Sam Aydlette

In the age of AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude, having your own locally-run language model gives you privacy, offline access, and complete control over your AI interactions. In this guide, I'll walk you through setting up TinyLlama, which is a compact yet capable 1.1B parameter language model, on a standard laptop. This setup will even work on laptops with limited resources.

Organizations today face the challenge of securing increasingly complex cloud environments while managing costs effectively. This article outlines a comprehensive, scalable approach to vulnerability management that won't break the bank.

Many technical security controls can be implemented and validated automatically, even at scale, leading to mind-boggling cost and time reductions.

This investigation started with a simple problem: my wife's computer was booting slowly. What began as routine troubleshooting led to the discovery of concerning behavior in how ProtonVPN persists on macOS systems even after uninstallation...