Matthias @_xhr_@mastodon.social

Liebe TL, kennt ihr ein queer-freundliches Unternehmen in Karlsruhe, das eine Softwareentwicklerin sucht?

Meltdown fix in for #OpenBSD/i386:

"Finish the last missing piece for the i386 meltdown fix:
- handle protection fault on iret properly
- handle NMI
- actually enable U-K in pmap_switch()
from hshoexer@; input guenther@; OK mlarkin@ deraadt@"

https://www.mail-archive.com/source-changes@openbsd.org/msg99194.html

Previous commits: https://www.mail-archive.com/source-changes@openbsd.org/msg98586.html

https://www.mail-archive.com/source-changes@openbsd.org/msg97523.html

https://www.mail-archive.com/source-changes@openbsd.org/msg97221.html

https://www.mail-archive.com/source-changes@openbsd.org/msg97220.html

There's a reason there's only one-letter difference from "eval" to "evil"

I've said this before and I'll say it again. We all have to make the choice on what kind of community we want to build.

Do you want actual progress, or do you just want to some more token friends that you can to 'prove' you like 'diversity'.

Do you want to learn or do you just want to build a community that just affirms and validates your own biases?

We're all making some hard decisions right now concerning who will allow in our space.

This is a necessary process.

More details from @jasperla "Thanks to Ben Gras of VUSec for sharing an early version the research paper with us. More details will be made public soon as '#tlbleed'" https://www.mail-archive.com/source-changes@openbsd.org/msg99159.html #infosec #OpenBSD // CC: @_xhr_

Julia Reda (EU, MEP pirate party)
'We will take this fight to plenary and still hope to #SaveYourInternet'

'Some are blaming the EU for the vote for #UploadFilters and #LinkTax, but don’t be fooled: Anti-EU politicians like #ENF voted in favour of both articles! Without them, the Link Tax would have been rejected. Now help me #FixCopyright in the plenary vote in July'

infografic about who voted what about to follow.

Thank you #OpenBSD for disabling HyperThreading on Intel. I could not agree more.

HyperThreading was a mis-guided attempt at improving performance of Java threads by copying the SPARC processors without having the SPARC architecture… as usual with these marketing-driven issues it is coming back to bite Intel (and us…).

I never, literally never, ran a piece of code benefitting from HyperThreading nor ever heard anyone brag about it.

Paper about #LazyFP Intel CPU flaw is out:
“LazyFP: Leaking FPU Register State using Microarchitectural Side-Channels”

https://blog.cyberus-technology.de/images/lazyFP.pdf

Cheap roomba!

Pretty cool that since blender now uses peertube, you can just follow @blender from here 😻

A very short tale about a pole display and an Open Source operating system. https://jpmens.net/2018/06/19/on-a-pos-pole-display-and-an-open-source-os/ #openbsd

Where's the Tolkien fans at?

Noticed my 1973 copy of The Hobbit has a message on the inside cover.

Can anyone translate?