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by daneel_w 1227 days ago
How is this a "silly EU vanity project"?
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There is an EU fund for silly projects like Gaia-X which are mostly about vanity rather than actually producing anything useful. I am suggesting they've formed a non-profit to try and benefit from this fund.
Yeah I don't see what's silly about providing a resolver with the features being offered, no matter the "EU" branding or official project funding. Right off the bat I'm willing to bet these guys are more genuine and honest about privacy/integrity than e.g. Google.
There is nothing silly about the product specifically. It's useful. However they already built it: https://nextdns.io/

What I am calling silly is not dns0. It's the way the EU is funding technology projects.

> It's the way the EU is funding technology projects.

I personally think that's a good thing, to provide funding and opportunity for gratis service projects with less risk of deviating in the way things often do in commercial context where revenue is the top priority.

Gaia-X isn't EU funded, it was just endorsed by EU parliament members. It's actually funded by different entities in the manufacturing industries (like car manufacturers). EU funded projects have distinctive markers on their pages.