Title of the post is not right, the author issued a (technically important) correction[1]:
> Brief correction: Cookies seem to get removed and re-created immediately. At least the cookie content and creation date seems to change. Nonetheless: After hitting the "remove all" button you still don't end up with an empty cookie jar.
I've used YAML for years, and yeah, there's a lot of warts, but I love it for small(ish) manually edited configuration files.
I generally keep it simple and it works.
The GDPR explicitly does not set out to specify implementation details because of the reasons here: https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-15/ (Technology neutrality)
The latter. I don't have specific examples in mind, just that if you do not trust a company's data collection policies, the collection capabilities of an installed program are much greater than when viewed through a web browser. See [1] for an example from a few of years ago.
Sure, https://perldoc.perl.org/perlpolicy.html#BACKWARD-COMPATIBIL... that’s the policy for the language itself, but as it mentions there it’s considered generally a “community” virtue. I wasn’t programming back in 02 so I’m sure it was extremely different (and the source I’ve read from modules from that era is pretty frightening. Any major framework or generally used module will try to maintain backwards compatibility at least as far as documented behavior. I’ve never come across the kind of stuff I see all the time with node and go and python; package maintainers changing parameters and such because they weren’t happy with the original API.
What this article arrives at is basically the perl/CPAN model. Don’t break backwards compatibility unless you absolutely have to; as in cases of security or when the original functionality never worked in the first place.
I was just (re-thinking) about this at work.. Just bought a Yubikey and was basically going to start from scratch with my PGP setup.
I really don't like the idea of storing anything really critical on a usb drive or an airgapped system.
I don't have an airgapped computer just laying around that I can store secrets on (and keep alive), and I don't trust a usb drive to last.
I really wish there was something like a clean way to store an encrypted printout that could be scanned years later if neccesary, ie a method of storage that I actually have faith would reliably survive for a decade or more.
The lack of a property manager also struck me as crazy and I've never been a landlord. Plenty of rentals have gotten trashed and city fines accrued long before airbnb existed. Doesn't sound like this stuff happened overnight.