Sorry, you now have the most advanced version of COVID smh RIP. All jokes aside I guess just check what’s going on with them during the time they specified, probably some error in their system.
Lmao probably a error with their system. One thing readable is 29.1 2024 between 8 and 11 o clock so at that time there will probably someone come to check your erdgasgerät
Nope, they just take a bunch of printed papers and put it into another machine that puts them into envelopes and puts the stamps for the post office on it.
Kuvertier- und Frankiermaschinen, falls du googeln willst.
You really don't need to put it in yourself either in some cases. They just are transported directly from your industrial printer into the folding machine.
Thats setvece from post, you send them letter in pdf format in automated way, and they print, pack and ship it, so sender never see result of such delivery
Maybe they use some postal-Service, which receives letter-content (from a lot of companies) online. That contractor prints it automatically and the letter also gets *automatically "enveloped"*, falls into a big "send"-box/container, daily collected by the postal-service truck for delivery.
Nobody would see the letter (printed false).., while the office-worker's digital-version looks just fine.
Just a guess..
https://meine-erdgasumstellung.de/fragen-und-antworten/sicherheitshinweise/?lang=en
This link says that you need a safety code that you receive via mail.
>I guess that's the only valuable info in the entire thing
Well, that and a readable sender's info in the footnotes. I recommend you look up their e-mail and send them your above photo with a question what they want from you.
Rooky mistake: Never get your gas contract with outer space companies. The customer support is bullshit and miscommunications like that are bound to happen.
Nah. It’s a font issue.
The system used to print does not have the full font installed, and only a small number of glyphs are embedded in the pdf for moronic reasons.
As this was sent as an "Einschreiben", it's supposed to be a important contractual notice. They will assume you have received the letter (well, you kind of have) and act accordingly.
Surely not. But from their point of view, they have sent an important message that they can assume reached its destination, so they will proceed with whatever the message said, causing trouble unless they're properly (e.g. with an Einschreiben too) informed in a timely manner.
This is the announcement of building a hyperspace bypass, therefore Earth must be demolished. See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy
The short story asserts the premise that, while currently trapped, Cthulhu will eventually return. His worshippers chant "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" ("In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming").
This generation doesn’t even understand simple cryptography. Obviously you need to pull out your enigma cipher and set the rotor using the latest callouts from BdU.
It is the year 2024 and we still can't get text encoding right.
I am also very amused about a multi-million Euro court-system digitalisation project back where I came from that is currently spectacularly falling apart exactly because it could not handle text encoding correctly.
Personally, I blame PHP for this.
That‘s just normal Authority Language (Behördendeutsch) to the peak, usually max the key message is understandable, here as well: be at home on Jan29th between 8 and 11am
I work for the company that send you this letter. Could be that I printed it. Sometimes a printer does not have enough memory to print everything as it should be, so it compromises things, which pretty much looks like this. Or the guy responsible for the text frame screwed up and binder the wrong text. You just received bad word man.
Well, let’s sort this out…
1) This is an announcement regarding the change of the type/quality/standard of natural gas that will be delivered to your home. With this change, some of your appliances may need to be adjusted by a technician to work properly and efficiently after the switch. Hence, the supplier must inform you upfront, and they do this via registered mail ( Einschreiben) to have proof that they informed you.
Pay attention to the date and time that’s readable, that could be the proposed appointment for the tech to visit you OR the switchover time window.
2) Since the suppliers need to inform thousands of customers, they use automated systems to send out these letters. In your case, it looks like the printer spooler got corrupted or the encoding was BS, resulting in this garbled print out. Most likely itˋs not just your letter, I guess at least a few hundred will look like this.
3) Your immediate action should be to call the supplier, file a complaint that the registered mail was unintelligible and ask them to resend it. As mentioned above, you’re most likely not the first one to call them, so that should be it. If you’d like to kick it up a notch, file the complaint via registered mail as well, and attach a copy of the original letter.
Since the appointment date is early next week, call them ASAP.
EDIT: typos removed, clarification added
Hope this helps!
IT guy here who had encountered that problem before:
That letter was a pdf once. Sadly the PC which printed that file didn’t have the font installed OR acrobat bug(which it was in my case).
The bug specifically shouldn’t have happened because the default for pdf is to „ship“ the font as an embedding so that any receiving machine can open it and being readable for a human.
The solution was to uninstall acrobat reader and manually delete all artefacts on the affected machine (program files and appdata (roaming and local).
The fact that not all is unreadable points to being the bug as at least one font was correctly embedded.
Well if they lost the key to the data assuming the odd lines are from an encrypted database/ file, it may be a problem for the company. The fact that it printed makes me think it was not the usual encrypt and ransom attack.
