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I overheard a Mastodon user refer to self-hosting as indie computing this week and I can't stop thinking about it. Maybe it's the coolness factor, or just a welcome reprieve from the virtue signaling and crankiness that is becoming increasingly associated with self-hosting. Either way, I'm stealing it.

In actual news, there was a ton of headline-worthy activity this week. And because my love language is bullet points...

• Cal.com officially thinks open source is dead and announced they're taking the platform closed source for security-related reasons
• Cloudflare introduced the world to Cloudflare Mesh, a new private networking tool (mostly targeted at AI workflows) that may end up as a serious rival to Tailscale, NetBird, and similar platforms
• Whoogle, a privacy meta search engine, dropped its final release after years of working around Google's increasingly hostile scraping restrictions
• YouTuber DB Tech published some great breakdowns outlining several recent open source supply chain attacks that are impacting self-hosted projects
• Booklore – yes, Booklore – is back with a new repo and minor release just a month after completely dismantling any good will the project had with the community
• Allbirds, the environmentally-friendly (and struggling) footwear manufacturer, pulled a Kodak and announced they're transitioning into an AI company (?)
• Unraid and 45HomeLab finally revealed their hardware collab, a pre-built server starting at – brace yourself – $2,999. (No need for sarcasm here, the jokes write themselves.)
• The developer of SilverBullet, a powerful note-taking tool, launched a beta for SilverBullet+ – a desktop version of the software (currently macOS only) intended to help fund future development
• Nextcloud announced Nextcloud Ethical AI Ratings, a new tool to help users identify models that are open source, self-hostable, or trained using publicly available data
• Raspberry Pi OS has finally disabled the default passwordless sudo in its v6.2 release (something something OpenClaw...)
• I experienced a bit of déjà vu as two different projects launched with the same name (1, 2), while two other similarly named projects dropped v0.80.0 releases (1, 2) within a day of each other
• The week's most absurd project launch name: Boob O'Clock (infant sleep and feeding tracker)
• If you've been on the fence about making the jump away from Plex, wait no longer – someone finally released a Jellyfin client for the Wii

Happy indie.comput/ing!

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