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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”

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I thought everyone does <?php echo date("Y"); ?>

[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Indeed. Yet every webpage ever has an outdated copyright year.

[–] MostlyBlindGamer@rblind.com 1 points 2 years ago

[checks personal website]

Yes, shame on them!

[–] cheddar@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Also:

they: you can find the solution for your problem here

clicks on the 'here' link

404

[–] pooberbee@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years 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.