<story><title>Lidl&apos;s Cloud Gambit: Europe&apos;s Shift to Sovereign Computing</title><url>https://horovits.medium.com/lidl-is-taking-on-aws-the-age-of-eurocloud-b237258e3311</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>p1esk</author><text>Wow, 5 years later and what have they actually accomplished? Look at the milestones section: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gaia-x.eu&amp;#x2F;what-is-gaia-x&amp;#x2F;about-gaia-x&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gaia-x.eu&amp;#x2F;what-is-gaia-x&amp;#x2F;about-gaia-x&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>arianvanp</author><text>Gaia-X is a disaster. The article misrepresents it. Gaia-X is not a framework for what a European cloud should look like. This would be useful.&lt;p&gt;In beautiful EU bureaucratic style It&amp;#x27;s a framework for how to &lt;i&gt;talk&lt;/i&gt; about how a European Cloud &lt;i&gt;could&lt;/i&gt; look like.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not about technical standards. It&amp;#x27;s about how we can talk about how we can think of maybe eventually deciding on how we can come up with standards that might one day lead to talk about implementations.&lt;p&gt;It represents to me everything that is wrong with the EU today. A bureaucratic monster that can&amp;#x27;t decide how to talk about things or come to any form of alignment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arianvanp</author><text>They produced a few fluffy documents in 2022 and then nothing happened.&lt;p&gt;They repurposed the word milestone to mean agenda. It&amp;#x27;s just a list of events they&amp;#x27;re organizing. Because they have no actual milestones or goals.</text></comment>
<story><title>Lidl&apos;s Cloud Gambit: Europe&apos;s Shift to Sovereign Computing</title><url>https://horovits.medium.com/lidl-is-taking-on-aws-the-age-of-eurocloud-b237258e3311</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>p1esk</author><text>Wow, 5 years later and what have they actually accomplished? Look at the milestones section: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gaia-x.eu&amp;#x2F;what-is-gaia-x&amp;#x2F;about-gaia-x&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gaia-x.eu&amp;#x2F;what-is-gaia-x&amp;#x2F;about-gaia-x&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>arianvanp</author><text>Gaia-X is a disaster. The article misrepresents it. Gaia-X is not a framework for what a European cloud should look like. This would be useful.&lt;p&gt;In beautiful EU bureaucratic style It&amp;#x27;s a framework for how to &lt;i&gt;talk&lt;/i&gt; about how a European Cloud &lt;i&gt;could&lt;/i&gt; look like.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not about technical standards. It&amp;#x27;s about how we can talk about how we can think of maybe eventually deciding on how we can come up with standards that might one day lead to talk about implementations.&lt;p&gt;It represents to me everything that is wrong with the EU today. A bureaucratic monster that can&amp;#x27;t decide how to talk about things or come to any form of alignment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>As I get older and a little lazier, sometimes I think I might want to find a way to get a completely pointless job that gives me a paycheck where all I have to do is write documents that nobody ever reads.&lt;p&gt;Then I look at something like this Gaia-X &amp;quot;milestones&amp;quot; list and think &amp;quot;Meh, this is probably not the job for me...&amp;quot;</text></comment>