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AgrMohit

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Software Developer with a love for all things tech & science. Feel free to email me regarding anything you find interesting.

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AgrMohit··on NASA's Chandra notices the galactic center is venting
Interestingly, the timing of publication coincides with the Black Hole week [0]

[0]: https://science.nasa.gov/universe/black-hole-week/

AgrMohit··on Mozilla's midlife crisis has taken it from pioneer to Google's weird neighbor
Its more like some functionality only works on chromium browsers. For example vscode.dev doesn't let you open folders in firefox
AgrMohit··on Gen Z Netiquettes
while true, many platforms like whatsapp use their own emojis so you know that it looks the same to everyone
AgrMohit··on For your next side project, make a browser extension
As for keyboard shortcuts, userscripts can do that by observing individual key presses. I personally use a tiny library [0] by the Violentmonkey team to do it which is easy to use and smooths out differences between platforms and browser implementations.

While userscripts can't add items to toolbar or context menus, you can register menu commands [1] which have the added benefit of being able to be added dynamically after examining page contents. This is done using the `GM_registerMenuCommand` api [2].

[0]: https://violentmonkey.github.io/guide/keyboard-shortcuts

[1]: https://imgur.com/a/SWpOoRS

[2]: https://violentmonkey.github.io/api/gm/#gm_registermenucomma...

AgrMohit··on Indian ISPs: We already give govt full access to web traffic
The blocking being observed might be one off issues. I can use QUIC just fine on Reliance Jio's network.

This page [1] shows I am using HTTP/3 which unless I am mistaken requires QUIC to work.

[1] https://cloudflare-quic.com