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@SteveBellovin
I was there, working on VA.gov, until early last year. Mike Chelen (@mchelen@twitter.com) is probably your best bet for an interested party at USDS.

Tailscale has recently been notified of security vulnerabilities in the Tailscale Windows client which allow a malicious website visited by a device running Tailscale to change the Tailscale daemon configuration and access information in the Tailscale local and peer APIs.

To patch these vulnerabilities, upgrade Tailscale on your Windows machines to Tailscale v1.32.3 or later, or v1.33.257 or later (unstable).

tailscale.com/blog/windows-sec

@kurtseifried
Don't verified linkbacks already kinda serve that purpose? If someone hijacks your account, you can remove the linkbacks from your site(s), thereby un-verifying the hijacked account?

I'm not certain. This is me thinking out loud in response to you thinking out loud. ๐Ÿ˜‚

@heaths @hacks4pancakes

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Another Black person played Mastodon "instance roulette" and lost.

We need a Mastodon instance Green Book pronto or this ain't gonna work.

This is starting to feel like the WW2 Dunkirk evacuation where the Black and Indian Commonwealth soldiers were abandoned on the beach...

twitter.com/wickdchiq/status/1

It's a heavy day for all of us.

If you are in a bad place for ANY REASON, or just need someone to talk to, I implore you to reach out.

Trevor project lifeline:
๐Ÿ“ฑ 1-866-488-7386
:ms_speech_bubble: text START to 678-678
๐ŸŒ thetrevorproject.org/get-help/

We love you. We need your light. This world is a better place with you in it.

:blobhearttranscat: #TDoR

Here is this week's newsletter, hot off the virtual presses.

โ€ข Twitter decay sparks security fears
โ€ข Iran hacked U.S. federal agency
โ€ข Zeppelin ransomware quietly cracked
โ€ข Infosys leaked AWS keys for a year
โ€ข And a brand new cyber cat

Sign up: this.weekinsecurity.com

Read: mailchi.mp/zackwhittaker/this-

What's obvious to basically everyone in the industry but is probably surprising to everyone else is that twitter is a harder problem than getting a rocket to the moon. One of these problems only involves physics, the other involves humans.

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@bit0fun
Ack all good, my reply was terse and direct because I lack social grace. ๐Ÿ˜‚ I didn't assume any position on your part. โ˜ฎ๏ธ
@mattblaze

@bit0fun
Matt knows, and he's (justifiably, IMO) pushing back, as adopting the practice would basically silence him. I'm responding, because I imagine he's exhausted at telling ppl he already knows about CW "norms", and that those norms lack nuance.
@mattblaze

I can't help but notice many toots from helpful newbies encouraging you to support the Mastodon Patreon.

It's fine to do that but understand it goes to just two big instances and the official Mastodon dev team.

It does NOT trickle down to YOUR instance. If you want to support your server, donate to it directly. Nearly all the costs of the explosive growth of the past few weeks is borne by local instances.

Mastodon is decentralized. There is no Mastodon Inc. This is not Twitter.

@b4ux1t3
Ack sorry yes it blocks DMs from other servers too. Try to DM me, it won't be private.
@nova

@b4ux1t3
IIUC, the Smilodon philosophy is that DMs are neither safe nor secure. Maybe I misunderstand. I literally started reading the source for the first time last night.
@nova

My boss, Matt Mullenweg, the boss of Automattic, owner of Tumblr, is looking for ex-Twitter employees for Tumblr, saying,

"we're putting on a fast track to see how they can help super-charge Tumblr. We can't absorb thousands of people, but I'd be open to hiring entire teams if they already work great together."

He's photomatt on Twitter, or look here too: automattic.com/work-with-us/

Boost for visibility, please? Spread the word!

#Twitter #JobFairy #Automattic #Tumblr

@nova
The Smilodon fork disables them for everyone. Not sure if that's what you're looking for.

@kyle
Working through merge conflicts. I hope the real time notes are ok? If not, lmk, I'll chill.

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