<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Home on Cypherpunk Lab</title><link>https://federicociro.com/</link><description>Recent content in Home on Cypherpunk Lab</description><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyleft 2025 - All code is free</copyright><lastBuildDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://federicociro.com/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Hardware for Self-Hosting: A Low Time Preference Approach to Digital Infrastructure</title><link>https://federicociro.com/posts/self-hosting/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://federicociro.com/posts/self-hosting/</guid><description>We obsess over monthly cloud bills while refusing to spend $500 on hardware that could run for a decade. This inversion reveals something deeper than poor financial planning—it shows how thoroughly we&amp;rsquo;ve internalized the idea that infrastructure is something we rent, not own.
Let me tell you about a different approach.
The Time Preference Framework In economics, time preference describes how we value present versus future satisfaction. High time preference means wanting everything now, even at the cost of tomorrow.</description></item><item><title>Hello World: Building Systems That Serve Us, Not Surveil Us</title><link>https://federicociro.com/posts/hello-world/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://federicociro.com/posts/hello-world/</guid><description>This blog runs on a server in my basement. The data lives on drives I can physically touch. The firewall rules are ones I wrote. Nobody is collecting metrics on you reading this. There&amp;rsquo;s no &amp;ldquo;privacy policy&amp;rdquo; because there&amp;rsquo;s nothing to have a policy about - I don&amp;rsquo;t capture your data in the first place.
This isn&amp;rsquo;t an accident. It&amp;rsquo;s a choice.
Why Another Self-Hosting Blog The internet doesn&amp;rsquo;t need another tutorial on deploying Nextcloud or configuring pfSense.</description></item></channel></rss>