If you run sudo dmesg -w it should tell you the scancodes that each of those events is triggering. You can then create a /etc/udev/hwdb.d/50-my-device.hwdb file to map those scan codes to keycodes.

Here’s an example of a .hwdb file I made for Ayaneo handhelds:

## AYANEO DEVICES
evdev:name:AT Translated Set 2 keyboard:dmi:*:svnAYANEO:*
  KEYBOARD_KEY_66=f15
  KEYBOARD_KEY_67=f16
  KEYBOARD_KEY_68=f17

You can find the appropriate evdev:* information by running sudo udevadm test /dev/input/eventX where eventX is the evdev fd for the device in question. evtest will show you the names.

I’m fairly confident they were referring to the criticism from China FTA, but you’d need to read past the headline for that context so…

That’s ageist.