other "articles" that were obviously written by covert PR drones:

>"Microsoft's newest desktop operating system comes with a range of interesting features"
>"[it's] fiscally conservative [to upgrade]"
>Windows 10 skeptics are subtly portrayed as being scared of all things new
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
Followed by a good dose of sock puppetry.

>"Windows 10 offers a range of interesting features including virtual digital assistant Cortana. While these features and a substantial boost to performance and speeds could be a big reason for the fast adoption of Windows 10"
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...

Uninstall Flash

I find it puzzling that not a single vendor goes to market a laptop with a fully free as in freedom software stack, including the initializing program or BIOS.
Programmable components apart from the CPU, say hard drive controllers or 4G modems, should be isolated with an IOMMU.
The last laptops that don't tread on your freedom are from 2008: https://libreboot.org/docs/hcl...

Is this problem too hard for corporations with billions of R&D money at their disposal?
Are they forbidden to develop hardware that doesn't subjugate the user's freedom by 3 letter agencies?
Or, is it simply that most people do not care?

It could as well have been a weekend project by David Lynch.
I genuinely enjoyed it.

You can use apt over Tor.
http://richardhartmann.de/blog...

Can you configure Windows 10 to only to talk to Microsoft's hidden services?

Employers struggle to find robots who solely live to serve.

I find it puzzling that Christians in particular seem to be irritated by the idea of a lack of free will.
Isn't it conflictive to believe in an all-knowing and all-powerful deity while at the same believing in freedom of choice?
More than once I've seen a religious person irritated when the notion of determinism came up in a discussion.
What is the connection there?

What on Earth is the chance of encountering a ship on the high seas that carries scientific papers?
And then you go ahead and brutally rob the owners of said papers?
I'm sorry but this sounds like pure fantasy, at least in the 21st century. Unless the author fell prey to decades of propaganda and actually meant to refer to copyright infringement.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy...

US Supreme Court rules that copyright infringement does not easily equate to theft:
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/...

Stop perpetuating propaganda.

Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence at sea.
We should not tolerate marine thuggery.

Copyright infringement, however, can't be easily equated to piracy or theft.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy...
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/...

HTTP/2 might be the actual main motive for this switch. HTTP/2 is more efficient than HTTP/1 but requires TLS encryption.

Indeed, wordpress.com does offer HTTP/2:

url="https://www.wordpress.com"
curl -v --http2 -I -o /dev/null "$url" 2>&1 |grep ALPN
* ALPN, offering h2
* ALPN, offering http/1.1
* ALPN, server accepted to use h2

The currently best reproduction of the original Star Wars trilogy is a fan edit compiled by Harmy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
http://originaltrilogy.com/top...
https://docs.google.com/docume...

This fan edit is compiled from many sources, including an earlier scan by Team Negative1, the group this article is also about.

Harmy has since released restored edits of Episode V and VI as 720p MKV.
The MKVs also include many subtitles and alternative audio tracks.
It is currently the definite edition of the original trilogy.

I hope FTDI continues to block counterfeit devices.
This will alert buyers who then can demand refunds, or sue the vendors who sold them low quality fakes.

Want guaranteed genuine chips? FTDI runs an online shop, reasonably priced too.
http://www.ftdichip.com/

I for one was burned once with a fake Prolific PL2302 that crashes frequently and reproducibly. Never again.

https://soylentnews.org/

The FOSS drivers for Nvidia ("nouveau") and AMD ("amdgpu") have come a long way.
They are outperforming the proprietary drivers in some games already.
That is, at least with the latest pre-release kernel, for amdgpu, and Mesa 11.
Quirks are getting fewer and fewer. OpenCL support is progressing.

However the most important advantage is that the open drivers can support old hardware forever.

I do wonder why they're not mining CPU coins like Monero on their zombies instead?