Nextcloud LDAP/Active Directory Configuration Without Relay Attack Surface

For those of you who haven’t already heard of Nextcloud, I highly recommend that you take a look at their mature open source solutions for secure and sovereign data collaboration. For those of you who are already using it, but want to connect your server to a Samba-based AD, you can find the official documentation …

Using a Local LLM – Putting it All Together

As I had previously explored, there is now a great potential for anyone using commodity hardware, even that which can be purchased at your local Costco, to enable sovereign AI capabilities. From simple code generation inside Visual Studio Code, to generating function-level code blocks based on prompts of desired functionality, to doing in-depth security analysis …

Nginx and HAproxy – PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR

I recently switched over an Nginx server so that it was being accessed via an HAproxy tcp connection that was now sending proxy protocol information. When I did this I started to get PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR issues from my browser. While it seems simple, the fix is to ensure that your nginx listener has the proxy_protocol configuration …