Edoardo Frola

Everyone's been waiting for "the European Amazon" for 20 years. Turns out it might be a discount grocery chain. Dutch Central Bank just picked Lidl as its cloud provider. Not AWS. Not Google. Not Microsoft. Lidl. The reason: trust in US tech is eroding across European institutions. Data sovereignty rulings, the political climate, tariff drama. Every quarter the case for sitting on top of US infrastructure gets harder to defend. So Europe is decoupling. Quietly. Contract by contract. While everyone watches the political theatre. Lidl pulled in nearly €2B from cloud last year. All infrastructure built inside the EU. The "European alternative" people have been waiting for? Turns out it's a grocery chain that's been quietly investing for years. If a discount supermarket can win central bank cloud contracts, is US big tech's moat in Europe thinner than anyone admits? Last place anyone was looking. First to deliver.

In an attempt to explain just why it is that some 77 million Americans voted for the dumbest man alive to be their president for a second time, I’m absolutely delighted to present you with the expanded list of US food that you cannot legally sell in Europe!🧵

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If you don’t laugh at this you’re not human

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@ImSh4yy Turin, Italy

I forked this repo and had Opus 4.5 optimize the code and Gemini 3 to create more themes. Give me a few cities to generate. github.com/originalankur/…

Yesterday a quasi-judicial body in Italy fined @Cloudflare $17 million for failing to go along with their scheme to censor the Internet. The scheme, which even the EU has called concerning, required us within a mere 30 minutes of notification to fully censor from the Internet any sites a shadowy cabal of European media elites deemed against their interests. No judicial oversight. No due process. No appeal. No transparency. It required us to not just remove customers, but also censor our 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver meaning it risked blacking out any site on the Internet. And it required us not just to censor the content in Italy but globally. In other words, Italy insists a shadowy, European media cabal should be able to dictate what is and is not allowed online. That, of course, is DISGUSTING and even before yesterday’s fine we had multiple legal challenges pending against the underlying scheme. We, of course, will now fight the unjust fine. Not just because it’s wrong for us but because it is wrong for democratic values. In addition, we are considering the following actions: 1) discontinuing the millions of dollars in pro bono cyber security services we are providing the upcoming Milano-Cortina Olympics; 2) discontinuing Cloudflare’s Free cyber security services for any Italy-based users; 3) removing all servers from Italian cities; and 4) terminating all plans to build an Italian Cloudflare office or make any investments in the country. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. While there are things I would handle differently than the current U.S. administration, I appreciate @JDVance taking a leadership role in recognizing this type of regulation is a fundamental unfair trade issue that also threatens democratic values. And in this case @ElonMusk is right: #FreeSpeech is critical and under attack from an out-of-touch cabal of very disturbed European policy makers. I will be in DC first thing next week to discuss this with U.S. administration officials and I’ll be meeting with the IOC in Lausanne shortly after to outline the risk to the Olympic Games if @Cloudflare withdraws our cyber security protection. In the meantime, we remain happy to discuss this with Italian government officials who, so far, have been unwilling to engage beyond issuing fines. We believe Italy, like all countries, has a right to regulate the content on networks inside its borders. But they must do so following the Rule of Law and principles of Due Process. And Italy certainly has no right to regulate what is and is not allowed on the Internet in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, Brazil, India or anywhere outside its borders. THIS IS AN IMPORTANT FIGHT AND WE WILL WIN!!!

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@GLiNetWiFi Thank you for the Mistery Gift Box! @GLiNetWiFi

Wow, this is amazing to see! 🙌 Thank you so much for sharing with us and letting us know it’s still working for you—even after 11 years! 🎉 We’re so proud of it, and we truly appreciate you sharing your experience with us. 💛

I received a mistery gift box from @GLiNetWiFi ! Thank you! #GLiNetOldBuddy #GLiNetAnniversary

🏢 La più grande rete di Data Center in Italia per garantire sicurezza, performance e sostenibilità alle imprese e alla PA. ✅ 16 Data Center distribuiti sul territorio nazionale ✅ 8 di ultima generazione con certificazioni Uptime Tier IV e/o ANSI/TIA Rating 4 ✅ 6 certificati LEED (5 Gold, 1 Platinum) per la massima efficienza energetica ✅ Continuità operativa e monitoraggio 24/7 ✅ Servizi di Colocation e Housing con livelli di gestione modulabili 👉 Scopri di più: timenterprise.it/cloud-e-ai/dat… #TIMEnterprise #DataCenter #Cloud #Sicurezza #Sostenibilità

I bought my @GLiNetWiFi in 2014. I used it for a few years as a portable router during my business trips. For a few years now, it's been connected to my home network with a webcam as a simple video surveillance system. #GLiNetOldBuddy #GLiNetAnniversary

Il #LiquidCooling è una soluzione di raffreddamento avanzata che utilizza liquidi al posto dell’aria per dissipare il calore generato dai #DataCenter. Leggi l'articolo e scopri la rete di Data Center di @TIM_Enterprise👇 #UnDomaniDaCreare

@GLiNetWiFi Here's my GL-iNet 6416 that I bought in September 2014, and it's still working!

🎉 Throwback Time! Do you still have the very first GL.iNet product — the GL.iNet 6416? This mini Wi-Fi router came with pre-installed OpenWrt, empowering users to create custom firmware and unlock endless possibilities. 🛜✨ If you still own one, snap a photo 📸 and share it with us — we’ll send you a mystery gift as a thank-you! 🎁 We can’t wait to celebrate our journey with those who’ve been with us since the beginning. 💚 #GLiNet #Throwback #GLiNet6416 #FirstProduct #MysteryGift #GLiNetFans #CommunityLove

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Le tabelle di Trump sono numeri insensati che non hanno nulla a che fare con i dazi, ma rappresentano solo un cervellotico e assurdo parametro dello sbilancio commerciale rispetto ai singoli partner. Quel 39% di asserita “tariffa doganale” della UE verso gli USA che il Corriere ripropone acriticamente non rappresenta altro che l’assurdo computo dei dati commerciali del censimento FT900, allegato 4, per l'anno 2024, distorto applicando la formula MAX (10%, (importazioni-esportazioni)/importazioni) per paese su base doganale. L’amministrazione USA sta facendo la più colossale figura di m* della storia dell’economia mondiale. Il buon giornalismo ha il dovere di farlo notare.

Il cloud sovrano garantisce alte prestazioni, sicurezza e sovranità dei dati per la Pubblica Amministrazione: mantenere un controllo completo sulle operazioni e assicurare la gestione dei dati in Italia è un requisito essenziale per la PA. Leggi l'articolo per saperne di più:

Il passaggio delle onde sismiche del #terremoto di M 7.7 del #Myanmar visto attraverso alcuni dei sismografi italiani ed europei. I colori rappresentano il movimento del suolo: rosso (sollevamento) e blu (abbassamento). Video di @EarthScope_sci

Mark Knopfler, Eric Clapton, Sting & Phil Collins performing "Money for Nothing" at Royal Albert Hall (1997)