Mozilla layoffs, Cosmic DE alpha, India bans Proton Mail: Linux & Open Source News

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• Well challenges as these threats can be a problem in India, specially if it’s a espionage related issues. I must say Proton is really an amazing service and more reliable than google or Microsoft. I hope they let this service run. Unlike Chinese TikTok, it’s a Swiss company.

• Oh yes, working on the Firefox mobile app is a Greta idea. I hope for a renewed tablet version

• I am looking forward to the new cosmic desktop and the upgrade of PopOS, which I consider to make my daily driver and transition Linux (leaving windows as OS for work). Greetings

• If Cosmic's terminal has a dropdown mode from either the top or the bottom, I will switch without a thought.

• I will lose access to my bank and other stuff if they block it.

• indian it ministry :
  gambling apps ✅
  Secure mail 🚫

• the reality is that websites will continue to take money from advertisers because it makes so much money.

  we need a different model for advertising that removes completely the power from advertisers and puts it 100% on the people & it has to be bu law, so advertisers can’t escape it and should be beneficial to them, so they don’t have interest to avoid it or lobby against it

• Website uses cookie
  Website wants your location
  Website wants send you notifications
  Install website application

  Next is website wants your money popup?

• India is doomed for privacy, the government is coming up with anti-piracy laws day in and day out. As I read the fine print, I have a clue what I am saying.

  The incompetence of the government to hire valid employees who actually know how tech works these days is beyond the bounds. I seriously will leave the country ASAP. As privacy and freedom matters the most and the current government is providing none.

• my vpn : ok

• firefox barely supports web features you cant really say chrome is bad for web developers and the features they can use because its the other way around

• Excited for Google-backed paid internet? Traitor

• Well I have a dumb question
  If Proton Mail gets banned in India, then I won't be able to access it, so what will happen to services which are connected to my proton mail?
  For example: I have my apple music subscription through my proton mail id. So after Proton Mail gets banned in India, let's say I want to make modification to my subscription or cancel my subscription then how will I do it ?

• Proton issue is confusing to me, all of my govt IDs use protonmail, so im beyond screwed.

• get me the avg age of people running that committee and the avg life expectancy. can't wait all these years

• Why not just block off the whole internet then? No internet, no easy anonymous threats 😀 (no no don't look at that paper and pen)
  Our government and related agencies really aren't very tech-literate… and I don't know why more people aren't doing something about it.

• Linux simply Rocks, I use RichARCH btw. It made it quick and simple for me to get Arch Linux installed with kickstart like automation features.

• Assessing the government's ban is challenging, yet what's more concerning is the privacy policy of certain companies that, by not sharing information with the government, inadvertently allows tragic incidents like bomb blasts to occur. This is deeply troubling. India faces significant internal threats from specific groups prioritizing a single faith over the country's well-being. You might not grasp the extent of life lost due to such an event, so it's okay to find some humor in it.

• New security center sounds good but I'll try my best to stay away from snaps , I HATE them injecting that into debs , this is them being worst as Microsoft .

• Blocking Proton Mail and similar services would allow tracking the people, and knowing exactly who they are and where they are. Ugly dark side of open source stuff like this, which is made for humanity's benefit, is that people with wrong intents find wrong use of these services. Not happy at all.

• There was recent discussion about this over on Arstechnica and in the comments, it was pointed out that Apple had legal issues w/Khronos and didn't want to be beholden to their decisions. Hence why OpenGL has stagnated and Apple moved on to other things. Still fine to take issue w/OpenGL being so old on MacOS, but OpenGL is pretty much deprecated in favor of Vulkan now anyway.

• protonmail ban made me feel sad because i had made my account on it like few days back felt like i will use it in my college as my only mail for important stuff

• 7:17 never!

• As a dedicated ProtonMail user, I rely on this service for my personal and business communications. Recent developments have caused anxiety, but I remain hopeful that ProtonMail will address these issues transparently and continue to prioritize user privacy.

• did they realy get a bomb threat or did they just say they did …

• I am from India, I know proton is banned but I can still access proton services with full functionality (no VPN).

• Yes, the installer is very very important. I'm not technical, but I have been around since CP/M 2.2, and the installer is mostly why I ended up on Linux Mint. Make it as easy as possible for people who don't need to learn the command line, or get inward to mount points.

• India government want to track people so anyone criticising government can be jailed, they recently jailed journalist just for criticising government

• Stupid politicians are in charge of India.
  They will ban anything cuz they don't have a basic understanding of how the internet works.

• so basically, Proton was actually serious about security and privacy, and a surveillance state didn't like it? Sounds like a great ad for Proton 😂

• in the last decade some big companies that leaving india: xiaomi, ford, cairn energy, holcim, metro ag, daiichi sankyo, carrefour, henkel, harley davidson, tiktok

• India banning proton is like dropping a nuke to kill a mouse.

• Bad week for secure email huh. First skiff announces its acquisition and now proton is being banned in India. I guess India will have only have tuta

• Ad based internet will never die, all that will happen is more double dipping.
  Why not charge money AND get paid from advertisers to serve ads at the same time?
  We already see this happening, so it is better to let them rely on advertisers and play the cat and mouse game of blocking.

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