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> Iirc OpenBSD actively disabled it for you, making it the default.

They have, as of this commit[1] on 2018-06-19.

[1] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=152943660103446&w=2

In fact, cache p3 timing attack was known as "theoretically possible" back in nineties, but was booed out of the conversation by "big name security analysts"

"I told you so" gets less satisfying each time you get to say it, yaknow? (* commiseration, no criticism)

If that's true, it's wonderful and I applaud them for making this decision.

I haven't been following this conversation closely; is there any serious change of Linux (some distributions, or the kernel upstream) disabling HT by default?