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A few weeks ago I fixed a bug in #OpenZFS and I can't stop thinking about it.

despairlabs.com/blog/posts/202…

An (almost) catastrophic OpenZFS bug and the humans that made it (and Rust is here too)

A couple of weeks ago I fixed a nasty bug in this function in OpenZFS:

^{despair labs}

Oregon's Housing Crisis is the fault of "Investors" driving up prices, not a shortage of housing:

From the OR Capital Chronicle:

There is no large crisis in the raw amount or supply of housing. The crisis lies in its price.

In this current decade, Oregon’s population increased only slightly, from about 4.2 million at the decade’s start, to about 4.3 million now, and there’s been no mass destruction of housing. . . .

Legislative Republicans this April complained that in the last three years only about 43,000 building permits for residences had been issued in the state, well below the governor’s plan for 108,000. But the state’s number of households rose by about the same amount during that time. The new construction that happened should, in theory, have been enough to keep up with it.

In 2023 (the most recent year available), Oregon had about 1.75 million “households” with the average household comprising 2.4 people, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

That same year, the Census counted in the state 1.88 million “housing units” — over 100,000 more housing units than the number of households — including “a house, an apartment, a group of rooms, or a single room occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters.” It doesn’t include some other residential places, such as trailer and mobile home parks.

The upshot is that Oregon, like most states, has more residential units than households.

And there is no crisis for people of sufficient means. Anyone who can afford to plunk down a half-million or so (which includes many existing homeowners, in or out of state) will not have much trouble finding a house. People below that level, a large part of the population, may find that a house (or in some places apartment rentals, too) are simply out of reach.

The problem with Oregon’s housing crisis is affordability. The median house value in Oregon (which reflects purchase prices) as of May was $540,300, according to online real estate market platform Zillow. One home-buying calculator estimates that if a purchaser puts down 18% for the home — the median downpayment of home buyers in the U.S., according to the National Association of Realtors — they would need to have more than $97,000 saved, and earn more than $120,000 per year to afford their mortgage payments. That means fewer than a fifth of Oregon households could afford a median-priced house based on income. (Sales by owners of currently owned houses could expand that number.)

Despite the limited pool of buyers, prices have climbed and stayed high.

Why?

Oregon’s notably strict laws on land use are often mentioned as a cause of the problem. They may contribute to it, but many other states — such as next-door Idaho — have far fewer building restrictions but still have house pricing problems as bad, or worse, as Oregon’s.

High priced homes can be more profitable for builders and developers, so they build more of them.

But the key explanation for why so many more houses are purchased, compared to the number of local residents who can buy, seems to be that relatively wealthy investors — individuals and especially businesses — are buying large numbers of houses and apartments in Oregon, and around the country.

Many national studies have found as much.

Redfin News, which tracks home sales nationally, said last August that investor home buying has been rising steadily in recent years — about 3% annually — and bought one of every six U.S. homes that sold — purchasing $43 billion worth of properties — and one of every four low-priced homes that sold.

Redfin found that during the 2nd quarter of 2024 in Portland, 13% of homes sold (valued at $511,419,529) were bought by investors, an amount rising in recent years. Many homes are then flipped and resold for still higher prices. All of that activity places upward pressure on sales prices of other homes as well.

A variety of buyers have been among the mass purchasers. Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley has for several years focused on the role of hedge funds in home buys, and with U.S. Rep. Adam Smith, a Democrat from Washington, introduced in 2023 the End Hedge Fund Control of American Homes Act.

Merkley called hedgefunds, “a contributing factor that has made it more difficult for middle-class Americans to become homeowners and is contributing to America’s twin crises of housing unaffordability and wealth inequality.”

Others have disagreed about how large a role the finance organizations have played. But someone can afford to buy all those houses — in many cases well beyond the asking price — and less-wealthy wage earners cannot compete.

That would be a real and pertinent, albeit sensitive, topic for the new state agency to address. Until someone does, the housing shortage for most Oregonians will go on.

#Housing #Houselessness #Capitalism

oregoncapitalchronicle.com/202…

The real housing crisis • Oregon Capital Chronicle

There is no large crisis in the raw amount or supply of housing in Oregon. The crisis lies in the sale price of that housing.

