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…I'd much rather put that towards more hardware and build out my own, private, secure local AI factory.
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Tailscale Aperture is currently in alpha testing, but you'll need to request access if you want to use it. It's a little bit like a password manager, but it's for your AI API keys, and will only work when connected to your tailnet. It sits at http://ai/ui/ while you're connected, and lets you store one API key per provider, then share that API key with anyone authorized on your tailnet. But it's more than that. Trying to rotate API keys if someone leaves or if you know you had an API leak is a major pain. By keeping them in Aperture, you don't have to worry about that, because once you remove
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I use n8n every day to manage my finances, and it has massively improved my life
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I put Google's Gemma 4 on my homelab and Tailscale on my phone — and cancelled Claude Pro
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