Understanding the Surveillance Infrastructure That Powers Mass Data Collection
You helped build the surveillance state — one app permission, one doorbell camera, one well-meaning vote at a time. Here's what's actually watching you, how it all connects, and what you can do about it.
How an AI Assistant Helped Turn a Volunteer's Frustration into an Upstream Feature Request
A routine Docker upgrade silently broke CERN particle physics simulations on a volunteer's Linux workstation. What followed was a diagnostic deep-dive, an upstream bug report, and a real feature request now in active development — with an AI assistant along for the ride.
So your computer is doing physics at CERN...
Most BOINC guides end at "click attach." Ours starts there. Two container runtimes, process escape via CVMFS, a package manager that destroys your workarounds, and an AI co-pilot that remembers everything. This is what running LHC@home actually looks like.
No Vendor, No Policy, No Problem
Completing the technical walkthrough: route SearXNG through Tor, run it as a systemd service, configure Firefox to close the click gap, and understand exactly what the stack protects — and what it doesn't.