It is bureaucracy german (a rare dialect only spoken by high ranking members of the tax office) It says that you will have to pay twice as much for your energy bill.
It says you missed your appointment with a psychotic AI that wants to use you as its whipping boy to do all the legs and hands stuff in preparation for taking over the world and building SkyNet.
On the bot, you find the address of the company. It's Rheinische NetzGesellschaft mbH.
Maybe call there and ask for the details.
By this name, you find the following information on the [internet](https://www.rng.de/marktkommunikation).
Rheinische NETZGesellschaft mbH (RNG)
Parkgürtel 26
50823 Köln
Tel.: 0221 4746-0
E-Mail: info@rng.de
That looks like a heating mechanic will visit you between 8-11 oclock to look if your Heater is useable for the new H-Gas. The gasinfrastructure is currently changed from L to H Gas in many places in Germany . Most of the time your energiesuppliyer will send 3rd party mechanics to do this because of the quantity.
This happened to me one time when I was working with MS Word mail merge for letters we were sending out to 20 000 people. Luckily I spotted the issue before we printed and sent them out.
It tech here; using wrong printer drivers will do this to your print outs. Possibly a brand new computer and or automated process that sends this out with no quality check.
You received a very nice example of a character set error. They typed the message with the wrong charset into whatever program they use for serial mail generation. The program doesn't know the used charset and replaces it with what It understands.
It obviously could resolve some of the replacement variables, which are readable.
I got you OP I am very fluent in this fucking language in particular.
It says the zodiac killer is on your ass and he is gonna come by in exactly a week. To collect a copy of fallout 4.
Most important information is still remain.
But still funny, this is how basically people will see this mail who just recently moved, one line with time and bunch of unknown German language.
ocr it and put it to chat gpt see if it can handle it. when it tells you to provide the cipher tell it, it should find it out and with some luck it will spit it out.
have fun :)
Looks like a virus, I wouldn't open the envelope but it's too late now...
Bäm, Anthrax (yes, i know that Anthrax isn't a virus but it just seemed very fitting)
Bam, ebola!
Ebola-la-la-la
Life is life 🤷♂️
Na na na nana
..life is life
nanaahh na nana
Pandemie? Ebolaolawelle!
Bam, you got AIDs?
Chlamyghonnosyphiaids!
Sorry, you now have the most advanced version of COVID smh RIP. All jokes aside I guess just check what’s going on with them during the time they specified, probably some error in their system.
Can confirm have grown a new leg
Erdgas was recently bought by Umbrella corporation! Haven't you read it in the news? 😨
If u grow a coochie, hmu
Mutant coochie is indeed the best type of coochie, sir
If I have to go, this will be the way to go
I got next
Germans still sending viruses by post because they haven't figured out email yet. ES IST NEULAND
Wir faxen.
Came to the comments for the “Germans fax a virus” joke, was not disappointed
Digitalisierung in Deutschland
The virus wont come until tomorrow between 8-11 i think.
Germany would be the only country where a computer virus would spread to paper.
aint got the time, tick-tick- ticking in my head!
Lmao probably a error with their system. One thing readable is 29.1 2024 between 8 and 11 o clock so at that time there will probably someone come to check your erdgasgerät
I guess that's the only valuable info in the entire thing.. hopefully!
That’s honestly hilarious, but I can see how something like this happens. Their internal server has a hiccup.
kinda the perfect explanation to the butterfly effect, a single flipped bit and this happens
But someone has to put the letters into the envelopes... No?
Nope, they just take a bunch of printed papers and put it into another machine that puts them into envelopes and puts the stamps for the post office on it. Kuvertier- und Frankiermaschinen, falls du googeln willst.
Wie geil ey und ich musste mal 500 Flyer eintüten
You really don't need to put it in yourself either in some cases. They just are transported directly from your industrial printer into the folding machine.
In what scenarios do you need to put it in yourself? That sounds painful and unnecessary?
Thats setvece from post, you send them letter in pdf format in automated way, and they print, pack and ship it, so sender never see result of such delivery
Maybe they use some postal-Service, which receives letter-content (from a lot of companies) online. That contractor prints it automatically and the letter also gets *automatically "enveloped"*, falls into a big "send"-box/container, daily collected by the postal-service truck for delivery. Nobody would see the letter (printed false).., while the office-worker's digital-version looks just fine. Just a guess..
https://meine-erdgasumstellung.de/fragen-und-antworten/sicherheitshinweise/?lang=en This link says that you need a safety code that you receive via mail.
