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[elatllat]

Interesting, I wonder if it requires any hardware mitigations, and if we will see a fully open / Libre version this decade....

[elatllat]

OR we could have memory safety and stop mitigation bloat.

[elatllat]

What benchmarks would this change effect?

For all those RAM ranters how do you explain git requiring 2GB to merge a kernel branch, or ext4...

[elatllat]

That sounds inconvenient, ecryptfs-utils permits transparent use.
losetup/cryptsetup can also be used....

[elatllat]

what are the vulnerabilities and is it faster with them disabled?

uname -r && cd /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/ &&...

[elatllat]

Was the radial summary crowded?

[elatllat]

I wonder if 5.9 will be a LTS given the 5 versions between each of the current LTS releases.

[elatllat]

Is "zero bubble" branch prediction just a performance thing or will it affect speculative execution vulnerabilities?

[elatllat]

Using CSS properly to make it legible on mobile would be nice. Google rates the mobile experience at 53%;


https://developers.goog...

[elatllat]

Rust can use more RAM, but it's about the same speed as C and the extra safety in Rust is well worth it's negligible costs.

[elatllat]

Both Firefox and Chromium are buggy, glad I have 2 FOSS options... links -g is sometimes a light option but so much of the web is needlessly incompatible...

[elatllat]

Or subtly fixing undisclosed vulnerabilities.

[elatllat]

Dell is the only American compay to offer a linux glass/metal body laptop. Linus Torvalds has/had a Dell laptop. But dell offers next to no customization...