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Thunderbird 153.6: Windows NTLM Credential Exposure and How to Update (2026)
Two high-impact Thunderbird flaws expose Windows NTLM authentication data when a crafted email is displayed. Learn the two paths, check your version, and limit outboun...
Chrome 156 Security Update: Verify the October 2026 Patch
Check the October 27 Chrome 156 security release on Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android. Compare the installed build, finish a pending relaunch, and check managed devic...
Open WebUI v0.12.4: Upgrade and Access-Control Checklist 2026
Back up and upgrade Open WebUI to v0.12.4, then test chat sharing, export permissions, resource grants, accounts, and network access.
Build a Home Lab in 10 Levels, From Pi-hole to Local AI
Build a home lab in ten practical stages, from network-wide DNS filtering to local AI, with hardware, costs, skills, and tradeoffs for each level.
Hermes Local Model Benchmarks: The GPU and Model Combinations I Would Use
My Hermes model recommendations from long-context, tool, streaming, and vision tests on RTX 5060 Ti, RTX 2000E Ada, RTX 3060 Ti, and RTX 3070 systems.
Hermes Agent and Local AI Course: Build a Brokerized Agentic Workflow
Wire Hermes Agent and other agents to models you control through one private endpoint, route each request to the right local or cloud model, and keep keys and budgets ...
Inside Our Hybrid Agentic AI Fleet: Hermes, LiteLLM, and Tailscale
See a verified lazy local AI fleet and its staged T0 to T4 control plane with Hermes, LiteLLM, Tailscale Aperture, and Pearl mining.
Lesson 1: Hermes Agent for Security and Automation: Profiles, Skills, and Bots Explained
Understand Hermes Agent and its parts — profiles, skills, memory, bots, the gateway, and the kanban board — and learn when the persistent model beats a per-project CLI...
Lesson 2: Ollama vs vLLM vs llama.cpp vs Strata: Choosing a Local Inference Backend in 2026
Compare Ollama, vLLM, llama.cpp, and Strata as the inference backend behind an OpenAI-compatible broker. Load lifecycle, health checks, multi-GPU, and a decision table...
Lesson 3: The OpenAI-Compatible AI Broker: One Endpoint for Every Local Model
Put one OpenAI-compatible broker in front of Ollama, vLLM, llama.cpp, and Strata. Learn lazy loading, idle unload, pools, failover, retries, and non-loading health che...
Lesson 4: Auto-Routing AI Requests: Mix Local and Cloud Models Behind One API
Send one auto request and let the broker, not the agent, pick a local GPU model or a remote premium model using capability filtering, cost tiers, cascade, latency budg...
Lesson 5: Tailscale Aperture: The Private Gateway to Your Local AI
Reach your local AI broker and cloud models from every device with zero public ports, tailnet identity, deny-by-default grants, and one URL using Tailscale Aperture.
Lesson 6: Point Claude Code, Cursor, and OpenCode at Your Local AI Broker
Configure Claude Code and OpenCode to use one Tailscale Aperture host on your tailnet, and learn why Cursor needs a public endpoint instead.
Lesson 7: Hermes Bot Profiles: Fan Work Out to Specialized Agents With a Kanban Dispatcher
Run one gateway with role-specific Hermes profiles, pin each to a model tier, split a job into dependent kanban cards, and verify every handoff before you trust it.
Lesson 8: Secure Your AI Broker: Virtual Keys, Budgets, and Allowed Models
Give each AI agent its own broker key with rate limits, token and cost budgets, and a fail-closed model allow-list, so one runaway caller stops at its own ceiling.
Lesson 9: Threat Model: Your Local AI Agent Stack Under Attack
Map the real attack surface of a local AI agent stack: agents, a Tailscale private edge, an OpenAI-compatible broker, and GPU backends. See which controls hold in code...
Local AI Secure Server Capstone Answer Key
Compare a completed Local AI Secure Server capstone package with the beginner and advanced reference decisions.
Local AI Secure Server Knowledge Check Answer Key
Score the Local AI Secure Server knowledge check, repair missed concepts, and verify the security gate before the capstone.
Migrate a Hyper-V VM to Proxmox VE: A Reversible Checklist
Move one Hyper-V virtual machine to Proxmox VE with a stopped-source export, matched firmware, disk import, isolated boot test, and rollback plan.
Proxmox VM Backup Restore Drill: Prove the Guest Works
Test a Proxmox VM backup with an isolated restore. Check disk coverage, backup mode, guest data, service health, and recovery time without touching production.