Supermarkets re-open in Mauritius amid curfew
In his press conference, last evening, the Prime Minister of Mauritius, P. K. Jugnauth, announced that the sanitary curfew is being extended till 15 April. The extension has been prompted by the...
View Articleक्या openSUSE Asia Summit 2020 अब भी भारत में होगा ?
इस प्रश्न का उत्तर जानने के लिए हमें जुलाई के महीने तक इंतजार करना होगा।१७ मार्च को openSUSE Board की बैठक हुई। यह निर्णय लिया गया कि इस समय हम केवल COVID-19 की स्थिति देख सकते हैं और जुलाई तक इंतजार...
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Chaos reigns as supermarkets re-open in Mauritius today
Despite the strict guidelines laid out by the authorities and all the sanitary precautions advised by medical officers through various channels, Social Distancing remains an alien term to...
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Data protection poorly understood in Mauritius 🥺
Mauritius counted 186 positive COVID-19 cases including 7 deaths as at 3 April.With the rise of cases I notice a lot of people calling the authorities to release personal information of patients having...
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Did you complain to the Consumer Protection Unit?
I watched the press conference of the National Communication Committee on COVID-19 last evening. A journalist asked Dr. Joomye a question pertaining to supermarkets that have doubled prices on certain...
View ArticleAre people abusing the ICT Act of Mauritius?
DisclaimerPeople who are easily annoyed, distressed or may feel an « inconvenience » should not read this post. I will not be liable for any inconvenience caused to the reader.Information and...
View ArticleLawyers booked for breach of curfew while accompanying their client to the...
Mauritius is under a sanitary curfew since about a month now. People are advised to stay at home and not to venture outside unless they have a Work Access Permit and are going to their workplace or...
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How Yahoo Deleted My Email Account And There Was Literally Nothing I Could Do
TL;DR Yahoo deleted my account without authorization or at least prior notice, without me violating any terms and conditions and I literally had to pay them to maybe get it back.It's been over a month...
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MicroOS - The OS that does "just one job"
The openSUSE Summit 2020 kicked off yesterday. Like many others this summit was a virtual one too. It ran on a platform managed by openSUSE fan and user P. Fitzgerald.I was busy with work stuff and...
View ArticleManaging the Linux /home directory is about to change
systemd 245 came out on the 6th of March 2020.In this release, among many changes brought, a notable one is that regarding how we see and think of the Linux /home directory. A new service...
View Article२० मिनट में एक Ktor बैकएंड विकसित करें।
पिछले हफ्ते कोलकोटा कोटलिन यूजर ग्रुप ने एक ऑनलाइन मीटअप का आयोजन किया था जिसमें साथी डेवलपर एनरिक लोपेज़ मानास ने Ktor वेब फ्रेमवर्क का त्वरित अवलोकन किया।मीटअप को meetup.com पर प्रकाशित किया गया था...
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Why the COVID-19 Bill is nothing new?
Just my 2 cents as regards the new COVID-19 Bill. To me, when you compare it to the complexity of the Biometric Identity Case [1] back in 2014, it is a futile battle. Ish Sookun was among the few...
View ArticlePetition for the re-election of the openSUSE Board
Back in March, openSUSE member Pierre Böckmann wrote to the project mailing list calling for a non-confidence vote following recent events . Technically that means he was calling for a re-election of...
View ArticleConvert .VOB files to .MP4
I had a bunch of video files in the .VOB format which I copied from a few DVDs a couple of years back. Uploading them on a cloud storage service (e.g Google Drive, OneDrive etc) for safe keeping is...
View ArticleIndia bans TikTok
Citing concerns over security of data and risk to privacy, the Ministry of Information Technology of India banned TikTok among 58 other mobile apps on 29 June 2020. The Ministry invoked its power under...
View ArticleMinistry of Commerce removes the price control over certain products
It has been a month now since the sanitary curfew has been lifted in Mauritius and "things" have gradually started to take a normal course; or we are rather accepting the "new normal" trend.The...
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कुछ बातें openSUSE Leap 15.2 के बारे में जानें
२ जुलाई २०२० को openSUSE Leap 15.2 संस्करण उपलब्ध हुआ।openSUSE Leap एक निशुल्क और लिनक्स-आधारित ऑपरेटिंग सिस्टम है जो आप अपने पीसी, लैपटॉप या सर्वर पर इस्तेमाल कर सकते है। Leap 15.2 और SUSE Linux...
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A quick intro to Podman by Estu Fardani
Estu Fardani is a helpful & jovial fellow whom I met at the openSUSE Asia Summit last year in Bali, Indonesia. Recently, for the openSUSE Virtual Summit, Estu did a short presentation on Podman....
View ArticleRunning Flatpak on openSUSE Leap the first time
Flatpak comes pre-installed in openSUSE Leap 15.2. However, executing the flatpak command for the first time had a minor quirk in a freshly installed Leap 15.2 machine.error: While opening repository...
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75 years old man arrested for Facebook post after the Prime Minister of...
The ICT Act of Mauritius was amended in 2018.Following those amendments what we saw in the country was mostly people being detained or questioned for posts on Facebook, which in many cases, are simply...
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