Why I'm Doing This Crazy Shit.
paranoid~rv://about
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tty0
▪ MPDC
BIOS POST ....................................... OK
Detecting salvaged hardware:
Dell Precision T3600 ......................... RECLAIMED
Xeon E5-2665 / 64GB ECC ..................... OK
2x 1.8TB (SATA + SAS) ....................... OK
GPU1 (GTX 1050 Ti) .......................... VFIO → OLLAMA
GPU2 (GTX 960) .............................. DISPLAY
Loading kernel:
Proxmox VE 9.1.1 ........................... LOADED
Docker Engine ............................... STARTED
Security stack:
Suricata IDS ................................ WATCHING
Zeek ........................................ ANALYZING
Wazuh SIEM .................................. MONITORING
CrowdSec .................................... LEARNING
AdGuard DNS ................................. FILTERING
CORTEX Memory ............................... PERSISTENT
LiteLLM Router .............................. DISPATCHING
Ollama (DeepSeek R1) ........................ INFERENCE
Containers: 27 active
██ POWER SURGE ██ .......................... STABILIZED
Governance:
Human+AI Protocol ........................... ENFORCED
70/30 Model ................................. ACTIVE
Corporate compliance ........................ NOT FOUND
Ego suppression ............................. NOT INSTALLED
Identity:
The Paranoid~R.V.
Operator: Chris
Classification: Bot-Jockey
All 27 containers nominal.
TERMINAL
Last login: Sun Mar 22 02:47:13 2026 from localhost
System: DRV Mobile Suite 38RSSB3 / Proxmox VE 9.1.1 / Docker
chris@paranoid-rv:~$ cat /about
THE PARANOID~R.V.
Why I'm doing this crazy shit.
Why I'm doing this crazy shit.
The Mobile Penthouse Data Center — March 2026
CORTEX
IDS
BUILD
DOCS
MEMORY EXTRACTION
[BOOT] Memory index initialized
[TRACE] Searching origin records...
[INIT]
27-container self-hosted security platform. AI-governed. Built from a fifth wheel RV. Documented publicly. Every win. Every failure. (almost)
[STATUS]
Fully on-prem. Intrusion detection, network monitoring, threat intelligence, DNS filtering. Cold beer. Local AI orchestra with its own persistent memory layer. Running from inside a 2014 DRV Mobile Suite 38RSSB3.
[PROTOCOL]
I am basing this project off the 70/30 protocol where Bot does 70% of the heavy lifting and the operator (or "Bot-Jockey" as I like to refer to myself) retains the crucial 30% responsibility. Judgement, reasoning, decision making, final opinions — like this executive decision to completely re-write my Protocol section!
[IDENTITY]
My name's Chris. I'm not a network engineer. I'm not a Linux admin. I'm not a coder. I'm just a dude who got bored one day and taught himself to delegate to AI and govern its output.
[LOG 2026-03-01 09:14]
Gap year. Disastrous 2025. Piles of salvaged IT equipment everywhere. Decided to do something with it.
[NOTE]
First objective: inventory. Cautiously ventured into AI to build a spreadsheet that looked clean and professional. Not sloppy copy-pasta. Not admin garbage.
[WARNING]
That project took off and exploded. AI builds fast. Then it suggests improvements you never thought of. That's where things get tricky.
[SKIP >> 7 DAYS]
// fast forward a week from the spreadsheet incident
[DOCUMENTATION]
This site documents the entire build. The 2am debugging sessions. The governance protocol. The Ah-HAs!, LoLs, Aw-Shits, and Gotchas! The stack that grew from a spreadsheet into an AI driven SOC + Fully Automated and Autonomous Luxury Bachelor Pad. (hopefully, maybe... let me cook dammit.)
[WELCOME]
Pull up a chair, crack a cold beer, let's build some cool shit together!!!
[SALVAGE MANIFEST] // recovered modules
MODULE 001 — RECOVERED DATA
The Full Archive
Every article. Every build log. Every failure published instead of buried. The whole library — past, present, and whatever breaks next.
MODULE 002 — INCOMING SIGNAL
New Drops, No Algorithm
Posts hit your inbox directly. No feed ranking. No engagement optimization. Just the work, when it ships.
MODULE 003 — PERSONNEL
The Crew
Builders, breakers, and the quietly paranoid. Homelab at 2am. DNS arguments in forum threads. You're already one of us.
