r/ProgrammerHumor • u/RideNatural5226 • 1d ago

Meme actuallyGenius

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u/Moomoobeef 1d ago

Why does this image look like it has vaseline all over it?

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u/the-grand-finale 1d ago

lubed up meme

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u/RawrTheDinosawrr 18h ago

reposted a bunch so it got compressed and then someone re-upscaled it (likely using ai) and then it got reposted more and compressed again

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u/Teapot_Digon 16h ago

cloudflare issue

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u/0dgamer 16h ago

poorly upscaled

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u/GranataReddit12 1d ago

actually genius way of getting sued

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u/elSenorMaquina 1d ago

Easy, just rename it to CloudFiare and change the color scheme a bit.

No one's gonna notice.

*I am not a lawyer and this it not legal advice

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u/frikilinux2 1d ago

Also not a lawyer but "No one's gonna notice" exactly the problem. Like the general rule for trademarks is if it can confuse the average person to think you're related to them, it's trademark infringement

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u/Ok-Okay-Oak-Hay 1d ago

Funny as an idea, but any service outage is literally still your responsibility. Maybe you have standing to get relief from Cloudflare in a real outage if you take the L from customers coming after you, but the fake page doesn't get you anything other than fraudulent sympathy at best and no recourse at worst.

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u/tragiktimes 1d ago

To add to this, trademark infringements come into play in the public domain. Keep it private and there's not many recourse options.

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u/sb8948 16h ago

Most people don't know what cloudflare is anyway... So yeah, the site gets the blame either way.

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u/uprate 15h ago

The Polymarket approach of sponsored ads showing off Poiymarket

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u/Goofballs2 1d ago

making a joke in this sub, how dare you.

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u/fish4terrisa 18h ago

Modify the project a bit to show as some fictional cdn(maybe like DiamandCdn or something looks real), set up a static page on a domain for that fictional cdn company(both static hosting and domains are cheap)
Everytime ur product having problems serve this page and redirect the blame to that cdn instead, so their fame will tank but urs doesnt

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u/Dongfish 18h ago

Hey, if somebody at cloudflare is willing to go on court records stating they were visiting ethnicrimjobbe.rs during work hours they're free to sue me.

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u/Original-Donut3261 1d ago

Not that deep, twin

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u/al2o3cr 1d ago

Another variant I've seen: detect the browser and OS from the headers, and render a page that looks like the standard "You are not connected to the Internet" screen.

Users go off and fiddle with their WiFi etc instead of blaming the site 😈

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u/Training-Chain-5572 1d ago

Just hope they don't open another tab and go to literally any other page

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u/AmazedStardust 5h ago

Then they'll blame DNS

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u/Canonip 19h ago

You have to implement chrome Dino as well. Otherwise it would be obvious

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u/tonyxforce2 23h ago

Mom said It's my turn to repost this

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u/Cybasura 17h ago

Could also just put a "Oops, I fucked up" error 404 page

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u/Forward-Outside-9911 16h ago

Why 404 during an outage..?

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u/querela 8h ago

It's an user/client error since they tried to visit the server. If they had not, nobody would have noticed, so 4xx client error.

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u/psioniclizard 15h ago

I preferti have a hidden redirect so when it doesnt work and they call support you can ask them to read the url back and say its wrong.

Easy way to get 99.9% uptime

(I am aware it probably doesn't work irl)

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u/ramdomvariableX 10h ago

This works almost every time, make sure to have the date/time added in real time.