AlfredoJohn

@AlfredoJohn@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rent is theft⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  only 9% of residential housing is owned by corporate entities. corporations are no sizable impact on housing prices in the market at large. 91% of homes are owned by individuals.

  First off stop looking at all home ownership and the percentage owned by corporations as that does not dictate pricing as a whole, you should be looking at what percentage of houses that are being purchased over that past few years are owned by investors. Those new purchases and homes that trade hands are what drive the cost of a home. Most of that 91% is not continously buying and selling, they are holding on for long term and even passing on properties to their kids. The corporate entities on the other hand are buying up surplus real estate to drive the pricing of the market as there is very little liquidity in the housing market when you compare it too the shear total amount of residential properties in existence.

  A good way to determine what percentage of the housing surplus (the real liquidity in the market that drives the price as a whole) is owned by corporate entities would be to look at different data points. Like say what percentage of vacant homes are owned by corporate entities. Here you get much more staggering figures like the fact that corporate entities own over 50% of vacant residential properties.

  Take exhibit a:

  Investors owned more than 882,300 vacant houses as of last year’s third quarter, according to the latest report from ATTOM Data Solutions.

  And exhibit b:

  it’s a major portion of the nearly 1.4 million total residential properties that had no occupants at the end of September 2024

  Source: nationalmortgageprofessional.com/…/investors-hold…

  Now corporations holding over 50% of the liquid market of housing is a much more substantial fact here and highlights how they are controlling the market as a whole to drive prices up for their benefit while pricing the average person out of ownership market and into the rental market.

  Now that we can see they DO control a majority of the liquidity of the housing market lets also see what percentage of rentals are owned by corporate entities as well.

  So lets actually brake down your little 9% figure and explain why its a terrible metric that obscures reality and is just also misleading, as you seem to think 9% of residential properties being owned by corporations means on 9% of residential housing is owned by corporations.

  I am going to be using US rental housing stats from 2020: www.congress.gov/crs-product/R47332

  First we have:

  There were 19.3 million rental properties, 85.6% of which were single unit properties.

  Ok so first we can see that a lot of residential rental properties are single unit properties. Over 85%. But how does that actually relate to the amount of units available for people to rent and does that meam that your little 9% of properties could be hiding the real kicker that corporations own most of the actual residential rental unit supply?

  There were 49.5 million rental units, 33.4% of which were located in single unit properties and 33.1% of which were located in properties with 150 units or more. The remaining third of units were located in properties with between 2 and 149 units.

  Oh so its does hide the fact that most of the rental units available are in multi-unit properties. So while 85% of all residential properties are single family unit rentals, that 85% only covers about a 1/3 of the rental market, with the rest of the market being dominated by multi unit properties.

  Hmm well surely since you seem to think owning 9% of properties is small and irrelevant to the housing and rental market that must mean that most of those multi unit properties must also be owned by individuals and not corporations right?

  Individual investors owned 37.6% of rental units

  Hm I guess not. I guess while single family units make up 85% of the properties it turns out most rental units are in those massive multi unit properties. Meaning just shy of 2/3rds of the rental unit market is owned by corporations.

  So lets recap here shall we.

  Corporations own over 50% of the liquidity in the residential housing sphere so they have a massive influence on the pricing of houses on the market.

  Corporations also own nearly 2/3rds of the rental market supply when you amount for units instead of just properties. Also granting them the ability to have a massive influence on the rental price market.

  So yeah your right corporations may only own 9% of residential land across the US, that completely hides the ugly truth that they control the market by dominating the liquidity which underpines the pricing of housing market for ownership and also obscures the fact that on that 9% of land they have so many multi-unit properties that they own nearly 2/3rds of all rental units allowing them to control the pricing in the rental market as well.

  So no the problem is corporate greed in the housing market you are just too willing to listen to corporate propaganda that misrepresents reality by cherry picking what statistics they push out to the public to placate them into feeling like its their neighbors or generic human greed that causes these problems not them.

  Next time before you start acting so stupid maybe actually check the sources and dig into how they got their numbers in the first place to make sure it paints an accurate picture of what you are buying into.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I would just follow their advice, download the newest version from their site directly and use the new versions installer to update manually. I would probably do the same thing when the newest version with certificate and signature verification releases, after that I would assume you should be good to go. However its probably also worth scanning your system for malware just incase you updated during the time frame the attack was live.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The article literally states that should you download the latest version from their site directly and then use the installer to update manually. Who knows if those who were effected already could have something else compromising the update/install process. I wouldnt update from the built in updater until the new fix with certificate and signature verification is released.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  While I agree with you I did just want to point out one thing.

