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- Comment on Companies that buy up homes should be known as home scalpers 3 hours ago:
Which brings us back to the issue of all the empty and unused housing which is used to artificially increase rent levels. There is actually more supply than demand, but the supply is being limited by the gatekeepers (corporate and individual landlords). With proper legislation this would improve quite a bit.
- Comment on Companies that buy up homes should be known as home scalpers 4 hours ago:
How is this different when every house for rent is owned by an individual?
Obviously there should be limits to individual land ownership too…
- Comment on Can't afford the rope so you improvise 4 hours ago:
Roleplaying as a turtle i see.
- Comment on Companies that buy up homes should be known as home scalpers 4 hours ago:
In Germany they are called “Heuschrecken” which translates to “Locusts” because thats how they operate.
Only in german: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuschreckendebatte
This is what librewolf translated the first section to:
A locust debate in Germany in April and May 2005 over a statement by the then SPD chairman Franz Müntefering is referred to as a locust debate. This compared the economic action of some “anonymous investors” with locust plagues.
The term “locust” has since been regarded in German political parlance as a derogatory animal metaphor for private equity companies and other forms of equity participation, such as in the public-private partnership model, with allegedly short-term or excessive return expectations, such as hedge funds or so-called vulture funds.
The term and debate have been criticized variously, including as in parts anti-Semitic and anti-American.
- Comment on Companies that buy up homes should be known as home scalpers 5 hours ago:
Yeah no. Last i checked there are 4 times as many empty apartments than homeless people in Germany. The housing market here is completely fucked and corporate housing ownership needs to be disincentivized or outright banned for this to be solved. Whenever people try to buy housing they will be outbid by companies that already have plenty of capital. This leads to an everlasting spiral where the rich people will always have more buying power and normal people are perpetually stuck paying absurd rents to those same rich people.
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 5 hours ago:
Proton is definitely no good. Ads, freemium, AI garbage, Bad 3rd party client compatibility, CEO loves Trump, collecting excessive metadata that they are then regularly forced to hand over to the cops, etc.
Its better not to put all your eggs in one basket so dont try to find a single provider for all your needs.
All email services will be able to read your emails unless you encrypt them yourself (PGP). So there are no “private” email providers really. What you should look for is just a functional provider that works well with proper clients like Thunderbird (available for desktop and mobile).
This is a list of many tried and tested servers, just pick any of the “OK” ones: providers.delta.chat
Deltachat is an app that allows you easily use email in and end to end encrypted way while making it look like a standard instant messenger. For this to work properly the provider needs to support 3rd party clients properly, so this list gives you a good look at the technical quality of the email provider.See how Outlook, Proton and Tutanota are non functional? Thats because they dont implement the email standard properly in order to lock users into their platform and apps.
- Comment on Trump calls Democrats who told US military to refuse illegal orders 'traitors' who should face death penalty 21 hours ago:
Damn the earlier article i read didnt include the “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” quote. Thats not something that should just be left out.
- Comment on Unity games are coming to Fortnite as Epic continue attempting to build a metaverse thing 2 days ago:
Im not gonna lie tho, i love minigames in games. Gwent in Witcher 3 and the arcade boxes in fallout for example.
- Comment on Cloudfare outage post mortem 2 days ago:
How about an hour? 10 minutes? Would have prevented this. I very much doubt that their service is so unstable and flimsy that they need to respond to stuff on such short notice. It would be worthless to their customers if that were true.
- Comment on Shabana Mahmood puts the signs up: Britain is full. No blacks, no dogs, no Irish 3 days ago:
No i mean it literally is a stage play script satirizing Shabana Mahmood.
Shabana Mahmood had been dozing in bed when Shabana Mahmood had burst into her room and pulled back the duvet. Shabana forced her eyes open, trying to make sense of this unexpected intrusion. She reached for her phone. Where was her security detail? Surely this must be a mistake.
“I need to call Keir Starmer,” Shabana sobbed. “He will vouch for me. There must have been some mistake.”
“No mistake,” Shabana snarled. “And don’t go bleating to Keir. He’s the one who signed off on all this.
“Can’t you just give me a few more days? Why don’t you go and deport David Lammy first? I can give you his address.”
“This can’t be right. I couldn’t be more British if I tried. I’ve integrated so well I’ve even become home secretary. I’m a Labour politician whom Reform are happy to call one of their own. I have a couple of Union Jacks to drape myself in when I appear on GB News. I’ll even sign something to say I hate immigrants.”
“Not good enough, I’m afraid,” said Shabana. “The thing is you still look foreign. So pack up your things. On second thoughts, don’t bother. Because we’re going to take all your possessions anyway. Everything from your phone, your jewellery to your house. Just so no one comes over here with the idea that they can come over here, contribute and make a life for themselves.”
