Meme transcription [Kid drowning in pool]

In the background a person plays with a kid in the pool. The person is labeled “Companies updating their website”. The kid is labeled “The company logo”.

In the foreground a kid seems to be drowning. It is labeled “Useful information”.

In a second panel a skeleton sits at the bottom of the pool. It is labeled “The copyright year”

  • Sibbo
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    443 months ago

    At least in Europe the year after the copyright statement has no meaning, and even the copyright statement itself is useless. Since if not stated otherwise, no rights are granted by default.

  • @[email protected]
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    383 months ago

    Also:

    they: you can find the solution for your problem <a href=“/some-link”>here</a>

    clicks on the ‘here’ link

    404

    • @[email protected]
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      73 months ago

      This happened at my work with internal docs as we switched from an ancient intranet to a new service that had a ton more features but no backwards compatibility so all the pages got updated to PDFs with helpful links that went nowhere and it caused chaos for like 3 months.

    • @[email protected]
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      173 months ago

      Well, everyone who’s coding their websites is, yeah. Seeing how almost 10% of all websites use Elementor now and are built by people without an understanding of coding concepts, there are probably plenty of websites that don’t output their copyright year dynamically.

  • @[email protected]
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    283 months ago

    When they don’t update it, im legally allowed to go into the inspect elements and copy all the code.

  • pooberbee (any)
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    203 months ago

    Tangentially related, I remember at one of my jobs being tasked (several years in a row) with updating the copyright year in all our source files’ headers.

      • @[email protected]
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        123 months ago

        that’s actually an anti-pattern. the purpose if a copyright notice is not to declare the current year to each visitor, fyi.

        • @[email protected]
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          03 months ago

          Yes, it’s actually to notify people who aren’t part of countries with membership to the WTO of the first available year of public declaration of distribution without restriction, however, putting “1997” on your website makes it look old so people put current year to make it look new.

          It’s only legally distinct in Aruba, Eritrea, Kiribati, Micronesia, North Korea etc… so it’s almost entirely useless.

          I meant it’s a red flag if someone can’t spin up the code and is making an intern change it by hand every year.

      • @T156
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        53 months ago

        Or have a single general footer that they all refer to.