This was true maybe 20 years ago.
I've been using Linux as my daily driver for a bit longer than that and it's only been recently in the last year I've come across two issues that are preventing me from doing what I want.
Edit: now only one. I solved one of them just now.
It doesn't seem to work that way.
The article is essentially a "day in the life" kind of thing, describing how the guy went about understanding how records were set and finding out that it was impossible without cheating.