Self-Host Weekly (6 March 2026)

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Weekly Highlights

Occasionally, I find it helpful (especially during slow news weeks) to take a step back and observe what's happening across the broader tech landscape to gain a better appreciation for self-hosted projects and communities.

For example, Microsoft made headlines (multiple times) again this week after banning the word microslop on their Discord server amid unsubstantiated claims that Windows 12 will be AI-focused and subscription-based. Just a few days later, rumors also began circulating that OpenAI is developing an internal GitHub alternative in response to the platform's numerous outages over the last several months.

And then there's the viral McDonald's fiasco, which saw the fast food chain's CEO try his best to convince the world he actually consumes his company's food (spoiler: he doesn't) in an ad announcing the return of a popular sandwich. Can you imagine a world in which open source and self-hosted software developers weren't users of the tools they build?

In other news:

• The viral AI chat bot OpenClaw surpassed React as the most-starred project on GitHub (see also: OpenClaw Exposure Watchboard)
• Palmr, a file transfer app that launched and gained popularity last year, has been officially been archived on GitHub
• Anthropic launched a Claude for Open Source Program that will gift six free months of Claude Max to maintainers of popular projects (and some have already made the cut!)
• Frenck of Home Assistant fame developed an integration that allows users to play the original DOOM directly from their dashboards
• A new-ish MQTT platform called BunkerM fell prey to the AI marketing hype with a rebranded AI domain – that's currently parked?
• Ente (mentioned last week for their Locker launch) was back at it again this week with the announcement of Ensu, an offline, privacy-focused LLM app
• Myrient, a video game preservation site with over 390 terabytes of retro game ROMs, announced they're shutting down due to insufficient funding and increasing hardware costs
• This mad lad spun up a static web site – on a disposable vape...

Happy selfh.st/ing!

Newswire

OpenAI is reportedly working on its own GitHub competitor

OpenAI, the face of the generative AI era, has reportedly had enough of GitHub and its recent spike in outages and is now working on its own direct competitor.

NeowinDavid Uzondu

OliveTin is getting more security scrutiny; and it’s a good thing

OliveTin has been getting a lot of security scrutiny this week - as there’s been a relatively huge surge of security advisories come for the first time. I imagine that the project has been listed in a security forum or similar, and AI tools (and human eyeballs) are being used to looking for security vulnerabilities. This is a good thing, and I welcome more security reports, that will be patched, and will make OliveTin better.

James Read's Code, Containers & Cloud blog

Building a privacy-focused home assistant

How I set up a local voice assistant for my home

Paul ParauPaul Parau

Docker Hardened System Packages

Secure your container stack from the base image down. Docker Hardened System Packages offer multi-distro, secure-by-default components with near-zero CVEs.

DockerAdam Dawson

We traded blogs for black boxes, now we’re paying for it

Big Tech broke the internet, and this old man’s got a few things to say about it.

tékhnē.dev

A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines

A prompt injection in a GitHub issue triggered a chain reaction that ended with 4,000 developers getting OpenClaw installed without consent. The attack composes well-understood vulnerabilities into something new: one AI tool bootstrapping another.

grithgrith team

IMO: Open Source in the AI Era, why Risk Transfer Became the Product

AI is commoditizing code and collapsing the open source funnel. Discover how Zitadel uses AGPL 3.0 and “risk transfer” to build a sustainable model for infrastructure software in 2026.

ZITADELZITADEL Team

Upgrading my Open Source Pi Surveillance Server with Frigate

In 2024 I built a Pi Frigate NVR with Axzez’s Interceptor 1U Case, and installed it in my 19″ rack. Using a Coral TPU for object detection, it’s been dutifully surveilling my property—on my terms (100% local, no cloud integration or account required). I’ve wanted to downsize the setup while keeping cheap large hard drives1, and an AI accelerator.

Jeff Geerling

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Content Spotlight

Meet Versity S3 Gateway, a self-hosted bridge for accessing local filesystems through object storage APIs. A lightweight alternative to heavier platforms like Garage or RustFS, Versity S3 Gateway sits between local files and projects that require object storage, translating API calls on-the-fly. The platform currently supports a number of storage systems and includes a basic web interface for interacting with files and 'buckets'.

Versity S3 Gateway can be easily deployed via Docker or single command from the command line.

Links: Website, Source Code

Videos and Podcasts

• How to Setup Cloudflare Tunnels & Access (2026) | Servers@Home
• Everything New In Home Assistant 2026.3! | Everything Smart Home
• Anchor - Open Source Note taking to replace Google Keep | Awesome Open Source
• Joplin Server on Unraid – Full Install & Setup | AlienTech42
• Dokploy vs Coolify // Docker Swarm changes the game! | Christian Lempa

Command Line Corner

Preface a command with a single space to prevent it from being recorded in the terminal's history:

$ ls -l
$  cd ..
$ cd /
$ history
  1 ls -l
  2 cd /

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