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[Alex/AT]

Yeah, mitigations=off had become normal, and seems like the sensible default, unless changed otherwise....

[Alex/AT]

Yeah, I certainly see these menacing teeth on the left mouth too.

[Alex/AT]

And add a bunch of new. Both holes and issues....

[Alex/AT]

A wise decision indeed, if to be taken.

[Alex/AT]

Thanks guys. Never had any intel CPU for 15+ years already, and never will.

[Alex/AT]

And

-A INPUT -p udp -m multiport --dports 80,443 -j DROP
-A OUTPUT -p udp -m multiport --dports 80,443 -j DROP
-A FORWARD -p udp -m

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[Alex/AT]

It's a way to read firmware-specific blob with the intent of sending it somewhere (assuming it's called telemetry and not monitoring)....

[Alex/AT]

Well, having some telemetry does not make it much worse after the moment huge eBPF backdoor had been introduced.

[Alex/AT]

Such acquisitions (and we are talking about one monster acquiring another monster) rarely leave the playground unscathed....

[Alex/AT]

WHAAAAAT?
I'm terribly concerned about WoW future from this point on.

[Alex/AT]

The thing is, having FIFO enabled and writing using xmit buffer check basically just fills up FIFO to its highest margin, and then is no different from...

[Alex/AT]

Yeah, more slowdowns needed. People just have to buy new CPUs.

[Alex/AT]

Basically this means controller is sending bytes faster than polling sender can feed it.
It's not polling in a tight loop, it's rescheduled. And...

[Alex/AT]

16550 UARTs FIFO support was missing all that time?
Holy moly. I thought it's 2022 already, but it's more like 1982 there then.

[Alex/AT]

Yes, the biggest drawback is that many third party patches will have to be adjusted to the changed layout.
But well, ones doing that and not pushing...