You seem to have bought into the cool-aid. Please add a healthy dose of critical thinking. Because this isn't the kind of cool-aid that makes for a fun trip with pretty pictures. This is the kind that melts your brain.
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Have you _looked_ at the patches you are talking about? You should have - several of them bear your name.
The patches do things like add the garbage MSR writes to the kernel entry/exit points. That's insane. That says "we're trying to protect the kernel". We already have retpoline there, with less overhead.
So somebody isn't telling the truth here. Somebody is pushing complete garbage for unclear reasons. Sorry for having to point that out.
If this was about flushing the BTB at actual context switches between different users, I'd believe you. But that's not at all what the patches do.
As it is, the patches are COMPLETE AND UTTER GARBAGE.
They do literally insane things. They do things that do not make sense. That makes all your arguments questionable and suspicious. The patches do things that are not sane.
reminder never to do bios updates, they are infected with botnet.
Hunter Martin
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/systemd
Now you can have your botnet init load botnet microcode blobs on to your botnet CPU at each boot.
Blake Campbell
The solution is to fix Intel's shit, which slows down Intel by 30% or more. Intel's proposals would slow everybody down by that much.
Linus just BTFO'd Intel because they're playing games like this.
Aiden Hill
ahahhaha holy fuck this is priceless
Brody Cox
it's spooky to think what will happen to gnu and linux once their monolithic figure heads eventually bites the dust
Chase Hall
The alternative is to use AMD instead.
Eli Turner
99% of the work done with Linux in the last 20 years has basically been for corporate customers. As a Unix clone it's been good enough for that entire time.
The same can be said of GCC, the most important GNU project.
Asher Harris
Meh, you should at least go ARM A7 if you're a poorfag, or POWER if you got cash. Well anyway I'm sure all the gaymers will keep finding excuse to stay on x86, but whatever. Not my problem.
Leo Ortiz
OpenBSD despite being cucked hard on the license front is the least cucked when it comes down to actual code.
Kevin Wright
The work is mostly done by corporate customers but it's still gatekept by Linus. He has prevented a lot of bullshit.
BSD licensing has a nice side property to it, you don't get corporations trying to push pure shit back into OpenBSD, they just silently fork and do retarded things on their own time.
Gabriel Butler
That's very subtly powerful argument against the GPL virus.
Carter Perez
Intel status: GASSED
Oliver Nelson
who funds the jews? its got to be one person becuase that hair style is rediculous and nobody in their right mind would use it unless they fully understood the game
Matthew Jackson
epic
David Gutierrez
Daily reminder that the GPL does not require contribution back into the upstream projects.
Christopher Mitchell
With all the luck, by that time HURD will be usable. I think there were a bunch of others neat kernels, GNU OS can swap them around pretty easily.
Xavier Mitchell
Daily reminder that the GPL is not about getting contribution back to the upstream project
Aaron Bennett
Daily reminder that according to the GPLv2 The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable. it's not the source code if it's intentionally obfuscated and comments censored under the guise of an "embargo".
3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
how can linux distribute obfuscated code instead of the source code and still keep the GPLv2?
Carson Campbell
It says "machine-readable" so I'm afraid that includes obfuscated shit as well. Frankly it should have been "human-readable" but I guess that would preclude the use of binary data.
Chase Nguyen
Can't you license wankers make your own containment thread?
Jeremiah Evans
Realistically, we can already replace Linux with any of the BSD kernels. We'd finally have proper ZFS support too. GNU/k*BSD, as I like to call it.
Ryan Fisher
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Easton Morales
Can be forked into GPL, if need be. And most big companies treat Linux like it was licensed under the LGPL anyway.
William Russell
OpenBSD doesn't give a fuck, AFAICT they reject a shitload of patches in favor of correctness anyway so I don't think the license hurts them. If it does we'll never know.
Aiden Wilson
This. Linus operates similarly to the chans in that he seems to actively discourage participation from morons by ragging on them.
Jose Sanders
Use an obscure format? Hey, here's your source code, on unobtanium WORM drive platters / DATA-MD / 7" floppy / DEC disk packs / punchcards / etc. For only the cost of media plus shipping!
Bentley Nelson
If it's an obscure format, then it cannot be a medium customarily used for software interchange.
