RunningDroid's comments

On: Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license

[RunningDroid]

> 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

On: Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license

[RunningDroid]

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

On: Kids can bypass some age checks with a drawn-on mustache

[RunningDroid]

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

On: Whohas – Command-line utility for cross-distro, cross-repository package search

[RunningDroid]

> 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

On: Electrostatics and High Voltage Links

[RunningDroid]

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...

On: WebUSB Extension for Firefox

[RunningDroid]

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...

On: Bluetooth tracker in a postcard and mailed to a warship exposed its location

[RunningDroid]

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...

On: EPA Moves to Ease Coal Ash Regulations for Power Plants

[RunningDroid]

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

Archive.org doesn't bypass the login-wall

On: Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons

[RunningDroid]

There's been some progress on killing Citizens United:

https://transparentelection.org/

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

On: The difficulty of making sure your website is broken

[RunningDroid]

> 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