George Mari @GeorgeMari@qoto.org

I've seen a senior dev use an LLM to generate a battery of unit tests in a few minutes. But when I talked with him about how he did it, I realized that he had to already be an expert on the ins and outs of not only writing unit tests but using an LLM to do so. It seems to me that only a senior developer would get a productivity boost. Junior developers might initially seem more productive, but would be less able to judge the quality of the output, so I would expect quality to suffer significantly. So, if an LLM only boosts the productivity of senior developers, what will become of the next generation of developers? Or am I wrong in thinking that employers will expect quality?

Ravens are native birds, just like sage grouse.

The only reason that raven predation is a problem for sage grouse populations is that the livestock industry is overgrazing the sagebrush habitats, leaving too little tall grass to hide sage grouse from their natural predators.

The solution isn't to kill ravens; it's to stop chronic overgrazing by domestic livestock.

https://www.bendbulletin.com/localstate/environment/federal-workers-kill-ravens-destroy-nests-in-baker-county-in-effort-to-protect-sage-grouse/article_a86781ed-b0a6-50b7-99c5-bf3559ea8cc6.html

Wonder how many new Fediverse users this drives….? cc: @fediversenews

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/15/elon-musk-plans-to-charge-new-x-users-to-enable-posting/

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on Western allies Monday to display the same "unity" toward Ukraine as they did toward Israel when they thwarted an Iranian aerial assault against the Israeli skies over this past weekend.

"By defending Israel, the free world has demonstrated that such unity is not only possible, but also 100% effective," he said.

https://www.voanews.com/a/zelenskyy-calls-for-same-defense-from-allies-as-for-israel-/7571223.html #voanews

Brits ask “A penny for your thoughts?” and Americans respond with “Just my two cents”. At current exchange rates ($1.00 = £0.80) this means Brits are receiving 1.6p of American thoughts for just 1p. In this paper we propose an alternative asset pricing model for the marketplace of ideas, considering—

Remember: The real freeloaders in this country are the rich, not the poor.

The richest 1% evade $163 billion in taxes every year.

The United States literally has a yacht tax deduction.

Hello?

Remember, in each of Trump's criminal trials, he was indicted by a grand jury made up of ordinary citizens.

Trump is lying when he says President Biden had anything to do with it.

Shocking news today that Dictionary.com has laid off all its lexicographers.

I already had a line in next week's podcast about dictionaries being a tough industry, and now it's even more true.

Some great company should hire them all; they're a real dream team

Check out @korystamper, @grantbarrett, John Kelly and more.

They're posting at LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/john-kelly-content_dictionarycom-meanings-definitions-of-activity-7184630769942695936-r6Vr?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Once you realize that both Trump and his MAGA Republicans work for Russia, not America, everything they do makes sense.

I have a fun thought experiment today that turns the tables and asks where’d we be “if.” Bottom line is, for Trump the court of public opinion may be skewed, but in a court of law he may be screwed. I discuss why in today’s piece! https://open.substack.com/pub/statuskuo/p/dont-sleep-on-this-case?r=1zr8b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tryna spice up my feed on this bitch gang. Yall got goofy ass shit to share gang count my ass in 👍🏾
#introduction #introductions 🙏🏿

mookie's #introduction

it's me, hi. i'm the mookie, it's me.

i'm a serial #fediverse instance creator (and destroyer) and have been doing this since 2018. many will already be familiar with my name or my avatar.

i'm the father of two awesome kids. i love watching and talking about #movies. i'm a #gamer (#callofduty and #battlefield mostly). i'm a fan of #taylorswift. i eat to #run. i'm a giant #starwars and #startrek nerd. i'm a born and raised #engineer and have spent most of my career as a devops engineer and sre. i now lead an org of excellent devs and sres.

my permanent home is at https://ultramookie.com where i should be spending more time writing blog posts and movie reviews.

@protesilaosstavrou
Job wanted for Protesilaos Stavrou (protesilaos.com) who is looking for work urgently....

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https://moderndaywizards.org/w/w1swNeckTuzWLpxGb5uR2h

Hashtags: #Jobs #Fedihire #Fedijobs
#Programming #Clojure #Lisp #GNU #Emacs #Packages #Python #Computing #Cyprus + #Remote #Work
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Extending Trump's tax cuts will cost $3.5 trillion over a decade.

This is why Trump wants to cut Social Security.

So he can take a lifetime of earned benefits away from working people and gift them to the rich.

It's reverse Robin Hood.

Hey all. There’s a comic book shop near me that’s struggling at the moment. The owner is disabled and nonbinary and dealing with some personal hardships too. They could use some sales.

They do mail-order, so if you’re in the US and looking to pick up some comics or graphic novels, maybe give them a look? (I bet they can order stuff that’s not on their site too.)

And if you’re not in a place to order something, could you give this post a boost?

Here’s their website: https://www.comicsmongers.com

Hey! Let's talk about #SSH and #security!

If you've ever looked at SSH server logs you know what I'm about to say: Any SSH server connected to the public Internet is getting bombarded by constant attempts to log in. Not just a few of them. A *lot* of them. Sometimes even dozens per second. And this problem is not going away; it is, in fact, getting worse. And attackers' behavior is changing.

The graph attached to this post shows the number of attempted SSH logins per day to one of @cloudlab s clusters over a four-year period. It peaks at about 3.4 million login attempts per day.

This is part of a study we did on our production system, using logs of more than 640 million login attempts, covering more than 1,500 hosts on our side and observing more than 840 thousand incoming IP addresses.

A paper presenting our analysis and a new, highly effective means to block SSH brute force attacks ("Where The Wild Things Are: Brute-Force SSH Attacks In The Wild And How To Stop Them") will be presented next week at #NSDI24 by @sachindhke . The full paper is at https://www.flux.utah.edu/paper/singh-nsdi24

Let's dive in. 🧵

Consumers will finally see FCC-mandated ‘nutrition labels’ for most broadband plans https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/10/24125572/fcc-broadband-nutrition-labels-isp-deadline-today

Thanks to our friends at 2600 for donating 10% of April ticket sales for @hopeconf to EFF! We're excited to see new, and familiar faces this year. Grab your ticket today! https://www.eff.org/event/eff-hope-xv

A few weeks ago, I participated in a race of electric pickup trucks across the country organized by @out_of_spec_studios. The Out of Spec Motoring YouTube channel has three monster episodes capturing the entire race.

Besides driving and filming for those, I also made my own little video from the perspective of Team Rivian. Enjoy!

https://youtu.be/AcbaaEO5CFI

Now in beta on Android & Desktop, coming soon to iOS:

Save custom nicknames & notes for anyone you’re chatting with on Signal, even if they aren’t in your phone’s contacts. Useful for adding missing letters in a lazy friend’s profile name or a reminder about where you met.