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Pardon me. Testing something.

Major #security alert for #Telegram and #Gmail users using #Android. #2FA codes also at risk.

https://threatpost.com/android-2fa-telegram-gmail/159384/

#Mastodon is not "distributed", it's "federated". A "distributed" model only have one "database" which is copied in all nodes. In a "federated" model, there are different "databases" which communicates with each other but does not copy each other.

So, in a federated model like Mastodon and all #ActivityPub-based social networks, no one server have an exact copy of another server.

While in a distributed model like #Aether, all nodes share the same copy of everything.

🙂

https://mikestone.me/twitter-got-hacked-is-mastodon-immune

Mammoth #emoji in v13.0 = 🦣

#Mastodon's emoji. Maybe the Mastodon team would want to sponsor that emoji via #Unicode. ☺️

Should also be accessible by: :mammoth: if already supported by your app or platform.

Victory indeed! https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/victory-zoom-will-offer-end-end-encryption-all-its-users

Hooray. I'm suspecting the #Keybase team was the strongest force within #Zoom, and they should be.

#LinuxMint 20 #Ulyana is now available for download! It's based on #Ubuntu 20.04 LTS #Focal.

Get it while it's hot!

https://linuxmint.com/download_all.php

#Linux

Thank you Google for admitting it. It's high-time to switch to #Firefox s default in Android and desktop.

👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Google engineers have revealed that “unsafe” code within Chrome is responsible for 70% of its security vulnerabilities and 125 of the 130 “critical” bugs found in the browser over the last year. 

While all Chromium-based browsers (Microsoft Edge, Opera, Brave, etc) are built on the same code and therefore subject to the same weaknesses, one alternative stands out: Firefox. Unlike Chromium browsers, Firefox is built using Rust, a safety-focused programming language which is specifically designed to be memory safe. 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2020/05/26/google-chrome-critical-security-vulnerability-warning-firefox-update-chrome-browser/