“mainstream news outlets” that are supposed to be for the people

There’s your problem. If you start with a false premise, all your subsequent logic is invalid.

My domain’s mail is hosted at https://purelymail.com/ $10/year. They seem to run on AWS hardware, so it’s not free of US big tech. It’s dirt cheap, but I’ve never had any problems, either receiving or sending. They have very clear instructions for getting your domain’s mail set up.

62% of Americans “own stocks,” mostly through retirement-program index funds. Nvidia is about 7% of the S&P 500, so it follows that most Americans do, in fact, own shares of Nvidia, whether they know it or not. If you have a 401k, you probably have to go out of your way to avoid it.

Student discounted software started when most of the corporate world was still using typewriters and paper. Students learned the new-fangled software and carried into their new jobs.

Today, those same businesses rely on Microsoft Office and Google search, and those monopolies are obviously going to leverage their monopolies to force AI, Teams, or whatever other Next Big Thing onto unwilling schools.

During a gold rush, you want to be the guy selling shovels.

I keep looking at phones with IR cameras. Thermal imaging is super handy for electro/mechanical diagnostics, and some of them are under $500.

The GPUs they’re talking about don’t have video outputs, and I think many of them aren’t even PCIe. Even at pennies on the dollar, they’ll still be hundreds of dollars, so way easier just to get a consumer card.

All the past infrastructure bubbles, the companies that inevitably failed at least left some usable infrastructure - rails, pipelines, dark fiber… These guys are going to crash, never pay back their loans, and the acres of datacenter, containers of GPUs, and racks of servers are just going to get recycled. It’s such shocking waste that it’s hard to comprehend.

It’s really not the publicly disclosed vulnerabilities you need to worry about. Most of those vulnerabilities have existed for years - the recent php thing is supposedly 12 years old. Maybe someone’s been out there exploiting it for 12 years.

The people who have sought and exploited vulnerabilities since computers went online don’t disclose what they find. They are the people who should be most worried about AI-assisted vulnerability research, because it directly attacks their business model.

I don’t know how the others set theirs up, but I use “views” in bind 9 https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-00851

Essentially, the DNS I run on a router-like box much like you describe uses a different database depending on whether you query from an internal IP address or a public address. For me, the advantages are that I can let devices on my local network declare their own names to DHCP and enter them in DNS without worrying about the outside world. Mu internal network doesn’t crash if my ISP changes my address, Certbot happily requests certs for any site with a public address, and that cert works seamlessly on the corresponding internal address, no wildcards or DNS challenge required.

Great project. I like the 1-star reviews complaining about the lack of advertising and tracking.