If you're running Windows, you may prefer the following.
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/ralphkyttle/2018/01/05/verifying-spectre
-meltdown-protections-remotely/
For Linux, there are tests you can perform by querying values under the /sys
filesystem.
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