Weekly Highlights
If you live under a rock, you should know that many online communities are currently experiencing a bit of an AI crisis. Driven either by its ethics (excessive resource usage, plagiarism) or the influx of bots inserting themselves into online discourse, AI has become a controversial topic across virtually every hobby.
From my vantage point, the methods by which I explore and discover new projects have largely remained unchanged. Sure, it's more difficult to find new software to feature that will still receive quality updates three months from now, but users are still clicking projects below tagged with the little robot icon as much as ever.
On the other hand, it's been a trip to witness the many reactions to AI across the communities I frequent:
- Mastodon: Largely against it for the ethics, but completely willing to ignore it if a cool enough project pops up or if they're too busy discussing the pitfalls of Bluesky.
- Reddit: The self-hosted subreddit continues to have an identity crisis (somebody once said the weekly mega-thread is where new projects go to die), while the homelab community seems to have found its groove.
- Lemmy: Less vitriolic to AI-assisted software than Reddit, but that's kind of what you get when you pitch your platform as decentralized and truly free.
- Home Assistant: Less receptive to vibe coded add-ons and integrations, but users love themselves a dashboard designed by Claude.
- Immich: It doesn't matter if you've built something using AI, because everyone will question why you didn't contribute that particular feature to the main project anyway.
- Hacker News: If its commenters were anti-AI, you wouldn't know it – most are just there to build their reputation and share the upcoming launch of their crappy SaaS product.
- YouTube: Video comment sections are largely willing to ignore it if it increases the odds of their favorite creator mentioning their username during a live stream (omg).
- Lobste.rs: *crickets*
In other news and activity:
- Navidrome, a popular music streaming server, finally picked up support for synced sidecar lyrics in its latest release
- GitHub started yoinking some of their public stargazing API endpoints, though most users were too distracted by a limited run of physical repo CDs (a jab at Sony) to notice
- The developer behind ErsatzTV archived its repo several months ago while noting they're working on a successor, but is still publishing releases to the legacy repo?
- A reader tipped me off to a potential re-launch of KeeWeb, a popular password client that hasn't seen an update since July 2021
- Because people love developing new note-taking platforms for some reason: Last week I introduced you to RetroPad. This week, meet FUTO Notes.
- Home Assistant users have come up with some hilarious merch suggestions for the project's official store
Happy selfh.st/ing!
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Meet TypeType, a privacy-focused software stack for consuming YouTube content. With TypeType, users can easily spin up their own ecosystem for managing YouTube history, playlists, favorites, subscriptions, and watch status/progress. Features include trending feeds, comments, media proxying, downloads, and support for other services (NicoNico and BiliBili).
TypeType can be deployed via Docker and includes multiple containers to handle secrets, downloads, and storage.
Links: Website, Source Code
Videos and Podcasts
- How I Set Up .local Domains with Valid HTTPS in My Homelab | DB Tech
- Catching Windows in the Act with Proxmox Packet Capture | Lawrence Systems
- The Best New Self-Hosted Apps for Your Homelab [June 2026] | Servers@Home
- Plex Hardware Transcoding on AMD Ryzen ! Zen 2 through 5 Tested! | Lon.TV
- I Tried Home Assistant Again After 4 Years | AlienTech42
Command Line Corner
Prefacing a command with time outputs the amount of time it takes to execute. This is useful for measuring and optimizing the performance of scripts, downloads, and other tools.
$ time python3 generate-rss.py
real 0m8.210s
user 0m1.779s
sys 0m0.327sClick here for an archive of commands shared in past newsletters.
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