Is it really a downside that Gnod Search is barebones?
I thought that is a conscious design decision.
Personally, I prefer to quickly go through a simple page with an input box and search buttons than to go through a page with a background image and logos.
Well the main reason I made Allsearch wasn't for the looks: I was just having fun there. The main reason was for the features that Gnod doesn't have, like the ability to add your your own engines or to define macros.
There are a number of HTML attributes and properties that can result in redirects, HTTP requests, and evaluation of arbitrary code.
If the developer uses databinding with untrusted input into any of these attributes or properties, their site may be exploitable. A databinding engine can do some things to protect against this. One way of handling this is to treat strings as untrusted by default, and require explicit wrapping types for trusted content, e.g. https://google.github.io/closure-library/api/goog.html.SafeU...
To speak in this metaphor: I am looking for a framework which allows me to specify only the final newspaper. A suitable printing press and the paper should be generated by the framework.
You should probably explain what it does. When I click your link, I get a message "how do you want to use messanger, web or app?". I clicked "web" and was greeted with a fb login page. At this point I gave up.
I am a publisher located in Europe and my life's work is all in one .com domain. I often wonder how secure the ownership of a domain is and if there are any steps necessary to secure it. My registrar requires a signed document to transfer domains. By post or scanned. But how secure is that? How would they know if I sent the document or somebody else?
And what if somebody hacked the registrar? Are there global mechanisms to undo wrongful domain transfers?
> located in Europe and my life's work is all in one .com domain.
As a non-US citizen you should definitely move to another TLD entirely. US asserts jurisdiction over .com/.net/.org and has been known to seize such domains at will even if they have no ties to the US. You would have little recourse without great difficulty.
As a non-US person myself I will therefore personally never hold such a domain.
National TLD's would be a good choice but there's also .eu which I reckon would also be a safe choice. They also do not publish WHOIS information for privately held domains.
People rarely consider this when purchasing domains (which jurisdiction they fall under) but it's an important issue in my opinion.
The CloudFlare Registrar would auto-renew your domain a year in advance, aggressively lock it and prevent transfer, and allow you to require multiple people in your organisation to approve significant changes.
Any registrar that is selling you a domain for $10 per year is making such razor thin margins that they cannot do more than the minimum and rarely enforce doing that with diligence.
I was rather pleased that one of my domains ultimately is managed by an arcane human process involving actually dealing with a bureaucracy... this slows everything down so much that it's hard to achieve anything at all. It was entirely accidental, the domain has a .sm TLD and that municipality is tiny.
What CloudFlare are effectively doing is using a highly bureaucratic and formal process to ensure the domains are safe and secure, to mitigate the risks involved. That your organisation can shape the policy you want is also a benefit, you can ensure only the real decision makers get to authorise changes.
Do you guys think our emails on Yahoo mail are safe after this? I will backup mine as soon as I find the time to do so.
Yahoo has a terrible track record regarding emails. I already lost one due to inactivity. They gave it to somebody else. That somebody probably has access to several of my accounts now. On websites where I used my Yahoo address and then just forgot about it.
I will try to give this advice in the gentlest way possible both because it isn't a big deal, and to avoid a thread-destroying argument: Might I suggest you adopt a different phrase (which I see you've used a few times just in this conversation) other than "thanks man"? I'm not offended by it, and most other people probably wouldn't be either, but it does strike me as making the unfortunate assumption that everyone on this forum is a man. (I know that many people who use the word "man" in this way don't really mean to be referring to literal males. I'm one of them, in fact. I have been known to call my wife 'man.' But the impression will remain, for some--especially among people who don't know you.)
I'm sure you don't mean to offend, and you're just trying to be friendly and appreciative--and I would not blame you for bristling a bit at an off-topic scolding by the PC police. But it would cost you nothing to just say "thanks," and it could save you some grief in the future.
Just a thought from a friend.
Edit - I should have said this first: the service seems really cool. I'll try it next time I travel.
> Leonovo is working REALLY REALLY hard to lose loyal technical customers.
They already lost me after Superfish, but now with this instead of passively not buying I'm going to actively recommend that others not. It's absolutely unacceptable.
Problem is, the only decent quality machines I've ever had have been ThinkPads. I'm afraid of paying big money for a high-end machine from some other brand and having it turn out to be somewhat of a lemon.
Of course there is always Apple, which has consistently high quality, but I prefer to run Linux, so that's out.
It's usually the opposite - the reasonable ones that were fighting this insanity are the first to go and the ones fully on board with whichever stupid idea from management will get their role strengthened...
I thought that is a conscious design decision.
Personally, I prefer to quickly go through a simple page with an input box and search buttons than to go through a page with a background image and logos.