Tag: privacy

SearXNG aggregates 100+ search engines. Whoogle proxied Google cleanly but is now archived with no working fetch method left. Setup steps for both, inside.

Meshtastic is a messaging appliance. Reticulum is a whole network stack that happens to run over LoRa. Why comparing the two directly misleads people.

Stirling-PDF is the self-hosted PDF toolkit your privacy-conscious brain needs, merge, split, OCR, compress, and redact without touching ilovepdf.

Run two AdGuard Home instances in sync so one dead node does not kill DNS for your whole house. Here is config sync with VRRP failover, done step by step.

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.