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Lab Guides

Security hardening, infrastructure notes, and how-tos from the home lab. Everything documented as it happens.

Guides

Running Proxmox VE on an ASUS NUC 14 PRO with a Blackmagic eGPU Pro. TB4 passthrough, vendor-reset, ROCm deprecation workarounds, and getting Ollama to 85 tok/s on Vega 56.

Proxmox VE vfio-pci Thunderbolt 4 Vega 56 Ollama

Ollama — Local LLM & RAG

Local LLM inference and private RAG pipelines on a Proxmox Ubuntu VM. Open WebUI, Chroma vector database, and a file ingestion pipeline that indexes your local files. Nothing leaves the network.

Ollama RAG Chroma Open WebUI nomic-embed-text Docker

macOS Security & Dev Setup

Workstation deployment, dev environment standardization, shell symmetry, and security auditing across lab machines.

macOS hardening dev environment shell

chromium-browse

Automated Chromium browsing via raw CDP. Installable through Homebrew. Navigates URL lists, discovers and follows links, scrolls and dwells, cleans up after itself. Works with any Chromium fork.

Python CDP Homebrew automation

Headless Chromium & CDP

Controlling a browser from the command line via the Chrome DevTools Protocol. Headless launch, remote debugging, backtraces, profiling, network interception, and a comprehensive CDP command reference.

Chromium CDP DevTools headless remote debugging

Linux VPS Hardening

Layered hardening toolkit for Ubuntu/Debian servers. UFW, SSH lockdown, fail2ban, Apache security headers, ModSecurity, ClamAV, and automated updates.

Ubuntu Debian UFW fail2ban ModSecurity