• FiniteBanjo@feddit.online
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    At the risk of jinxing it:

    Linux, Tor, and Godot

    Possibly housing markets.

    Though improvements to TOR are mostly for Android which is about to heavily enshitify since last year’s changes to AOSP and unofficial app policies. Still, I think the number of TOR volunteers enabling the network have grown? Definitely feels faster than before.

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          Am I dumb or is that not supposed to be normal? With inflation you don’t expect it to go down, you expect it to go up a little bit every day.

          “The housing market is doing better” doesn’t mean prices are going down, but rather that it isn’t going up as fast as it used to.

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            I think the point is that the pricing is much higher than it ought to be, so to get genuinely better the prices either have to go down or you have to have a very long period of them not going up as much as inflation.

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              This. It’s not just inflation in isolation, but the fact that wages are rising slower than inflation, while cost of housing is rising faster.

              Adjust for inflation and you’d see wages dropping, while housing continues to go up. This creates a growing and unsustainable affordability gap.

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        Obviously this is regionally dependent, but housing supply is set to overtake the growing demand in the next few years.

        Heres a random source I googled which cites Mortgage Banker’s Association crying over loss of potential future profits if they accidentally build enough units for housing to become cheap again: SOURCE

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      Still, I think the number of TOR volunteers enabling the network have grown? Definitely feels faster than before.

      Or the number of compromised exit nodes has increased 👀 😬

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        Would it even matter? The network gets routed between multiple nodes and the site traffic itself is encrypted, so unless a sufficient number of nodes total were comrpomised then tracking who is visiting where would be an effort in futility, no?

        The only notable case of a TOR user being tracked down that I can think of was a Silk Road user using his personal email address in malicious activity.

        Plus, you can use both VPN and TOR.

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          so unless a sufficient number of nodes total were comrpomised then tracking who is visiting where would be an effort in futility, no?

          Yes, I was being hyperbolic, its probably unlikely enough nodes are compromised

          The only notable case of a TOR user being tracked down that I can think of was a Silk Road user using his personal email address in malicious activity.

          There was another one: https://blog.torproject.org/tor-is-still-safe/

          But this was also technically a case of user error