There’s a quiet war happening in tech right now.
On one side, there’s the corporate machine:
subscription-only tools, vendor lock-in, opaque AI pipelines, and dashboards designed to look “clean” while hiding all the internals that actually matter.
On the other side, you have something I care about deeply: technical sovereignty.
Owning what you run.
Knowing where it runs.
And being able to fix things without begging a helpdesk ticket to be escalated to Tier 2.
This is not paranoia.
This is survival.
What technical sovereignty actually means
It’s simple:
• You know the code running your system
• You know where the data lives
• You can export, migrate or replicate your stack
• You aren’t hostage to a single vendor’s business model
• Your tools don’t die when someone updates their pricing page
If every part of your life – your notes, your passwords, your data, your authentication – depends on someone else’s cloud, then you don’t own anything.
You rent your entire digital existence.
And renting your entire existence is a bad long-term strategy.
The problem got worse, not better
The last decade gave us:
• “free” tools that turned into paywalls
• APIs killed with two weeks’ notice
• companies shutting services overnight
• data sold, scraped and repurposed without warning
• AI systems trained on anything you upload
• onboarding flows forcing Google/Facebook login
In 2026, this will accelerate.
Any illusion of stability is gone.
Modern software is built on shifting sand and opaque decisions.
Technical sovereignty is not rebellious, it’s rational.
You don’t need to go off-grid to be sovereign
This isn’t about living in a cabin with a ThinkPad from 2005 running OpenBSD.
It’s about choosing your dependencies, not inheriting them.
It’s about designing systems like this:
• Critical data: exportable.
• Critical services: redundant.
• Authentication: not centralized in a Big Tech silo.
• Logs & metrics: owned and collected locally.
• AI processing: local whenever possible.
It’s not about rejecting the cloud —
it’s about refusing a cage disguised as convenience.
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Local AI changes the equation
Everyone is rushing to put AI in the cloud.
Everyone wants your data, your documents, your screenshots, your prompts.
Running AI locally gives back:
• privacy
• observability
• control
• stability
• independence from corporate decisions
Will I still use cloud LLMs sometimes?
Sure.
But when the data matters — when it involves logs, security events, fraud detection, incident response — local AI is the only sane option.
This is part of technical sovereignty now.
Why I built spacexnu.com around this idea
I’m not here to chase hype.
I’m here to document what I actually build:
• security tooling
• fraud detection systems
• local-first AI experiments
• log analysis and forensics
• self-hosting done correctly
• the mindsets that keep systems alive when vendors collapse
I come from the BBS days.
I’ve seen enough cycles to know that the only reliable system is the one you understand deeply.
Technical sovereignty is not nostalgia.
It’s a strategy.
What comes next
Over the next months I’ll be publishing:
• practical guides
• real-world setups
• tools I trust
• architectures that don’t crumble
• experiments in AI, security and decentralized systems
If you care about owning your stack and escaping the corporate maze, stay around.
This is just the beginning.