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It's been a week for AI companies, and the ripple effects are having both positive and negative impacts across the self-hosted and open source landscapes.

To kick things off, Anthropic gave Pro users (and this company) a scare after an update to its pricing page indicated potential plans to remove Claude Code from the tier for new subscribers (the most popular among hobby users). Just a few days later, users began reporting the company was also planning to lock their flagship Opus model behind an additional paywall, although this was later debunked.

In the meantime – while certain self-hosted communities were rejoicing at the thought of vibe coders losing cheap access to capable AI models – Blender, the popular open source 3D modeling program, announced Anthropic is joining their corporate patron program. And while someone in my socials claimed users have since uninstalled it in droves – I couldn't find any evidence to support it and am not sure it's even necessary given the lack of decision-making powers donors have per the software's funding policy.

Meanwhile in Microsoftland, GitHub's attempt to appease the uptime haters (tl;dr – infrastructure is hard when users are creating 20M new repos a month) was overshadowed by their decision to transition Copilot to usage-based billing.

It's not surprising to see public pressure mounting on GitHub, whose CEO is infamous for encouraging developers to embrace AI or get out. It's also somewhat refreshing to finally see some larger projects migrating away from the platform to friendlier alternatives – with BookStack, Endurain, and Ghostty recently leading the charge.

And lastly, OpenAI had a different kind of week...

If you're tired of everything AI-related (who isn't?), here's some other activity from the week to sink your teeth into:

• A critical Linux vulnerability was publicly disclosed and likely impacts you (update ASAP)
• Grimmory, a fork and successor to Booklore, has taken its first pass at a governing document as it continues to distance itself from some of the more controversial aspects of its predecessor
• I officially have whiplash after MinIO archived their repo after unarchiving it after having initially archived it back in February
• Rahoot!, a new self-hosted alternative to Kahoot!, had its GitHub repository disabled for trademark violations (the developer has confirmed they're working on a rebrand and intend to bring it back)
• Fider, a popular feature voting platform, announced they're transitioning back to open source after a brief stint under an open core license
• The developer behind Hound, a new media streaming server, has apparently coined the phrase free-range, organic software (aka not vibe coded)
• iSponsorBlockTV users (you're welcome if this is your first time hearing about it) are being reminded to re-pair their devices after a recent YouTube update
• If you missed it, DockFlare – a Cloudflare Tunnel management platform – recently introduced e-mail capabilities built on Cloudflare's e-mail routing capabilities

Happy selfh.st/ing!

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Meet Grimmory, a digital library platform and independent fork of the Booklore project. With Grimmory, users can easily curate, manage, and consume their digital books from the comfort of a modern web interface or e-reader via the platform's device sync capabilities. Features include smart shelves, metadata lookups and management, multi-user support, watch folders, sharing, and support for a variety of book formats (eBooks, PDF, comics, and audiobooks).

Grimmory can be easily deployed via Docker and requires a separate MariaDB database for data storage. Existing Booklore users can also migrate by simply updating their container image to grimmory/grimmory.

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