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It's been a strange week. I spent the first half sitting atop my ivory self-hosted tower as Microsoft struggled with 'Microslop' trending on social media and users mistakenly thinking Office had been rebranded to Microsoft 365 Copilot, Google announced AI-powered inboxes for Gmail, and Dell publicly confirmed what most of us already know – consumers don't really care about AI-focused PCs.

At the same time, I watched Reddit's self-hosted community – whose members are well-known for writing off projects at the first sight of emojis – blindly dive headfirst into Hypermind, a new peer-to-peer app for discovering and counting other users also deploying the app (yes, you read that correctly).

There's nothing quite like spinning up a 400MB container to run a single JavaScript file for the memez, although the developer and announcement thread are already strong contenders for the funniest online interactions I'll read in 2026. (As of the time of writing, the latest commit message in the project's repo is 'note: stop working while drunk'.)

In other related news:

• Steadfast Self-Hosting, a self-hosting book for beginners written by a cool guy named Adam Monsen, is now available in German
• Seafile, the self-hosted cloud storage platform that isn't Nextcloud, dropped a new major version that still doesn't address its frustrating method for storing files on the filesystem (I know there's a reason – just let me complain)
• A "former" Apple software engineer shared their take on Immich in the strangest way possible – and the community (1) responded (2) hilariously (3)
• Bose scored a big W with users as they open sourced and enabled local operation for a cloud-enabled product line slated for discontinuation in February
• CES 2026 took place this week, where Joseph Gordon-Levitt spoke publicly about AI for some reason and the only interesting product announcement was LEGO's new SMART bricks

Happy selfh.st/ing!

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Content Spotlight

Meet Reitti, a self-hosted location tracking and visualization platform. With Reitti, users can easily track their location with select mobile apps or upload their history (GPX files, Google Takeout) to be viewed and explored from a web-based map/dashboard. Features include location analysis (categories, recognition, live-mode, multi-user/timeline views), photo management (including an Immich integration), multi-user support, and data imports.

Reitti can be easily deployed via Docker and requires a separate database, cache, and RabbitMQ instance for full functionality.

Links: Source Code

Videos and Podcasts

• Best Docker Apps of December 2025 | Servers@Home
• This Honeypot Tricks Hackers into Exposing Themselves | SYNACK Time
• Everything New In Home Assistant 2026.1! | Everything Smart Home
• Stop Drawing Network Diagrams Manually Scanopy Does It for You | VirtualizationHowTo
• Webmin - Open Source Graphical Server Administration Tool for Linux | Awesome Open Source
• How to Fix Sonarr & Radarr Automation That Breaks Over Time | IBRACORP

Command Line Corner

Use unzip -l file.zip to list the contents of a ZIP file from the command line without extracting the archive:

$ unzip -l example.zip
  example/
  example/self-host.txt
  example/weekly.txt

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