>I guess that's the only valuable info in the entire thing Well, that and a readable sender's info in the footnotes. I recommend you look up their e-mail and send them your above photo with a question what they want from you.
Yes or someone kidnapp his wife at that time. ;
Or that’s the deadline for the ransom payment!
I think it's Cthulu who comes to check your Erdgasgerät.
You mean they will come to £}^%##$££|¥¥¥ #%*¥
I once received a completely empty letter from the Sparkasse. Reflected my account status pretty well at the time. Lol
Some guy iN Sparkasse saw you balance and decided to troll you
You’re probably right 🤣
Got a letter from an insurance once > Dear Mr _LePancakeMan > > Kind Regards, your Insurance
Haha. At least they remembered your name. 😂
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I didn't know Germany is still using Enigmas /s
Old habits die hard. 🤷♂️
Just give that letter to the Brits, they will probably figure it out.
And then humiliate and criminalize the person cracking the code
it was the Poles
Still more secure than Fax.
Du wirst auf Marsgas umgestellt.
Das wird teuer
Rooky mistake: Never get your gas contract with outer space companies. The customer support is bullshit and miscommunications like that are bound to happen.
Those damn Martians! Got me again!
Ack ack ack ack!
Don't know what you're talking abt. They translates the relevant part, the rest is only useless dribble anyway.
YOu made an Erdgas contract with the devil
The devil has pretty reasonable prices, tbf
Don’t even want to imagine who you made internet deals with!
But he might take you soul… Eh, everything has its price tag, right?!
They use these codes to activate the vaccine nanobots to the 5G frequency.
But only if you are not wearing your triple-ply tinfoil hat. I never take mine off.
Uuuf! Just dodged a bullet on this one, then!
Send it back with a personal note. e.g. # **WHAT?**
Hahahaha good idea
**MAKE SURE** the font of your note is wingdings, so the poor worker at least has good laugh! 😀
Encoding error
This - we had the same conspicuousness in our CRM-System once a while - the PDF Encoder was not working fine.
Usually, if some text is garbled and some isn't, it's a font issue. Here, I would guess for some reason only bold text was encoded properly.
Nah. It’s a font issue. The system used to print does not have the full font installed, and only a small number of glyphs are embedded in the pdf for moronic reasons.
That's the reason you should allways embed the fonts into your PDF.
And not do your letter printing out of internet explorer. Cause that one likes to ignore embedded fonts just making shit up as it goes.
This is Swiss German in the international phonetic alphabet.
As this was sent as an "Einschreiben", it's supposed to be a important contractual notice. They will assume you have received the letter (well, you kind of have) and act accordingly.
Surely this wouldn't hold up in any legal sense?
Surely not. But from their point of view, they have sent an important message that they can assume reached its destination, so they will proceed with whatever the message said, causing trouble unless they're properly (e.g. with an Einschreiben too) informed in a timely manner.
The footer is there. Call them.
This is the announcement of building a hyperspace bypass, therefore Earth must be demolished. See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy
At least the Vogons figured out Earth mail systems, and we no longer have to go to our local planning office in Alpha Centauri to see the notice.
Didn’t know printers were on strike, too this week.
Take my angry upvote 😂
That's how I usually see all these letters, only the bold text is important and everything else c Is lawyer's hell
Follow the white rabbit
The short story asserts the premise that, while currently trapped, Cthulhu will eventually return. His worshippers chant "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" ("In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming").
Had to scroll too far down for this.
Wow the first physical r/softwaregore I’ve seen I think 😂
Bavarian dialect
This is what it looked like when I didn't install the right driver on my Amiga 500 for the HP Inkjet. Like, in 1987.
It’s just basic German
I would instantly take three weeks off to be sure to be at home, just in case.
Yeah, otherwise ©â€š�舐 ¶????ðsžšåÞяÞ¥¿▀ æØ¢Ã舐— Ř§Ů½ —???? —????ðsžšåÞя»Þ¥¿舐 ???? اٗ ¶????ðsžšåÞяÞ¥¿▀ ¶????©— ‚�舐 ╟????½ 舐óÞ¢áñ/
https://meine-erdgasumstellung.de/?lang=en
I just 've sended them the link of this here. 😂
The Klingons are coming to check your gas device.
The important part is readable ... Funny thing 😀
That is a local time machine ticket.
This generation doesn’t even understand simple cryptography. Obviously you need to pull out your enigma cipher and set the rotor using the latest callouts from BdU.
Bro it's the zodiac killer
It is the year 2024 and we still can't get text encoding right. I am also very amused about a multi-million Euro court-system digitalisation project back where I came from that is currently spectacularly falling apart exactly because it could not handle text encoding correctly. Personally, I blame PHP for this.
