#Fuzzing

[mentalisttraceur-software]

Assertion: literally everything that could be usefully tested can, in principle, have its tests usefully randomized in a fuzzing/"property-based" way.

Challenge: come up with a counter-example for which I can't think of a useful randomization.

[monster-fuzz]

So I think I forgot to post about it here but I'm knitting my own wedding dress.

Edit to add materials: I'm using suri silk alpaca (apparently I'm slightly allergic to mohair?), and glass beads for the silvery and pearl beads.

[jpmellojr]

Google offers free access to fuzzing framework

Fuzzing can be a valuable tool for ferreting out zero-day vulnerabilities in software. In hopes of encouraging its use by developers and researchers, Google announced Wednesday it’s now offering free access to its fuzzing framework, OSS-Fuzz. https://jpmellojr.blogspot.com/2024/02/google-offers-free-access-to-fuzzing.html

[infosectrain03]

Fuzz testing, often called fuzzing, is a software testing technique used to identify vulnerabilities and flaws in computer programs, specifically in software applications, operating systems, and network protocols. The technique involves sending intentionally malformed or random data inputs to a target program to observe its response

[benevolenterrancy]

MotherHen-Shizun ends up feeding the peak

[foldingfittedsheets]

One of the bummers of being a super taster is how Big mold tastes. And because I can taste it before it’s actually sprouting I’m often disbelieved. Like, sorry restaurant. I know I’ve gotten this sandwich before and I know your cucumber is usually fresh, but today it’s moldy. I understand you can’t see the mold. But I swear. It’s there.

Tonight we had hot dogs and we picked up the buns today. Unfortunately neither of us realized the best by date was also today. The first bun I had was fine but I hit corruption midway down the second bun. I just ate the hotdog bun less, but we had to scrap the rest of the bag.

[junkfoodcinemas]

Hot Fuzz (2007) dir. Edgar Wright

[wishbow]

mushroom cooldown - march 2024 - wishbow

[simplythetest]

Fuzzing is Cool, Actually

TL;DR: Fuzz testing is really cool.

I've been interested in test automation for a long time, and one area in particular that I've been interested to learn about is fuzz testing. I'm now able to finally dig into this area of software engineering.

Fuzzing has been around for a while now, starting on a dark and stormy night in Wisconsin. Fuzzing is a technique for sending semi-random and possibly semi-invalid inputs to a piece of software (a function, a program, etc) to find bugs with this software. Over time, fuzzing - also known as fuzz testing - has been used to find security vulnerabilities in software in addition to purely functional software bugs. Fuzzing has also evolved from generating totally random data to becoming more intelligent about data generation and inputs. Fuzzing falls into the category of easy problems with difficult solutions that I enjoy.

One thing I find fascinating about fuzzing is that it is a classic case of test automation: after deciding what to fuzz, a developer can use a fuzzer to create test inputs and then execute tests using those inputs automatically. Effectively, automation is being used to do lots of work that a human would find tedious or even impossible to complete. Absolutely classic in the sense of using automation in testing and software quality assurance.

Another thing I find fascinating is how effective fuzz testing can be. Fuzzing is an exploratory technique since the developer using a fuzzer can control how many iterations of inputs are being sent to the software under test. In practice, this means a single fuzzer execution can take minutes, hours or even days depending on how many iterations the developer wishes to execute. In practice, however, many bugs can be detected within a minute. Such bugs may include overflow errors (heap, stack and so on), out-of-memory errors and null pointer exceptions. All of these kinds of bugs are simple to fix but can be surprisingly difficult to find manually even when using debuggers.

Lastly, and I cannot stress this enough: fuzzing is a well-established technique and subfield of computer science in its own right. The earliest fuzzers were literal homework assignments, but over the past few decades fuzzing has become quite sophisticated. There are techniques that can "guide" fuzzing inputs to find more "interesting" results (see feedback-based fuzzing), approaches to leverage multiple fuzzers at once (see ensemble fuzzing) and efforts to fuzz open source software effectively at scale. As well, specialized fuzzers have been created for fuzzing code in particular languages (C and C++ are the most common), fuzzing browsers, fuzzing web APIs are more.

Classic, effective, well-established: all things that sound good to me.

[nick-nellson]

Hot Fuzz (2007) dir. Edgar Wright

[olympain]

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (2023) Hot Fuzz (2007)

[monster-fuzz]

The Wedding Dress

Update The 2nd - I debated putting this in the original post but honestly its getting way too long so new post!

I have blocked the skirt! And she was big, measuring about 1.95 - 2m in diameter:

Yes, that is hanging on the wall in my halfway - that was the only place I could leave her safely away from my toddler for the 3 days it took to dry. I'm am still working out a way of blocking the bodice and hanging the entire thing back up to dry without the weight of the skirt dragging everything down while it's damp. Most likely i'll stuff the skirt into a laundry bag and suspend it underneath somehow. Previously the skirt hit me right under the knee but post-blocking it sits low to mid-calf length:

I have yet to finish the underdress, it's happening, I'm just really not keen on cutting pattern pieces recently.

(Edit: for clarity - this is knit, not crochet :) )

[starry-bi-sky]

No.

No, no, no, no, NO!

He's shaking. His heart is burning in his chest, pounding like a jackhammer against his ribs, and there's a trembling, aching rage building beneath his tongue and pressing against his teeth.

In his hands, his fingers tense and wrists locked, the article reads in big, black font: JOKER LOCKED IN ARKHAM ASYLUM AGAIN!

Danny shouldn't feel so angry about this, this is a good thing. Gotham doesn't have to deal with him for another few months at the least. He should feel relieved, a little more at peace.

He is not.

He cannot swallow the fury thudding behind his eyes, the burning white heat searing a deeper hole in his chest. A searing green filling static in his ears in the way only the rage of the restless dead can have.

How is he going to kill him now?

Arkham may be the only asylum in America made entirely of tissue paper, but it's still an asylum. There are cameras, guards, other patients resting inside. Danny can think of a million different ways to sneak in and kill Joker, but someone will hear his screaming.

It'd have to be rushed.

He doesn't want it to be rushed.

It's a cruel thought. Cruel and cold and merciless, but Danny doesn't feel an ounce of shame, not an ounce of guilt, for it. He wants to be alone with the Joker when he kills him, that's all he wants. In Arkham, you are never alone.

He forces his anger to bubble back down into his chest, stuffing it between his heartstrings and his ribs like a blanket you're trying to bunch up into a corner. It sizzles and burbles. The static begins to fade out into a high-pitched ringing; it sounds like distant screaming.

Danny is still trembling, but he can think a little clearer now.

He can wait.

He can wait. He can wait. He can wait. He canwait. Hecanwait. Hecanwait.

He can wait.

He's waited five years for this. He can wait one more week. One more month. One more year. However long it takes for the Joker to break back out, Danny can wait.

And when the Joker does, inevitably, break out.

Danny uncrinkles his fingers around the edges of the newspaper, loosens his limbs just enough so he can pay for it.

He'll be waiting.

The dead, after all, have all the time in the world.

[ayo-edebiri]

Hot Fuzz (2007) dir. Edgar Wright

[kwistowee]

🚫🍺🚫 Hot Fuzz (2007)

[sillysymbol]

i'm going hot fuzz mode