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Deep dives into products made in Europe, stories from the makers behind them and guides you can use today.

Editorial cover for Things 3.23 puts a checkbox on repeats
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Things 3.23 puts a checkbox on repeats

Until 3.23, a repeating to-do in Things had no checkbox until it landed in Today. Now it does. Four Apple apps, paid once each. Things Cloud is TLS and AES at rest, not a web inbox.

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Editorial cover for Hugging Face is leaving with NVIDIA
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Hugging Face is leaving with NVIDIA

The Hub is still a git host for three million models. NVIDIA is buying it for about $12.9 billion. Independent European software it is not. We took the listing down.

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Editorial cover for Proxmox VE 9.2 ships two ISOs
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Proxmox VE 9.2 ships two ISOs

Same 9.2. Two installers. The ARM file is for NVIDIA Grace Hopper and Vera, not a Raspberry Pi. HA and live migration are in the ISO. You pay per occupied CPU socket for the enterprise repo and tickets.

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Editorial cover for offgen writes into your master
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offgen writes into your master

Upload a .potx. It follows PowerPoint inheritance and fills real placeholders. A .pptx comes back, usually under 15 seconds a slide. MCP is one org key in private preview. The price is a company proposal, not a seat.

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Editorial cover for Cryptomator mounts a vault the host cannot open
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Cryptomator mounts a vault the host cannot open

Desktop is free. You put a password on a folder in the cloud you already pay for. Cryptomator mounts a virtual drive. Files and filenames leave as AES-256. Hub brokers keys. It does not sell storage.

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Editorial cover for HansaChat can open the workspace
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HansaChat can open the workspace

German company chat from €39 a workspace, not a seat. Threads, Google SSO, calls, Slack-compatible export. Hosted on IONOS. Not end-to-end: the operator can open the workspace. That is how the software is built.

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