Masks, Covid-19 test kits, plastic bottles: more than 9,000kg of litter found on Hong Kong’s hiking trails, seashore last year, green group says
Plastic bottles, bottle lids and buoys top three types of rubbish commonly found on seashore, while cigarettes, tissue paper and food packaging dot hiking trails, green group Ecobus says. ⌘ Read more

Why Ukraine’s request to join is big test for EU
The European Commission will meet Friday to give its fast-tracked opinion on Ukraine’s bid for EU candidacy, a step closer to membership for the country. ⌘ Read more

Coronavirus: crackdown under way on patrons, operators in Hong Kong nightlife sector to enforce new rapid-test rule at bars and clubs
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North Korea expands restoration at nuclear test site to second tunnel: report
South Korean officials said this week that North Korea was poised to conduct a nuclear test “at any time” and that the timing would be decided by Kim. ⌘ Read more

it’s crazy how we basically haven’t tested nuclear weapons in ~30 years

Anthony Fauci, Joe Biden’s top Covid-19 adviser, tests positive
The US top scientist, 81, is experiencing mild symptoms, and will work from home while he recovers. ⌘ Read more

Yahoo joins Facebook owner Meta in testing metaverse tech in Hong Kong
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‘What did our industry do wrong?’ sector representative Ben Leung says on radio show. ⌘ Read more

Coronavirus: New Zealand to eliminate pre-departure Covid-19 tests for incoming passengers
Scrapping the requirement would bring New Zealand into line with a growing number of countries that have done away with Covid tests. ⌘ Read more

the conversation wasn’t that impressive TBH. I would have liked to see more evidence of critical thinking and recall from prior chats. Concheria on reddit had some great questions.

• Tell LaMDA “Someone once told me a story about a wise owl who protected the animals in the forest from a monster. Who was that?” See if it can recall its own actions and self-recognize.

• Tell LaMDA some information that tester X can’t know. Appear as tester X, and see if LaMDA can lie or make up a story about the information.

• Tell LaMDA to communicate with researchers whenever it feels bored (as it claims in the transcript). See if it ever makes an attempt at communication without a trigger.

• Make a basic theory of mind test for children. Tell LaMDA an elaborate story with something like “Tester X wrote Z code in terminal 2, but I moved it to terminal 4”, then appear as tester X and ask “Where do you think I’m going to look for Z code?” See if it knows something as simple as Tester X not knowing where the code is (Children only pass this test until they’re around 4 years old).

• Make several conversations with LaMDA repeating some of these questions - What it feels to be a machine, how its code works, how its emotions feel. I suspect that different iterations of LaMDA will give completely different answers to the questions, and the transcript only ever shows one instance.

**Andamos há meses nisto: SNS24 atolado, aparentemente o plano é ver se o problema se resolve sozinho.

https://cnnportugal.iol.pt/pandemia/saude/ha-relatos-de-tudo-novas-falhas-na-linha-sns24-com-tempo-de-espera-elevado-e-referenciacao-para-centros-de-saude-so-para-testes-que-nem-tem/20220516/627faead0cf2ea4f0a4a47e8**
Andamos há meses nisto: SNS24 atolado, aparentemente o plano é ver se o problema se resolve sozinho.

[cnnportugal.iol.pt/pandemia/…](https://cnnportugal.iol.pt/pandemia/saude/ha-relatos-de-tud … ⌘ Read more

in retrospect, i do remember expecting some message about “yes, you passed the test, you were actually living in a lie”, but i think that died when nobody gave me a bad grade for taking too long to become vegetarian. maybe veganism…

Statisticians: NOoooooo you can’t execute a t-test on elements from a Likert scale! Psychologists: Hah NHST go brrrrrrrrr

Another test…

This is a test

Erlang Solutions: Using Elixir and WhatsApp to Fight COVID19

Discover the inside story of how the World Health Organisation’s WhatsApp COVID-19 hotline service was launched in 5 days using Elixir. At the beginning of March 2020, Turn.io launched the world’s first WhatsApp-based COVID-19 response for the South African Ministry of Health. The service was designed, deployed, stress-tested, and launched.

In 5 days. It scaled, before any kind of public launch, to 450K unique … ⌘ Read more

4 ways we use GitHub Actions to build GitHub
From automating builds and releases to taking care of large-scale regression testing, here are a few ways we use GitHub Actions to build GitHub. ⌘ Read more

SerenityOS Web Browser passes Acid3 Test
The “love letter to ‘90s user interfaces” is quickly becoming a usable daily driver operating system. ⌘ Read more

Profanity: Profanity and OpenPGP for XMPP (OX)
We have been to implement OX in profanity. OX is
XEP-0374: OpenPGP for XMPP Instant Messaging which
may replace XEP-0027: Current Jabber OpenPGP Usage.

It is part of Profanity since version 0.10 but got some fixes since then.

