Cheap kit only stays cheap if the software side stays disciplined. A home lab software stack turns into a mess the moment settings live in web forms and half the logic sits in your head, which is a rubbish place for infrastructure to live.
I took a glossy EV launch page and turned the useful bits into a Home Assistant MQTT car charging dashboard, then spent most of the time fighting the...
Running n8n in your homelab without proper isolation is a liability. CVE-2025-68613 lets authenticated users execute code with container privileges; if that container sits on your default Docker...
Running a local model means no quota walls, no token metre ticking, and no surprise bills when the agent loops through ten reasoning steps. Cloud coding assistants collapse under agentic use; local...
Most home routers allow everything outbound by default, which is exactly how AVRecon persisted undetected for six years. A stateful firewall with explicit outbound rules and network segmentation...
Health data inside a corporate platform means health data inside a jurisdiction you do not control, encrypted or not. Self-hosting it locally—with proper backups and audit trails—trades convenience...
A compromised host on a flat network can reach every other node without crossing a single firewall rule. Network perimeter checks are useless if the interior is trusted by default; that is where...
A 48-hour gap between exploit discovery and patch deployment is normal, not exceptional. Browser isolation in your homelab is not about making the browser safe; it is about making sure a compromised...
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Running untrusted AI agents in standard Docker containers leaves you exposed to kernel exploits that bypass every namespace and policy you've layered on top. MicroVMs add a hardware boundary that...
Operation Synergia III sinkholed 45,000 botnet and malware IPs across 72 countries with law enforcement backing. That chain of custody makes the data worth blocking at your firewall; the catch is that...
I've built systems that swap differently depending on what dies first: the CPU or the storage. Zram and zswap solve adjacent problems, and picking the wrong one costs you either write cycles or...
