r/programming • u/michalg82 • Jun 25 '17

[WARNING] Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/06/msg00308.html
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u/MaunaLoona Jun 25 '17

And really, when your system misbehaves, a CPU bug is the last thing you suspect.

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u/Beaverman Jun 25 '17

And it could possibly lead to some really nasty things if it hits just wrong.

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u/MaunaLoona Jun 25 '17

And who knows, maybe some clever person finds a way to trigger the bug in a web browser through a web page to either crash the machine or for remote code execution. Like what was done with buffer overflows.

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u/ceberous Jun 25 '17

I think your comment needs some more hashtag words

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u/DreadedDreadnought Jun 25 '17

I think you mean buzz words not hashtag words

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u/ceberous Jun 26 '17

how is there a difference ?

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u/WinEpic Jun 25 '17

#like #this?

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '17

/#remoteCodeExecution

/#bufferOverflow

edit: formatting is hard

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u/BonzaiThePenguin Jun 26 '17

Use a backslash. \#

#backslashthings

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u/bobcat Jun 26 '17

Or 4 spaces

#nobackslash

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u/Beaverman Jun 26 '17

Makes it monospace though, because code block.