Category: Privacy

Privacy as practice, not theory. Opting out of data brokers, choosing tools that don’t ship telemetry to ad networks, hardening the parts of your stack that leak, and the political context behind why surveillance keeps getting normalised. Geared at builders and small teams, not threat-model maximalists.

Private AI Workflows: Keep Client Secrets Off Someone Else’s GPU

In 2023, two New York lawyers were fined $5,000 for filing a brief full of cases that never existed — ChatGPT invented all six citations. The sanction was for the fabrication. The lesson nobody drew from it: every one of those fake-case prompts, plus the client’s injury facts, went through OpenAI’s servers first. In June… Continue reading Private AI Workflows: Keep Client Secrets Off Someone Else’s GPU

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How to Run GLM-5.2 Locally (2026): Ollama, VRAM, and the Honest Hardware Bill

You want to run GLM-5.2 on your own hardware. Maybe it’s the MIT license. Maybe it’s the 1M-token context. Maybe you’re just done sending your codebase to someone else’s GPU. Good news: it’s possible. Bad news: probably not on the machine you’re thinking of, and the internet is full of guides that pretend otherwise. This… Continue reading How to Run GLM-5.2 Locally (2026): Ollama, VRAM, and the Honest Hardware Bill

Chat Control 1.0 Passed Through the Back Door (EU, 2026)

On July 9, 2026, 314 members of the European Parliament voted to kill mass chat scanning. That was more than the opposition — 276 MEPs voted to keep it. The rejection won. And the law passed anyway. Here’s the sentence that should make every builder’s blood run cold, then boil: a majority of voting MEPs… Continue reading Chat Control 1.0 Passed Through the Back Door (EU, 2026)

EU Chat Control 2026: The Deadline Every Builder Should Know

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Update (August 15, 2026): The fight moved faster than anyone predicted. Parliament killed the scanning derogation in March — then it came back through a procedural back door in July. Read the verified sequel: Chat Control 1.0 Passed Through the Back Door. The wallet deadline below still stands. Brussels has a date with your inbox.… Continue reading EU Chat Control 2026: The Deadline Every Builder Should Know

What Is the Sovereign Builder Protocol?

The Sovereign Builder Protocol is a practical operating system for people who want to build useful tools, own more of their stack, spend less, and serve people better with AI, automation, privacy, and discipline.