MODULE 004 — PROOF OF WORK
The Library
10+ published articles documenting the full build. Stack deployment. AI governance. Protocol development. The work is the resume.
DIAGNOSTICS
PLATFORM2014 DRV 38RSSB3
COMPUTEDell T3600 / Proxmox VE 9.1.1
CONTAINERS27 active
IDS/IPSSuricata + Zeek
SIEMWazuh
MEMORYCORTEX (custom)
AI INFERENCEOllama + LiteLLM
DNSAdGuard → Unbound
GOVERNANCE70/30 Protocol
UPTIME000:00:00
ARCHITECTURE
AI GOVERNANCE — THE 70/30 BOUNDARY
ROOT (Chris) — 30%
↓ marks decisions
Claude API — genius tier
↓ routes via
LiteLLM Router
↙ ↘
DeepSeek 8b — fast
DeepSeek 14b — smart
▸ AI PROPOSES / ROOT MARKS / AI EXECUTES ◂
CORTEX
Persistent brain. Survives sessions.
MPDC MCP
Brain access server.
Open WebUI
Aria's interface.
Kokoro TTS
Voice for Aria.
Node-RED
Nervous system. MQTT flows.
Mosquitto
MQTT broker. Event bus.
SECURITY STACK
Suricata
IDS/IPS. Packets.
Zeek
Traffic analysis.
Wazuh
SIEM. Agents.
CrowdSec
Threat intel.
Bouncer
Enforcement.
ntopng
Traffic monitor.
Tor
Anonymization.
INFRASTRUCTURE
rv-stack network
Postgres
Primary DB.
InfluxDB
Time-series. 4 buckets.
Grafana
Dashboards.
ghostnet network
Ghost
Blog. mpdc.dev
Ghost DB
MySQL backend.
Proton Bridge
SMTP relay.
proxy-net + services
Traefik
Reverse proxy.
Vaultwarden
Credential vault.
AdGuard
DNS filtering.
Unbound
Recursive DNS.
WireGuard
VPN tunnel.
NETWORK FLOW
INTERNET → GL-X3000 → ALFA → PROXMOX HOST
DNS: query → AdGuard → Unbound → resolution
PUBLIC: CF tunnel → mpdc.dev | mcp.mpdc.dev | cortex.mpdc.dev
MESH: Tailscale → all internal + mobile node
VIRTUALIZATION — PROXMOX VE 9.1.1
VM 101: Ollama
GTX 1050 Ti VFIO. CUDA 12.8. DeepSeek R1.
Host: 27 containers
Docker Compose. 4 networks. The engine room.
PHYSICAL LAYER
Dell T3600
Xeon E5-2665 8c/16t
64GB DDR3 ECC
2x 1.8TB SATA+SAS
GPU1: GTX 1050 Ti → Ollama
GPU2: GTX 960 → Display
64GB DDR3 ECC
2x 1.8TB SATA+SAS
GPU1: GTX 1050 Ti → Ollama
GPU2: GTX 960 → Display
Network Edge
GL-X3000 cellular router
ALFA RTL8814AU USB WiFi
Tailscale mesh
Cloudflare tunnel
ALFA RTL8814AU USB WiFi
Tailscale mesh
Cloudflare tunnel
2014 DRV 38RSSB3
38ft fifth wheel
The chassis.
Everything above
lives inside this.
The chassis.
Everything above
lives inside this.
STORAGE MAP
CORTEX
SQLite — persistent brain
InfluxDB
Time-series — 4 buckets
Postgres
Primary DB
Ghost
Blog content
Vaultwarden
Credentials — encrypted
ASSEMBLY RECORD
[EVENT] WEEK 0
Took inventory of salvaged IT equipment. Asked AI to build a spreadsheet.
The spreadsheet fought back.
[EVENT] WEEK 1
Stood up Proxmox on a reclaimed Dell T3600.
Docker containers started multiplying.
[EVENT] WEEK 2
Security stack online.
Suricata, Zeek, Wazuh, CrowdSec. The RV sees everything.
[EVENT] WEEK 3
Built CORTEX — persistent AI memory layer.
The machine remembers between sessions.
[ONGOING]
Still building. Still documenting.
Still bolting salvaged parts onto the monster and seeing what happens when you flip the switch.
SIGNAL
Building toward residential and small business security services. One salvaged part at a time.