Jace Thomas
Jews will find a hole in even the GPL if they can, because they're jews. This does not mean the GPL is useless. The harder it is to find the loophole, the less "people" can get away with violations. That said, if nobody actually takes the violators to court, then it does not matter what license you choose. It's just as important to enforce the license, no matter how strict or how cucked.
David Campbell
This isn't news to anyone who gets their news from more than just /roachpol/. Fuck off back to /g/
Oliver Garcia
That's why I find it such a curious cohencidence that Linus Torvalds is extremely reluctant to take violations to court. It's almost as if pics related has something to do with it.
Elijah Bell
POWER + x86 on an expansion daughter board for backwards compatibility is the way forward.
Easton Gonzalez
Language should be changed to contemporarily.
Daniel Peterson
Language should be changed to contemporarily.
Elijah Wilson
Would PCI-E be enough or do we need a new socket with a different transport layer?
John Sanchez
Are there anyone actually dumb enough to buy Intel, after this month? We can all hope that Intel's propaganda campaign at confusing the working Meltdown vulnerability and the more theoretical Spectre vulnerability fails, but knowing how stupid most people are, they are going to keep falling for Intel. Let's do all we can to destroy Intel's reputation once and for all.
Hudson Wilson
Certainly people are dumb enough to buy Intel. Tee Vee isn't telling them not to.
Never underestimate the stupidity of the general public user.
Kayden Ortiz
If Intel can do propaganda against the thruth, why can't we play equally dirty for the truth?The best thing we can do now is to encourage people to buy AMD. I know they have unfortunately included the PSP on their newer processors, but they are still better than Intel, and until every poorfag can afford a Talos Workstation, the best choice. A normalfag requires a simple alternative, something that he can get here and now. We should also inform them how Intel is the Microsoft of the CPU world with their fraudulent (((salesmanshi))), and cheating compilers.
Ryan Miller
Frankly I want people's computers to fail en-masse. It would please me. We tried to warn them and they looked away. Now it's time to pay the price.
I do try to warn people but their eyes glaze over. Why waste the effort?
I do commend you if you have the youthful energy to keep pouring your heart into trying to wake up the sleeping masses but I just don't give a shit any more. It's not worth it to me. Cast not your pearls before swine.
Ethan Butler
We are reliving the 1980s and I am OK with that. Duel CPU's where common back then. Apple2's where 6502 but you could get a Z80 card to run both software types. The C128 had a 65xx and Z80. Tandy had machines that did the same thing. And there where the "DOS Compatible" Macs >pcmuseum.ca/details.asp?id=108 They also had "PC personality cards" for the later PPC macs. Was a Pentium and ram on a PCI card.
Blake Stewart
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Nathaniel James
Torvalds has said time and time again long before the Linux Foundation that he doesn't care about politics. He has explicitly dedicated his life to being apolitical in his work as a software engineer.
Christian Butler
New bus to avoid the bus niggers, or something like HP-IB but higher speed.
So if you dramaqueens actually followed the thread you would realize Linus misunderstood the patchset proposed by Woodhouse.
To mitiate Spectre variant 2 both Intel and AMD added three new features on microcode. IBPB, STIBP, IBRS.
IBPB : discard all branch targets learned earlier.
STIBP : prevent hyperthread sibling from following branch preditctions learned from another sibling
IBRS : prevents branch target learned in a less-previleged execution mode (before it was most recently set) from takin effect. Needs to be set on each kernel entry FOR REASONS.
There should be no reason to rely on these features if everybody uses bleeding edge gcc version with Google's repoline support but unfortunately Skylake will be still vulnerable even with retpoline under deep call stack FOR REASONS. That is why Woodhouse wanted to use IBRS on Skylake processors on his last patch set but Linus was too tired to understand what the fsck was he trying to achieve.
Seems like there are other solutions to save skylake cucks by tracing the stack depths from the kernel side and whats not. Might be good chance to follow their conversation and patchsets if anyone's interested in learning how linux handles process context switches on hyperthreaded processors.
Jordan Allen
Thanks for that friend. Holla Forums is not exempt from confirmation bias.
Andrew Price
how about intel just stop producing processors with botnet and recall all processors with botnet and provide replacement processors with no botnet.
all intel kikes can burn in hell until this happens.
Luis Myers
I built a new PC with a 6700k a year ago. I really regret not waiting for AMD's new processors.
Lucas White
YOU DON'T SAY
Unironically Linux pls
Anthony Sullivan
Why do I get the feeling you have no idea what that actually means?
