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The EuroMakers Journal

European ideas,worth reading.

Practical guides for choosing excellent software made across Europe.

Editorial cover for GitGuardian Counts a Commit in Ninety Days
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GitGuardian Counts a Commit in Ninety Days

A contributing developer is a commit-author email that landed one commit on a private org repo in the last 90 days. Starter is free to 25 of those. Cross it, a 30-day trial; then private collaborative repos go dark. Honeytokens sit on Enterprise. EU SaaS is Frankfurt, not Starter.

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Checkmk Raw Is Called Community

Raw is Community. Enterprise is Pro. OpenTelemetry is Ultimate and Cloud, not Pro. On 7 September the Euro cards billed ~3,000 services as 100 hosts: Pro from €190 a month, Ultimate from €275.

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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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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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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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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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