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agrahul··on Making My Own USB Keyboard from Scratch
If you’re open-sourcing a project, you can get a real USB PID instead of hijacking someone else’s: http://pid.codes/howto/
agrahul··on uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions
Yeah, that specific case wasn't fixed; it appears that Mozilla doesn't intend to let addons run on `about:`. However, they did make `about:` respect DNT by disabling GA.

WebExtensions currently fall short when it comes to any addon that modifies the UI significantly (tree-style tabs etc), though it's been mentioned in some other comments here that they're talking to addon devs to extend the API where possible.

agrahul··on uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions
The issue you linked is specific to the `about:` pseudo-protocol. uBO's WebExtensions version works as intended on the web.
agrahul··on Dutch app gives elderly pedestrians extra crossing time at traffic lights
I was curious how long it's been around, and did some digging. It seems to have been launched in 2009[1] and greatly expanded between 2011 and 2013[2].

[1] https://www.lta.gov.sg/apps/news/page.aspx?c=2&id=3afz2r6kt6...

[2] https://www.lta.gov.sg/apps/news/default.aspx?scr=yes&keywor...

agrahul··on Apple is struggling to become an AI powerhouse
I believe it's a HLS video. If you're on Windows, Edge has support for HLS. Otherwise, you'll have to resort to using a media player.
agrahul··on U.S. Hacker Linked to Fake Macron Documents, Says Cybersecurity Firm
AFAIK, l.php does not require a Facebook account.
agrahul··on A customer reported an error in the map used by Flight Simulator
Yes, the entirety of C is currently allocated to Canada[1]. The parent comments were talking about IATA codes, though, which aren't allocated by prefix.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Civil_Aviation_O...

agrahul··on Aria2 – Next-generation download utility
I ended up writing a wrapper around youtube-dl and ffmpeg to download the MPEG-DASH video and audio streams and mux it because of this. It was a spur-of-the-moment hack, so don't expect error handling.

https://github.com/rahulg/dotfiles/blob/master/tools/dashtub...