TTS Self-Hosted Qwen3-TTS: Voice Without the Cloud Deploy a 1.7B parameter TTS model with interesing featyures. No cloud APIs, no surprise bills, total data privacy. Stephane Thirion 26 Feb 2026 · 3 min read
authentik Ditching Azure AD: Self-Hosted Identity with Authentik How I replaced Microsoft Entra ID with Authentik for self-hosted SSO across Grafana, GitLab, and Portainer. Full control, better latency, zero cloud dependencies. Stephane Thirion 25 Feb 2026 · 4 min read
TTS Running Fish Speech TTS on TrueNAS with GPU Acceleration Setting up Fish Speech text-to-speech on TrueNAS SCALE with Docker and NVIDIA GPU support. Covers the gotchas I hit along the way. Stephane Thirion 17 Feb 2026 · 5 min read
OpenClaw Installing OpenClaw: A Complete Guide from Scratch Your AI assistant doesn't have to live on someone else's servers. OpenClaw runs on your hardware, connects to Telegram/Discord/WhatsApp, and keeps your data private. Here's how to set it up. Stephane Thirion 14 Feb 2026 · 5 min read
DNS Building Enterprise-Grade DNS Infrastructure with Docker Swarm, AdGuard Home and Unbound Built a DNS infrastructure with Docker Swarm, AdGuard Home and Unbound delivering 1ms response times, comprehensive ad blocking and complete privacy while maintaining Active Directory compatibility. Stephane Thirion 26 Aug 2025 · 7 min read
AI Networking Building a Network Expert (& Netscaler) LLM with LLaMA 3.2 Fine-tuning open-source AI models for deep domain expertise in enterprise networking Stephane Thirion 29 Jul 2025 · 5 min read
Computer Vision Building an AI-Powered Vehicle Speed Monitor (Machine learning) A complete guide for deploying a real-time vehicle speed monitoring system using computer vision and machine learning on Ubuntu 24.04 Server. Stephane Thirion 3 Jul 2025 · 5 min read