Category: HomeLab Tech
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HyCanvas Stops Renting You Your Own Files: What Changes When the Canvas Lives on Your Box
Open a design tool and press export. That is where you find out who owns what you just made. Usually the answer is a watermark, a font that quietly reverts, or a box offering the full-size file for 12 dollars a month. The toll booth was never the editor. The editor is the demo, and…
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Strafe Wants to Be the Third Federated Chat That Sticks. Read Its Licence First.
The licence file Strafe did not have on Tuesday appeared on Thursday. It is not the licence its maintainer promised. The code is better than the launch page deserves: a Discord clone with E2EE and a peering layer, so separate servers can talk. It reached Hacker News on 14 October. Nothing here ran in my…
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PHP2Shell and the AI Attack Wave: Why Your Own Machines Are Now the Front Line
Something happened in the second half of October 2026 that most people have not taken in yet. It was not one firm having a bad week, but a public show; in date order, of how cheap it has become to break into a computer you own. So let me walk through what happened, because the…
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Gigabyte Revived a 2018 Chipset to Sell You 2014 RAM
The most interesting PC hardware of 2026 is a motherboard built for memory that came out in 2014. In August, Gigabyte launched 2 of them. The B450M D3HP and the D3HP WIFI6E sit on the B450 chipset, which shipped in 2018, with 4 DDR4 slots and room for 128 GB. AMD marked 10 years of…
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BentoPDF: 42 PDF Tools That Never Leave Your Browser
Picture a signed contract, a bank statement, a scan of your passport, and a website offering PDF services to merge them for free. No account, no upload limit, no fuss. You drag the file in, it does the work, you download the result, and you close the tab. The file did not go anywhere. Except…
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35 Feeds, 92 Megabytes of RAM, and Nobody’s Algorithm
My reading list used to be somebody else’s product. Every article arrived pre-scored, ordered by an inference engine I never agreed to and could not inspect, with one control: the scroll. That is a strange thing to hand over. What you read shapes what you think, and I had outsourced the selection to a system…
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I Built an Autonomous Trading Bot in Four Hours for Twenty Bucks. Here’s the Honest Ledger.
My AI agent team shipped a crypto trading bot yesterday. Four hours from green light to a live soak on Binance's testnet. Total model spend: about twenty US dollars. Let me tell you what actually happened, because the gap between the press release version of "AI agents build software" and the reality is where all…
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Brief the Contractor: How to Get an AI Agent to Build You a Skill
Getting an AI agent to build a reusable skill is like briefing a contractor: vague brief, afternoon of whack-a-mole. Two real case studies, the five-part brief, and the rules that keep your keys where they belong.
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The 11.8 Gigabyte 27B
A 27-billion-parameter model in an 11.8 gigabyte file, scoring the same as the 54-gigabyte original. Which size fits your card, how to run it, and why the method itself is the bigger story.
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How to Configure OpenWork for Local AI
Here’s how you’d do this entirely through the OpenWork UI — two approaches: Method 1: Settings UI (Recommended for most users expected on Cloud App versions) Step 1 — Open AI Provider Settings In the OpenWork Cloud app (yes – the CLOUD App – we need to distinguish this early, OpenWork has two versions: a…