I spent a whole day in a room full of privacy engineers talking about how they were trying to move their companies towards better practices and then I glanced at my phone, read this, and just let the wave of rage and despair wash over me: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/amazon-ring-cashes-techno-authoritarianism-and-mass-surveillance
So that's my message to you. Homelabs are fun. They give you a safe place to experiment, learn and become more experienced with Linux, networks and running stuff at a comparably low price. And these cute 10 inch racks make it even more fun! I have documented my setup with a bill of material at https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/05/Cute-Homelab/ in the hope that more people join the movement :)
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My Cute HomelabAs I experiment a lot with open source solutions, I am always in need of a bit of compute power to run stuff on. Nowadays, with containers and automation through CI/CD, that has become a lot simpler compared to, say, 5-10 years ago. You just need a few simple, but powerful enough machines, a bit of networking and you can play around. So. Let me explain my current homelab setup.
This has to be one of my favorite EDR resources after Evading EDR by Matt Hand.
https://blog.deeb.ch/posts/how-edr-works/
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