<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: Elfener</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Elfener</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:26:58 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Elfener" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Elfener in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is also another Xbox Copilot missing (though it has been renamed, probably due it not being an "AI"): <a href="https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/account-profile/accessibility/copilot" rel="nofollow">https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/account-profile/accessib...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:24:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47647015</link><dc:creator>Elfener</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47647015</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47647015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Elfener in "Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> It’s like corporations are angry that they need to go through us to get our money.<p>This is why I think the "you're the product" saying is wrong. You're just some annoyance to managers (whether they're trying to use you just for user numbers and ad views or they're trying to get your money), whose product is the company (shares or just outright selling the company).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 10:46:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47487614</link><dc:creator>Elfener</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47487614</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47487614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Elfener in "Illinois introduces OS-level age verification law"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's actually two templates that are being copied by different states: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rmhxk1/i_pulled_the_actual_bill_text_from_5_state_age/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rmhxk1/i_pulled_the...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:34:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47357468</link><dc:creator>Elfener</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47357468</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47357468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Elfener in "Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would love to see devices with a non-destroyed (corners cut off, random hole for the front camera) screen.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 07:57:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47244447</link><dc:creator>Elfener</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47244447</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47244447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Elfener in "Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I read somewhere that even for the "Copilot" things that supposedly run locally, windows needs to send a request to microsoft to confirm if your input is allowed by their rules.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:47:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47163955</link><dc:creator>Elfener</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47163955</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47163955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Elfener in "End of an era for me: no more self-hosted git"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Turns out careless, unethical vibecoders aren't very competent.<p>Well they are scraping web pages from a git forge, where they could just, you know, clone the repo(s) instead.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:43:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46980636</link><dc:creator>Elfener</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46980636</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46980636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Elfener in "MenuetOS – a GUI OS that boots from a single floppy disk"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Note that the 64-bit version is not open source.<p>KolibriOS (<a href="https://kolibrios.org/en" rel="nofollow">https://kolibrios.org/en</a>) is an active fork of the open source 32-bit version.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 21:04:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46905297</link><dc:creator>Elfener</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46905297</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46905297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Elfener in "Android’s desktop interface leaks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Authoritarian governments (that is, what unfortunately all governments want to be) also love this, since if a few big companies control all computing, they can regulate them to control the public.<p>Fortunately, there are many computers already in the public's hands (which they can use to perform any computation without government restrictions and without paying/sending data to a company); but more and more people are switching to mobile platforms (and kids start out on these platforms) that I'm worried about the future.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:10:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46800882</link><dc:creator>Elfener</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46800882</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46800882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Elfener in "Deutsche Telekom is throttling the internet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>ISPs are the worst.<p>Currently I use Telekom's 5G for my home internet connection in Hungary as Telekom is the only company who has a cable in my street, but they refused to sell me wired internet due to the hole they use to take their underground cable up to the houses being already over capacity (it turns out this "hole" serves like the entire street with cables being run across everyone's attic...).<p>I previously used yettel/telenor's 4G (basically as fast as Telekom's 5G because their 5G is a scam, although Yettel's 5G is even more scammy, it is slower than their 4G) but they broke their routers, I had comical packet loss and they refused to fix it (technically, when you pay for a cellular connection, the required uptime in the contract is zero). They also started CGNAT-ing in order to supposedly "improve security" (wtf..) just before I switched (this now means that their "internet-focused" plans have just CGNAT-ed IPv4, while their "non-internet focused" cellular plans have CGNAT-ed IPv4 AND IPv6 (makes sense).<p>In any case, I now use Telekom's 5G with CGNAT-ed IPv4, just a single /64 IPv6 and forced separation (it is illegal to have a stable internet connection, they disconnect you just before reaching 24h of uptime).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 11:38:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46753192</link><dc:creator>Elfener</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46753192</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46753192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Elfener in "XHTML Club"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think you (or the site decided to) ran it through the html5 validator?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 21:35:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46747948</link><dc:creator>Elfener</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46747948</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46747948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Elfener in "It looks like the status/need-triage label was removed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe I'm missing something, but this seems to be an issue report claiming to be a PR? Where's the patch?<p>Edit: there's actually a PR, but this is one of those repos where for some reason, they require every PR to have an associated issue. And in this case, they aren't even linked...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 20:10:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46724549</link><dc:creator>Elfener</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46724549</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46724549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Elfener in "RCS for Business"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When you use Whatsapp, you're trusting a single entity to handle your messages (plus your ISP I guess). When you use RCS, your messages go through your mobile operator, google, and perhaps someone else in an overly complicated way that is also built upon SMS (a non-internet thing) for more confusion.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 10:46:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46703743</link><dc:creator>Elfener</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46703743</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46703743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Elfener in "A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is definitely a thing (though sometimes comes with a fee): <a href="https://www.cruisecritic.com/articles/texting-on-a-cruise-7-cruise-line-messaging-apps" rel="nofollow">https://www.cruisecritic.com/articles/texting-on-a-cruise-7-...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:05:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46679791</link><dc:creator>Elfener</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46679791</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46679791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Elfener in "A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The fact the even simple encryption with walkie-talkies is basically illegal might be problem (though I have no idea how/if that applies to at-sea ships).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:01:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46679758</link><dc:creator>Elfener</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46679758</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46679758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Elfener in "Nvidia contacted Anna's Archive to access books"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It seems so, stealing copyrighted content is only illegal if you do it to read it or allow others to read it. Stealing it to create slop is legal.<p>(The difference, is that the first use allows ordinary poeple to get smarter, while the second use allows rich people to get (seemingly) richer, a much more important thing)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 14:50:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46679624</link><dc:creator>Elfener</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46679624</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46679624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Elfener in "Raspberry Pi's New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> are they just freeloading on the "pi" suffix to confuse people?<p>Yes, but that is normal I guess:<p>- <a href="https://banana-pi.org/" rel="nofollow">https://banana-pi.org/</a><p>- <a href="http://www.orangepi.org/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.orangepi.org/index.html</a><p>- <a href="https://radxa.com/products/rockpi" rel="nofollow">https://radxa.com/products/rockpi</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:01:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46631287</link><dc:creator>Elfener</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46631287</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46631287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Elfener in "Changes to Android Open Source Project"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I like the android way of security, where "rooting" your device to install updates is insecure, but using a horrifyingly out-of-date android (because your manufacturer, the only one who can update your device, didn't bother) is secure.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2026 08:35:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46563924</link><dc:creator>Elfener</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46563924</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46563924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Elfener in "The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In Hungary, where the central bank created the same rule about not allowing banking apps on "unoffical" devices, they do, but you need either the app or SMS for 2FA. Apparently they consider SMS secure...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:18:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556234</link><dc:creator>Elfener</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556234</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Elfener in "The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That link is to a page in that thread, but I guess it's supposed to be to this specific post: <a href="https://xdaforums.com/t/discussion-the-root-and-mod-hiding-fingerprint-spoofing-keybox-stealing-cat-and-mouse-game.4425939/post-90441375" rel="nofollow">https://xdaforums.com/t/discussion-the-root-and-mod-hiding-f...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:15:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556171</link><dc:creator>Elfener</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556171</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Elfener in "Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It has been renamed for a while now.<p>In this modern world, companies no longer need brands that consumers know, since they aren't selling products. Instead they're trying to sell the company by showing that they're a leader in so-called "AI".</p>
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