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Normally I don't like when I predict the future correctly but this time it actually ended up being good for once.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/13/investing/remote-work-impact-real-estate
Basically exactly what I said is happening - remote working trends are making it look like that rent might FINALLY start actually going down. And good.
Anything that gets lost in the cities from this is frankly nothing of value. In Boston, we've had so many actually important places in Boston close down due to rent costs, only to be replaced by bougie soulless copy-pasted restaurants and luxury apartments. We've had numerous queer venues close down (not all of them because of the rent, mind you) and dozens of actually beloved restaurants close from how high the rent has been

Working from home could wipe $800 billion from office values globally

Remote work risks wiping $800 billion from the value of office buildings in major cities worldwide by 2030 as the post-pandemic trend pushes up office vacancy rates and drives down rents, according to a new report.

CNN

Demi Marie Obenour 3h ago

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Lyude🌹#BLM Jun 10

The economy of a city should not be reliant on businesses with office buildings. It should be reliant on the actual people who are living in the actual city. Living in the city shouldn't be some magic privilege only afforded by the wealthy. All an economy like that does is destroy anything unique in your city in a desperate attempt to appeal to people with too much money whose only reason for being in the area is to go into the office five days a week and do something that doesn't require them to actually be there.
Meanwhile literally everyone around gets fucked over by infinitely rising rent costs.
I'm glad money is being lost from this, I'm excited for what's going to be left because it'll be a hell of a lot better then this

Demi Marie Obenour 4h ago

Lyude🌹#BLM 6h ago

i am starting to think that we actually really do need a specification that defines a baseline of wayland protocols to try to get close to application developer's expectations.
I also like, really would like to see more expectations set around "please stop saying 'we're not trying to be windows'". i gotta be honest i'm starting to realize this is kind of a really dismissive response that ignores the fact that we have a protocol here that we are trying to get people to use, and people aren't really going to use something they're literally not able to develop for :\.

Demi Marie Obenour 6h ago

karolherbst 🐧 🦀15h ago

drink water

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Irenes (many)4d ago

The queer community is strong. We collectively know how to survive hostile regimes, we've been through this before. We mention that because some of the younger people might not know the history very well.

Recent politics fucking SUCKS, but we are all in this together and everyone we know is working hard to make sure as many of us survive as possible.

You are not alone. We can't promise it'll be "okay", whatever that means, but we can promise that we're in it together.

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Demi Marie Obenour 2d ago

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gaytabase 2d ago

the entire ecosystem is completely unsustainable and it will be until people can afford to devote time to FLOSS without worrying about survival. and frankly even the bits of the world waking up are many orders of magnitude away from doing what needs to be done which is a complete change of the system to ensure that you don't need a bullshit job to give away your work for free.

Nothing else can 'fix' FLOSS. Nothing.

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marmarta 2d ago

I feel like many people making security-related stuff for computers forget that the ultimate goal of using a computer is not security. It might be getting some information, producing a thing, interacting with someone etc., and doing it securely is usually important, but security is not the goal in and of itself. If it was, well - a computer buried in a big hole covered with a couple tons of concrete is very secure.

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Wow, rare Hacker News W:

This is the true problem with AI. It's with who owns it, and what they will inevitably use it for. Whether it can do cool stuff with code or equal a junior developer is irrelevant. What it can do is less important than what it will be used for.

The owning class will use it to reduce payroll costs, which from their perspective is a cost center and always will be. If you're not an owner, then you have no control over the direction or use of AI. You are doomed to have your life disrupted and changed by it, with no input whatsoever. To quote the article, your six shillings a day can become six shillings a week, and you are left to just deal with it however you can. You are "free" to go find some other six shilling a week job. If you can.

And if you think, "Oh, every technology is like this, it's always been this way", you are right. You have always been at the whims of the owning class, and barring a change towards economic democracy, where average people regain control over their lives, it likely always will be.

Demi Marie Obenour 4d ago

Snippety Snap (she/her)4d ago

Some people take seriously the estimated "go-broke" date for the Medicare and Social Security trust funds without acknowledging we can simply tax the rich to extend it indefinitely.

Those same people deny the estimated world apocalypse date due to climate crisis without acknowledging there is a point of no return.

We can provide social safety nets and save the planet from burning if we make certain choices that diminish the excesses of corporations and the 1%.
#USPol
https://apnews.com/article/social-security-medicare-trust-fund-trump-74e13292f510739724a555d7ded7c1a3

Medicare and Social Security go-broke dates pushed up

The go-broke dates for Medicare and Social Security’s trust funds have moved up as rising health care costs and new legislation affecting Social Security benefits have contributed to closer projected depletion dates. That's according to an annual report released Wednesday. The go-broke date is the date at which the programs would no longer have funds to pay full benefits. Medicare’s go-broke date for its hospital insurance trust fund was pushed up to 2033 in the new report. Last year’s report put the go-broke date at 2036. Meanwhile, Social Security’s trust funds — which cover old age and disability recipients — will be unable to pay full benefits beginning in 2034, instead of last year’s estimate of 2035.

AP News

Demi Marie Obenour 5d ago

Are frustrations about Wayland valid? Absolutely! However, trying to stop Wayland from replacing X11 is not constructive or useful, becuase Wayland will replace X11 whether you or I want it to or not. The people who worked on X11 made that decision years ago, and it's far too late to change that. Fixing Wayland so that it meets your needs is a much more useful use of your time.

If you continue to use the Xorg server, be aware that hardware and software support for it is going to diminish with time. If you have an application that hasn't been or won't be ported to Wayland, you can use rootless or rootful Xwayland to run it. Rootful Xwayland supports complete desktop environments, but requires all X11 applications to run in a parent window, which might be fullscreen. Rootless Xwayland lacks the parent window but has some incompatibilities that will not be fixed.

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