[–] 1 point 8 hours ago

There are N100 and related SBCs that get close or match them, and if you REALLY need low power - running off a small battery or solar or something like that - you probably dont want anything with 16gb of ram.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 hours ago

    The 16gb rpi5 isnt something that makes me "hate" them, but it sure does make me question what could be going through their minds. Theres hardly any good use case at that price that isnt way bettee served elsewhere.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 hours ago

    I wholeheartedly agree... but floppy disks?!?

    They havnt been remotely rubust or reliable next to various flash memory systems for 20 years. A little magnetic field or dust and that 1.2Meg is corrupt. Usb flash drives can go through the laundry and get run over by a car and give you your files back.

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  • [–] 2 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

    This example demonstrates my point though. It requires an extremely unusual system configuration that may or may not even exist in the real world it is so unusual. AI doesnt get tired, like you said, but its not about spaghetti code (both musl and openssh are gold-standard opposite of spaghetti code), its about trying every possible software combination in ways a human wouldnt bother.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    Other way around. This requires a passwordless account configured with sha256 or sha512 password hash, musl system with openssh installed, no PAM, and password authentication allowed:

    When logging into a passwordless account, the attacker can gain access by inputting more than 256 characters in the password field.

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  • [–] 63 points 1 day ago (18 children)

    It seems like the pattern emerging is that AI is great at finding these obscure vulnerabilities that are only exploitable on very particular systems with very particular, non-typical configurations, and only on nights where unicorns fart candycorn.

    Sure, fix them, but the hype is too much. Also, disable password auth on SSH already. Jesus. Keys arnt that hard.

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