No, you don’t understand.

The $500 million is money the government has to pay to have a public good built.

Whereas the $50 billion is money invested corporations, which they got from their customers… and the government as incentives, tax breaks, and other magic that normal people can’t have. And it makes a private asset instead of a public good.

So obviously the $50 billion is less money.

Lots of folks asked for AI, but not like this!

Of course. The goal here is to not advertise. Make it hard for the bots to find you. With these steps, they can try your IP, but there’s nothing directly on your IP.

You still need proper security. Authentication is a good start, and it has the extra effect of adding an extra layer to prevent the bots from going further if they get lucky and guess a host name.

Authentication & single sign-on service

Plugged into Reverse proxy, routing to each service by name

With a wild card cert so there are no name leaks.

Make your urls unexpected. If your domain is example.com, don’t put your jellyfin server at jellyfin.example.com. Instead, use watch.example.com or telly.example.com. Anything that’s memorable to you about what the service is without using a specific brand name.

With a wildcard dns record to point all names to your IP, and a wildcard certificate that works for all names loaded on your load balancer, it becomes hard for a hacker to know what name to use to get the load balancer to send them to the service they want to hack.

If you then use a sso tool like traefik’s ForwardAuth middleware, you won’t even get to the service until you’ve first authenticated.

“Rogue officers” attempts to frame the discussion around a few "bad apples"instead of the mass surveillance.

🎶 How do you start… a pachyderm? 🎶

So using a more distributed Internet (instead of sticking all out services in data centers) would help balance that.