Well, if you have an idea what to do with the undocumented string returned by the site, maybe you also have an idea of what effects it might have, beyond making linux fast again?
> You are (probably) an adult. You can and should wisely decide just
how much risk you are willing to take. Do or don't try this at home.
You do not want to try this at work.
> As the above charts show: The effect of default parameters vs
mitigations=off is measurable but not hugely impressive. (…)
> You can and should wisely decide just how much risk you are willing to take
That requires informed consent. But we can see that people are not well informed: many don't realize that a web broswer or an attacker accessible network stack are attack vectors.
I've been using these options for a while (well, mitigations=off is new to me)... on dedicated rendering computers that are on a port isolated network inaccessible to the internet and without the ability to make outgoing connections at all.
That's probably (I hope?) a reasonable usecase for these settings... but not exactly a super common one.
