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Our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi Remix - Asahi Linux (asahilinux.org)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Got the same thing. Whatever they're using to detect the source of incoming clicks, it isn't working. Valid rant against HN or not, IMO that just means they're morons who I wouldn't trust to support a distro.

Edit: It's also happening from their own post on Mastodon lmao. https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@Igigog/110820668174707603

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It looks like they're dumping you if you hide the referral link based on the text.

Truly gross practice.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

they're using the css :visited attribute on a link to a HN thread to display the message.

having passively followed asahi for some time (too poor to own a mac to actually try it out) the fact that they have to resort to shit like this is gross, but i 100% put the blame on HN for being an unmoderated trashfire (and explicitly bypassing the referrer based blocking asahi first had instead of, idk, actually moderating their site)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Thank you! Like is this kind of corny behavior? Sure, but maybe if HN wasn’t full of shitty people being actively enabled by a lack of moderation they wouldn’t have to try to do shit like this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:visited

Although these styles can change the appearance of colors to the end user, the window.getComputedStyle method will lie and always return the value of the non-:visited color.

OK. I don't really have an issue with that if they genuinely are having problems with the site.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

According to the dev on Mastoson, it was DarkReader messing with their color math detection on a HN link's :visited tag.