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Distributed systems, operating systems, networking research.

Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research; affiliate faculty, University of Washington.

But realistically: mainly cat photos, food and wine, and bad jokes.

I also administer https://discuss.systems/

webhttps://drkp.net/

With Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux you can run all your favourite Windows and Linux apps side-by-side with a modern Linux kernel running cooperatively with the Windows kernel in ring 0. And unlike modern WSL, no hardware virtualisation is used so even your 486 can run it!

Please enjoy, I think this might be one of my greatest hacks of all time

https://codeberg.org/hails/wsl9x

Products no one asked for:
"Down Detector" but for finding ducks
Cocaine Salmon Would Like to See You Swim That Far Upstream without a Little Bump: https://theneedling.com/2026/03/10/cocaine-salmon-would-like-to-see-you-swim-that-far-upstream-without-a-little-bump/

If anybody is wondering, mastodon.social server got DDoS’d yesterday but it had no impact on cyberplace.social (and other Mastodon servers) - no queue issues either. Everything just worked as expected.

In other news, “decentralised” network BlueSky has been down so much recently the status page doesn’t even work.

don’t forget to do this when your server is sad

Man, I go into therapy for the first time, and I come out and Tim Cook is stepping down.

Therapy works, fam.

RE: https://gamepad.club/@Doubleaa/116439063380985925

Remember the other day when I mocked Bluesky's outage? (https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/@nateb/116416170793551795)

This is what REAL decentralization looks like.

I haven't really been following what's going on with Palantir, but I'm just gonna go ahead and reiterate my rule "never trust a white man with a manifesto".

Happy Monday, got this gem from a UK org. The subject line was "GDPR request".

I think it sums up this particular shitshow perfectly tbh.

"we have processed your GDPR request and are now sending your deleted information to someone you do not know as confirmation we have deleted you"

#gdpr #privacy

10-year-old: Do Smarties make you smart?

Me, a Mastodon user: Intelligence is an inherently eugenicist social construct.