Selfhosting is more important now than ever

I'v been thinking recently with the AI safety incidents (hugging face, frontier labs whistleblowers etc.) how self-hosting is more important now than ever. Basically there there are three ways self-hosting impedes an oncoming cyber apocalypse - which leaving everyday services to centralized providers would accelerate. I'v boiled this down to: Data accessibility - our data on our infra means no 3rd party has unauthorised acccess like an employer/service provider/state would have access if we gave up the infra to someone else. Operational flexibility - we can choose when to stop/start/discontinue at the flip of a switch - physically/remotely/whatever we choose. Information sparsity - because its only Joe Blogs data it doesn't represent as big a target as say Gmail does on a global scale, individuals holding their own data adds difficulty (because different setup), less worth and more time and effort targeting numerous individuals. And don't give me that the big providers are more protected - I was around when heart bleed was a thing - anyone with knowledge of that vulnerability could pull raw memory from the biggest providers until it was patched. With AI advancing at such an incredible pace, big data repositories which are information rich (because higher numbers of individuals data, as opposed to a singular data source, say) represent a higher priority target for malicious/nefarious actors (human or non-human)... So self-hosting our critical data, our personal data our every-day seemingly benign data - the original promise of the distributed Internet before centralized providers sucked everyone in - is a service not only unto yourself, but everyone! Photo of 10 year old 16GB i7 1TB SSD box running undisclosed operating system that would cost me ~$100USD /month from cloud provider only costing me ~20W avg or $3USD /month. Yes I KNOW i need to take care of backups/power loss/internet connectivity/ security updates - its really not that hard and have had 1 power loss incident in 5 years, 99.9999% uptime baby