TheIPW
Sysadmin and FOSS enthusiast. Self-hosting on Proxmox with a focus on privacy and digital sovereignty. Documenting my experiences with Linux, home labs, and the ongoing fight to keep Big Tech out of our hardware.
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Sysadmin and FOSS enthusiast. Self-hosting on Proxmox with a focus on privacy and digital sovereignty. Documenting my experiences with Linux, home labs, and the ongoing fight to keep Big Tech out of our hardware.
Sysadmin and FOSS enthusiast. Self-hosting on Proxmox with a focus on privacy and digital sovereignty. Documenting my experiences with Linux, home labs, and the ongoing fight to keep Big Tech out of our hardware.
Reclaiming the desktop: Why I’m still on Linux in 2026
Sysadmin and FOSS enthusiast. Self-hosting on Proxmox with a focus on privacy and digital sovereignty. Documenting my experiences with Linux, home labs, and the ongoing fight to keep Big Tech out of our hardware.
Why I’m skipping the proprietary "Little Snitch" for Linux
I saw the news about Little Snitch coming to Linux via eBPF and Rust. On paper, it looks fancy. In reality, the backend is closed source.
Personally, I don’t see the point in installing a proprietary black box to monitor other black boxes. I’m sticking with my AdGuard Home setup and OpenSnitch for when I actually need to trace a binary.
I wrote up my thoughts on why I think this is a solved problem for most FOSS-first home labs.
Sysadmin and FOSS enthusiast. Self-hosting on Proxmox with a focus on privacy and digital sovereignty. Documenting my experiences with Linux, home labs, and the ongoing fight to keep Big Tech out of our hardware.
Sysadmin and FOSS enthusiast. Self-hosting on Proxmox with a focus on privacy and digital sovereignty. Documenting my experiences with Linux, home labs, and the ongoing fight to keep Big Tech out of our hardware.
Sysadmin and FOSS enthusiast. Self-hosting on Proxmox with a focus on privacy and digital sovereignty. Documenting my experiences with Linux, home labs, and the ongoing fight to keep Big Tech out of our hardware.
Sysadmin and FOSS enthusiast. Self-hosting on Proxmox with a focus on privacy and digital sovereignty. Documenting my experiences with Linux, home labs, and the ongoing fight to keep Big Tech out of our hardware.
Sysadmin and FOSS enthusiast. Self-hosting on Proxmox with a focus on privacy and digital sovereignty. Documenting my experiences with Linux, home labs, and the ongoing fight to keep Big Tech out of our hardware.
Sysadmin and FOSS enthusiast. Self-hosting on Proxmox with a focus on privacy and digital sovereignty. Documenting my experiences with Linux, home labs, and the ongoing fight to keep Big Tech out of our hardware.
Sysadmin and FOSS enthusiast. Self-hosting on Proxmox with a focus on privacy and digital sovereignty. Documenting my experiences with Linux, home labs, and the ongoing fight to keep Big Tech out of our hardware.
Sysadmin and FOSS enthusiast. Self-hosting on Proxmox with a focus on privacy and digital sovereignty. Documenting my experiences with Linux, home labs, and the ongoing fight to keep Big Tech out of our hardware.
Sysadmin and FOSS enthusiast. Self-hosting on Proxmox with a focus on privacy and digital sovereignty. Documenting my experiences with Linux, home labs, and the ongoing fight to keep Big Tech out of our hardware.
Sysadmin and FOSS enthusiast. Self-hosting on Proxmox with a focus on privacy and digital sovereignty. Documenting my experiences with Linux, home labs, and the ongoing fight to keep Big Tech out of our hardware.
Sysadmin and FOSS enthusiast. Self-hosting on Proxmox with a focus on privacy and digital sovereignty. Documenting my experiences with Linux, home labs, and the ongoing fight to keep Big Tech out of our hardware.
Sysadmin and FOSS enthusiast. Self-hosting on Proxmox with a focus on privacy and digital sovereignty. Documenting my experiences with Linux, home labs, and the ongoing fight to keep Big Tech out of our hardware.
Is the "Year of Linux" actually a trap?
Sysadmin and FOSS enthusiast. Self-hosting on Proxmox with a focus on privacy and digital sovereignty. Documenting my experiences with Linux, home labs, and the ongoing fight to keep Big Tech out of our hardware.
BrowserGate: Technical breakdown of LinkedIn’s covert browser extension fingerprinting
LinkedIn is using hidden JS to scan your browser for over 6,000 specific extension IDs via a known Chromium vulnerability. By inventorying your local software, they can infer highly sensitive “Special Category” data like health status, religion, and political advocacy without consent.
I’ve joined the dots on why Chromium-based “Shields” fail here and how to harden your home lab/network to stop the leak.
Sysadmin and FOSS enthusiast. Self-hosting on Proxmox with a focus on privacy and digital sovereignty. Documenting my experiences with Linux, home labs, and the ongoing fight to keep Big Tech out of our hardware.
Sysadmin and FOSS enthusiast. Self-hosting on Proxmox with a focus on privacy and digital sovereignty. Documenting my experiences with Linux, home labs, and the ongoing fight to keep Big Tech out of our hardware.
Google’s Sideloading Crackdown: Why It’s a Threat to Everyone’s Privacy and Freedom
Google is tightening control over Android under the guise of ‘security,’ but this crackdown on sideloading is a direct hit to digital sovereignty and FOSS. I’ve written about why this matters for our privacy and the future of open platforms. What do you think—is this the end of Android’s ‘open’ era?