this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2023
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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

According to wikkipedia:

Blue and green stop signs are sometimes used on private property in Hawaii.

But they only have a picture of a blue one and not a green.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Blue_stop_sign_-_hawaii_-_oct_2015.jpg

So my guess is photoshop.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Fixed link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Blue_stop_sign_-_hawaii_-_oct_2015.jpg

How did you get those back slashes there? I thought it was only happening in reddit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Your fixed link and mine look exactly the same here on kbin. Both link to the image correctly.

So I'm not sure where the error lies.

Kbin does not like to link to URLs that end in a filename.

EG: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Blue_stop_sign_-_hawaii_-_oct_2015.jpg

It ignores the link text [Blue Stop Sign] completely and just posts the link.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

your link shows a \ before each underscore in the visible text for me in both comments, like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Blue\_stop\_sign\_-\_hawaii\_-\_oct\_2015.jpg and hovering or clicking the link replaces that \ with %5C, so the entire thing tries linking to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Blue%5C_stop%5C_sign%5C_-%5C_hawaii%5C_-%5C_oct%5C_2015.jpg. clicking 'source' on those comments shows just the \ before each underscore

no idea what's causing it, super weird to have the same bug messing with links that reddit does

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

The underscore is used to underline text in Markdown. If you want to display a real underscore like this: _, you have to escape it with a backslash. Some clients apparently interpret this rule even in plain links, and some don't. If we use real Markdown links this should not happen.

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

As you put it, the web version renders & includes the backslashes, causing your link to break on lemmy.world, running the website itself in Firefox on Windows 10.

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

https://files.catbox.moe/g9ulrf.jpg

It's likely a kbin bug (or an app if you used one to make the comment), since the slashes are there even on the website directly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Your fixed link is broken for me on Jerboa

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

Perhaps this would not happen if you insist on linking the image like this. Sure, it takes a little bit, but since the rendering of the underscores is put after including them in a hyperlink, I suspect going the extra mile makes it more reliable.

Either way, on web (Firefox in Windows 10), the fixed link works as desired, while the original is borked. And the hyperlink behind text one... Well, you'll see.

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

On sync, his fixed one was fixed and the first one was broken

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I lived in Hawai'i for three years and remember blue stop signs, but not green. Green road signs in Hawai'i would fail to stand out for 3/4 of the year and defeat their purpose.

It could possibly be a stop sign from Ko Olina on O'ahu, but I never spent enough time there to actually absorb the color of their road signs.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Also, for those wondering about the inevitable followup question, a stop sign has to be placed by a local or state government to be enforceable, and is required to follow the exact standard specifications. Tickets have been thrown out due to stop signs being a slightly wrong shade of red, so blue or green are definitely out.

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

If it's private property it could be anything. Maybe it's a golf course or something plant related. Maybe it's somewhere plant or tree related. Maybe it's just camouflage to keep the visual noise down.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

We have it similarly in Germany but I'm not sure about the colors

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's photoshopped, you can tell by the pixels.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

yep, select by color then change hue

can see on the borders of green and white theres a line of even brighter green where thr auto select didnt do a great job with the blurred line

looks quite good for a meme anyways

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Also it is definitely North America cause of the License plates. Looks like California.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

It's blueshifted to looking green because you're excessively speeding.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I made one that said START once