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

May 2025

Lucky Penny

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High-roller Matthew D. fears Finance. "This is from our corporate expense system. Will they flag my expenses in the April-December quarter as too high? And do we really need a search function for a list of 12 items?"


Mike's Job Search Job

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Underqualified Mike S. is suffering a job hunt. "I could handle uD83D and uDC77 well enough, but I am a little short of uD83C and the all important uDFFE requirement."


Teamwork

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Whatever would we do without teamwork.

David doesn't know. "Microsoft Teams seems to have lost count (it wasn't a very big copy/paste)"


Cuts Like a Knife

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Mike V. shares a personal experience with the broadest version of Poe's Law: "Slashdot articles generally have a humorous quote at the bottom of their articles, but I can't tell if this displayed usage information for the fortune command, which provides humorous quotes, is a joke or a bug." To which I respond with the sharpest version of Hanlon's Razor: never ascribe to intent that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.


Charge Me

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The lights are on here and the roof is intact and I'm grateful. Is anybody home? You decide.

Pharm fan Ian S. clucked "Perhaps they'll put those as dates on my headstone." If you're very lucky.