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Whatever they gotta do to unglue to text from the far left edge of my browser, please.

https://drkt.eu/files/ramblings/ramblings-framework-testground.html

I’ll take it over this

They support the fascist administration of the USA

Well OK fascism is a strong word,

No it isn’t. Why say this? What’s the purpose of cleaning your hands of this objectively true statement? I take issue with your motivations.

Unrelated but holy fuck I need quirky low-impact website designers to realize that text-align:center does NOT in fact burn the rainforest or cause congestion on the internet highways or whatever. text-align:center IS vegan.

I’d urge you to try selfhosting the other clones

Lady I got a decade of experience trying to get off Discord. I know.

Matrix isn’t that hard if you can read, though, and it has actual users, and you get to control your account. It has other problems that make it non-viable.

I could rant about the slop but it’s pointless because the developers of this didn’t even understand why Discord alternatives never work out.

• Bridging Discord without bots on Discord’s side is against Discord ToS, so don’t rely on that.
• P2P is a great idea except it scares the hoes so you’ve cut 80% of your market off right there.
• No federation so realistically everyone is gonna have to create and manage like 10 separate accounts for each of their friend groups, which even the most hardcore anti-Discord folks aren’t going to bother with.

Also this is a promo post, however sneaky you try to make it. Tag appropriately.

I want to upgrade to it from Proxmox when I eventually get a new processor. It seems perfect for my use case; proxmox is far too complex for what little I do with it.

I put Opnsense on an Intel Pentium G3220 and it’s been rock solid for gigabit.

Thank you for your opinion; we had not heard this perspective before and it brings a lot of nuance to the discussion!

it attempts to log in using a list of credentials.

Do you read what you post or do you just google “ssh vulnerability” and post the first result to waste my inbox space?

Software doesn’t get patched all the time,

SSH does, it is one of the codebases with the most eyeballs on it at any given time and patches to it get fast-tracked downstream.

advising hobbiests on how to configure and maintain their personal server, not the engineering meeting for a fortune 500

You don’t need to be a genius to enable keys, disable root and install fail2ban.

it remains best practice not to expose ssh to raw internet unless absolutely necessary

This is correct, but we are arguing about a case in which it is necessary to expose something and it’s better that it’s one of the most secure and battle-tested pieces of software in the world as opposed to some open source hobby *arr stack.

arguing against the industry standard … more experience and engineering time than you or I.

I work in this industry, ma’am.

Did you know that simply being connected to the internet puts you at risk? Your firewall could have a vulnerability! Your router’s admin panel could be misconfiguration and exposed to the internet! The only way to be safe is to unplug your cable and stop replying to me. Also rip out your bluetooth modules and any LEDs in every device you own because they have been demonstrated to be attack vectors. In fact just stop using anything more complicated than a MOSFET.

You did link a vulnerability! That is true. I didn’t claim SSH had a clean track record, I claimed it had a better track record than most other software. That vulnerability is hard to exploit, and generates a lot of noise if you were to try, which nobody has because it’s never been found in the wild.

People who sit on 0-days for critical software like SSH don’t go out and try to mass-exploit it because it will be found within the day and patched within the week once they start making noise. This is not a quiet exploit. If they’re smart, they sell it. If they’re ambitious, they build an elaborate multi-chain attack against a specific target. Only 0.14% of devices vulnerable to this exploit are EoL versions of OpenSSH, so once this was patched, it was no longer a useful attack vector.

It would also have been completely negated by fail2ban, which is prominently deployed on internet facing SSH, as it required thousands and thousands of connection attempts to trigger the condition. It could also have been mitigated by not running sshd as root, though I understand that most people don’t want to deal with that headache even though it is possible.

There are thousands of independent honeypots that sit quietly and sniff all the mass-attacks and they earn their daily bread by aggregating and reporting this data. If you run a mass exploit, you will be found within the day. Trust me, I burned an IP address by regularly scanning the whole IPv4 space. You are going to end up on blacklists real fuckin’ fast and whatever you were doing will be noticed and reported.

If you’re going to open something, SSH is a very safe choice. But yes, don’t open it if you don’t need it. We are discussing how to open a service to the internet safely, though, so we need it.

If you’re going to open something, SSH is far, far more battle-tested than much other software, even popular software. Pragmatically, If someone is sitting on a 0-day for SSH, do you genuinely think they’re gonna waste that on you and me? Either they’re gonna sell it to cash out as fast as possible, or they’ll sit on it while plotting an attack against someone who has real money. It is an unhealthy level of paranoia to suggest that SSH is not secure, or that it’s less secure than the hundreds of other solutions to this problem.

Here is my IP address, make me eat my words.
2a05:f6c7:8321::164 | 89.160.150.164

They can try all they like, man. They’re not gonna guess a username, key and password.