Privacy

Give Your Local LLM Eyes: SearXNG Behind a VPN for Private Web Search

Running models locally with Ollama is great for privacy: nothing leaves your machine. But it comes with a hard ceiling — your model only knows what it was trained on. Ask it about something that happened last week and it confidently makes things up. The usual fix is to plug in a web search API (Tavily, Serper, Brave). The problem? You’re back to shipping every query to a third party with an API key tied to your name....

I Was Going to Write About Immich. Then Google Signed With the Pentagon.

I had a different post queued up for this week. It was going to be a practical post about Immich: how I finally moved my photo library away from Google Photos, how the timeline view works, how face recognition feels, how “on this day” memories hit differently when they are not attached to an advertising profile. That was the plan. Then Google signed a classified AI deal with the Pentagon....