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tempfs commented on The Fed's $2.7T mortgage problem   axios.com/2022/05/18/fed-... · Posted by u/gmays
ethbr0 · 4 years ago
The recession of 2008 was absolutely fixed, in that bank collapses were prevented, highly leveraged products based on bad loans were drained from the balance sheets, underwriting was tightened up, and economic activity rebounded.

That fix was just never paid for, in terms of shrinking Fed balance sheets and renormalizing rates.

tempfs · 4 years ago
You can't halt a bank collapse, but you can postpone it and attempt to reduce the impact with inflation which is exactly what has happened.

Additionally, if you don't address the lack of regulation that allowed the collapses in 2008, which we absolutely did not, it will keep happening and those future occurrences will grow in severity. Since now, in order to 'make money', the frauds have to be bigger, faster, and more aggressive.

tempfs commented on About iCloud Private Relay   support.apple.com/en-au/H... · Posted by u/andrewstuart
jtsiskin · 4 years ago
…did you read the article?
tempfs · 4 years ago
Have you read Apple's privacy policy?
tempfs commented on The “Activate Windows” watermark ported to Linux   github.com/MrGlockenspiel... · Posted by u/botayhard
tempfs · 4 years ago
This is entirely great and especially appreciate the Cave Johnson quote for bonus points.
tempfs commented on About iCloud Private Relay   support.apple.com/en-au/H... · Posted by u/andrewstuart
tempfs · 4 years ago
Just remember that now instead of your ISP knowing every site you visit, Apple now will.

So where as in the olden days, in order to figure out who you were, some actor had to buy logs from the destination sites and from the ISPs, then correlate.

Now they can just buy the information from Apple. How convenient for Apple.

I know Apple says they will only share your information with trusted partners and only with your consent which is implicit when you use private relay. No one ever asks who these partners are though. Probably the same people that used to buy your data from the destination sites and ISPs...

tempfs commented on Apple, Google, and Microsoft commit to expanded support for FIDO standard   apple.com/newsroom/2022/0... · Posted by u/feross
tempfs · 4 years ago
* We require you to have an account with us which we will use to track you everywhere.

** We will fingerprint your phone in order to abuse it as a pseudo hardware token.

*** Two of us also completely control your phone too, with the third one trying to worm our way into CPU-resident code.

This ought to be fun!

tempfs commented on Heroku Security Notification   status.heroku.com/inciden... · Posted by u/peterwallhead
ngcc_hk · 4 years ago
Why not just say hacker ? Know we are on hacker news and hence it is semantically not exactly right. But threat actor … sound more like threaten actor. Just a movie star or drama queen. If one say Heroku was hacked or just sales force … I know one want to manage but somehow the title is not exact right. Too pr.
tempfs · 4 years ago
Threat actor is industry standard terminology for a malevolent or blackhat brand of hacker.

Not all hackers are threat actors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker

tempfs commented on Teen mental health is plummeting and social media is a major contributing cause [pdf]   judiciary.senate.gov/imo/... · Posted by u/insamniac
tempfs · 4 years ago
Everything in this country, in this life, is a competition. One big zero-sum game.

It starts in high school. Social status, academics, athletics, and now social media followers and likes.

I am very glad that when I was in high school, social media wasn't really a thing yet. I could leave it all at school. Just go home and read, play video games or go outside. Most of my mistakes were limited to the memories of those people who witnessed them first hand.

Kids today are under near constant competition with each other and it takes a toll.

At some point, I hope, without some massive existential crisis serving as the impetuous we can collectively come to the understanding that our technology has vastly outpaced our morality. I hope that the prevailing social norm becomes cooperation over competition and the desire to lift others up instead of stepping on them for your own personal gain.

tempfs commented on Howdy – Windows Hello style facial authentication for Linux   github.com/boltgolt/howdy... · Posted by u/pabs3
tempfs · 4 years ago
Let's leave Microsoft's bad ideas on Windows mmmkay.
tempfs commented on Leaked Chats Show Lapsus$ Stole T-Mobile Source Code   krebsonsecurity.com/2022/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
parkerhiggins · 4 years ago
Perfect example of why perimeter based security doesn’t work.

ABAC + Zero Trust.

tempfs · 4 years ago
If your devs/admins are keen on selling access to your network, ZeroTrust won't save you.
tempfs commented on Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/zegl
chasd00 · 4 years ago
Elon, if you’re reading, pull the plug. Nuke the entire site from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.
tempfs · 4 years ago
I really wish this situation was anything close to a real effort to protect free speech or even better to nuke Twitter from orbit.

I hope people realize that he is just trying to protect his favorite stock manipulation platform.

u/tempfs

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