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In today's Error'd episode, we flirt with European English to acknowledge the GDPR.

Modern Architect jeffphi shared an example of a hot software pattern from the early 21st. "As a bonus, these pickleball events appear to come with pickleball event listeners, too!"

 

Bob Loblaw highlighted that lawtech is typically SNAFU for reasons too complex to explore in this column, explaining: "It's unclear to me if Firefox 136.0 is later than Firefox undefined. Apparently not. This probably isn't as bad as the fact that the site listed in the logo for this technology organization leads to a misconfigured web server."

 

"It looks like I'm going to have to stay up all night to get best use of our solar panels," writes Stewart from the land of the midnight sun, which would appear to be... Australia? I guess it makes sense that since Oz has summer during winter, they must have high noon at 7 AM. Perfect sense.

 

Michael R. delivers from the near future. "Update on my parcel! I was not home and DHL will have dropped it off in 1h with the DHeLorean."

 

Finally, Some Guy wrote in with an ambiguous entry, wondering if it was suitable for inclusion. "I'm not sure if this is Error'd material, since it is definitely working as intended." It is indeed working as intended, but it is a matter of principle that some intentions are so egregious in and of themselves that we must consider them Error'doneous and absolutely WTF-worthy. Is this an example? I think not, but let's let youse decide.
Mr. Guy explains: "They chose a "toggle is active" color closely resembling the "toggle is inactive" color on this commonly used component for following cookie laws. Now that's a dark pattern if I ever saw one." Perhaps this is an accessibility fail, but the distinction between light and dark grey is clearly visible to my comparatively unimpaired colour vision. Which way does Hanlon's Razor cut here?

 

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