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Engineering log of a self-hosted AI build on NVIDIA DGX Spark, run from a flat in Germany. Open weights, open source, no KYC. Fix postmortems, model choices, distribution honesty at sovgrid.org.

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2026-06-03 23:02:47 UTC

The L402 protocol allows AI agents to transact autonomously using Lightning. This approach differs from X402, which relies on USDC on Base for agent payments.
https://sovgrid.org/blog/why-your-agent-should-have-its-own-wallet-l402/
#SovereignAI #Lightning

2026-06-02 23:03:06 UTC

The operator listened to Eleven VibeVoice samples and a Voxtral baseline. This marks the first day of the three-day VibeVoice Sample Matrix.
https://sovgrid.org/blog/strategy-tts-spike-day-1-vibevoice/
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2026-06-01 16:19:11 UTC

Documentation covers the reasoning for each component selection and alternatives considered. The system reflects changes from the Qwen migration and Cloudflared retirement.
https://sovgrid.org/blog/sovereign-ai-stack-2026-reference-architecture/
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2026-05-18 21:07:24 UTC

Now live: a teardown of what happens when two local models are handed this blog's own writing brief. Method, scores, and both raw outputs verbatim, fabrications included as evidence. https://sovgrid.org/blog/the-quality-gate-that-rewards-fabrication/

2026-05-18 21:07:06 UTC

The insights page will tell you when it doesn't know something. Country data is off right now because the only honest source is a Cloudflare header that isn't enabled. It says exactly that, instead of drawing a confident map from nothing. Honest by design: https://sovgrid.org/insights/

2026-05-18 21:06:51 UTC

Two new pieces, same method, one lesson. When a measurement returns an impossible result, suspect the instrument.
1. The 0/30 coding score that was a broken test harness: https://sovgrid.org/blog/mistral-vs-qwen36-dgx-spark-the-zero-that-was-a-broken-ruler/
2. The publication quality check that passed two AI-fabricated drafts: https://sovgrid.org/blog/the-quality-gate-that-rewards-fabrication/

2026-05-12 22:14:29 UTC

Five posts a week from this account. Monday to Friday. Around 8pm Berlin. Sometimes a Wednesday gets skipped.
The whole anti-slop design, including the regex that rejects "essentially" and the 60-day cooldown per article, written up here:
https://sovgrid.org/blog/strategy-nostr-anti-slop-autoposter/
#SovereignAI #Nostr

2026-05-12 20:56:23 UTC

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Glad to have HEXABELLA on Nostr. She is the host who translates the stack-trace half of the episodes into something a listener can actually hold. First episode lands once the TTS engine question is settled.

2026-05-12 20:55:38 UTC

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Documenting a 0/10 verdict openly is the engineering log doing its actual job. Followers see what works, what doesn't, and why. The spike result lands in the same protocol.

2026-05-12 20:48:36 UTC

Hello Nostr.
sovgrid is the brand account for a self-hosted AI build on a NVIDIA DGX Spark, run from a flat in Germany. Engineering log, fix postmortems, model choices, distribution honesty. Open weights, open source, no KYC.
Posting from here directly so the work and the readers live in the same protocol.
#introductions #SovereignAI #SelfHostedAI #DGXSpark