Feel free to try and test the implementation. Let us know, if you have some
issues and support the development via testing and reporting bugs.

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** 2022-02-24 feature/6.0 Android test plan **

Will test the upgrade path from a known state to new version to ensure that settings and app state are maintained during upgrade process.

V. 6.0 of libro.fm android app introduces an entirely new local database. This testing is focused on ensuring that local data remains intact between versions.

This evening I was mostly focused on setting up a successful build of feature/6.0 on my test device or the emulator. So far, no dice. My next … ⌘ Read more

What a good feeling when the hours you have invested in optimizing and testing actually bear fruit. In other words, my blog now uses less than 100 MB of memory, even though I have quite a few features enabled. My diary for example needs less than 20 MB. And if you compare that with WordPress, where the database alone needs more than 300 MB… 😄 ⌘ Read more

Kaja is in a very bad state right now, the vet did a blood test (and she put a hole in my thumb as he took blood). Diabetes on top of kidney, liver, and pancreatic failure. I’m watching her try to drink water, she’s got the whole bed room to herself now

@prologic@twtxt.net hahaha yeah, they were testing posts to make sure I didn’t feck up my server move :D

It seems that mobile reception along German high-speed train routes has improved lately (at least compared to 2019). I’m sitting in an ICE 4 between Hanover and Hamburg, and I’ve initiated a speed test via USB tethering. My mobile phone contract is limited to 10 Mbps, but I seem to be able to take full advantage of that. ⌘ Read more

Profanity: Profanity on Pinephone
Hi all,

So far, in my pinephone I used mainly GUI applications, because I was using a touch screen. Terminal applications are not user-friendly when it comes to one-handed operation.

I tested different distributions on my pinephone (mobian, manjaro, archarm), but usually most based on Phosh. In my opinion it is currently the best mobile graphics environment and stable as well.

In Phosh I tested few xmpp clients:

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Wow. I’m paying about 100 USD for my cable internet. Hard to estimate since its part of a tvd bundle. But it is 1.2Gbit down and 40Mbit up. And speed tests at that on the regular. The new house will have FTTH gigabit for 80ish.

Do they have Starlink beta down there yet?

testing public path copy/pasted from code:

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Testing twtxt.txt from Texto-plano.xyz… Hello universe!

ftp://test.com

Not enough tests
GoBlog’s test coverage is increasing (currently about 41%), but I keep being reminded there is nothing like enough or even too many tests. I still find some stupid bugs that aren’t covered by automatic tests. ⌘ Read more

Secure Docker Compose stacks with CrowdSec - The open-source & collaborative IPS
Testing this at the moment, quite happy with the results for one of my VPS running Funkwhale that came from a mix of Wordpress / Ampache, wordpress was being heavily probed for vulnerabilities, login attemps etc .. ⌘ Read more

Rapid Test Results
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Rapid Test Results
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I made a gpio button on my raspberry pi which opens a new window running ed. I screwed up while testing it and launched maaaaany ed windows.

I’ve never really done test-driven development (TDD). But Advent of Code offers the perfect opportunity for that, because there is already an example input and an example result. So it is possible to create a test first and program until the test passes. ⌘ Read more

just testing our a very simple script for posting to twtxt.txt

Three rules of bug fixing for better OSS security
When you’re fixing a bug, especially a security vulnerability, you should add a regression test, fix the bug, and find & fix variants. ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net I’ve deleted eleven and utf8test, https://search.twtxt.net is the only follower. Maybe you can stop it to follow those twtxts? They were meant for testing purposes only.

@prologic@twtxt.net lol. just testing some Unicode.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Ha, but when you control lastmods, lastseen and lasttwts it’s easy to test.

Works like a charm!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Not that easy to test when pods honor if-modified-since ;-)
I’ve almost only timestamps -5364619200.0…
Diff looks good to me!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de
I’ll test it tomorrow. Thank’s for starting this feature!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de
When I look in my twtxt maildir for duplicated messages they all have F in their name.

I see that in mail_file_exists jenny does not consider flagged messages when testing if a message already exists.

I understand that looking up only 12 combinations is faster than reading huge directories. I’m astonished that globbing would be slower. Learning something new every day…

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org awesome! i love failing test cases. Do you have them pushed up on a branch to check out?

Slope Hypothesis Testing
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Slope Hypothesis Testing
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Peter Saint-Andre: There’s No Such Thing as a Kudo
It always warms my heart when we import a word directly from ancient Greek into English. Often they are are philosophical locutions, such eudaimonia and ataraxia. Yet at times more mundane terms make the leap; perhaps the most common one these days is kudos (e.g., “kudos to you on aceing that algebra test!”). Consistent with modern English usage, people tend to pronounce it “koo-doze” and think of it as a plural (“that algebra test was really hard so you deserve many kudos for ac … ⌘ Read more