Fresh from deporting herself, Shabana appeared in the Commons late on Monday afternoon to give an update on her asylum and deportation policy. The system was broken, she said. There were dark forces at work. Somehow she made this sound as if she thought this was a good thing.
- Comment on Shabana Mahmood puts the signs up: Britain is full. No blacks, no dogs, no Irish 3 days ago:
I was really confused until i understood that this is a satire comedy story.
- Comment on Your old android phone is begging to be a cheap home server! 3 days ago:
some devices will bypass the battery when permanently plugged in. I have an old phone i use as a syncthing node and i log the battery current on it. It never actually gets used by the phone, it only suffers from some very slight internal discharge.
- Comment on PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners 3 days ago:
has me reconsidering my use of syncthing
This is about a third party piece of software that isnt directly related to syncthing.
- Comment on The amazing and innovative iphone pocket sold out 3 days ago:
Dumbest shit i have ever seen. Especially for 150$
- Comment on People are playing fewer games and new releases are "struggling", say Ubisoft UK, warning of falling revenues 4 days ago:
Yep. Indie games are boomin as usual :D
- Comment on UNIFIL—Israeli tanks fire on UN peacekeepers in South Lebanon 4 days ago:
I was wondering too. What are their guns for if not defending themselves.
- Comment on Peter Thiel dumps entire Nvidia stake, slashes Tesla holdings amid bubble fears 4 days ago:
Who cares tho. Anyone who sells now still made massive gains. Only gamblers think about “potential gains”.
- Comment on Powdertoy: FOSS falling sand 4 days ago:
It also had a steam launch a while ago :)
- Comment on Powdertoy: FOSS falling sand 4 days ago:
Its more of a physics simulation toy where you can build stuff with all the elements of the periodic table and make nukes and electrical circuits and stuff
- Comment on I understand the dedication but that's way too much effort for me 4 days ago:
worthless gasoline burp
You mean the “nuclear” explosion? That was the most embarrassing part of the movie. Its like they never looked at footage of actual nuclear explosions.
- Comment on I understand the dedication but that's way too much effort for me 5 days ago:
I watched the movie for the first time recently. It was better than expected.
Its Oppenheimer in case some wants to knoe.
- Comment on Can I turn it off? 1 week ago:
Usually each type of notification is listed in the app settings separately, so try to figure out which type it is and see if turning it off causes any undesired effects. The media player widget thing is in my experience separate from app notification stuff.
- Comment on "Stop this from happening again": UK politician calls out Rockstar over GTA 6 developer firings 1 week ago:
Wdym, again? You need to punish them so hard they would never even dream of doing anything like it again. Prison for the decision makers is not too much.
- Comment on Needy Programs 1 week ago:
The www is the same for everyone no matter which OS you use sadly. The need for accounts doesnt go away completely on linux but at least not for anything OS related.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey Releases Vine Reboot Where AI Content Is Banned 1 week ago:
Thats a very good point and probably exactly the idea. Dorsey has always just been an actor that says one thing and thinks another.
- Comment on Why a new Steam Machine when the first ones flopped? Because this time, Valve say, it'll actually have games 1 week ago:
I badly phrased it tbh, so its a fair misunderstanding :)
One thing i kinda dislike about all ARM devices ive played with so far is the lack of a proper replacement for the concept of a BIOS. I want a subsystem for multiboot and toggling hardware features as well as tuning and stuff like that.
Sure its cool that you can just flash an SD card and it works, but you can keep that as default functionality while still allowing more customizability.
- Comment on Why a new Steam Machine when the first ones flopped? Because this time, Valve say, it'll actually have games 1 week ago:
The most you will be able to play on device will be stuff that would run on a phone.
Which is why i wrote this. The translation layer and additional requirements for VR will further reduce the selection of playable games. But yes technically you can run x86 programs on it, just not at a “playable level” for 99% of games.
- Comment on Why a new Steam Machine when the first ones flopped? Because this time, Valve say, it'll actually have games 1 week ago:
how they’re now also running x86 code on ARM at a playable level
The answer is that they arent…
At least not most games. It doesnt even have active cooling. The most you will be able to play on device will be phone games basically. But that is not the point, the thing comes with a custom wireless adapter to stream video from your computer to the headset, so primarily the processing will happen on the computer / steam machine. - Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 1 week ago:
They are going to make this into a “1 step back 2 steps forward” type of situation. This is that 1 step back and in a few months there will be 2 steps forward where they will completely ban all non play store apps.
- Comment on shkspr 🥀🥀 1 week ago:
“i want a hood boyfriend”
until i call you at one in the morning, bleeding out saying “dont cry mamas, it’s gonna be alright”
“out” bro thinks hes shakespeare