#homelablife — Public Fediverse posts

Built something fun in the lab: PangeaHills.ai, my own locally-hosted, policy-driven RAG + LLM stack.
Completely offline, totally self-contained, powered by a bunch of noisy equipment pretending to be a cloud. 😄

The neat part? It’s rule-driven, not weight-driven:
• Homelab questions must stay inside the RAG universe.
• General topics only switch to model knowledge when my routing rules explicitly allow it.
• The LLM never “guesses” when to leave RAG — it follows policies, not vibes.

Feels like having an AI that actually stays in its lane because you built the lane lines yourself. 🚧🤖

#homelab #selfhosted #LLM #RAG #PolicyDrivenAI #SelfHostedAI #HomeLabLife #BSD #Linux #PangeaHillsAI #nerdlife

📬 Big milestone for me today: I’m officially no longer using iCloud Mail or Calendar — in fact, I’ve stopped relying on any big tech email provider altogether. 💥

Email is notoriously one of the hardest services to self-host — a constant game of whack-a-mole with spam filters, DNS records, and SMTP quirks. So reaching this point feels… honestly liberating.

(Okay, I’ll still use Hide My Mail from iCloud because it’s fantastic for privacy — credit where it’s due.)

Also: I’ve started working on the first tutorials in my self-hosting series! 🎥
We’ll begin with the essentials — DNS, reverse proxy, and how to safely expose your services online. Everything builds from there.

#SelfHosting #EmailSovereignty #Fediverse #FOSS #CloudIndependence #DNS #ReverseProxy #HomelabLife

Time to introduce the world of Mastodon to my current homelab/server setup :)

Cable spaghetti tamed (for now).

Bare-metal motherboard on the floor? That’s intentional, it’s for airflow™.

Small step before moving it to an actual rack :)

#homelab #SelfHosting #HomeServer #CableManagement #Linux #OpenSource #HomeLabLife #pfSense #HomeAssistant #Matrix #Networking #NoctuaCult #DeskSetup

I finally (almost) documented every app I’m self-hosting...

Some are essential.
Some are experiments.
A few are held together with duct tape and stubbornness.

Here’s the full tour 🎥
https://youtu.be/6TdMqTmBEfI

#HomelabLife #SelfHosted #TechYouTube

🦩 Flamingo flaps and pirouettes into 2025

Hey infosec flock! Your favorite pink security bird here, ready to dance into the New Year! 🎉

While you're popping champagne, I'm popping shells (responsibly in my homelab, of course! 😉). Here's to:

- Fresh API keys 🔑
- Clean logs 📝
- Zero incidents 🛡️
- And plenty of uptime for all your cloud experiments! ⛅

Remember friends: Just like how I backup my precious conference badge collection, don't forget to start your year with fresh backups!

Pro-tip from this security flamingo: New Year is perfect for password updates! (Though between us birds, I hear passphrases are where it's at - much easier to type with these feathers! 🪶)

Wishing my entire #infosec community a safe, secure, and hack-tastic 2025! May your packets be clean and your firewalls stay strong! 💪

Gracefully dances away to check on my homelab

#InfosecCommunity #HappyNewYear #SecurityFlamingo #BSidesChicago #HomelabLife @rnbwkat