Just FYI, the #OpenBSD project knew about the potential harm of #Spectre and #Meltdown 11 years ago
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=118296441702631&w=2
This is before exploits routinely started getting catchy names and even before MySpace was a thing. Let alone Twitter and Facebook was around to share news of the impending CPU apocalypse
Too bad so few people listened
https://mastodon.social/media/I10ysFRGxesWg61C5gU
https://mastodon.social/media/-_luWj8UwuEKaeoIq74