Wednesday Morning News

Intel CPU Design Flaw
Over the last 24 hours most tech sites are reporting a doom and gloom scenario invloving Intel CPUs. The gist of it is there is a security flaw in Intel CPUs that requires patching at the OS level. This patch may impact performance. Clickbaiters are using 30% as a number. IMHO we have no reliable info on the scale or impact of this issue yet. I would take everything you read with a grain of salt.
‘Kernel memory leaking’ Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign
Good breakdown: Serious Intel CPU design flaw may require a Windows patch, but probably won’t affect gaming performance
Technical breakdown: The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table Isolation patches
Original paper on this issue: KASLR is Dead: Long Live KASLR

Fakespot
I’ve been looking for an action camera for a while now. Go Pros are out of my price range. I saw a deal for the DBPower EX7000 4K Sports Action Camera. 4K, touchscreen, blah, blah, blah. Seemed like a great deal. I start Googling. Red flag number one, this thing seems to always be on “sale”. Red flag number two, I can’t find a reliable review. Gut feeling says stay away from this thing. I keep Googling. In the comment section at one deal site I see a comment about fake reviews for this product on Amazon. It mentions a site called Fakespot. Never heard of it.
You copy/paste a url from Amazon. Fakespot then “looks for patterns to filter out reviews we think are unreliable”.
Depending on whether you look up the camera or camera kit, Fakespot says the reviews for the aforementioned camera are 74% or 100% “low quality”. Gut feeling reinforced, I skip this camera.
Very cool. Fakespot is now on my bookmarks list.
https://www.fakespot.com/about

Asinine
I just ran into this: KDE Dropping “Run As Root” Feature Stumbles Backlash From The Community

 
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