The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

The Artist Formerly Known As

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2026-11-13

"You want my what?" The artist formerly known as Toyota has a proposition for Chris. "Toyota wants me to trade in my current car, but the email was missing a few words."

12 comments - Last comment @ 2026-11-14

Remember Remember

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2026-11-06

"I Already Hate Running... I Don't Want To Have To Run Each Street A Second Time!" plods WeaponizedFun "I've gotten a couple of notifications from CityStrides today that they've updated streets for several cities, but it looks like they're doubling the effort it's going to take to finish completing these roads."

10 comments - Last comment @ 2026-11-08

Named And

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2026-10-30

I do like it when submissions include the creator of the wtf, unless the specific kind of err is really spectacular and then it might be noteworthy regardless. This week we received a few who did tell us something about the responsible party. That being said, on with the party!"

An anonymous contributor shared with us this "Important order info from Ubbad HBG-ICS I", saying "I checked on Amazon but can't find order #{randnum(3)}-{randnum(6)}. This is worrisome though, because my credit card does end in **{randnum(4)}." Wild, so does mine!

15 comments - Last comment @ 2026-11-03

It's About Time

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2026-10-23

Usually I have to save up a few weeks' worth of error'ds to get five of a kind, but this week we got a rash of funky date entries! I guess we were due.

First up Tim R. reminding us here that "Dates are difficult! ...but when the entire purpose of your web site is to convert the time to different time zones, I'm not inclined to give you much slack for being one hour out."

25 comments - Last comment @ 2026-10-30

Scrollpocalypse

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2026-10-16

Dr. Doom...scroller titled this one "Scrollbar-ception". Said he "Screenshot of the TikTok webpage (i.e. in a desktop browser) while not logged in. I swear this wasn't a NSFW TikTok video, instead it was a montage of some live show from some singer. Anyway... Back on the topic of the actual publishable snarky comments: Social media is known for doom-scrolling. Well, these are scrollbars of doom. Or doom-scrollbars."

15 comments - Last comment @ 2026-10-20

Fast Quick

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2026-10-09

Matias shared a standard sort of flubstituted fail-merge error'd; not really egregious, just routine. "I am {{emotionType}} to hear this."

9 comments - Last comment @ 2026-10-14

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by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2026-10-02

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,

22 comments - Last comment @ 2026-10-12

Said Different

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2026-09-25

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 thing is that the text above the buttons refer to the buttons with a completely different text (which is an Error'd in itself)" If I squint I can almost see how this kind of translation could happen.

13 comments - Last comment @ 2026-09-27