Since it's not shown in the article, the placeholder was the newspapers here; https://rl.bloat.cat/preview/pre/bn8bzvzd80ye1.jpeg?width=16... via https://rl.bloat.cat/r/expedition33/comments/1k6yv8a/does_th...
https://rl.bloat.cat/preview/pre/k7zsc1nls7af1.jpeg?width=19...
This does make it a bit more suspicious. It seems unlikely they coincidentally used gen AI placeholders only for the one case where it’s absurdly obvious.
Learning. From the website:
> I started it on January 13, 2023, to learn something new and improve my GNU/Linux skills.
Also, not relying on a single service for one thing is a good thing, as Reddit itself demonstrated when they closed off API access.