  This:

  it’s mathematically impossible to fake.

  Is not entirely true persay, every hashing function does have collisions that can occur. But the likely hood that someone baked an exploit in that kept the application functioning while adding their backdoor all the while somehow creating a hash collision with the original fingerprint is practically zero and honestly if someone did pull that off, fucking hats off because that has to be some sort of math and coding wizard beyond most. I should also point out that the file size would most likely/have to be different so there should be other methods of detecting the compromised build regardless.

  Sorry I know that was very pedantic of me but I did want to call that out because its technically possible but the actual likely hood has to be so miniscule its almost irrelevant along with the fact that other tells would surely exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony AI patent will see PlayStation games play themselves when players are stuck⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh it just adds more accessibility to games, it doesnt bother me if someone likes specific parts of a game and not the full package. You may enjoy the challenge aspects but dont find other areas like exploration to be as enticing or for someone else maybe its the opposite. Having the ability to pick and choose what parts of the game you play and allow other parts to essentially be a cutscene doesnt seem like a bad idea. It just means more players can enjoy something. For example I liked eldenring, but I found the boss fights to be a bit to much for me and ended up never finishing the game. I dont have a ton of time to play so having to memorize fighting patterns etc for a drawn out battle just pushed me away from the game. I want to be able to create the character pick my weapons abilities, explore then just do some minor battles that arent going to be me needing to repeat a fighting sequence for 10-20mins. If I had the option to essentially turn the boss fights into cutscenes driven by my weapon choices and skills that I crafted with my character that would be pretty cool and give me more enjoyment possibly enticing me back to the game. While i enjoy puzzles in some games I know some people just want the action, so imagine having something like legend of Zelda and being able to skip the puzzles but take control for fights and exploration. Having the ability to customize the experience of a game just means you can appeal to a wider audience and that is not a bad thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Which just also shows why this is a very anti consumer move. Its trying to artifically push people to by new hardware because there hasn’t been significant enough changes to really warrant it. This then means more people who might have swapped off of windows to keep their existing hardware might end up having to upgrade then stick with their familiar windows platform so that the ai bubble can continue. Its completely fucked up

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And how many motherboards have the same amount of m.2 slots as they do sata slots? And what generation? So now I need new ram which is inflated to high hell, a new motherboard and cpu to increase storage on my gaming rig? Its not like games are small these days I like to keep most games i have installed and that takes multiple terabytes of storage that is cheaper to do via sata ssds… this is clearly anti consumer and done purely to push people to newer systems in the hope people stay with windows instead of swapping to linux. Its being done to keep the ai bubble going…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix kills casting from phones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Use desktop mode on the broswer and then just use regular screen sharing. Its how I block ads on prime video since i can still use ad block on firefox and just stream to my tv instead of using the native app on the tv with ads. I assume the same thing will work with Netflix as well. Worst case if you have a samsung device use dex to stream the device to the tv open a browser with ad block and then watch the show. Or alternarively just pirate the content and forget about the shitty streaming services

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you mean to the point of putting it in real space in your hand? Like you can just hallucinate it at will and view it with your eyes open as if its in the room with you?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Out of curiosity, what’s the electricity cost per month with your server running 24/7 now? Or do you schedule down time when its not in use. With all the datacenters poping up, electricity rates have gone through the roof, so looking at that, do you end up saving more still through this route?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: YouTube views went down since mid-August because they no longer count views of not logged in users⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah and first it was most of the views were definitely going down because of restricted mode despite that it was a feature used by a like a fraction of a percent of users and was over a decade old. None of the specific information getting parroted around has actually made any sense. Less people watching on desktop can also track with less people actually owning desktops or using them to watch YouTube, couple that with the fact they just got a drop of viewership and now they cant accept the common demonanator being that their videos are just getting less views

