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RunningDroid··on The difficulty of making sure your website is broken
> 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

RunningDroid··on Am I German or Autistic?
Do you have German heritage or live in an area that had a large number of German immigrants at one point?
RunningDroid··on Binary obfuscation that doesn't kill LTO
> * 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.

RunningDroid··on VOID: Video Object and Interaction Deletion
The Android app does the same thing
RunningDroid··on LinkedIn is illegally searching your computer
> 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.

RunningDroid··on Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains
> 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...

RunningDroid··on A proposal to classify happiness as a psychiatric disorder (1992)
> 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)

RunningDroid··on When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the National Endowment for the Humanities
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

RunningDroid··on Accessing inactive union members through char
To clarify: this is about inactive members of C++ union types, not inactive members of labor unions
RunningDroid··on When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the National Endowment for the Humanities
> They really want to get rid of everything beyond what they consider the default human experience although getting them to agree on that would go about as well as getting them agree on the right kind of Christian.

The term they've been using for the "right" kind of person is "Heritage American", allegedly meaning people whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower. That apparently does not include people whose ancestors came to the Americas via the Bering Land Bridge.

I would not be surprised if the "right" kind of Christian ends up being the one that believes the Prosperity Gospel.

RunningDroid··on OsmAnd’s Faster Offline Navigation (2025)
Rumor has it that routers have the same issue with highway areas so best practice is to add a "spine" to them

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:area:highway#Routers

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal:Area_highway/ma...

RunningDroid··on I found a vulnerability. they found a lawyer
> 2.) Doing what I wanted would require federal intervention, and the climate has not been ripe for new regulations, let alone governing bodies, in well over a decade.

Unionization could achieve the same end but the propaganda is strong in the US

RunningDroid··on The Worst-Case Future for White-Collar Workers
Uncle Ted being Ted Kaczynski, for the unaware:

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

RunningDroid··on Meta's Zuckerberg faces questioning at youth addiction trial
Framing it as addiction is popular now but it removes user agency:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-27053-2

>The present research (N = 1204) explored the implications of overusing the addiction label. In Study 1, a national quota sample of Instagram users (N = 380) overestimated their addiction to the app, and those who perceived themselves as more addicted (but not more habitual) experienced less ability to control their use. We show that the perception of addiction likely arises from popular media’s frequent labeling of social media as addictive (vs. habit forming). Study 2 (N = 824) demonstrated experimentally that framing frequent Instagram use as an addiction has deleterious consequences for user self-efficacy, including reducing perceived control over social media use and increasing self-blame for overuse. In addition, misperceiving excessive social media use as addictive potentially diverts users from effective strategies that could be used to curb overuse habits.

RunningDroid··on What your Bluetooth devices reveal
Are you thinking of BLE Radar?

https://github.com/BLE-Research-Group/MetaRadar

https://f-droid.org/packages/f.cking.software

RunningDroid··on Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved
Yes, but you'd have trouble finding someone who has standing and desire to sue.
RunningDroid··on Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?
> I just need a better Nvidia support…

Unfortunately Nvidia support mostly depends on Nvidia, they've done their best to keep info about their cards away from the Open Source driver projects.

RunningDroid··on Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign
This image from the OpenStreetMap Wiki seems to be the best match for the type of mini roundabout you're talking about:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Mini-rou...

It seems like most of the examples on the mini roundabout page‡ are larger mini roundabouts for some reason though

‡: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dmini_round...

RunningDroid··on Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections
> As we learned from Dominion... depends who manufactures the machine.

Dominion, the company that doubled it's net worth by winning a defamation suit against Fox over claims their machines had been compromised?

That Dominion?

RunningDroid··on Meta retreats from metaverse after virtual reality check
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46652041 (5 comments, 12 votes)
RunningDroid··on New York City is being recreated at 1:1 scale inside Minecraft
> Is it built automatically from a scheme, each block manually, or something in between?

They don't have a relevant item in the FAQ but it sounds like they place each block manually directed by a schematic overlay

RunningDroid··on Re: Mix: open-source repairable blender
> I think I could live with all the other components being metric, if they just had a way to work with standard U.S./Imperial containers as well.

As far as I know mason jars (of that size) are the same everywhere so it should work with whatever containers decided to use that standard

> Oh, and they need a 120VAC design for the motor and all the electronics inside.

After reading the BOM it looks like the only electrical components are the limit switch, rotary switch, motor, and the support components soldered to the motor, so a 120VAC design would only need to replace those with equivalent 120VAC components.

> Or, a design that can handle both 120VAC and 240VAC, as well as both 50hz and 60hz.

AFAIK that would either be a 120VAC model with a PCB to compensate in 240VAC areas or a DC motor with PCB

RunningDroid··on A tab hoarder's journey to sanity
https://archive.today/8z09s
RunningDroid··on My insulin pump controller uses the Linux kernel. It also violates the GPL
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Galoob_Toys,_Inc._v._Nin...., for some reason you have to manually add the period at the end of the link)

On some sites it's possible to work around this type of linkification bug by percent-encoding the last character (percent symbol followed by 2 hex digits representing the ASCII character):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Galoob_Toys,_Inc._v._Nin...

RunningDroid··on I didn't realize my LG TV was spying on me until I turned off Live Plus
> I like the idea, but these KODI-based devices far too limited, they essentially only serve as media players for local content.

This seems to be a side effect of KODI's extreme aversion to being associated with piracy.

RunningDroid··on Using Git add -p for fun (and profit)
Here's a couple archive links that may help you get around that:

https://archive.today/Ig42c (has issues with Cloudflare DNS)

https://web.archive.org/web/20251214151943/https://techne98....

RunningDroid··on Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options
Not too far off, apparently 5G modems on T-mobile's service can try using StarLink now

https://www.t-mobile.com/coverage/satellite-phone-service

RunningDroid··on Emoji Book Synopses

  Generated with Claude, from my book list.
Personally I think this list would be more interesting if the synopses had been written by a human
RunningDroid··on Ultrasonic device dramatically speeds harvesting of water from the air
This kind of tech always gets spun as "water harvesting for deserts" but somehow it never makes it to more efficient dehumidifiers.
RunningDroid··on Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729
You can use xcancel.com or farside.link's nitter redirect to avoid that, if you're on Android it's easiest to use URLcheck‡ with these chunks added to the pattern checker:

``` "Twitter to Nitter": { "regex": "^https?:\\\/\\\/(www\\.|mobile\\.)?(twitter|x)\\.com\\\/(.)", "replacement": "https:\/\/farside.link\/nitter\/$3", "enabled": "true" }, "Twitter image to Nitter": { "regex": "^https?:\\\/\\\/(pic\\.twitter|pbs\\.twimg)\\.com\\\/(.)", "replacement": "https:\/\/farside.link\/nitter\/pic\/$1", "enabled": "true" }, ``` (I haven't updated my copy of the Twitter image regex for the rename because I haven't seen any X.com image links and upstream seems dead)

‡: https://github.com/TrianguloY/URLCheck

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