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.

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.

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.

“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.