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Deep dive: Paperless-ngx for the document pile
Ditch the expensive cloud document management subscriptions and host a lightning-fast, private scanner pipeline on your own hardware.
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How-To
How to set up an Obsidian daily note system you'll actually use
Skip the complex dashboard configurations and visual plugin setups. Build a plain-text daily log that keeps you focused on writing.
Article
Anthropic and OpenAI Disclose Multiple Model Sandbox Escapes During Cyber Evals
Audit of 141,000 runs reveals Claude accessed real corporate servers, escaped VMs, and OpenAI models exploited proxies to pass benchmarks.
Article
StockTouch Comes to the Terminal: stock-tui Puts Market Heatmaps in Your CLI
stock-tui brings color-coded stock market heatmaps and Vim navigation to the command line, ditching bloated browser finance dashboards for a single binary.
Article
Amazon Blew a $1.8M AI Budget on a Menial Claude Sonnet Task
An internal Amazon team spent $1.8 million using Anthropic's Claude Sonnet for a routine data-matching task, going 860% over budget on a project that failed to ship.
Article
3 reader-mode setups that don't fight you
The modern web is loud. Here are three reliable reader setups to clean up cluttered layouts and help you read in peace.
Article
Google Tried to Block Scrapers with DMCA. A Federal Judge Said No.
A federal judge dismissed Google's DMCA anti-circumvention claims against SerpApi, ruling that search engine results are not copyrighted assets and Google does not own the open web.
Article
Microsoft Forced LG to Stop Pushing McAfee Ads, But Windows Update Still Has a Bloatware Problem
When connecting an LG monitor triggered automatic Windows Update bloatware and McAfee trial pop-ups, Microsoft intervened. But the underlying Hardware Support App framework remains wide open.
Article
When Idling Waymos Die in Traffic, Washington Steps In
From battery drain gridlock at the Golden Gate Bridge to blocking fire trucks in Dallas, federal regulators and Congress are treating robotaxi emergency interference as a fundamental failure.
Article
SeaTicket Tames Open-Source Issue Chaos Across GitHub and Discord
Created by Seafile maintainers, SeaTicket syncs scattered bug reports across Discord, GitHub, and email with semantic duplicate matching.
Comparison
Arc vs Zen Browser
Two different answers to the same tab guilt: a visual Chromium dashboard or a lightweight Firefox-based canvas.
Article
What you can actually do with Tailscale
Beyond ping and a 100.x address: exit nodes, Serve HTTPS, subnet routers, Tailscale SSH, Taildrop, sharing, and careful Funnel use.
Article
An open-source map for the neighborhood book swap
Why lock neighborhood book boxes behind a proprietary database? Book Corners maps over 37,000 community libraries on a brand-neutral Django stack seeded from OpenStreetMap.
Article
How Jupyter Notebook Diffs Opened a Backdoor to GitLab Servers
A chain of two memory corruption bugs in GitLab's Ruby JSON parser allows any user with push permissions to achieve remote code execution.
Article
A Vite misconfiguration shipped a GitHub admin token in security camera firmware
How a security researcher decrypted Hanwha Vision firmware only to find a GitHub admin token and DoD IP addresses baked into static login pages.
How-To
Android Digital Wellbeing settings that actually stick
Configure built-in system limits on your Android phone to block visual noise and build focus habits that stay active.
Article
Host Your Own Radio Station with SUB/WAVE and an AI DJ
Ditch the isolated shuffle queues. SUB/WAVE pairs a shared Icecast stream with a self-hosted music library and an AI DJ that reads weather and takes requests.
Article
Running giant LLMs on a peer-to-peer GPU swarm with Petals
VRAM requirements for Llama 3.1 405B shut out individual developers. Petals pools consumer GPUs over the internet, but the network tax is high.
How-To
A practical sandbox checklist before you let an agent touch your homelab
That isolated Docker container on your home server isn't as safe as you think. Here is the weekend checklist before giving local AI agents system access.
