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A Power Outage Took Down My Homelab and I Never Noticed

This week I was away on vacation when the power went out at home. When it came back, most of the homelab booted up fine. Two servers didn’t. The worst part wasn’t the downtime. It was that I had no idea. Nothing alerted me, and I only found out days later when I tried to use a service that wasn’t there. A homelab without monitoring is a homelab you’re hoping works....

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....