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First of all, it's not the Union government that shut down the cellular internet in the state of Punjab, its the Punjab government (led by an opposition party called AAP).

Secondly, the fugitive in question marched his followers and laid seige to a police station in the state. When the police tried to act against them, they calculatedly used the holy book - Guru Granth Sahib as a shield. They knew full well that any attack or damage to the holy book by the police action would have fanned the flames to an already controversial issue in Punjab. Read this for more info: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Guru_Granth_Sahib_desec...

Lastly, these people are trying to create a separate Sikh nation from the state of Punjab (curiously, they ignore the Pakistani part of Punjab, which has most of the religious places of Sikhs) - firstly it's against article-1 of the constitution of India, and secondly, more than 90% of the people of Punjab remain against it.

The person in question had also threatened to assassinate the Chief Minister of the state of Punjab and the Home Minister of India. You're free to criticize the government, but threatening an elected leader is an entirely different matter.

Some facts to keep in mind: Punjab is already a Sikh majority state. Time and again, India has well accommodated and respected the cultural dimensions of Sikhism through Right to freedom of religion - be it wearing of turban (no problem with it unlike some freedom respecting western countries), no helmet mandatory for Sikhs while driving (Canada allowed it only a few years ago I believe), and even keeping kirpans on their person (some countries again seem to have a problem with this).

I humbly accept the criticism that shutting down the entire mobile internet is not the correct approach in the long run, and it has been successfully argued in the Supreme Court that it goes well against the freedom of speech and huge economic losses, especially considering that the Government is promoting digitisation all across the nation.

But I'll happily accept this temporary disruption to arrest such elements than go back to the dark days of 80's when these Khalistanis ran wild and Punjab is still reeling from their damage to this day.

Lastly, I'd also like to point out that mobile internet is working now. (Source: Living in Punjab since I was born).

Tldr: The person in question, Mr. Amritpal Singh is guilty of very serious crimes. Also, internet shutdown is not a tenable solution, but a necessary evil for now.

Hopefully it will work for: THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES, A FOUNDLING.

That's another long book I'm curious about ;)

Currently it's just stuck.

I fed it my own blog post: https://maheepk.net/posts/nothing-to-display/

> This week, a person experienced the consequences of a broken MacBook Pro display after a fluke of probability. They had to resort to using Duet to connect their iPad as a display, and Apple's Sidecar was found to be completely useless. The person learned lessons about Apple's products, such as the need for more durable displays, and the usefulness of Duet. They also learned lessons about software development, such as the importance of testing accessibility for blind users. Despite the unfortunate incident, the person is still looking for a way to make the best of the situation.

Compliment aside, seems like a good feature for Orion browser. Great work.

Any suggestions for cheap but genuine repairs are welcome. Also suggestions on how to get a good-paying remote job (while being in India - that's important) are welcome as well. Thanks!

There will never be any firings, government jobs in India are very different to those of the US. Best case, someone sues the government in supreme court, and they lay out some guidelines/bounds for the concerned department/ministry against doing such things in the future.

Even then, the government could pull such things off again easily in the name of national security. Just look at how we blocked Chinese apps in the wake of Galwan valley clashes of 2020.

I originally built this because Kiwix desktop didn't work with TED videos for me. Kiwix-serve works nicely always, plus I wanted to learn SwiftUI.

Nice to find Kiwix again. Shameless plug, I made my own Kiwix alternative for macOS: https://github.com/technusm1/kiwings

IE8 is my favorite browser...

From the page: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/notarizing_m...

> Notarization is not App Review. The Apple notary service is an automated system that scans your software for malicious content, checks for code-signing issues, and returns the results to you quickly. If there are no issues, the notary service generates a ticket for you to staple to your software; the notary service also publishes that ticket online where Gatekeeper can find it.

Perhaps the software connected to a website that was flagged as malicious by Apple. That’s one way I could see it getting flagged.