OC is apparently a Reddit post explicitly stated by the author as being AI-generated.
Before finding that, the lack of an artist mark, tacked-on caption, missing colouring on the left woman's skirt, and general face vibes were flags for me, but we're at the point where even a pretty low-effort affair like this is good enough to make it ambiguous.
Hmm, I've also just tried a few different circuits (exits across Europe and the US) and haven't hit any blocking. This is with a stock TorBrowser install, maybe you have some extensions or other config that's getting picked up? Or it might have been a temporary measure from Codeberg's side that's since been turned off?
The Reddit post loads fine for me over Redlib (similar to Teddit). I use LibRedirect so any Reddit links automatically redirect to the Cat's Arch frontend -- Anubis, no Cloudflare.
The Codeberg repo also loads fine for me over Tor. It's likely your particular exit node was just IP banned due to abuse; worth rotating circuits a few times before concluding all of Tor is blocked.
If this is what you are seeing that makes it "not work":
It seems to be implemented in a script that runs when the saved page loads and hides the content, even though that content is actually there. You can tell wget to ignore scripts (which aren't very useful in a download anyway, as they mostly pertain to interactivity) with --reject js. I tried this and was able to view the downloaded post properly.
I've no idea why the script does that, one could probably look at the lemmy-ui source code to figure it out.
I had come across that! I think I discounted it because of the AI stuff (especially the "global free internet for AI" thing -- "if you're not paying for the product..."), and lack of ROM support. If I can flash Lineage though it might be a contender. Thanks!
Are you using that "AI Internet" and/or the vSIM? Really curious how those work.
As someone in the market for a new phone and unwilling to forego custom ROM support, I find this list very helpful!
My main other criteria are wanting something small (like, 140mm height), and something that works in Australia, which recently forced telcos to completely block anything that doesn't support VoLTE emergency calls -- basically a massive "fuck you" to anyone who has a niche and/or old phone (seriously! This was like 8 months ago now but I didn't pay attention at the time so all my rage is fresh. Could they not have just required a warning sticker or something and let me make my own fucking decisions??).
Unfortunately this seems to be a losing combination, and I think eventually I'll have to resign myself to something larger. The other option is to get into ROM development lol, which I suspect requires more sustained motivation than I can muster. And I'd still need a daily driver in the interim.
The headline is dramatic but the reality, and the article content, are more equivocal.
For comparison, Statcounter recorded Linux at 5.52% in June 2026, so the share nearly doubled in one month
This seems... optimistic? As the article notes this is really the proportion of HTTP requests made from that operating system, not the actual number of desktops running it. What are the odds this spike is due to some Sparkling Botnet (AI company) doing a scraping run with agents that identify themselves as Linux desktops? I think that or any number of other scenarios are more likely than that the entire increase is truly new organic desktops running Linux.
they are very effective at paywalling their content
I feel like I'm missing something -- I don't really watch a whole lot of YouTube, or follow specific channels -- but I have virtually never had an issue using Invidious and/or yt-dlp, even with a VPN. When I occasionally hit a 403, rotating VPN servers is almost always enough to bypass it.
If that's "stealing" it's the first I'm hearing about it.
From the perspective of this thread they're probably similarly good and "deep". My instinct would be to err away from anything object oriented for beginners since OOP has always felt a little cultish to me and I think it's maybe something "shallow" (at least shallower than plain C) that has a habit of masquerading as the one true "deep" way to do programming.
C also has the practical advantage of being fucking everywhere.
Rust
I like Rust, but beyond the subset that is "ugly C" -- using unsafe everywhere and eschewing like 90% of std -- it's definitely shallow.
Great article. I've always been of the opinion that C should be one of, if not the, first things taught to programmers. You can explain Python in terms of C, but you can't explain C in terms of Python.
Why is "AI" being replaced with "Al" (lowercase L) in your post titles? Something to do with subverting scrapers? I've seen a few of these posts and it trips me up; in the typeface I'm using it's quite distinct.
Yes, those things should go without saying. But this seems directed at a previous "modern terminal emulator" (or maybe there were a few?) that did the rounds a while back and did require an account.
For my part the more damning bit is this:
if RAM usage is of importance, consider [other terminals]
IMO not a great selling point for any utility and particularly not one I'm liable to have tens of concurrent instances of. I'll stick with foot.
Your terminal's probably missing sixel/kitty image support, or potentially has it but isn't advertising it in a way that's detected. It looks like the --probe option might help diagnosing.
This image itself appears to be slop? Besides the litany of smaller visual errors, the ham-fisted, smugly didactic labelling of concepts is a huge, widespread tell that I have to assume is totally lost on, if not actively favoured by, the kinds of people who make these braindead AI cartoons.
Which leaves me very confused about the viewpoint of whoever created this.
I know and love the general threadiverse pushback against big tech bullshit, of which AI is a monstrously overgrown appendage, but I do wish it wasn't quite so militant in cases like this post. It's not mindless AI boosting (it's not AI boosting at all -- the author directly states they're ambivalent about AI), it's a genuine expression of opinions that I think are, if nothing else, interesting.
I don't think it deserves to be downvoted. But I'd love to hear people's counterarguments.
Sure, but the gif doesn't show 50 knots. The gif doesn't show any speed actually, so I really don't know where the 50 number comes from. But on the tracker the speed was 8.1 knots. Fast for a tanker, but totally believable.
That is strange, I'm curious what browser you were using that triggers the issue?
