chrisper · HackerTrans

7 yıl öncediscuss

It's kind of weird that work experience can't replace the master degree in this case.

8 yıl öncediscuss

Out of all cloud storage providers, Google is the only one that can provide me with great speeds (I have Gbit Internet).

chrisper

9 yıl öncediscuss

The "fear" with ME is more that governments or someone like that could spy on us... (not really a "threat" to most people in Western Countries). But still better to get rid of it. Not an imminent threat per se.

This bug is a true security bug that has been lurking around for 10 years... and it could have been already abused. This is double scary because this attack does not leave any traces behind and it allows any application to pretty much enter God Mode (this is the worst case scenario of a security situation (hence the name meltdown (like nuklear meltdown is the worst case situation in a nuclear power plant)).

This bug is also bad because in certain situations the fix of this bug causes severe peformance penatlty.

You are only fucked if you don't update your OS.

chrisper

9 yıl öncediscuss

I think so too. It also seems the Linux version right now is in a "get it to work, optimize later" state.

chrisper

9 yıl öncediscuss

Yes it will affect your VM as it's the host CPU that's affected.

chrisper

9 yıl öncediscuss

Yes. This is far worse.

chrisper

9 yıl öncediscuss

It's not information. It's speculation.

chrisper

9 yıl öncediscuss

If you look here: https://www.computerbase.de/2018-01/intel-cpu-pti-sicherheit... (Sorry it is German)

But if you scroll down to "Windows-Benchmarks: Anwendungen" you can see that most applications do not have any performance hit with the Windows patch.

Only M.2 SSD seem to be affected.

chrisper

9 yıl öncediscuss

Ah that makes sense. Thanks!

chrisper

9 yıl öncediscuss

Sadly I just bought an 8700k last week. Great CPU until next Tuesday? (Windows Patch Day)

Though even if I lose some percentage, it will still outrun AMD on single core applications (and probably also multi core ones).

chrisper

9 yıl öncediscuss

>Too bad you can't long OVH and Hetzner.

What does that even mean?

Also Hetzner just introduced some AMD Epyc server.

chrisper

9 yıl öncediscuss

Why would the OS of the customer matter? The patch would be applied to the kernel of the hypervisor / host OS.

chrisper

9 yıl öncediscuss

Sometimes I use Facebook messenger. I guess it has the same effect.

chrisper

9 yıl öncediscuss

If you don't want to get exposed to the crap part, then just use messenger.com instead. I haven't been to Facebook.com in a while

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