Tag: privacy

REALITY does not disguise your traffic as a real TLS handshake, it serves an actual one. How that works, a working config, and the honest limits of the trick.

Skip the full mail server nightmare entirely. Self-host SimpleLogin or addy.io for private email aliasing on your own domain, privacy wins, sanity preserved.

CryptPad brings end-to-end encrypted docs, sheets, and kanban. EtherCalc is a featherweight spreadsheet. Pick the right tool for your threat model and budget.

Encryption hides content, not shape. Here's why state-level censors don't read your VPN traffic, they recognize it, and what actually still works in 2026.

NextDNS vs Pi-hole vs AdGuard Home: an honest breakdown of when paying two dollars a month beats running and maintaining your own DNS server from home.

Ditch reCAPTCHA data harvesting for good. Here are the best self-hosted and privacy-respecting CAPTCHA alternatives for your home lab web apps in 2026.

cloudflared vs dnscrypt-proxy for encrypted DNS at home, setup steps, threat model, Pi-hole integration, and which one actually fits your home lab setup.

Sync files between machines that are never online together using Syncthing's untrusted encrypted devices, dual-VPS failover, and a Tailscale-only network path.

Self-host Jitsi Meet as your private Zoom alternative: encrypted video calls, no SaaS bill. Here's how to deploy it with Docker without it falling over.

Stop feeding Google your daily commute. OwnTracks + MQTT broker + Home Assistant gives you real presence detection without the surveillance capitalism overhead.

Wire a self-hosted SearXNG instance into Claude Code via a Bash wrapper for private, scriptable web search, and when to use it vs the built-in tool.

Dropbox got expensive and your data left the building. Syncthing, Resilio Sync, and Seafile compared, pick the one that fits your threat model.