No, they got it booting on bare metal a few posts down.

Though I think it also boots in a VM if that's your preference. Also very cool that it's on real hardware.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9690703

You should probs edit out the spoiler, or encode it somehow for others who haven't watched it yet!

Fair enough. I assumed everyone would have watched it by now from here :)

For example ... I just finished it 2-3 months back and started only because of a thread here :)

It was bundled with XP.

What does that have to do with Americans specifically?

Sorry for the off-topic, but I was curious about Affectable so I opened the website. I saw it's very thin and light and comfortable, but I struggled to find out what "it" is and what it does for me. It's kinda buried.

I was interested enough to click through the different links in the footer. And just as I reached the purchase page, I see that it requires "an iPhone running iOS". Unsure why it requires an iPhone; and no info on a timeline for iPhone-less customers. But that immediately rules me out as a customer.

I feel like the landing page would be a lot better if it started out focusing on what it is & how it can help me.

Apologies again for the unsolicited advice. Just wanted to share my impressions in case it's helpful.

Just for what it's worth, I just pushed an eBPF-based workaround for people who are running kernels in which AF_ALG is linked directly into the kernel and not as a module: https://github.com/Dabbleam/CVE-2026-31431-mitigation

I am running this in production right now and it mitigates the attack, with no unexpected side-effects as far as I can see.

I don't think RustDesk was hit by this. If you weren't able to access it two weeks ago, it was due to an outage on their end: https://github.com/rustdesk/uptime/issues/53

Thanks for the heads up! I'm using it self-hosted on a Hetzner VPS.

Apparently they also block certain ports. As soon as I route the traffic through Tailscale through the same VPS I can connect without issues (My phone was affected as well)

No? WSL is Linux on Windows — so W9xSL is Linux on Windows 9x. I think… :)

WSL is "Windows Subsystem for Linux", so this should be "Linux Subsystem for Windows 9x"

By Microsoft’s convention, that would be a way to run Windows 9x on Linux. It’s a bit confusing. Another example is “Windows Subsystem for Android”, which is what they use for running Android apps on Windows. I think the idea is that it’s not a “Windows Subsystem” for X, but rather a Windows “Subsystem for X”.

(Edited: mixed it up on the last sentence.)

> that would be a way to run Windows 9x on Linux

Which is exactly what the post says this is. It's running Windows 9x on Linux kernel. It's strangely worded, but from the follow up comment, and the readme in the repo it seems clear that it's running on the Linux kernel.

> WSL9x runs a modern Linux kernel (6.19 at time of writing) cooperatively inside the Windows 9x kernel

Pretty sure it's the other way around. But I haven't had my coffee yet ;)

Microsoft's naming scheme confuses me every single time though: "Windows Subsystem for Linux" actually runs Linux on Windows...

You're correct: "WSL9x runs a modern Linux kernel (6.19 at time of writing) cooperatively inside the Windows 9x kernel"

I missed the part that it runs on the bloody Windows 9x kernel, I was to busy thinking about modern Windows.

Yeah it makes more sense if you consider the word Windows' to be in possessive form.