Protecting your data and identity online: self-hosting, encryption, data collection and privacy-respecting alternatives.
A fake GTA 6 ISO used a believable installer error to cover remote-access malware, browser-data theft, and destructive file wiping. The “License not found” message wasn’t the crack failing. It was there so the victim would stop looking.
A growing list of open-core self-hosted projects, from Grafana to Planka, gate single sign-on behind an Enterprise tier. Here's which protocol actually gets paywalled, and what to check before you deploy.
Self-hosted email is losing to Gmail's hard SMTP rejections. Self-hosted password managers are split down the middle. And self-hosted music is doing the opposite of what you'd expect.
A nonprofit founded in Colorado eight months ago wants to hand every self-hoster a free domain and put "surveillance capitalism" in its mission statement. That&
Vaultwarden replaces Bitwarden's paid tiers for free. Here's the real feature comparison and our self-hosted setup guide.
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Replace Google Drive, Google Photos, 1Password, Plex, and your document scanner with a self-hosted stack that runs on your hardware. Complete Docker Compose setup with Traefik, Nextcloud, Vaultwarden, Immich, Jellyfin, and Paperless-ngx.
A local LLM is three layers: weights on disk, a runtime that loads them, an interface that talks to it. Once you see the stack that way, the hardware question answers itself and the tuning stops being guesswork.
