Hacker News: RunningDroid

New comment by RunningDroid in "A Teen Reporter Searched for His Community in the Epstein Files. Adults Freaked"

RunningDroid — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:45:02 +0000

Archive link: https://archive.ph/O66GM

New comment by RunningDroid in "Veritasium – why he still gets views [video]"

RunningDroid — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 01:49:44 +0000

To clarify: this is about Veritasium, not by Veritasium.

New comment by RunningDroid in "USAID Cuts Killed People. That's the Truth"

RunningDroid — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 18:07:38 +0000

https://archive.ph/rmhJl

New comment by RunningDroid in "Amodei told lawmakers that open-source AI is moving down a "dangerous path""

RunningDroid — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 01:02:59 +0000

The statement is from 2023 but the post is from June 28th.

Xcancel link: https://xcancel.com/coinbureau/status/2071330294452666695

New comment by RunningDroid in "Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi"

RunningDroid — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:26:21 +0000

You might like xdg-ninja‡ then, it tells you what program put which item in your $HOME and how to move it to ~/.config or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME.

‡: https://github.com/b3nj5m1n/xdg-ninja

New comment by RunningDroid in "Company Will Add Phone, AirPod, and Smartwatch Trackers to ALPRs"

RunningDroid — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:15:57 +0000

It should be, but the last time the US got new privacy regulation it was because an employee at a VHS rental store embarrassed a member of Congress by telling people what movies he'd rented.

New comment by RunningDroid in "Mornings and nights no longer exist at 47C: A day in the hottest place in India"

RunningDroid — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:59:02 +0000

Hint: The birth rate of a population is inversely correlated with wealth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility

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?