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Not the worst I've seen but definitely raised an eyebrow.

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Burning wood for power generation can be worse for the climate than burning gas, even when the resulting carbon dioxide emissions are captured and stored, new research has shown.

The findings cast doubt on plans by several governments, including the UK, to offer subsidies or other financial support for carbon capture attached to wood-burning power.

Edmonton is considered the frostbite capital of the world. In 2024, the city reported a record-breaking 110 amputations from frostbite, with 58 percent of those cases affecting unhoused people. The rise in frostbite amputations has been attributed to Edmonton's aggressive encampment eviction policy and insufficient frostbite treatment protocol. Hypothermia and accidental fires started in makeshift attempts to get warm are common causes of death for unhoused Edmontonians.

Recent inflation and low vacancy rates have provided cover for corporate landlords to put their thumbs on the scale to jack up the rents. Demovictions and renovictions have ejected people from their homes to make way for higher-paying clientele. Corporate landlords like Boardwalk and Avenue Living collectively own about half of Edmonton's rental market, and they have implemented aggressive rent hikes to maximize profits. Last year, corporate landlord ARH Holdings imposed a 200 percent rent hike at the Annamoe Mansion in central Wîhkwêntôwin, one of Edmonton's oldest residential neighbourhoods. "It's basically, 'Read between the lines. Get out. We're going to force you out by rent increase rather than just a flat eviction,'" said one resident.

One-fifth of the Alberta legislature (18 of 87 MLAs) and nearly half of Alberta MPs (15 of 37 MPs) are private landlords. In 2023, 36 percent of Alberta MLAs and 48 percent of MPs were invested in the real estate industry. Conflicts of interest are also created by the re-introduction of corporate campaign donations into Alberta politics and the revolving door between political and lobbying careers. Even Edmonton's local elections are influenced by developers who want multi-million dollar subsidies to expand the housing market.

I just had an encounter of the turd kind with a banking app that I want to share.

I'm in the process of migrating to a new degoogled phone (GrapheneOS) and upon installing the app in question via Aurora Store, it gave me an error message, saying it had not been installed from a "trustworthy" source. It would, therefore, refuse to start and tell me to install it from the Play Store. (For anyone curious: it's the Consorsbank app, and the issue is well-known at this point.)

In spite of being on GOS, I was faced with the prospect of

• installing Play Services Framework (sandboxed or not, I don't want that shit)
• installing the Play Store (sandboxed or not, I don't want that shit)
• logging in to the Play Store (I definitely don't want that shit!)

only to run a damn app.

I eventually used USB-debugging and ADB to trick the app into thinking it had been installed from the Play Store.

So even though everything is running fine now, this doesn't feel like a victory. For the first time in a long while, I feel I have come head to head with a piece of tech that was not just maladapted for my janky way of running things and just needed some tinkering. This was outright malicious, refusing operation and trying to force me to use services I want nothing to do with. It only gave me the option to either give in or walk away and stop using their services. Now, I don't mind doing that for non-essential things. I don't have big tech-owned messengers, I don't have social media (save Lemmy) and all the other stuff people these days feel they cannot live without.

Banking, however, is a different kind of beast. Banking is essential. Second factor authentication is usually done via apps these days. And if this kind of thing becomes normal for banking apps, and Google keeps locking down Android so hacks like the above won't be accessible any more, things are looking grim.

Tonight has left me with more questions than answers. Is Android still the 'right' ecosystem? What are the alternatives if this thing becomes more wide-spread? How do we combat this? Put pressure on banks to keep technologies open? Revert to physical TAN generators? (Until those become phased out by banks as well...)

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This is after having tons of solar panels too LMAO

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