Weekly Highlights
There were quite a few updates in Proxmox Land this week. The team celebrated the official release of v9.0, which brings an OS upgrade to Debian 13 (Trixie), a modern mobile interface, new metrics, and snapshot improvements (among others). Proxmox Backup Server v4.0 followed hot on its heels with support for S3-compatible object storage and ZFS upgrades.
Relatedly, the PXVIRT project for porting Proxmox to ARM devices recently froze the project's repo due to insufficient funding. Recent donations seem to be bringing some life back into the project, although the team has indicated support for the infrastructure required to maintain the project still isn't where it needs to be.
Ghost (the software used to deploy selfh.st) also had a big week with the anticipated release of v6.0, which brings integrated analytics (via Tinybird) and built-in social web/ActivityPub support to the blogging/newsletter platform. I've personally found the new analytics to be somewhat lacking and would recommend users stick with existing viable self-hosted alternatives for the time being.
Other interesting activity that appeared in my feed this week:
- A new term called slopsquatting, a form of cybersquatting where users register non-existent package names hallucinated by LLMs for unsuspecting users to install
- Finetic, a new Jellyfin client that leverages AI for interactive chat via subtitles (fast forward to the scene where the building collapses, who are the main characters?, etc.)
- The latest release of Changerawr – a development platform for changelogs – reminded us we're all still juvenile at heart
- Unraid's upcoming GraphQL API is inspiring third-party support with an unofficial iOS app entering test flight this week and 'Unraid support' popping up as a feature bounty in nzb360
- OpenAI released their first open-weight models (dubbed gpt-oss) for users to run on personal hardware
- Debian 13 (Trixie) officially releases tomorrow (see upgrade guide here)
Happy selfh.st/ing!
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Content Spotlight
Meet iSponsorBlockTV, a self-hosted monitoring app for skipping sponsored segments in YouTube videos. With iSponsorBlockTV, users can configure the application to monitor specified devices on a network (TVs, consoles, Chromecast, etc.) for YouTube streams and automatically skip sponsored segments when detected. As a bonus, the service can also detect YouTube ads, mute them, and automatically skip when the option becomes available.
iSponsorBlockTV can be easily deployed via Docker or as a Home Assistant add-on and includes an interactive configuration tool to begin connecting to devices.
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Videos and Podcasts
- RSS Is NOT Dead | Syntax
- Everything New In Home Assistant 2025.8! | Everything Smart Home
- What's new in Proxmox VE 9.0 | Proxmox
Command Line Corner
Use ls | wc -l to quickly count the number of files in the current directory:
$ ls | wc -l
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