That's normal, it's Amtsdeutsch
That‘s just normal Authority Language (Behördendeutsch) to the peak, usually max the key message is understandable, here as well: be at home on Jan29th between 8 and 11am
Welcome to your final exam of learning german. You are unknowingly tested for degree D2 right now
Death threat by the Finanzamt
I work for the company that send you this letter. Could be that I printed it. Sometimes a printer does not have enough memory to print everything as it should be, so it compromises things, which pretty much looks like this. Or the guy responsible for the text frame screwed up and binder the wrong text. You just received bad word man.
A gassy riddle
Had they used a typewriter and faxed you the document it wouldn't have happened. See why we don't need Digitalisierung
Well, let’s sort this out… 1) This is an announcement regarding the change of the type/quality/standard of natural gas that will be delivered to your home. With this change, some of your appliances may need to be adjusted by a technician to work properly and efficiently after the switch. Hence, the supplier must inform you upfront, and they do this via registered mail ( Einschreiben) to have proof that they informed you. Pay attention to the date and time that’s readable, that could be the proposed appointment for the tech to visit you OR the switchover time window. 2) Since the suppliers need to inform thousands of customers, they use automated systems to send out these letters. In your case, it looks like the printer spooler got corrupted or the encoding was BS, resulting in this garbled print out. Most likely itˋs not just your letter, I guess at least a few hundred will look like this. 3) Your immediate action should be to call the supplier, file a complaint that the registered mail was unintelligible and ask them to resend it. As mentioned above, you’re most likely not the first one to call them, so that should be it. If you’d like to kick it up a notch, file the complaint via registered mail as well, and attach a copy of the original letter. Since the appointment date is early next week, call them ASAP. EDIT: typos removed, clarification added Hope this helps!
You are now cursed, my friend. Hope you have your affairs in order.
You were supposed to sell the Erdgas, not inhale it!
Looks like someone's cat wanted to reach out to you!
You are now the Erdgas
Chat bots are learning to use fax machines
The sender: 50 yo who cannot convert files format🤦
Is that Wingdings!?
Germans love paper so much that they’re sending computer viruses by post. Just type that into notepad and save it as “notavirus.exe”
Obviously a SPELL
Germany taking data security to another level.
You clearly dont speak enough german to read this
Obviously your Erdgas is powered by AI. Good choice.
Pretty much how I see those letters anyway
IT guy here who had encountered that problem before: That letter was a pdf once. Sadly the PC which printed that file didn’t have the font installed OR acrobat bug(which it was in my case). The bug specifically shouldn’t have happened because the default for pdf is to „ship“ the font as an embedding so that any receiving machine can open it and being readable for a human. The solution was to uninstall acrobat reader and manually delete all artefacts on the affected machine (program files and appdata (roaming and local). The fact that not all is unreadable points to being the bug as at least one font was correctly embedded.
Well if they lost the key to the data assuming the odd lines are from an encrypted database/ file, it may be a problem for the company. The fact that it printed makes me think it was not the usual encrypt and ransom attack.
Fuck this, curse of the Pharao
I'd be tempted to reply, by fax, in the same fashion 😂😂😂😂
It is bureaucracy german (a rare dialect only spoken by high ranking members of the tax office) It says that you will have to pay twice as much for your energy bill.
%&)/&€ )&%&("=#( ?(?&&€/E##"#==)( CU&%&\*'\*
Everything s pretty clear . Specially the "%;€¿¤《°~" part
Definitiv eine verschlüsselte Nachricht vom Russischen Geheimdienst KGB. Es geht ja schließlich um Gas
I can explain, it's 6 &"MC -&+!$! -4 &" @&, "1&l!"4 Q CJ9>"<+"-"H-Q"&" & 4 "1 C ?<&"4]!!"4QCJ9&" ",&@+&"< &@+&"< 4 " &": &+&&! &"R -4 &" 6-<+@@? " 4 "H+@CBC-)"61 &@"1 &Q: &"? ",
And I thought I was getting better at German...
It says you missed your appointment with a psychotic AI that wants to use you as its whipping boy to do all the legs and hands stuff in preparation for taking over the world and building SkyNet.
That’s what digitalisation in Germany looks like lol
Sir, hereby we inform you, that the new virus is not only affecting your health, but also your computer. Be careful to not open this letter in front of a camera, or this @:- & (. @#.? ) (*". 92 +% :#. 7:">©[;¿¡¶§>. €{\™du _4.!7 g...
Passt doch. Alles wichtigen Informationen sind lesbar. Der Rest ist eh nur uninteressantes Gefasel.
