C++ Wage Slave
@CppGuy@infosec.space
I'm an oldish software developer, a cis het man, married to Mrs Wife since for ever. I'm autistic but high-masking. @nddev is where I mostly write about that. I nearly always accept follow requests. If I follow you, you don't have to follow back unless you want to. I've chosen a server that blocks Threads because I don't trust Meta's intentions. No alt text, no boost. Avatar is a photo of a Jersey bay, with a boat setting out to sea. I'm horrified by the rise of the hard Right around the world.
infosec.space
It's not just #Spectre and #Meltdown — dozens of similar CPU bugs have been discovered since 2018, and they're still being found:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient_execution_CPU_vulnerability
The foundations of modern computing are ricketier than we like to imagine.
In the past, I've always bought a decent computer and held on to it for years and years: it saves money and it's the green thing you do. My main machine right now is seven years old and still going strong. Updating the OS and apps is no problem — I run #Linux. But #CPU bugs make me wonder whether I should replace computers more often for security reasons. I really hope not.