OC is apparently a Reddit post explicitly stated by the author as being AI-generated.
Before finding that, the lack of an artist mark, tacked-on caption, missing colouring on the left woman's skirt, and general face vibes were flags for me, but we're at the point where even a pretty low-effort affair like this is good enough to make it ambiguous.
Hmm, I've also just tried a few different circuits (exits across Europe and the US) and haven't hit any blocking. This is with a stock TorBrowser install, maybe you have some extensions or other config that's getting picked up? Or it might have been a temporary measure from Codeberg's side that's since been turned off?
The Reddit post loads fine for me over Redlib (similar to Teddit). I use LibRedirect so any Reddit links automatically redirect to the Cat's Arch frontend -- Anubis, no Cloudflare.
The Codeberg repo also loads fine for me over Tor. It's likely your particular exit node was just IP banned due to abuse; worth rotating circuits a few times before concluding all of Tor is blocked.
If this is what you are seeing that makes it "not work":
It seems to be implemented in a script that runs when the saved page loads and hides the content, even though that content is actually there. You can tell wget to ignore scripts (which aren't very useful in a download anyway, as they mostly pertain to interactivity) with
--reject js. I tried this and was able to view the downloaded post properly.I've no idea why the script does that, one could probably look at the
lemmy-uisource code to figure it out.I had come across that! I think I discounted it because of the AI stuff (especially the "global free internet for AI" thing -- "if you're not paying for the product..."), and lack of ROM support. If I can flash Lineage though it might be a contender. Thanks!
Are you using that "AI Internet" and/or the vSIM? Really curious how those work.
As someone in the market for a new phone and unwilling to forego custom ROM support, I find this list very helpful!
My main other criteria are wanting something small (like, 140mm height), and something that works in Australia, which recently forced telcos to completely block anything that doesn't support VoLTE emergency calls -- basically a massive "fuck you" to anyone who has a niche and/or old phone (seriously! This was like 8 months ago now but I didn't pay attention at the time so all my rage is fresh. Could they not have just required a warning sticker or something and let me make my own fucking decisions??).
Unfortunately this seems to be a losing combination, and I think eventually I'll have to resign myself to something larger. The other option is to get into ROM development lol, which I suspect requires more sustained motivation than I can muster. And I'd still need a daily driver in the interim.
The headline is dramatic but the reality, and the article content, are more equivocal.
This seems... optimistic? As the article notes this is really the proportion of HTTP requests made from that operating system, not the actual number of desktops running it. What are the odds this spike is due to some Sparkling Botnet (AI company) doing a scraping run with agents that identify themselves as Linux desktops? I think that or any number of other scenarios are more likely than that the entire increase is truly new organic desktops running Linux.
I feel like I'm missing something -- I don't really watch a whole lot of YouTube, or follow specific channels -- but I have virtually never had an issue using Invidious and/or
yt-dlp, even with a VPN. When I occasionally hit a 403, rotating VPN servers is almost always enough to bypass it.If that's "stealing" it's the first I'm hearing about it.
I interpreted it as about like, microprocessor design and nanometer scale electronics and shit. Electrons are basically elves in my book.
From the perspective of this thread they're probably similarly good and "deep". My instinct would be to err away from anything object oriented for beginners since OOP has always felt a little cultish to me and I think it's maybe something "shallow" (at least shallower than plain C) that has a habit of masquerading as the one true "deep" way to do programming.
C also has the practical advantage of being fucking everywhere.
I like Rust, but beyond the subset that is "ugly C" -- using
unsafeeverywhere and eschewing like 90% ofstd-- it's definitely shallow."Responsible disclosure" is a term of art, I think that's why they use the word there.
Great article. I've always been of the opinion that C should be one of, if not the, first things taught to programmers. You can explain Python in terms of C, but you can't explain C in terms of Python.
Why is "AI" being replaced with "Al" (lowercase L) in your post titles? Something to do with subverting scrapers? I've seen a few of these posts and it trips me up; in the typeface I'm using it's quite distinct.
Yes, those things should go without saying. But this seems directed at a previous "modern terminal emulator" (or maybe there were a few?) that did the rounds a while back and did require an account.
For my part the more damning bit is this:
IMO not a great selling point for any utility and particularly not one I'm liable to have tens of concurrent instances of. I'll stick with
foot.Your terminal's probably missing sixel/kitty image support, or potentially has it but isn't advertising it in a way that's detected. It looks like the
--probeoption might help diagnosing.This image itself appears to be slop? Besides the litany of smaller visual errors, the ham-fisted, smugly didactic labelling of concepts is a huge, widespread tell that I have to assume is totally lost on, if not actively favoured by, the kinds of people who make these braindead AI cartoons.
Which leaves me very confused about the viewpoint of whoever created this.
I know and love the general threadiverse pushback against big tech bullshit, of which AI is a monstrously overgrown appendage, but I do wish it wasn't quite so militant in cases like this post. It's not mindless AI boosting (it's not AI boosting at all -- the author directly states they're ambivalent about AI), it's a genuine expression of opinions that I think are, if nothing else, interesting.
I don't think it deserves to be downvoted. But I'd love to hear people's counterarguments.
The third one is the footnotes. That'd be the reason.
Personally I didn't clock the article as slop; having footnotes in the first place is a credit towards that.
Sure, but the gif doesn't show 50 knots. The gif doesn't show any speed actually, so I really don't know where the 50 number comes from. But on the tracker the speed was 8.1 knots. Fast for a tanker, but totally believable.