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Weekly Highlights
As promised, the results of my recent annual self-host user survey were published this morning, which can be viewed using the link below. I'll also be discussing them via live stream with YouTuber DB Tech and Multi-Scrobbler developer Matt Foxx this Saturday (11/22) at 12pm EST – join us and don't miss out!
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In actual news, service outages hit a bit closer to 127.0.0.1 this week as Cloudflare, GitHub, and Tailscale all took turns going down, impacting self-hosted infrastructure across the globe. Cloudflare has unfortunately become a bit of a necessity for many, but here's to hoping this serves as a wakeup call for those not aware of the many viable GitHub and Tailscale alternatives.
In software, two promising e-mail archiving platforms – Bichon and Eonvelope – launched this week. Between the two of them and the recent launches of Mail-Archiver and Open Archiver, self-hosters in the market for mail backup solutions should be feasting. (Admittedly, I'm wondering if I missed something aside from the typical privacy concerns that prompted the creation of these tools all at once?)
And lastly, this week's speed round of the many other notable happenings you should be aware of:
- Jack Dorsey (Twitter) brought Vine back (short-form videos) via an open source successor called DiVine. Built on the Nostr protocol, the app promises to fight for users' digital rights and flag/block generative AI content.
- Home Assistant announced their new ZBT-2 hardware, a Zigbee/Thread successor to the ZBT-1 (not to be confused with the ZWA-2) and just in time for Zigbee 4.0 to drop
- The Forgejo (git) team made headlines after committing meeting notes with the Dutch government to their sustainability repo for transparency (my favorite bit is the note-taker describing their role as 'just takes notes lol')
- Matrix (chat) is now enforcing a specification update announced earlier this year that will prevent unsigned devices from reading encrypted messages (see Element's explanation here)
- Open Source Pledge (authors of the open source burnout article below) is selling Cranberry sOSS for Thanksgiving to raise funds for open source maintainers
- Proxmox released v9.1, which includes creating LXC containers from OCI images (aka – running Docker containers natively)
- The CEO of Mastodon officially stepped down and ceded all remaining control and ownership of the project to the project's non-profit organization
- The BentoPDF developer (mentioned last week for their release-note-dad-jokes) was back at it again with dummy API keys to various AI platforms that linked to a Rickroll
- NordPass's annual password trend report confirmed what we all suspected – Gen Z is worse than Boomers when it comes to using insecure passwords (if you're looking for strong passwords, just use Home Assistant's hardware names and they'll be uncrackable)
Happy selfh.st/ing!
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Content Spotlight
Meet Zerobyte, a powerful backup automation tool with remote storage support. Zerobyte builds on top of Restic to give users a sleek web interface for configuring and scheduling backup jobs to be stored in any number of local or remote locations. Features include encryption, compression, retention policies, multi-protocol support (NFS, SMB, WebDAV, local), and multiple storage backends (S3, Google Cloud, Azure Blob, and rclone).
Zerobyte can be easily deployed via Docker and doesn't require any additional services to run.
Links: Source Code
Videos and Podcasts
- Olares One: Run AI Locally + Self-Host Everything | DB Tech
- Collect All Media | *arr Stack TrueNAS Community Edition 2025 | Servers@Home
- Peertube - Open Source, Federated, Video Streaming! | Awesome Open Source
- ProxMenux Monitor: The New Proxmox Dashboard You Need to See | VirtualizationHowTo
- OCI Image Support in Proxmox: A First Look (And Some Gotchas) | Techno Tim
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Use wc -c <file> to quickly count the number of characters in a file:
$ wc -c example.txt
24 example.txtClick here for an archive of commands shared in past newsletters.
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