"Comments from computer chief Ellie Gillespie, who was angry but not enough to determine whether if they were just fooling around or actually committing a crime, and Lt. John Ryle of the Chicago Police Department, who estimates DePaul's loss from this to be around $22,000 and that their extortion demand in and of itself was a crime."
"UPDATE: A happy ending for at least one of the suspects, Brian Catlin, who went on to a prosperous career in computers and currently still works for Microsoft and lives in Hawaii."
I cannot currently test the Mullvad browser, can you tell us whether it supports Ublock Origin or another competent ad-blocker (is there even another?). Because, frankly the ad-blocker is a make-or-break for me.
It really just is Firefox with more privacy tuning. As far as I'm aware all the add-ons work as expected. I've used it as a trial and can confirm ublock works perfectly fine but that's the only add-on I tested.
Also, it is bundled with a mullvad add-on, but it is easy to remove.
You should also go to the Privacy and Security tab in the browser. By default it is set to Max Protection with Mullvad DNS by default. Even their lowest security is better than Firefox. But I would suggest editing this the "Mullvad (Ad-blocking)" option. I believe this is the same DNS as adblock.dns.mullvad.net (194.242.2.3)[0], which (base.dns.mullvad.net (194.242.2.4) is better) will be pretty similar to PiHole style ad-blocking.
I haven't tested in browser (I did test when setting up my PiHole) but Mullvad DNS can be a little slower compared to quad9 or cloudflare. But I don't think those two have ad blocking (and DNS ad blocking can be better in a lot of ways because it is not being blocked user side)
Btw, you can do this DNS stuff in vanilla Firefox too.
Two new peer-reviewed papers claim thousands of unexplained light flashes in vintage Palomar telescope images show statistical ties to nuclear tests and UFO reports. Not everyone agrees with the paper's conclusion.
FIFA's comical attempt to bribe him with a bauble might be a lot about them trying to persuade him not to do this, among other things that will mean nobody will want to attend games.
When we bought our first home, a townhouse, in the early 1990s the builder only sold to people that were going to live in said home. They helped save the down payment and made sure that utility payments (gas/electric) were under a certain amount each month (super insulated and heated with a hybrid hot water system). Bigelow Homes, they were on a few This Old House episodes in the 80s.
It would be nice to see that again, the new housing market is ridiculous now.
The issue is really felt more on the housing constrained markets. In these markets home prices weren't really very diverged from what we consider extremely low cost markets today very much. In the past 25 years, we've seen these low cost markets essentially stagnate or very hardly grow from 1990s prices, while high demand markets have gone up in price 4x or more in some cases over that time.
Now there are certainly high income buyers who can afford these 1-2-3-5 and up million dollar homes. But the very nature of who is a homebuyer is changing before our eyes in these places. The white collar office worker in 1990 who was buying in west la then is saddled with being a renter, because they only make $70k in west la. Their income hasn't 4x since 2000, not even close.
How does this change the makeup of who lives in the homes? Maybe that $70k worker would have shacked up with the home purchase, and had two kids to fill those spare two bedrooms, who go on to be enrolled in the school district, maybe work part time jobs, and hopefully stick around after and contribute to the regional economy. Instead, maybe that 3br home goes to a content creator, who uses one spare bedroom as a guest bedroom and the other spare for creating content. The school ends up short two potential pupils. The local economy loses two potential contributors, shops don't have anyone to hire and cut shifts and start a downward cycle of declining service and profit against rent increases until closure.
> Median age of ownership? Skews older now I'm guessing
First-time homebuyer (FTB) "average and median age stood at 36.3 and 33 years for the period Q3:24-Q2:25, and there has been minimal FTB average age change since either 2001 or 2021" [1].
ok lucky you but that doesn’t mean that the verge doesn’t have a paywall [0]
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