, and undefined submissions, but None are actually rare.

18 comments - Last comment @ 2026-06-16

Bridge for Sale

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2026-06-05

"Scammer offers to buy Google" is certainly a new twist on a very old New York con. Jan B. explains "Scammers have found a new way to steal money, scrap LinkedIn profiles and then send out emails with fake offers to buy people's companies. I'm guessing suddenly they need some fees paid just before the deal is finalised. However, they may need to improve their filtering before sending out their scams, I don't even own Google!" I'm putting together a group of people to buy it, do you want to get in the deal? I'll just need you to transfer two million to this SWIFT account...

13 comments - Last comment @ 2026-06-09

Super SEO Strategies

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2026-05-29

It's ironic -- this site gets absolutely inundated with blogspam from people trying to improve their SEO ranking, and yet the only requirement to get your website linked is one dumb little typo in the right menu.

Faithful Michael R. is still job hunting, now even farther afield. "I shall try the gigs in United Kingsom. https://electronicmusicopenmic.com/"

25 comments - Last comment @ 2026-06-12

April is Special, and so are you

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2026-05-22

"April is special," writes Elwin. It is, but take heart May, every month is special at TDWTF.

12 comments - Last comment @ 2026-05-25

Balmenach Bad Gateway Single Malt

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2026-05-15

"Winner ad placement!" snarked our Peter G.

11 comments - Last comment @ 2026-05-18