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#python is there something like "code fuzzing" that's randomly modifying the code and running tests, to see which changes were break tests and which ones don't?

E.g. if you can randomly insert "raise error"s and the tests continue to work, you probably know the tests aren't very good.



DOJ RUSSIAN STATEMENT

Two RT Employees Indicted for Covertly Funding and Directing U.S. Company that Published Thousands of Videos in Furtherance of Russian Interests
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump

justice.gov/opa/pr/two-rt-empl…




#Gaza #Palestine
#IsraelWarCrimes

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has reiterated his refusal to reach a prisoner exchange deal, and called for launching a large-scale war against Lebanon.

“We are now paying the price for 30 years of a false perception [..] and therefore we made the monsters of terror in Gaza and Lebanon grow stronger, and this ended during our term, and the war must end only when Hamas and Hezbollah are absent,” Smotrich said.

middleeastmonitor.com/20240906…

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Wait.... so they *could* have been doing more and arresting CEO's *does* work?

Whoodathunk it?

theverge.com/2024/9/5/24237254…

in reply to Ben Tasker

> Wait.... so they *could* have been doing more and arresting CEO's *does* work?

Before you all get too excited about the arrest of TeleGrab's CEO, let's not forget this is how the Chinese and Indian governments discipline media and telecoms companies. Were you cheering when Modi threatened to arrest Titter employees for not blocking activists and legitimate news organisations? Or when Jack Ma got arrested? Or when Hong Kong media company execs were disappeared by the CCP?

@glent @priryo

in reply to Strypey

@strypey @glent @priryo

Dictators also drive cars, but we don't generalise based on that.

The means (in this case, nicking a CEO) is a very different topic to the ends for which it's employed.

There's a gulf of difference between a company refusing to filter speech that's critical of $govt and refusing to intervene when CSAM is being shared

in reply to Strypey

> activists ... legitimate news organizations
Are you sure they are? Because what they tend to spout isn't reflected in ground reality.
@ben @glent @priryo


Russian Money + Right-wing Influencers = MAGA Content

Right-Wing Influencer Network Tenet Media Spread Russian Disinformation

In an unsealed indictment, the DOJ alleges that employees of state-owned RT contracted for and oversaw the dissemination of Kremlin talking points by popular right-wing influencers, including Benny Johnson and Tim Pool.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump #BreakingNews #Breaking

wired.com/story/right-wing-inf…

in reply to Aure Free Press

Florine Gruen Goldfarb, Florida poster child for russian dupe --- from 2018: "Goldfarb was informed that Russian trolls helped coordinate that event and others like it. "I don't go with Russians — come on, give me a break," Goldfarb said.
I have nothing to do with the Russians," she said, insisting, "Those people that were with me were all Trump supporters."
And here folks is the problem. This woman actually could not grasp, refused to even try to grasp the concept that she fell for the russian psyop.
businessinsider.com/cnn-interv…
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#Gaza #Palestine
#IsraelWarCrimes

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that a Gaza ceasefire and prisoner exchange deal between Israel and Hamas is not imminent, contradicting statements from the White House claiming the opposite, CNN reported on 6 September.

On Sunday, US President Joe Biden said that the parties were on the verge of a deal. On Wednesday, a senior administration official claimed 90 percent of the agreement had been completed.

thecradle.co/articles/no-cease…

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It's Taken Until 2024 To Add FreeBSD To X.Org Continuous Integration Testing

It's taken until now to add FreeBSD to the X.Org Continuous Integration (CI) automated testing so that all proposed changes to the X.Org Server can now be build-tested on FreeBSD rather than just Linux...
phoronix.com/news/X.Org-CI-Tes…



FEX 2409 Highlights Some Of The Challenges Of Emulating x86 On RISC-V

FEX 2409 has been released for this open-source project that's known for allowing x86_64 Linux binaries -- including both games and applications -- to run rather well on AArch64. It's also been working on enabling x86_64 programs on RISC-V but there due to architectural differences it's more of a challenge than with ARM...
phoronix.com/news/FEX-2409-Emu…



Found 1 new servers and 9 servers died off since 3 hours ago.

22,763 servers checked. 13,671,100 Total Users with 1,048,664 Active Users today. Check out the stats!

New #fediverse servers found:

algorithmicpattern.org a #wordpress server from France

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#Gaza #Palestine
#IsraelWarCrimes

Activist Sarah Wilkinson was reportedly asked to reveal the location of her contacts in Gaza when she was arrested by UK police earlier this week.

She was later released but is banned from using electronic devices.

“The British police asking for locations of individuals inside Gaza is particularly worrying as the UK military shares intelligence extensively with Israel,” Mint Press News said.

middleeastmonitor.com/20240906…

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in reply to Jeff Jarvis

#TrumpGibberish cleaned up AGAIN by @NewYorkTimes
Thx @ParkerMalloy
He has NO plan so he just blathers gibberish & inanities & makes no sense
MAGAts & GOP wake up
Definitely time for the Old Gray Lady to retire & go live in a retirement community
Compare:
x.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1831…
#BoycottNYT
#BadJournalism



Fancy that: I agree with Cass Sunstein here. "Freedom always deserves the benefit of the doubt. The educational mission does not give colleges and universities a green light to punish speech that their alumni, their donors or influential politicians abhor or perceive as harmful."
Only the First Amendment Can Protect Students, Campuses and Speech nytimes.com/2024/09/06/opinion…
in reply to Jeff Jarvis

Meanwhile:
Georgia’s Emory University called ‘thuggish’ over unilateral protest rules
theguardian.com/us-news/articl…
in reply to Jeff Jarvis

A "thoroughly hostile and dangerous environment for anti-genocide students, faculty, and staff" is not not a great Yelp-review for a university, or any other institution outside of Nazi Germany.


Ukrainian Khartiia Brigade assaults Russian positions in the Kharkiv region.

As a result of the assault, the soldiers of the 13th Khartiia Brigade of the National Guard killed 34 and wounded 23 enemies, cleared 7 infantry positions and an ATGM firing position, destroyed a howitzer, and drove the enemy to the next line of defense.

Behind every minute of a successful assault are dozens of hours of planning and preparation.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia




This week in #FDroid (TWIF):

- the download link for F-Droid client was finally updated to 1.20
- new installations have no issues with TetheredNet
- We're working on improving the Anti-Feature handling
- Droidtoberfest is round the corner
- BobBall got its first update after 8 years
- LibreTube now contains a workaround for changes by YT
- RHVoice was finally updated again after 8 months

Read more at f-droid.org/2024/09/05/twif.ht…

in reply to F-Droid

"Workarround"? They provide the option to disable proxy through piped meaning connecting directly to YouTube. Not really a workarround but simply disabling a main feature.