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Companies updating their websites

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”

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

that’s where date(‘Y’) comes in

moon ,

Year of the tiddies

Kit ,

I read this as boobs.

mexicancartel ,

Is that your date?

cheddar ,
@cheddar@programming.dev avatar

Also:

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

clicks on the ‘here’ link

404

OldWoodFrame ,

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.

pooberbee ,

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.

funkless_eck ,

it’s probably a red flag if your website can’t do currentYear() in the footer.

T156 ,

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

pooberbee ,

Well it wasn’t a website, for what it’s worth.

jdeath ,

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

funkless_eck ,

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.

Sibbo ,

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 OP ,

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 Yet every webpage ever has an outdated copyright year.

MostlyBlindGamer ,
@MostlyBlindGamer@rblind.com avatar

[checks personal website]

Yes, shame on them!

ClassifiedPancake ,

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

30p87 ,

No no, we do


<span style="color:#323232;">time_t t = time(NULL);
</span><span style="color:#323232;">struct tm tm = *localtime(&t);
</span><span style="color:#323232;">tm.tm_year + 1900;
</span>

Everyone writes their web server in plain C, right?

MostlyBlindGamer ,
@MostlyBlindGamer@rblind.com avatar

The cool thing to do now is to write it in Rust, only using the standard library.

30p87 ,

And I hate it. Nice concept, but I don’t like neither, the language nor compiler.

MostlyBlindGamer ,
@MostlyBlindGamer@rblind.com avatar

It’s a very different vibe. I remember my first seg fault in C - kids days are missing out!

SatouKazuma ,

It’s okay to be wrong

30p87 ,
  • The C compiler, when I parse a &(float) as (long) (it’s actually an evil floating point hack to run Quake III on an X86_64 CPU emulated in Scratch running on Spotifys Car Thing) (This would never be possible in Rust)
OmnipotentEntity , (edited )
@OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org avatar

std::mem::transmute

30p87 ,

Yes, but

  1. it’s unsafe, therefore not really Rust I’d argue
  2. it doesn’t look as good

<span style="color:#323232;">float Q_rsqrt(float number) {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">   long i;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">   float x2, y;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">   const float threehalfs = 1.5F;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">   x2 = number * 0.5F;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">   y = number;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">   i = * ( long * ) &y;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">   i = 0x5f3759df - ( i >> 1 );
</span><span style="color:#323232;">   y = * ( float * ) &i;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">   y = y * ( threehalfs - ( x2 * y * y ) );
</span><span style="color:#323232;">   return y;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">} 
</span>
OmnipotentEntity ,
@OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org avatar

Please don’t tell me you, unironically, actually use the Carmack rsqrt function in the year of our Linux Desktop 2024.

Also if you like, you can write unsafe Rust in safe Rust instead.

30p87 ,

No. But somebody may be.

Pechente ,

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.

SomethingBurger ,

Elementor has this feature, though.

YourPrivatHater ,

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

mexicancartel ,

view-source:https://url for easy copying.

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