Privacy

Local deployment of LLMs has become increasingly popular as developers and organizations seek enhanced privacy, reduced latency, and greater control over their AI infrastructure.

The democratization of AI is here. With open-source LLMs like Llama 3, Mixtral, and Qwen now rivaling proprietary models, teams can build powerful AI infrastructure using consumer hardware - slashing costs while maintaining complete control over data privacy and deployment.

In the modern web, your digital identity can be tracked without cookies or explicit consent through sophisticated ditital fingerprinting techniques.

Zero-knowledge architecture represents a paradigm shift in how we design privacy-preserving systems.

Multi-tenancy is a fundamental architectural pattern for SaaS applications, allowing multiple customers (tenants) to share the same application infrastructure while maintaining data isolation.

When data is the a valuable asset, securing it has never been more critical. From the moment information is created to the point it’s discarded, its journey is fraught with risks - whether stored, transferred, or actively used.

Nextcloud is the leading open-source, self-hosted cloud storage and collaboration platform that puts you in complete control of your data.

Choosing the right Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) tool can dramatically impact your productivity, learning, and information organization. Let’s have a look at Obsidian and LogSeq.

Immich is a revolutionary open-source, self-hosted photo and video management solution that gives you complete control over your memories. With features rivaling Google Photos - including AI-powered facial recognition, smart search, and automatic mobile backup - all while keeping your data private and secure on your own server.

Here we have Nostr - the decentralized social protocol that’s challenging Big Tech’s dominance with censorship-resistant communication and user-controlled data.

While Google dominates the search engine market with over 90% global market share, there’s a growing ecosystem of alternative search engines offering different approaches to web search.

The Tor network has experienced significant fluctuations in its infrastructure over the past decade, with exit relays and bridges showing distinct patterns of growth, decline, and recovery.

The web was originally designed as a decentralized network where anyone could publish and connect. Over time, corporate platforms consolidated control, creating walled gardens where users are products and content is locked in. The Indie Web movement aims to restore the original promise of the web: personal ownership, creative freedom, and genuine connection.

The Gemini protocol represents a return to the fundamentals of internet communication-a lightweight, secure, and privacy-respecting alternative to the increasingly complex modern web.

Here’s a quick info on Write.as / WriteFreely - how it fits into the fediverse, where to get managed hosting, what the usage trend looks like, and how to self-host (plus rough costings).

Online privacy is a hot topic. From targeted ads to silent trackers, many mainstream browsers share more about you than you’d like. Fortunately, several privacy-oriented browsers exist to help you stay safe and anonymous.