Cool crap of the week

It's been a busy week here, so I haven't checked out any new distros or software, but there are a few noteworthy items that you may want to check out:

• Distrowatch has a nice review of Vanilla OS 2
• GhostBSD released version 24.07.1
  Website |Github
• Pinkary, a social landing page project, is now open source
  Website | Github
• Happy birthday, ActivityPub! ActivityPub turned 10.
• Android 15 was released to AOSP
• Why I still self host my servers (and what I've recently learned)
• Polar is an open source monetization platform for developers
  Website | Github