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨QUACK QUACK QUACK⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn I guess someone has a transparent browser window and didnt realize their desktop could be seen in the screen shot lol good eyes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who plays like that x_x⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But why would roll be inverted? For planes you just need to think about the fact you are controlling the airplanes pitch not the camera view, which is why my camera controls are always regular in flight games but then obviously the y axis for flight is inverted. Pitch left roll left, pitch right roll right, pitch forward go down, pitch back go up. I.e. If you tilt the plane to the left it rolls to the left, if you tilt it to the right it rolls to the right, if you tilt the plane back it changes the attitude of the flight path to bring you higher same thing in reverse for pitching forward. I agree with your last statement for fps/tps games though unless both are inverted for camera it just doesnt make any logical sense and instead are trying to map flight controls to a head which just completely looses me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who plays like that x_x⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No your using a reference point at the back of you head to say its tilting back when you look up, if you keep the same reference point for the horizontal axis you are turning the head to the right to look left, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I dont pay for it, use grayjay or firefox with ad block, I have no ads, background playing on mobile and I could care less about YouTube music.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In shower today: "I bet my YouTube account is older than most of the people on YouTube." ...Yes, yes it is.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  19 is not an adult, even if technically they are in the legal sense, thats still firmly in the kid territory. To think some are planning for kids at that age just shows how immature they are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia Sales Jump 56%, a Sign the A.I. Boom Isn’t Slowing Down⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah got it so your an idiot contributing more and more less optimized code that just scales in the cloud instead of being efficient on its own, driving technology to be even less useful and bloated. Damn your almost at the level of incompetence the 1%er are at bravo you fucking dunce.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI will not disclose GPT-5’s energy use. It could be higher than past models⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That makes the vast majority of managers, MBAs, salespeople and “normies” like your grandma and Uncle Bob insane.

  Correct most of these people are insane, the average person is so fucking dumb and insane today its mind numbing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI uses facial recognition technology, online photos to identify and arrest ICE Portland protester⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hypothetically speaking, one can put a pebble or small object in their shoe to force oneself to change their gate

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grandma is on her own⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes and housing costs still take the largest chunk of low income people’s income. This wouldnt only effect the costs associated with the cabin but also their main residence’s taxes as well. Collected taxes might be used to improve public infrastructure and benefit programs which could also alleviate some of their expenses, giving them more ability to afford the cabin and have spending potential in other areas of their life. It’s not a zero sum game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox is fine. The people running it are not⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have never encountered that bug, seems like an issue with the duck duck go not doing proper url encoding. I daily Firefox on mobile and its the best option by far with all the available extensions and of course working adblock

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grandma is on her own⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or does the correction in housing pricing lower their actual taxes paid in total on their main properties, granting them more breathing room, allowing them to comfortably afford the hunting lodge even if the rate itself has increased? You’re expecting everything else to remain the same and just increased tax rates as a whole. Something like this would readjust the market values of properties and the subsequent tax being paid while making sure those corporations hoarding properties are taxed appropriately and providing inventory into a market that would bring pricing back down to earth. The rate could be increased but total paid could be lowered in these cases of second homes so long as tax increase is exponential and not flat on additional properties. The goal of measures like this would be to make companies hoarding thousands of properties an untenable option not to hurt every person who might look into having a second or third property.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grandma is on her own⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It might even alleviate the financial burdens that are making that situation almost untenable for them now as real estate markets are corrected and added tax revenue gets allocated into public benefits that could reduce the cost of living. They may benefit from the proposal even if tax rates get increased on subsequent properties.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grandma is on her own⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or if housing costs were reigned in via this measure would the costs they are burdened with that make it barely feasible for 5 families to split the mortgage cost on a hunting cabin in a remote rural area be alleviated. Granting them more financial freedom, benefiting society all while still keeping the place thats becoming nearly untenable for them due to outrageous real estate markets?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking the generational barriers⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it took me a moment to try and work out what they were saying when they said 10g as well so your confusion was well waranted there lol. I just noticed someone posted the comic further down and thats my best guess as to what they were referring to because I’m not aware of anything that 10g could mean otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Steam controller was ahead of its time⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah that makes sense, I’ve never tried the SC so I just assumed they worked in a similar manner to the decks track pads. I think I would still probably prefer joysticks but now I can see the appeal for some regarding how the SC track pads work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Steam controller was ahead of its time⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there some meta to using the touch pads? I never use them on my deck due to the lack of being able to have continous motion like a joystick. If I’ve just been using them wrong I’d love to try them out in the way that makes people rave about them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Steam controller was ahead of its time⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh I am not a big fan of the track pads, I have them on my deck and the only real useful ness for them is having them emulate a mouse in games so I can use a mouse for ui navigation instead of the joysticks or dpad. Having to constantly readjust my thumbs to keep moving in a direction and lack of ability for smooth continuos motion just makes them super impractical

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And oil production, manufacturing sectors, data centers, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking the generational barriers⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they are saying, you one of the lucky 10000. It’s a reference to an xkcd comic where they joke about everyday 10000 people learning something new.