• addie@feddit.uk
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    22 hours ago

    I quite liked how the original Linux fix for the Spectre-style speculative execution bug on Intel processors was called “Forcefully Unmap Complete Kernel With Interrupt Trampolines”, but alas, in the interest of diplomacy it was renamed to “Kernel Page Table Isolation” (KPTI) rather than “FUCKWIT”.

    Doesn’t feel like it was that long ago, but of course, all search results are dogshit in this new age: https://wccftech.com/intel-kernel-memory-leak-bug-speculative-execution-performance-hit/

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      20 hours ago

      I never really looked into what they were doing with KPTI.

      Assuming it’s accurate, that first one is a much better technical description, even if it was intended to spell FUCKWIT