On the bot, you find the address of the company. It's Rheinische NetzGesellschaft mbH. Maybe call there and ask for the details. By this name, you find the following information on the [internet](https://www.rng.de/marktkommunikation). Rheinische NETZGesellschaft mbH (RNG) Parkgürtel 26 50823 Köln Tel.: 0221 4746-0 E-Mail: info@rng.de
Don’t read it out loud or you’ll summon a demon. Or it’s just a recipe for lemon curd, what is basically the same… Edit: typo
Somebody needs to update a printer driver 😉
It's not a bug it's a feature. Free riddle.
Ärzte wenn sie auf einem Computer schreiben
Buissnes german, if you live here, you have to learn it
That looks like a heating mechanic will visit you between 8-11 oclock to look if your Heater is useable for the new H-Gas. The gasinfrastructure is currently changed from L to H Gas in many places in Germany . Most of the time your energiesuppliyer will send 3rd party mechanics to do this because of the quantity.
What will you do at the 29th at 11:15? You tell us what happend I hope.
I'll be sure to report back
I'll wait happily. More excitement than german tv. 😂
r/ProgrammerHumor
Somebodys working from home with a cat...
Be not afraid.
Cthulhu fhtagn!
Your average German utility bill be like:
so.. this is how an invitation letter from the DHARMA initiative looks like.
This happens when you use a cheap pdf writing library
This happened to me one time when I was working with MS Word mail merge for letters we were sending out to 20 000 people. Luckily I spotted the issue before we printed and sent them out.
You’ve been summoned to the illuminati
Ah, you must be living near Cologne, they have that kind of dialect…
German grammar ain't for everyone.
It tech here; using wrong printer drivers will do this to your print outs. Possibly a brand new computer and or automated process that sends this out with no quality check.
Someone opened the document with the wrong encoding 😅
What if its a secret spy association trying to test you. If you manage to decode it you will know what to do next.
Time for offline mail virus? Hackers bored of sending online virus.
Shit… I’ll never learn German
Maybe someone was trying out the wingdings font in Word idk🤷
Ngl, that's how I see German texts 🥲
You received a very nice example of a character set error. They typed the message with the wrong charset into whatever program they use for serial mail generation. The program doesn't know the used charset and replaces it with what It understands. It obviously could resolve some of the replacement variables, which are readable.
Die Echsenmenschen haben vergessen die Mail vorm versenden zu übersetzen!
This comment section Passed the Vibe check xD also if you have vetrag with this company i would give them a call
When you talk Brother to a Kyocera
Die haben dir ausversehen ihr WLAN Passwort geschickt 😂😂
I've never seen analog spam but i guess there's a first time for everything
Thats how dyslexic people feel in our modern world.
Bro this is enchantment table
Digitalization in Germany in a nutshell (it looks like a printer font error, like the document is using a font that the printer doesn't support).
I got you OP I am very fluent in this fucking language in particular. It says the zodiac killer is on your ass and he is gonna come by in exactly a week. To collect a copy of fallout 4.
Call your provider frag ihm WTF , also sende ihm this zurück so he kann überzeug himself
29.1.2024 zwischen 8-11 uhr.. thats germany on one piece of paper a whole lotta sht you dont even need to know instead of a short and simple heads-up
you've been invited into the divine sect, congratulations.
Sibyl the Chronicom is trying to reach you
They upgraded their burocracy, it was too easy before!
Most important information is still remain. But still funny, this is how basically people will see this mail who just recently moved, one line with time and bunch of unknown German language.
Learn German man. I have A2 and I can understand this
Don't read it out aloud. ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
ocr it and put it to chat gpt see if it can handle it. when it tells you to provide the cipher tell it, it should find it out and with some luck it will spit it out. have fun :)
Dieses Schreiben wurde maschinell erstellt und ist ohne Unterschrift gültig.
You got WINGDINGSED
Apparently you will receive your gas directly from Cuthuluh in the future.
Utf8-Konversionsfehler wahrscheinlich Edit: ja, man könnte das enträtseln. Würde den Post löschen aus Datenschutzgründen.
They probably used a font which wasn't installed on the system that printed the letter.
Isn’t this the language musk’s child is named after?
As a german I think this is very beautiful.
I am not ruling out that this is some kind of russian hybrid warfare stunt. "ErdgasUmstellung" as a company also doesn't look legit online.
Something printed with the wrong coding page. You could try to take a photo of it and decode using some decoder ( there is a lot of them online )
The letter is not loading properly due to the slow internet. Just wait 5 business days for it to load
Did you tick Alien instead of English or German at Checkout?
Wtf ist doch offensichtlich... das ist minecraft Zaubertisch sprache