Self-Host Weekly (22 August 2025)

Weekly Highlights

This week's news cycle was a stark reminder as to why so many of us self-host: Google announced they're bringing Gemini to Google Home, users are still complaining about OpenAI's GPT-5 launch, Microsoft confirmed they're dropping OneNote support for Windows 10, Apple TV+ got a price hike, and people on my socials won't stop talking about this #$@!ing bean.

Fortunately, today's newsletter is chock-full of notable software updates and launches (60!) that should keep just about anyone busy this weekend.

And because the outpouring of positive feedback about my bulleted intros is a drug I can't get enough of, here's what tickled my fancy this week:

• Frigate (NVR) released v0.16.0, which brought the much-anticipated support for face and license plate recognition (bye-bye, Compreface and Double-Take)
• Portainer (container manager) got a facelift with its recent LTS release (and I have no idea how to represent their new branding in my icon collection)
• The amazing Fediverse evangelist Elena Rossini taught me 'sudo' means 'sweat' in Italian (how appropriate)
• OneUptime published an article preaching against SSO paywalls despite actively implementing one themselves
• The developer of SilverBullet (note-taking) facilitated a transparent and open discussion on the future sustainability of the platform
• Jellyfin users feasted with significant updates to existing clients (Streamyfin) and new project launches (Pixelfin, PuniPuni, and Void)
• Plex users also felt some love (well, maybe) with the launch of AuthPortal, a unique authentication system built around Plex users
• nzb360 (mobile *arr manager) released native Unraid support

Happy selfh.st/ing!

Newswire

Unboxing Discourse 3.5

After six months of steady improvements in our beta releases, we’re excited to announce our latest release, Discourse 3.5. This release, we focused on improving both the member and community management experience.

DiscourseHugh Lashbrooke

Introducing our upcoming release: “Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn” - Nextcloud

Join us online for the Nextcloud Hub release “Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn” on September 27, 2025. Discover how we came to think of this name!

NextcloudKatrin Goethals

How To: Setup and configure Forgejo with support for Forgejo Actions and more!

In this guide, I will go over how to setup and configure a fresh instance of Forgejo, deploy a runner to enable Forgejo Actions, and optionally setup OAuth2 authentication with Pocket ID and GPG commit signing within Forgejo. If you are migrating from Gitea, I also go over manually migrating your repos to your new Forgejo instance.

Nick Cunningham

Sustainable SilverBullet

Hey all, The topic of financially supporting me for the roughly 3.5 years I’ve spent on SilverBullet has come up many times over the years. Thus far I have always held off on this topic for two reasons: Since money would come into play, I’d fear that my level of motivation would be connected to how much money I’d be receiving and if it would be “worth my time.” And the chances of getting sufficient donations to be able to quit my day-time job were extremely low. I didn’t need the money, since…

SilverBullet Communityzef

Raspberry Pi Launches 5″ Touch Display 2 for Just $40

Small, sharp, and just $40.

It's FOSS NewsSourav Rudra

‘Ad Blocking is Not Piracy’ Decision Overturned By Top German Court * TorrentFreak

Legal action by publisher Axel Springer, which aims to outlaw ad blocking on copyright grounds, has been revived by Germany’s top court.

Andy Maxwell

AirGradient joins Works with Home Assistant

They bring indoor and outdoor air quality monitors to the program.

Home AssistantMiranda Bishop

Quote of the Week

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Content Spotlight

Meet Open Archiver, a self-hosted e-mail archive, storage, and indexing platform. With Open Archiver, users can easily connect to external mail services like Gmail, Microsoft 365, and other generic implementations for exporting and storing e-mails in a standard .eml format. Features include pluggable storage backends (including S3), search, thread discovery, retention policies, audit trail logs, and more.

Open Archiver can be easily deployed via Docker and requires an external database for data storage.

Links: Website, Source Code

Videos and Podcasts

• Haus: The Productivity Dashboard from Moodist's Creator | DB Tech
• Owning your data: The open source path with Nextcloud and MariaDB | The Nextcloud Podcast
• Music Assistant - Your music, your way, on your devices! | Awesome Open Source
• Building a Home Assistant Kiosk - Why Did I Wait So Long? | Jim's Garage

Command Line Corner

Use ls -l <filename> to quickly view the permissions of an individual file:

$ ls -l example.txt
  -rwxrw---- user user example.txt

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