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The fact that the Maya engineered this by heating indigo with palygorskite clay shows a level of chemical understanding that rivals modern hybrid materials research. Still wild to think we only cracked the full recipe in the 21st century.

REALLY? Would simply not collecting or exposing user data get you to sovereign DNS? Don’t think so. DNS4EU’s website states that: Supported by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA), the European Union's DNS4EU secure-infrastructure project provides a protective, privacy-compliant, and resilient DNS service to strengthen digital sovereignty and security for EU citizens, governments, and critical infrastructure.

Maybe you should start reading.

Sure thing, but essentially it would be another thing that we have to make sure that it is protected and performant. At the time of building a startup, that’s still an item we are leaving someone else to manage.

Should be easy enough. But, the problem is the scale. I work at a privacy conscious EU based startup and we used to use quad9 for our infra. Shortly after we started using, we started to hit scalability issues. When the whole eu traffic was hot, our DNS query latency would also go up. To be able to keep up, we had to switch back to CF and Google. Hope there is a really good alternative one day.

I’m with the author. DNS4EU is being sold as “sovereignty,” but it’s just another centralized resolver sitting on the same foreign-owned infrastructure we already depend on. Shuffling everyone’s queries through one EU-branded endpoint doesn’t fix privacy or resilience—it just adds another middleman. If the EU really wants independence, it should invest in making local ISP resolvers secure and trustworthy instead of outsourcing the job yet again.

The workflow here feels pretty natural, just using the AI to help with the boring parts and speed things up. I like the idea of treating it as a tool, not a replacement.