A Lovely 10C Site!

This is so fitting, thanks XKCD for the headache that people will face for years. [xkcd.com]

@matigo They and many other businesses may have to choose between security and performance.

Not good…

Microsoft on Spectre updates' speed impact: “single-digit slowdowns” on new PCs, big effect on PCs with Haswell/older chips and servers with I/O-intensive work [theverge.com]

TLDR:

Windows 10 users with 6th gen or later Intel CPUs should be good.
Windows 10 users with 4th gen or earlier Intel CPUs are mostly okay but might see some throttled performance.
Windows 7 and 8 users with 4th gen or earlier Intel CPUs are screwed.

So the Raspberry Pi isn't vulnerable to Spectre or Meltdown CPU attacks [raspberrypi.org]

Here's a post into why is the case.

@matigo A very long time, with no true replacement.

Loved that aircraft!

The Boeing 747 is no more in the US [arstechnica.com]

Although euro airlines still operate them, I bet they'll be extinct eventually.

@kdfrawg As long as those ebooks aren't DRM that is. I flat out refuse to buy a DRM ebook.

// @phoneboy @indigo @c

After some snowblow cleaning this morning, back to the makeshift office for another work week.

Tonight is a food shopping night.

@streakmachine It’s going to be years before this is fully fixed, for now pathing is the way to go.

/@sumudu @kdfrawg

On to fixing a colleague’s broken PC software which should be a lot of fun.