^{Randy Stapilus (Oregon Capital Chronicle)}

Belkin announces it is ending support for its Wemo devices and app on January 31, 2026; a limited number of devices will continue to function via HomeKit (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

9to5google.com/2025/07/10/belk…
techmeme.com/250710/p40#a25071…

Belkin pulls the plug on Wemo smart home products which will stop working in 2026

Belkin has announced that it will shut down all services for its Wemo smart home products in early 2026, and there's a full list.

^{Ben Schoon (9to5Google)}

🔥 IzzyOnDroid, un repository di applicazioni compatibile con F-Droid
Aggiungere il repo di IzzyOnDroid su F-Droid per avere una maggiore varietà di applicazioni per il tuo Android...

👉 selectallfromdual.com/blog/154…

#android #fdroid #izzyondroid #opensource #toolperandroid

IzzyOnDroid, un repository di applicazioni compatibile con F-Droid

^DUMMY-X

It continues to shock me that India has a nearly fully electrified rail network and the UK, country that invented railways, has Les than 40% of its network electrified.

There are highly polluting diesel trains coming into city centres across the country. Ugh. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8j13e…

Frustration in Sheffield as rail electrification project paused

The scheme is being halted short of Sheffield on the route to London, Department for Transport says.

^{Mick Lunney (BBC News)}

Smiley sourdough.

#baking #Sourdough

Does anyone know of any #FreeSoftware implementations of the #RCS encrypted messaging protocol? There is the nine year old
github.com/android-rcs/rcsjta I wonder if that is usable?

#E2EE #Android #messaging

GitHub - android-rcs/rcsjta: RCS-e stack for Android with GSMA API

RCS-e stack for Android with GSMA API. Contribute to android-rcs/rcsjta development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

Privacy is Calling You, Will You Answer?—Looking for a smartphone and service that puts you in control of your data, privacy, and security?

Try the Librem 5 paired with Librem AweSIM, powered by PureOS—a fully open-source OS.

Purchase here: puri.sm/products/librem-awesim…

Here's a neat analysis of a subtle OpenZFS bug by @robn.

despairlabs.com/blog/posts/202…

I love reading thoughtful analyses of bugs and the factors that produced them. Nowadays I usually arrive somewhat resigned, and expecting a "zeroth order" C bug -- something like bad pointering or failure to initialize a variable.

This is more of a "second order" C bug, and the author goes through the potential tradeoffs and rightfully points out that the answer is not "git gud." I'll put my thoughts on the bug in a reply so as not to spoil it for you.

Anyway, it's a good short read.

An (almost) catastrophic OpenZFS bug and the humans that made it (and Rust is here too)

A couple of weeks ago I fixed a nasty bug in this function in OpenZFS:

^{despair labs}

Time to deprecate TLS 1.0 and 1.1 in #curl ?

curl.se/mail/lib-2025-07/0007.…

#MutualAidRequest
#MutualAid

Please boost for reach!

Last update: July 18

Hi all, my family and I could really use your help! Extended illness, no income while sick. We have nothing saved; we are still trying to catch up on bills from unemployment most of last year.

Current total funds as of 7/18: $124
(Money previously sent to us for bills went to food & unexpected vehicle maintenance.)

Urgent expenses:

* Funds for meals for the coming week. We are feeding 2 adults and 2 preteens.
* Car Payment $567.83/mo × 3 (3 months past due, repossession efforts begin on 8/8)
* Electric Bill $143.51 (Overdue 7/7, disconnect 7/21)

Less urgent, but still important:

* Water Bill $137.99 (Due 7/22)
* Phone $229.04 (Payment arrangement, due 7/31)
* Back property taxes payment $726 (overdue amount from 6/26, next bill 7/26)

paypal.me/AaronHosford

Thank you for whatever help you can provide, even if it's just a boost!

#MutualAidRequest
#MutualAid

You are an engineer

#ObliqueStrategies

New drawing: Hire bike

(Notes on this: open.substack.com/pub/diagramc… )