Twitter Is Blocking Likes and Retweets that Mention Substack(flipboard.social)

166 points by camjohnson26 3 years ago | 71 comments

BorgBackup 2.0 supports Rclone – over 70 cloud providers in addition to SSH(borgbackup.readthedocs.io)

252 points by AdaX 2 years ago | 86 comments

Show HN: A new kind of FPS aim trainer(openaim.pramit.gg)

72 points by pmazumder 3 months ago | 36 comments

Raspberry Pi 5 has no hardware video encoding and only HEVC decoding(raspberrypi.com)

292 points by InsomniacL 3 years ago | 201 comments

1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long(conwaylife.com)

502 points by nooks 10 months ago | 191 comments

ConwayLife.com forum post announcing the discovery of a glider in Conway's Life that starts from a one-cell-thick pattern about 3.7 billion cells long.

Firefox engineers discover a Windows Defender bug that causes high CPU usage(bugzilla.mozilla.org)

574 points by mconley 3 years ago | 201 comments

A Mozilla Bugzilla bug report comment about Windows Defender causing high CPU usage when running Firefox.

The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source(blogs.windows.com)

1489 points by pentagrama 1 year ago | 1033 comments

Microsoft Windows Developer blog post announcing that the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) has been released as open source.

Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory(mathstodon.xyz)

516 points by IngoBlechschmid 3 months ago | 217 comments

Mastodon thread by Ingo Blechschmidt describing how since Linux 6.9 the LUKS suspend tool silently failed to wipe disk-encryption keys from memory.

SciPy builds for Python 3.12 on Windows are a minor miracle(labs.quansight.org)

425 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 225 comments

Quansight Labs blog post on how SciPy was built for Python 3.12 on Windows, including the move to the Flang Fortran compiler.

I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too(notebookcheck.net)

782 points by smurda 9 months ago | 721 comments

Notebookcheck opinion column in which the author describes switching his main desktop from Windows 11 to Linux (Artix) and urges readers to do the same.

Chicago95 – Windows 95 Theme for Linux(github.com)

326 points by acqbu 3 years ago | 203 comments

GitHub repository for Chicago95, a Windows 95-style desktop theme for Linux with GTK3, Xfce, KDE, icons, cursors, and fonts.

Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features(xda-developers.com)

930 points by haunter 5 months ago | 571 comments

XDA Developers article explaining how Linux gaming performance is improving as Windows API behaviors are implemented as Linux kernel features.