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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,
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.
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."
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..."
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."
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"."
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:
