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Paperless-ngx at Home: Local AI Labeling, Document Chat, and Phone Access Behind CGNAT
Paperless-ngx 3.3 on a small homelab box, Tika and Gotenberg on the NAS, a local 27B model for labeling and chat, and a WireGuard hub on a VPS so the archive opens on my phone from anywhere even though home internet is 5G CGNAT. Hardware split, versions, settings, and every gotcha with its fix.
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Karpathy's Capability Funnel: You Climb It by Building, Not Reading
Karpathy's napkin math puts 6 billion people outside AI's door and 5,000 inside the lab. I sit in the tier between, and what moved me there was hours of building on my own hardware, not papers.
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Prompt Injection Works Because the Model Can't Tell Who Is Talking
New research traces prompt injection to a single mechanism: LLMs decide who is speaking from writing style, not from role tags. Forged reasoning takes attacks from near-zero to 60% success. Remove the style, and it collapses to 10%.
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A Private Coding LLM I Rent Flat-Rate Through Proton Lumo.
I point my coding agent at Proton Lumo for a private model with no per-token bill, riding a subscription I already pay for. The provider block, the flat-rate plans, a forty-line proxy that proves which model and tier Proton served, and an honest read on where it works.
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The colonoscopy study is right. The lesson is not the obvious one.
Expert endoscopists' unaided detection rate fell from 28.4 to 22.4 percent after a few months beside an AI. Here is one reading of why, and what it does and does not prove.
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