And this is the level of discourse at Slashdot now.

Working at home is what has kept me at this job when I'd think of looking elsewhere. It's one of the main perks of the gig.

I really hate it when I see a story about Russia on Slashdot because all the apologists come out and remind me what a dumpster fire Slashdot has become. I remember back when it was actually a tech site that mattered rather than two day old stories and comments that are basically "I can't hear you la la la la la!"

Block ads, update regularly, don't download shit if you don't know what it does. I have never had an antivirus program on my personal computer and I've never had problems.

Why is it that every story that's posted here has already been on Reddit for at least a couple days?

We drove about 6000 miles up and down the middle of the US this summer and it felt good to turn off the GPS and just follow the road signs every once in a while. It doesn't really feel like you're totally connected with the road when you're just waiting for Google to tell you when to turn next (or when to just stay on the road you're on which is does too frequently). The road signs really do a good job of getting you around but it might not the the absolute fastest route like Google does. Still, I prefer it every once in a while.

It's not 32 core die but the CPU itself is 32 cores. The CPU is what goes into the socket. This whole conversation has been going back to the mid 2000s when Intel released their quad core CPU that was really two different dies glued together. Nobody cared that AMD had a "true quad core" where Intel just had a higher-performing part that had 4 cores spread among 2 dies.

OH NOES! Google knows what webcomics I like! I don't give a shit if Google has my data. I like my sites syncing between all the different devices I use.

I thought it was Microshaft.

Maybe they'll start doing LTS releases.

Yeah, I didn't get into it much but the Anniversary Edition's WSL wasn't quite good enough. Couldn't run Windows commands from within WSL, couldn't access ifconfig or run a few different node programs, stuff like that. I've upgraded the WSL distro and I'm going to see if it works better.

The only thing in this update that I'm at all interested in is the Windows Subsystem for Linux. I'm kind of stuck with Windows on my work laptop and it's not terribly easy to do web development in any CMS that uses a LAMP stack. If the WSL works well enough it could replicate the Linux experience and make it less of a hassle. It also has Ubuntu 16.0.4 so that's a decent upgrade. I'm going to try it out on my one Win10 desktop at home to see if it'll run all the tools I need.
(But I'll still probably end up using my Linux desktop at home because it just works.)

This issue was discussed on /r/linux two days ago and it was fixed yesterday.

is wrong with the comments section. We installed cameras around the house and ran the cables through the attic to the DVR in our closet. Houses in the neighborhood have been broken into and a car was stolen two doors down. We hope that having the cameras will deter crime and if they don't, we'll at least have footage. Our neighbor has a camera and it was very useful in catching some kids that burned down a bush in front of our house.

What the fuck is up with the kneejerk reaction to an article that is just suggesting that you try to get the bad guy's faces rather than the top of their heads? That sounds like good advice.