#self-hosting

Nov 8, 2026

My news digest pipeline, one month later

The media pipeline runs, podcasts included. YouTube refused every subtitle request, so Whisper did the work for weeks, until Gemini took over. And the hardest part turned out to be choosing the sources, not summarizing them.

Oct 7, 2026

I disabled SSH passwords. cloud-init disagreed.

On a fresh Ubuntu VPS, two drop-in files disagreed about PasswordAuthentication, and the one I didn't know about won. sshd's first-value-wins rule, and how to check what's really in effect.