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Is not an epic screw-up. More like 99.9% of compute is not done in adversarial untrusted sandboxes, so who cares if another process with a lot of work can extra
by krapht 5y ago
Is not an epic screw-up. More like 99.9% of compute is not done in adversarial untrusted sandboxes, so who cares if another process with a lot of work can extract data from another one.
You leave so much performance on the table if you demand cryptographically secure perf for everything. That means no caching, everything runs in fixed, worst case time, and the amount of work must be fixed as well so there is not any variation in power draw.
Here is a simpler solution - do not run untrusted code on your computer. It is just that easy™.
PS: I disable JavaScript by default in my browser, and manually whitelist exceptions, for the same reason. I also turned off Spectre mitigation on my workstation.
- stonewareslord 5y agoWhat are you using for JS whitelisting? I used to used uMatrix before it died.
- krapht 5y agouMatrix developer moved on to primarily work on uBlock Origin. It is a good successor. I think some people do not like UBo because by default it is a little light on blocking so most websites just work. Well, you can configure it to block more things, and if you use uMatrix you already are willing to deal with the pain of this process.
- stonewareslord 5y agoAh that's a shame. It isn't nearly as powerful as uMatrix which allows up to per-subdomain configuring of per-subdomain loaded images/js/styles/...
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