Da Site is a place where I post irregularly stuff that either interests me or took me a long time to figure out, because I was not able to find this information on the Internet. It is also a place I might refer to from other social media channels to keep posts short and to be able to share my knowledge thoroughly and not only within a short post that vanishes after a while.
I am fully aware, that as soon as you post something on the Internet, no matter what, someone will tell you and prove that you are wrong.
I am always happy to get constructive feedback to improve things, though. But it is unlikely that I will run this series of tests again soon, because including writing this article and trying to figure out how Hugo works, that whole adventure took 3 days off my 1 week holiday ;-)
Here´s what it took me to go online with my own Website / Blog again and make it GDPR compliant (at least I think it is).
I wanted to go online again without the fear of someone trying to sue me to death because I unintentionally did something wrong. Although the GDPR is usually a great thing for EU citizens, it got quite risky to host a Website for non-commercial purposes also. It feels like a minefield when you go out there and you have to make sure you publish a legal notice on your site, whether external content is loaded and from where and if you set cookies, you need one of those fancy cookie consent banners. When I put some information out there that barely anyone will read, I at least did not want to take care of all that stuff or get someones victim who thinks squeezing out money of me is a honorable profession.
Also, as soon as you put something on the Internet, you are at risk that someone will break it and / or misuse it. So you have to pay attention that whatever Software you use, it has to be configured properly and patched to the latest and greatest.