Hacker News: RunningDroid

New comment by RunningDroid in "Oura says it gets government demands for user data"

RunningDroid — Sat, 23 May 2026 16:19:13 +0000

Many times GadgetBridge* can be used instead of the official app

*https://codeberg.org/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge

New comment by RunningDroid in "Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks"

RunningDroid — Sat, 16 May 2026 17:50:11 +0000

> They literally call it an "AI revolution."

People proclaiming an "AI revolution" seem to have inspired at least one song:

https://genius.com/Worldview-ai-revolution-lyrics

New comment by RunningDroid in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

RunningDroid — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:12:14 +0000

> I don't have any reason to believe that similar projects won't work for the new version.

Sc-controller theoretically works, somebody with the hardware has to test though:

https://github.com/C0rn3j/sc-controller/issues/98

New comment by RunningDroid in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

RunningDroid — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:07:44 +0000

You may be able to use SC-Controller: https://github.com/C0rn3j/sc-controller

Note: the Windows support is a WIP and the devs don't have the new Steam Controller

New comment by RunningDroid in "Kids can bypass some age checks with a drawn-on mustache"

RunningDroid — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:24:10 +0000

I've heard Turkey's age verification law jumps straight to "no internet access without ID"

New comment by RunningDroid in "whohas – Command-line utility for cross-distro, cross-repository package search"

RunningDroid — Fri, 01 May 2026 16:21:58 +0000

> Probably nowadays this gets done in Node, parsing the package search websites. Preferably, this would be done via an API though.

Repology provides an API but it's unstable: https://repology.org/api/v1

New comment by RunningDroid in "Electrostatics and High Voltage Links"

RunningDroid — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:34:35 +0000

If you view the page on the Internet Archive all the links point to archived copies, you may have to step back in time to get something nicer than a 404 though

https://web.archive.org/web/20260424095139/http://amasci.com...

New comment by RunningDroid in "WebUSB Extension for Firefox"

RunningDroid — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:09:50 +0000

Firefox on Android doesn't support Native Messaging‡, so no, this extension won't work

‡: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...

New comment by RunningDroid in "Bluetooth tracker in a postcard and mailed to a warship exposed its location"

RunningDroid — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 21:50:37 +0000

The $10 Chinese ones can pretend to be an AirTag or Tile:

https://hackaday.com/2022/02/22/no-privacy-cloning-the-airta...

https://hackaday.com/2025/03/03/hijacking-airtag-infrastruct...

New comment by RunningDroid in "EPA Moves to Ease Coal Ash Regulations for Power Plants"

RunningDroid — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:57:56 +0000

Archive link: https://archive.ph/MUD19

Archive.org doesn't bypass the login-wall

New comment by RunningDroid in "Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons"

RunningDroid — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:43:56 +0000

There's been some progress on killing Citizens United:

https://transparentelection.org/

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2025/08/07/transparent-elect...

New comment by RunningDroid in "The difficulty of making sure your website is broken"

RunningDroid — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:47:26 +0000

> Vanadium, Chrome and Firefox (all for Android) all accept all the revoked certificates... But revoked.badssl.com is considered revoked

Firefox Beta (150.0b7) is accepting all of the revoked certs on my device

New comment by RunningDroid in "Am I German or Autistic?"

RunningDroid — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:41:26 +0000

Do you have German heritage or live in an area that had a large number of German immigrants at one point?

New comment by RunningDroid in "Binary obfuscation that doesn't kill LTO"

RunningDroid — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:15:20 +0000

> * Stadia SDK: developer.stadia.com (offline)

Stadia is completely shutdown and Archive.org has no captures of that subdomain so any content there is likely lost.

New comment by RunningDroid in "VOID: Video Object and Interaction Deletion"

RunningDroid — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:51:44 +0000

The Android app does the same thing

New comment by RunningDroid in "LinkedIn is illegally searching your computer"

RunningDroid — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:50:49 +0000

> The “how it works” page suggests it only works on chrome based browsers. Anyone able to determine if firefox or safari are affected too?

The code filters out non-chrome browsers: >The extension scan runs only in Chrome-based browsers. The isUserAgentChrome() function checks for “Chrome” in the user agent string. The isBrowser() function excludes server-side rendering environments. If either check fails, the scan does not execute.

New comment by RunningDroid in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

RunningDroid — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:58:09 +0000

> Is there any way I can use the Wine project to facilitate this compiling and running straight under x11/linux environment as a integrated project that doesn't require the end user to fiddle with Wine? I don't mind bundling shared code as needed. Help appreciated, I tried hard and failed at this endeavour priorly.

I believe that's what Winelib is for: https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis/Winelib-User's-G...

New comment by RunningDroid in "A proposal to classify happiness as a psychiatric disorder (1992)"

RunningDroid — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:11:17 +0000

> We are far too quick to jump to "this person isn't functioning in society, therefore something must be wrong with them" instead of doing the hard work of adapting our social and economic systems to be more inclusive of different types of human experiences.

Careful saying things like that, someone might accuse you of being a socialist (slight /s)

New comment by RunningDroid in "When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the National Endowment for the Humanities"

RunningDroid — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:39:41 +0000

Agreed, if you talk to members of a random sect then other sects range from explicitly heretical* to simply historically‡ or structurally wrong. And that's not including the political views of various sects§.

*: Mormons & Jehovah's Witnesses from the perspective of sects that follow the Niecene creed

‡: United Methodists from the perspective of Free Methodists

§: Unitarian Universalists are left-aligned, the Southern Baptist Convention is right-aligned

New comment by RunningDroid in "Accessing inactive union members through char"

RunningDroid — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:02:11 +0000

To clarify: this is about inactive members of C++ union types, not inactive members of labor unions