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agrahul

Re:Making My Own USB Keyboard from Scratch on Saturday February 16, 2019 @06:55PM (#19181727)
If you’re open-sourcing a project, you can get a real USB PID instead of hijacking someone else’s: http://pid.codes/howto/
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.

Re:uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @10:37PM (#14975856)
The issue you linked is specific to the `about:` pseudo-protocol. uBO's WebExtensions version works as intended on the web.
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...

Re:Apple is struggling to become an AI powerhouse on Friday June 09, 2017 @02:24AM (#14519523)
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.
AFAIK, l.php does not require a Facebook account.
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...

Re:Aria2 – Next-generation download utility on Wednesday November 27, 2013 @12:41AM (#6806646)
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...