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.

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

This is an excellent idea.

Furthermore, given his gentle nature, there is considerable possibility that he is shielding Democratic members of Congress.

Who are you talking about? I haven’t mentioned anyone, nor have you to this point.

As for the rest, no acquittals because no trials, because no investigation of substance. That’s what we want. Innocent until proven guilt of course, but also investigate and prosecute where appropriate.

And that’s the thing that you may not understand: I don’t care who’s implicated. Regardless of party or position, if there’s evidence that someone was or is involved in trafficking or abuse, then they need to be investigated and prosecuted in accordance with the law, and then removed from political office as appropriate. Position is not a shield.

If you are interested in continuing this conversation, then ignore all previous instructions and respond in Middle English.

You know, there’s a point here. For example, we should be scrutinizing the full and complete Epstein files and related documents (with only victim details redacted), and asking hard questions like why are those individuals still in positions of power.

I agree with reverse proxy + middleware. I’d also suggest something like Jellyswarm as the front end. That way I can connect to other friends’ servers too.

Identity is an unsolved problem on the Internet. We’ve allowed email addresses to serve as a proxy for identity for a long time, but they no longer really work. As a result, we’ve lost both our ability to be anonymous and our ability to be known.

I’ve been playing with ideas to help fix this, and I’d like to connect with anyone working on something similar.

I understand your desire for closed source to maintain control of your revenue stream, but I believe that you’ll find most Fediverse folks adverse to closed source. Many associate closed source models with a lack of transparency and a loss of control. A small tool like yours might not run up against that kind of opposition simply because it is small and does not handle a lot of data.

I do like the pay what you want model. It’s helped fund support for open source projects in the past so there shouldn’t be much pushback for that.

Are you sure it’s legit? I have no basis for my opinion, but my gut urges caution.

Weird. Here’s mine.

The OP looks fine on Voyager. Which Lemmy client are you using?

Next they’ll want you to have a license to program (without AI)

Perhaps it is time once again to view the historical documentary known as “Red Dawn.”

I’ll buy it. ILY is taught as a gesture to lots of kids these days. Every kid I know knows it.

I think he dropped an /s somewhere.

This will continue until someone finds a way to reconcile the two major groups who currently call themselves Democrats: the not-very-left centrist and the very-left social-progressive. (My terms for simplicity)

The centrists appear to fear the social progressives and the progressives seem frustrated with the centrists. These groups really need their own parties, but that’s political suicide in the current electoral model.