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Are software developers gaining from the miracle of generative AI? No.

cio.com/article/3540579/devs-gaining-little-if-anything-from-ai-coding-assistants.html

Productivity has not improved, bugs have not been reduced, and developer burnout is as bad as ever.

If anything, unfamiliar AI-generated code is making the situation worse.
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Google Will Track Your Location ‘Every 15 Minutes’—‘Even With GPS Disabled’.

If you’re worried your phone might be spying on you, sharing your data and location without you realizing, then a new report this week will make alarming reading.

“You can’t say no to Google’s surveillance,” the Cybernews research team warns, describing a secretive stream of data they say continually transmits from a new phone to Google’s servers.

Even more “concerning,” they say, “the phone periodically attempts to download and run new code, potentially opening up security risks.”

“Every 15 minutes,” they say, the “Pixel 9 Pro XL sends a data packet to Google. The device shares location, email address, phone number, network status, and other telemetry.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2024/10/05/google-new-location-tracking-warning-pixel-9-pro-pixel-9-pro-xl-pixel-9-pro-fold/
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I love the fact that both the far-left and the far-right hate The Salvation Army.

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:siren: NEW GIGALEAK :siren:  

FAQ
What happened?
New leak, unrelated from the gigaleak/wack0's breach from 2018

Where is it from?
It's from GameFreak's servers

What has leaked
Source for Pokemon games like Platinum, HGSS, builds for BW2, source for Pokemon Bank and unreleased games like a remake of Quinty for SNES and an NES slot machine tech demo from 2004

Also codenames for all projects and unreleased stuff like gen 10 and Z-A
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Oklahoma-based BrucePac is pulling millions of pounds of meat items from across the United States due to concerns they may be adulterated with listeria monocytogenes bacteria, according to the Food Safety and Inspection Service.
https://naturalblaze.com/2024/10/company-recalls-nearly-10-million-pounds-of-ready-to-eat-meat-poultry-over-listeria-risk.html
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Unlike popular doomsday scenarios, this will be a war of flashpoints, chokepoints and High Value Targets.
https://activistpost.com/2024/10/is-a-limited-world-war-3-possible.html
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Gotta love it when people genuinely believe civilization is going to collapse and become The Purge within the next 5 years and all they do to prepare for it is go online and make enemies.
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@cassidyclown @Inginsub This is exactly how I remember it!! Was still so crazy to me that such an environment could even foster tbh
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@nyanide @Inginsub @cassidyclown There was less political spergery from both sides and fewer "no fun allowed" boomers.

Seriously, the timeline of mastodon.social right now is an inverse of the kind of shit you find from poasties/NCD boomers. Two of these accounts joined in 2022-23, and one in 2020. So many of these politispergs are from the same time period.

There's a lot of loser catladies/city slickers/human bots posting this kind of shit on the mastodon.social timeline with the "top posts". This ends up attracting more of the same kind of users and well, look how people see Mastodon: as another Bluesky.
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@nyanide the only change is that people have been leaving ever since the burst of new users in early 2021. this includes oldfags who couldn't handle poa.st becoming as big as it is, new instance operators getting fed up with pleroma, and newfags who got bored and left.
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Mainly gaming/nerd instance for people who value free speech. Everyone is welcome.