eIDAS is also a bad thing for privacy in my opinion because it's going to make it much easier for websites you request identification online. I believe identification should remain a barrier, the same way you don't ID yourself at every physical store you enter. eIDAS doesn't mandate this but it does prepare the technological foundations to do that online.
And it doesn't have much to do with PKI breaking, though it's nice that tangential link was removed, it's indeed good that that attempt was called out.
Removing the most objectionable content doesn't make it a good thing though.
And again this is a big business lobby championed by Thierry Breton. This is not something the voters asked for, it's something the industry wants.
When I read these kind of articles I'm always curious to see the professional background of the author. Not to criticize, but to see if he/she's talking about something he/she saw in scale or not.
Because if you're working with a very small code base then I may even understand sentences like "I am against unit tests in general". I've never met people who work (or worked) in very large companies being against, at least, unit test.
Where hundred/thousands of people touch the same code .. not having unit tests, in the long term, is a suicide.
I worked at a large company where we didn't unit test. We should have. I worked on embedded SW and HW projects for office multi function printers.
Due to poor planning / management, unit tests often weren't done. Bad decisions by others ended up biting me! I got pulled into a project to do a big refactor because somehow I was considered the DSP expert and a predecessor picked a lame DSP for the new version of the product. No unit tests meant I was pretty screwed.
I think you're being slightly disingenuous there with the "still in university" dismissal. That CV is a lot more impressive than many people I've worked with in the "real world".
Meaningful search (above top-3) is still not free. Which is honest and fair, but that worked pretty well in GReader and I'd consider it a regression. I still use it daily.
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