Homelab Patching
A practical guide to keeping a multi-node Proxmox cluster, Talos Kubernetes, Synology, pfSense, and Docker services updated — rolling upgrade strategy, Renovate automation, and a cadence that doesn't consume your weekends.
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Homelab pfSense Boot Troubleshooting
Three separate failures from a single accidental reboot — CAM disk detection delay, serial console locking the keyboard out, and NIC enumeration mismatch. Documented as it happened.
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Security The Axios Supply Chain Attack
A compromised maintainer pushed poisoned axios versions containing a cross-platform RAT.
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AI Running OpenClaw as a Homelab Infrastructure Agent
How I replaced my custom merox-agent Telegram bot with OpenClaw — an open-source personal AI assistant that manages my Kubernetes cluster, Docker services, and GitOps repo from my phone.
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AI Proxmox GPU Passthrough Guide
Step-by-step GPU passthrough on Proxmox VE 8 — IOMMU groups, VFIO binding, NVIDIA driver quirks, ROM dumps, and Tesla P40 for AI inference workloads.
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Storage Synology HyperBackup to Oracle Cloud
How to configure Synology HyperBackup with Oracle Cloud's Always Free Ampere instance using rsync over Tailscale — including the SSH override that breaks most setups.
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AI Deploying OpenClaw on Proxmox
Deploy OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot/Clawdbot) on Proxmox in an unprivileged LXC — setup, security hardening, and post-breach recommendations.