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Self-hosting, data sovereignty and cyberattacks [AIT] (aussie.zone)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zone to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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If you follow AI news at all as part of your self-hosting interests, you may have become aware recently that open AI (the frontier lab between behind chat GPT) has admitted (loosely) culpability in an cyber attack against HuggingFace (the major repository of open-weight models.)

The details that present are somewhat sketchy, but the gist of it is that open AI seems to have given unrestricted access to a AI agent, which then attacked hugging face, who in a twist of deliciousness, used an open source agent to defend themselves.

I'd joke and tell you to make sure that you haven't left any open ports on your router, but if you're here reading this I think probably you know better than that.

Less comically, there's a weird intersection here between self-hosting, sovereignty and encroachment by big tech that is worth pay attention to.

It should certainly spur people on to seriously consider self-hosting as much of their infrastructure as they can (and securing it) if this is the preview of things to come.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

I just wish I'd bought more SSDs.

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[–] SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zone 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I am simpatico with her position.

For what it's worth, self-hosting doesn't mean you need to be able to reach all your services off-site.

LAN only access is perfectly valid and something that I prefer myself.

Case in point -

Last year I went to Japan for 5 weeks and rather than opening up dodgy ports to my home media services, I ended up taking a 128GB USB stick, my Chromecast and installing Nova Player.

https://github.com/nova-video-player/aos-AVP

Nova Player populates on device from your attached storage to create essentially a jellyfin like front-end. Install it, plug the chrome cast or whatever into HDMI on any TV and you're off to the races.

It's wonderful and it's actually now my primary streaming media source in the house; I just plug in my hard drive to my router, Nova sees it and my media sources are cross-populated to all of my Android devices.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 3 days ago

Yup. It's how i've been running for years. The only thing that presents outside the house is port 80 on the apache server (despite having some incredibly intricate home automation)

Mind you, i'm also old enough to have spent my formative years without even the concept of "available everywhere". Lotta peeps nowadays have not, and the idea of no internet / no access is genuinely terrifying to them

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

Yea, this “data at the edge” approach, not “on the wire” Is interesting to me and makes sense.

Basically regressing on the convenience/power of the internet because it just isn’t safe and easy anymore and for anything personal that isn’t a server -> many users, yoi basically ain’t gonna need it.