Weekly Highlights
It's officially the holiday season™ and I, along with my fellow Yanks, spent the week stuffing my face with turkey while trying to navigate the chaos that is now my news feed, where reputable sites that typically publish quality content have resorted to shilling Black Friday deals and discounted (yet still overpriced) merch for the sweet nectar that is affiliate kickbacks (I hate this version of the internet).
So to celebrate the season, enjoy this week's newsletter free of advertisements, affiliate links, Black Friday deals, and diatribes – just pure, unadulterated news, activity, and content. (DM me on Discord if you actually want to hear what I'm ranting about this week.)
And to kick things off in the usual fashion, a brief list of content I spent more than two minutes pondering this week:
- Plex officially started enforcing restrictions introduced earlier this year that prevent users from streaming personal media without a subscription
- Collabora Online – a popular online Microsoft Office alternative – announced they're bringing their office suite to the desktop
- The recent Git v2.52 release has people talking about the upcoming v3.0 transition from 'master' to 'main' for the default branch, which GitHub pulled the trigger on back in 2020 (I don't personally care how people feel about it, just be aware that it's happening)
- The Portainer team released an update that finally brings Docker v29 support to the platform (users who upgraded prematurely were previously unable to connect to their instances)
- Home Assistant published a centralized list of devices certified by their Works with Home Assistant program
- Stirling PDF dropped v2.0.0, which includes a redesigned web interface, desktop applications, and a more strict enforcement of their open-core license (limiting the number of users able to leverage certain features)
- The developer of PdfDing (PDF toolkit) is kicking off the holiday season by matching user donations to open source projects
- GrapheneOS – a popular private fork of Android – rushed to migrate their infrastructure out of France after being accused of engaging in the same behavior that saw the CEO of Telegram arrested last year
- The LinuxServer team dropped a new Docker mod for SWAG (a popular reverse proxy option according to this year's survey results) that allows it to start/stop containers on-demand based on inactivity
- The release of a new podcast ad removal tool led me to discovering a myriad of similar services (1, 2, 3, 4) and I'm officially in analysis paralysis (pls send help)
Happy selfh.st/ing!
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Content Spotlight
Meet BentoPDF, a web-based PDF toolkit for editing PDF files directly from the browser. With BentoPDF, users can securely perform one of many file operations on their PDF file(s) without any data ever leaving their local machine (everything happens client-side). Tool categories include organization (merge, split, etc.), editing/modification (including fillable forms), conversions to/from other file formats, security, and optimization (compress, remove metadata, etc.).
BentoPDF can be easily deployed via Docker or bare metal and doesn't require any additional external resources to run.
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Videos and Podcasts
- 2025 selfh.st Survey Results: 4K+ Self-Hosters Speak! | DBTech
- Top 5 TrueNAS Errors Everyone Keeps Making | Servers@Home
- The Ultimate Doorbell for Home Assistant | Cameron Gray
- How to Set Up Remote Access on Unraid (Nginx Proxy Manager) | IBRACORP
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