Naoki Ohno

I am a data scientist by profession, but my interests encompass broader technological topics such as computer hardware, networking, and self-hosting.

Areas of expertise and interest

  • Data engineering and analysis in a professional capacity
  • Supervised learning in the cloud and locally (Azure, ML on both Nvidia and Radeon GPUs utilising CUDA and ROCm)
  • Data and AI related development in Python and R
  • LLMs in a cloud and locally (Azure, ollama)
  • Self-hosting servers on VPS and local hardware (Vultr, Hetzner, Contabo)
  • Hosting websites and onion hidden services using ngxinx and tor. Local site hosting using cloudflared
  • Hosting and operating tor relays, bridges, vpn servers, and obfuscated proxies for anonymity and censorship circumvention
  • Operating and configuring Linux distros including Debian, Arch, and Tails OS
  • Degoogling Android devices and custom ROMs
  • Home networking including NAS, encrypted mass storage, distributed backups, P2P file sharing, VPNs (samba, syncthing, qbittorrent-nox, wireguard)
  • Anonymous cryptocurrency
  • Building desktops and servers, laptop repairs, trading hardware on local markeplaces

    About this server

    This server is self-hosted on my own hardware, finally doing away with VPS providers.

    Hardware: HP Z240 Tower Workstation, Intel Xeon E3-1270 v6, 32GB DDR4 RAM, AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB VRAM.

    Stack: EndavourOS, Nginx, cloudflared, tor, Proton VPN, qbittorrent-nox.

    The site is also available under this onion address

    Contact me

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