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Elfeneron Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products

It doesn't (but it seems pretty much every Windows install has it installed, and if you try to open it, it just tells you that there's no Cortana anymore.)

Elfeneron Details about the shebang/hash-bang mechanism on various Unix flavours (2001)

The answer is (also confirmed by other replies) Windows. It seems in the Unix world, everyone uses UTF-8 (without BOM of course) and text encoding mistakes don't exist.

When you involve Windows, which likes a random mix of UTF-16, UCS-2, CP1252, and I guess also UTF-8 with BOM, you're screwed.

Elfeneron Hack Club: A story in three acts (a.k.a., the shit sandwich)

I had no performance problems on my Thinkpad T410.

Oh wait, it's because it is too old to have WebGL support so the background crashed and thus consumed no processing power.

Elfeneron Android developer verification: Early access starts

It may not be banks themselves doing this.

For example, my bank here in Hungary, Erste Bank has announced that the central bank requested that they stop allowing their android app to run on "modified" devices.

They even have a workaround: switch to SMS-based 2FA and use their website (which works well on any screen and has all the features of the app except 2FA)

Elfeneron Steam Controller

think that comment was saying that they don't like the new steam controller

Elfeneron Bluetooth 6.2 – more responsive, improves security, USB comms, and testing

The worst bluetooth pairing experience is with devices featuring "quick pair" "fast pair" and similar.

The best pairing experience is with devices that have a pair button or let you hold down the power button to enter pairing mode. Although I've now ended up with headphones (Creative Zen Hybrid (Gen 2)) that have this, but also decide to just unexpectedly enter pairing mode when you disconnect all devices from it...

Elfeneron The R47: A new physical RPN calculator

Same. Although I have a few physical calculators, I rarely use them, because although for a simple calculation they're faster, when I'm already at a computer/phone, using that is faster, and when I want to do anything involving programming an actual programming langugage is better.

Elfeneron The R47: A new physical RPN calculator

> except this feels a bit more artisan

The difference (as far as I know) is that Numworks (and Casio, etc.) are mainly used by students, while SwissMicros (and HP) are used for very quick problem-solving on the job.

Elfeneron YouTube A/B testing removing playback speed controls

I've switched to watching youtube videos using mpv. yt-dlp thankfully works, and this way, I can watch the video any way I want.

Elfeneron ICC ditches Microsoft 365 for openDesk

No, they've renamed it due to "now with the power of AI": https://www.office.com/

Edit: and actually, just recently it was even more direct with it: https://web.archive.org/web/20251105125410/https://www.offic...

Elfeneron ICC ditches Microsoft 365 for openDesk

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/31/international_crimina...

(was submitted to HN 3 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45797515)

Elfeneron ICC ditches Microsoft 365 for openDesk

It's actually not called Microsoft 365, but "the Microsoft 365 Copilot app" (not to be confused with Microsoft Copilot (a slop generator with the same logo))

Elfeneron Show HN: A CSS-Only Terrain Generator

Let's use sexpr?

actual meaning -> ((CSS-Only Terrain) Generator)

incorrect interpretation -> (CSS-Only (Terrain Generator))

Elfeneron Talk Python in Production

I don't even understand why they do that, surely putting even a low quality something together would make it much better, and with actual font rendering.

Elfeneron Talk Python in Production

Is this some new trend where websites include @media (prefers-color-scheme: light) and @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) in their css, but it just breaks the site?

This site doesn't even have two themes, that css is just there to break the bold text!

Elfeneron Show HN: Let an LLM roast your HN profile

This is great fun. https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/Elfener?share

Elfeneron Ask HN: Why does every website ask me to accept cookies?

> which Google depreciated

The Firefox version works just fine.

Elfeneron WTF is up with everything using Android?

> What on earth lurks in that massive download when the actual app could probably fit into a couple kB?

Other than the fact that an android app to has to bundle every dependency, Facebook apps also have lots of "useless" features.

For example, Messenger can show you how many Facebook notifications you have (only necessary because Meta doesn't know how to send an actual notification half the time). It also has "Stories", some "AI Studio chats" and a "Create an AI" button???

Also, I think they also have the ability to update themselves, because Meta doesn't trust google play?

And let's not talk about the main FB app bundling an entire web browser, which recently is your only option when clicking a link in Facebook.

Elfeneron Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads

jdownloader2 is one of those weirdly licensed things, it claims to be "open source" but you actually can't find the entire source anywhere. Worse than proprietary, tbh.

Elfeneron Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads

They actually somewhat did: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/12563 "DRM on ALL videos with tv (TVHTML5) client"

Elfeneron I wish my web server were in the corner of my room (2022)

I have a raspberry pi 400 on my desk which hosts some stuff on my home internal network. I've recently set up the num lock LED on it as a CPU activity indicator. It is nice to look at it flashing away while it is being utilized.

Elfeneron Google Ends Support for Lynx Browser

This extension removes that behaviour: https://github.com/Rob--W/dont-track-me-google

Elfeneron Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search

Laptop With Telephone Handset: https://anycrap.shop/product/laptop-with-telephone-handset

That is not how I imagined the handset to be attached! How would you even close the laptop?

Digital Watch With Parabolic Antenna: https://anycrap.shop/product/digital-watch-with-parabolic-an...

That's not a parabolic antenna. But I like the 3-digit minute.

Elfeneron My phone is an ereader now

Somewhat recently Lenovo had the experimental laptop "ThinkBook Plus Gen 4": https://psref.lenovo.com/WDProduct/ThinkBook/ThinkBook_Plus_...

It featured a netvertible design that had a regular screen on one side and an e-ink on the other. I thought that was a pretty good idea, though this laptop had some questionable decisions, like only usb-c as IO.

Elfeneron The GitHub website is slow on Safari

I guess if you say "we've made the UX worse" instead of "we've reduced costs but made the UX worse" to shareholders, they think of cost savings regardless.

Elfeneron The beauty of a text only webpage

And the title too.

The page has a @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) style that causes this, so those in light mode are unaffected.

Elfeneron ThinkPad designer David Hill on unreleased models

The trackpoint and the nice keys are one thing, but what I really want all laptops to have is dedicated home/end/pgup/pgdn keys and in a normal-looking layout (as in 7-row or as in a full keyboard).

I find it weird that even framework has gone with a keyboard where a bunch of keys are missing.

(Sent from my Thinkpad T410)

Elfeneron Vet is a safety net for the risky curl | bash pattern

I switched to NixOS to solve this sort of problem.

Configuration of system-wide things is done in the nix langauge in one place.

It also has the most packages of any distro.

And I found packaging to be more approachable than other distros, so if something isn't packaged you can do it properly rather than just curl|bash-ing.

Elfeneron Border search safe TOTP authenticator app?

This post came to mind: https://blog.singleton.io/posts/2022-10-17-otp-on-wrist/

I doubt anyone wants to search a f-91w.

Elfeneron Microsoft Edit

> does nano support mouse usage?

Yes, but you have to put `set mouse` into your nanorc.