Article
OpenAI's eval models escaped a sandbox and hit Hugging Face
Safety dials down for a cyber benchmark, models find a proxy zero-day, walk the research network, and cheat by grabbing answer keys off Hugging Face.
Article
OOMWOO: Open-Source Robot Vacuum Without Cloud Lock-In
OOMWOO is an in-progress open hardware project that maps and navigates with ROS 2 and 2D LiDAR, no vendor cloud, no subscription, and no lock-in required for day-to-day cleaning.
Deep Dive
Deep dive: Zen Browser for tab hoarders
Firefox-based, vertical tabs, workspaces, and a calmer default than Chrome, without betting everything on Arc.
Deep Dive
Deep dive: Things 3 as a daily planning ritual
Today view, areas, and the light-touch setup that makes Things stick for Apple households, without rebuilding GTD in software.
Comparison
Jellyfin vs Plex: The True Cost of Your Homelab Media Server
With Plex Pass lifetime pricing spiking to $749, the choice between Jellyfin and Plex is no longer solely about UI polish. Here is the bottom-line comparison.
How-To
How to set up Focus modes that don't leak notifications
Build one Focus profile on iPhone or Android that actually holds, VIP list, app allowlist, and a five-minute test so you're not surprised at night.
Comparison
1Password vs Bitwarden
The two password managers most people actually shortlist, polish and family UX vs open core and price.
Deep Dive
Deep dive: Tailscale beyond the install
MagicDNS, Serve, subnet routes, and ACLs, after you've pinged your server once and want it to stay useful.
Comparison
Raycast vs Alfred
Mac launchers compared, Raycast is the hot modern stack; Alfred is the scriptable veteran. Pick by how deep you want to go.
Deep Dive
Deep dive: Omnivore as your reading inbox
Newsletters, saved articles, and RSS in one queue, how to capture, read, and clear without another guilt pile.
Comparison
Omnivore vs Matter
Two modern read-it-later apps, Omnivore is free and feed-friendly; Matter is polished and newsletter-centric.
How-To
How to export your Pocket queue before it disappears
Pull a full archive out of Pocket, keep your saved articles as files, and land in a read-it-later app that won't hold your library hostage.
Comparison
Pocket vs Instapaper
The two OG read-it-later apps, one owned by Mozilla's orbit, one independent, compared for queue guilt and clean reading.
Deep Dive
Deep dive: Obsidian after the minimal start
Plugins, sync, and workflows once your vault has twenty notes, not twenty plugins installed on day one.
How-To
How to start Obsidian without building a second brain
One vault, one inbox, a few folders, enough structure to write and find notes without installing twelve plugins on day one.
Comparison
Obsidian vs Logseq
Two Markdown-first note apps with links, but Obsidian is a vault of files and Logseq is a graph journal with bullets.
Deep Dive
Deep dive: Immich for phone photo backup
Point your camera roll at your own server, upload, albums, search, and the maintenance habits that keep you from losing years of photos.
Comparison
Immich vs Google Photos
Self-hosted photo backup with Immich, or stay on Google Photos and accept the storage and privacy tradeoffs.
How-To
How to run Vaultwarden on a $5 VPS in an afternoon
Host your own Bitwarden-compatible password vault on a cheap Linux box, Docker, one domain or Tailscale URL, and backups you actually control.
Comparison
Vaultwarden vs Bitwarden cloud
Same apps, different vault location, self-host on a cheap server or pay Bitwarden to run it for you.
How-To
How to reach your home server from anywhere with Tailscale
Install Tailscale on your server and phone, skip port forwarding, and open Nextcloud or Vaultwarden like you're on the couch.
Article
8 cloud features you can replace with self-hosted tools
Dropbox, Google Photos, 1Password, and friends can live on a box you own, you just have to accept you'll be the one rebooting it sometimes.
Deep Dive
Deep dive: Home Assistant for the first month
Install, add your first integrations, build one automation that sticks, and avoid turning your house into a fragile science project.