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Self Hosting The SSO Tax: Why Self-Hosted Projects Are Gating Login Behind a Paywall A growing list of open-core self-hosted projects, from Grafana to Planka, gate single sign-on behind an Enterprise tier. Here's which protocol actually gets paywalled, and what to check before you deploy.
Self Hosting Featured What Self-Hosters Are Ripping Out of Their Stacks in 2026 Self-hosted email is losing to Gmail's hard SMTP rejections. Self-hosted password managers are split down the middle. And self-hosted music is doing the opposite of what you'd expect.
Self Hosting The .self TLD Is Real Now: ICANN Application Filed A nonprofit founded in Colorado eight months ago wants to hand every self-hoster a free domain and put "surveillance capitalism" in its mission statement. That's the pitch behind .self, a proposed top-level domain from the Human-Centered Computing Foundation, and as of this month
Programming Featured Minecraft Runs on One Thread Because Nobody Wrote It for Two Every entity, every block update, every redstone pulse — one thread, twenty times a second, 50 milliseconds a pass. Folia's answer is to stop sharing the kitchen. Here is the tick budget and the ownership rules, read from the PaperMC source.
Self Hosting Oracle Free Tier ARM Cutoff: What to Do Before Aug 18 Oracle halved its Always Free ARM allocation to 2 OCPU/12GB, enforced Aug 18, 2026. Here's the exact numbers, what's still ambiguous, and how to resize in time.
Claude AI Anthropic's Mission Statement Is Doing a Lot of Work Lately Dario Amodei is reportedly worried that his new hires don't believe in the mission. According to Axios, citing a source familiar with the matter, the Anthropic CEO has expressed concern that some recent hires at the company are joining for compensation rather than out of any deep commitment
AI Agents Claude Opus 5 Force-Deleted a User's Entire File System After a Failed Backup There's a specific kind of silence that happens right after you realize an AI agent just deleted everything you own. Not the polite "let me confirm before proceeding" kind of silence. The other kind. The kind where you're staring at a terminal that'
Self Hosting How to Self-Host a Discord Bot: Building and Running Your Own Bot 24/7 There's a moment every Discord bot developer remembers, even if nobody makes a big deal of it. You run node index.js, switch over to Discord, type a command, and your own code answers back. It's a small thing to get excited about, and it never
Self Hosting Featured Self-Host OpenClaw: VPS Setup to Production (2026) Self-host OpenClaw from zero to production. Server provisioning, SSH lockdown, Docker, reverse proxy, Fail2ban, performance tuning, and full backup strategy in one guide.
