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Matt Birchler says that this year will be the year of micro apps.

Some applications run better with a hosting provider than on your own server. Especially when it comes to speed and availability, you’re usually better off in the cloud than behind a home internet connection. If you’re looking for an affordable provider for open-source software, you should check out “PikaPods”. My FreshRSS instance is still hosted on fly.io. If they cut my free tier, I’ll probably move to PikaPods or Uberspace. ...

Lindsay Clark writes in »Faced with £40B budget hole, UK commits £9B to Microsoft« for theregister.com The UK public sector expects to spend around £9 billion on Microsoft products and services over five years under its current contract. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.

Maximilian Henning schreibt in »Quartet of EU countries to cooperate on building sovereign digital infrastructure« für euractiv.com Today both France and Germany, along with the Netherlands and Italy, signed founding papers for a European Digital Infrastructure Consortium for Digital Commons – which they said will focus on publicly developed and publicly usable digital programmes. The signature alone is not enough. The consortium still needs to be established. ...

If macOS’s built-in window-management features aren’t enough, MacsyZones offers a promising alternative. This open-source window manager lets you organize windows much like on Windows, but with extended customization options. The source code is available at öffentlich zugänglich, and the software can be purchased to support further development. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.