Self-Host Weekly (6 June 2025)

Weekly Highlights

Six days in and June is already turning out to be quite the eventful month. While development and releases tend to slow down in the summertime, there was no shortage of noteworthy self-hosted activity this week:

• The U.S. government got in on the action with the release of their Direct File tax prep software (it's only a matter of time until the community fork Taxarr is released)
• YouTube's war on self-hosting continued after issuing a community guidelines violation to Jeff Geerling for a video he released on 4K video playback (if self-hosting is so harmful, how did it nab this Redditor a girlfriend?)
• The DumbWare team struck again with the release of DumbAsses DumbAssets, a stupid simple asset and maintenance tracker
• The RomM team released an update with integrated achievement support but has warned users not to enable them until a bug is fixed that can overwrite existing artwork
• Wyze slapped a camera on a light bulb (currently sold out) for homelabbers who don't have easy access to wiring or power sources

Happy selfh.st/ing!

In the News

Self-hosting your own media considered harmful | Jeff Geerling

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Nextcloud Talk “Munich”: building resilient communication - Nextcloud

Introducing Nextcloud Talk “Munich” — now even more resilient, powerful and easy to get started with. Read this blog to find out more.

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Ramping up for expansion

Ghost 6.0 is coming soon

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Valkey Turns One: How the Community Fork Left Redis in the Dust - Momento

Valkey is not only thriving, but now outperforming Redis 8.0 in real world benchmarks.

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Content Spotlight

Meet Tinyauth, a simple authentication middleware for self-hosted applications. With Tinyauth, users looking to avoid the complexity of platforms like Authelia and Authentik can easily protect pages with a basic login screen connected to one of several identity providers (local accounts, various OAuth services). Features include easy configuration with popular proxies, basic access controls via Docker labels, and two-factor authentication.

Tinyauth can be easily deployed via Docker or binary and doesn't require any additional dependencies to run.

Links: Source Code, Website, Documentation

Videos and Podcasts

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• Per-App IPs Are Coming to TrueNAS June 1st 2025 But There’s a Catch… | Lawrence Systems

Command Line Corner

Use cat <file>.json | jq . to easily format and view JSON files with indentation directly from the command line:

$ cat test.json | jq .
  {
    "name": "Self-Host Weekly",
    "date": "2025-06-06",
    "website": "selfh.st"
  }

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