Microsoft Windows
Windows 10 decides its a good idea to ask before rebooting for updates
Microsoft finally gives in and gives customers more choice regarding when to reboot their devices to apply software updates.
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CalDAV
Windows 10 supports CalDAV/CardDAV but limits provider-support
Windows 10 supports syncing email, contacts, and calendars with all major providers. However, Microsoft chooses to close it down to a handful of providers.
CalDAV
How to add CalDAV and CardDAV accounts and sync with Windows 10
Set up syncing with your CalDAV and CardDAV accounts with the built-in Windows Calendar and Contacts apps. Windows can sync with any CalDAV/CardDAV server.
CalDAV
Windows 10’s “Interesting Calendars” feature is powered by webcal/iCal
New Windows Calendar feature is just standard webcal subscriptions but interestingly you can’t add your own webcals.
CalDAV
How to add an iCal/webcal calendar to the Calendar app in Windows 10
Learn how to work-around Windows 10 limitations to add iCal and webcal calendars to the Windows Calendar app through Outlook.com.
Web Monetization
Take control over AdSense Matched content recommendations
How to exclude specific pages and control what pages appear in Google AdSense Matched content/recommendation advertisement units.
Web Monetization
Keep worthless ads off your website with AdSense Ad Balance
Google AdSense gives publishers new control over what to do with low-value ads without meaningfully impacting revenue. Run empty spots instead of garbage ads.
Web Monetization
Requirements for eligibility for AdSense Matched content
The Google Recommended Content widgets can recommend visitors more pages to read on your website. The feature is only available to eligible websites.
Browser Extensions
Navigate around dead links with the Wayback Machine browser extension
Experimental browser extension from Mozilla and the Internet Archive helps you find archived copies of dead links as you browse with Firefox.
Linux
Feed your log files to the systemd journal
How to forward logs to systemd journald from legacy programs that insist on writing to dedicated log files instead.
Linux
Why I Love Free Software
My contribution to the FSFE’s 2017 #ilovefs campaign.
Hypertext
EdgeDeflector enforces your default browser setting in Windows
EdgeDeflector stops Windows from forces-opening links in Microsoft Edge, and makes Windows respect the system-wide default web browser setting instead.