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@pidgin Also if anyone wants to explore more themselves, meson makes this really easy.

From the top of our source tree you can run meson with the following command

meson build -Db_coverage=true -Dgplugin:vapi=false build-coverage

The vala bindings need to be disabled because the confuse gcovr.

Once configuration is done you can run the tests and generate the coverage report with the following

cd build-coverage
ninja turtles
ninja coverage-html

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@pidgin Some more info. Keep in mind that the 130 suites include libraries we maintain as well, but the code coverage here does not include.

Also, the coverage includes, libpurple, pidgin, and the protocol plugins and that pidgin and the protocol plugins aren't exactly testable although we have some stuff we're working on for that.

Press Struggles To Explain How The GOP Killed A Popular Broadband Discount Program, Driving Millions Of Poor Americans Off The Internet

The FCC’s ✅Affordable Connectivity Program✅ ( #ACP ),
-- part of the 2021 #infrastructure #bill,
-- provided 23+ million low-income households a 👍$30 broadband discount every month.

But the roughly 60 million Americans benefiting from the program are now facing much higher broadband bills because
🆘key Republicans
— who routinely dole out billions of dollars on far dumber fare 
— 💥refused to fund a $4-$7 billion extension.

There were several last ditch efforts to fund the program but ♦️none were successful -- thanks largely to Trump loyalist and current House Speaker #Mike #Johnson,
♦️who refused to let any of those funding efforts get close to a vote.

The GOP killed this popular program.

Yet in two different stories this week,
both CNET and the Associated Press
❌fail to clearly communicate that to readers.

➡️At #CNET, the program simply “ran out of money”:

"In May, the $14.2 billion program officially ran out of money, leaving Jackson and 23 million households like hers with internet bills that were $30 to $75 higher than the month before."

➡️Over at the #Associated #Press, the program vaguely died because “Congress” didn’t fund it:

"The Affordable Connectivity Program, part of a broader effort pushed by the administration to bring affordable internet to every home and business in the country, was not renewed by Congress and ran out of funding earlier this year."

🆘The GOP killed this program.
-- The GOP alone.

🔸The cuts heavily harm the GOP’s own constituents.

🔸Nearly half of the folks on the ACP program rolls were military families.

🔸Countless ACP participants live in Southern states where broadband access is spotty and expensive thanks to the GOP’s own policies.

🆘 Republicans killed a popular program heavily used by Republicans and only made necessary in the first place due to failed Republican telecom policies.

🔥They killed it because they didn’t want Democrats and Biden to enjoy credit for a popular program during an election season.

⚠️But neither outlet wants to make the GOP’s fault clear to readers lest they somehow offend Republican readers, sources, event sponsors, or advertisers.

It’s part of a general fecklessness that has expanded across the mainstream ad-based U.S. press,

and it results in #feckless #coverage where the ❌GOP never has to truly own its broadly unpopular policy decisions

techdirt.com/2024/08/28/press-

Techdirt · Press Struggles To Explain How The GOP Killed A Popular Broadband Discount Program, Driving Millions Of Poor Americans Off The InternetThe FCC’s Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), part of the 2021 infrastructure bill, provided 23+ million low-income households a $30 broadband discount every month. But the roughly 60 …

Donald Trump is in full meltdown mode.
Could he destroy his own campaign?

Whatever Trump does to manage his stress, I imagine he’s doing a lot of it right now.
The convicted felon has had a terrible three weeks.
Ever since Joe Biden dropped out of the race, things have been going rapidly downhill for Trump.
His campaign had been built around bashing Biden, whose frailty and questionable mental acuity made him an easy target.

With the far more energetic and coherent #Kamala #Harris as his opponent, Trump clearly doesn’t know what to do.

His campaign now seems to consist of nothing but #racism, the revival of old #grudges, #conspiracy theories and #insults.

This strategy isn’t exactly working out for him.
A New York Times/Siena College #poll published on Saturday found Harris four points ahead in the crucial battleground states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

This is a big deal: when Biden was the nominee, Trump was either always slightly ahead in those states or the two men were neck and neck.
It’s not just the polls that have shifted, #media #coverage has, too.
A month ago, every headline seemed to be questioning Biden’s mental competence;
now, headlines are focused on #Trump’s #unhinged #rambling.

While Harris’s campaign has huge momentum and exudes competence,
Trump is embroiled in chaos.
One of the latest debacles?
He was #hacked.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump claimed the hack was “by the Iranian Government” and added:
“Never a nice thing to do!”
No – but it provides a good opportunity to remind everyone that Trump’s Twitter (now X) account was compromised in 2020 by Victor Gevers who successfully guessed the password was “#maga2020!”
This was after the ethical hacker hacked Trump’s Twitter in 2016 by guessing the password was “#yourefired”, the catchphrase from The Apprentice.
⭐️The man who wants voters to think he can manage national security can’t even manage his own passwords⭐

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · Donald Trump is in full meltdown mode. Could he destroy his own campaign?By Arwa Mahdawi
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"These core elements – grievances, demands, disruption, confrontation and spectacle – are present in nearly all protests.

[But] time and again, #coverage tends to headline the parts of the protest that are sensational and #disruptive.

And this neglects the political substance of the protests."

theconversation.com/media-cove

This kind of coverage also plays into the false narrative that protesters are "radicals" or even "terrorists".
It enables that framing.

The ConversationMedia coverage of campus protests tends to focus on the spectacle, rather than the substanceAnalysis shows news stories on pro-Palestinian demonstrations at US universities spiked when they involved clashes.

In even the best coverage there is no accountability for the Fossil Fuel Industry

ABC, CBS and NBC

2021 and 2022 were both record years for climate coverage, and that coverage was a little bit more than 1%. This year, we saw a 25% decrease from 2022, which brought coverage to a little bit less than 1%. We want to encourage more coverage, but even in the years where they were doing phenomenal, it was only about 1% of total coverage

mronline.org/2024/03/28/in-eve

MR Online · ‘In even the best coverage there is no accountability for the Fossil Fuel Industry’ | MR OnlineCounterSpin interview with Evlondo Cooper on climate coverage.

Pretty happy with getting a handle on generating #coverage reports with the badge & publishing them with GitHub actions.

Probably pretty basic stuff for most folks; but, I like that I've built up a muscle memory for the process & it's not _really_ dull repetition. Not terribly unlike learning a simple scale pattern on a guitar.

It's rewarding just to space out & know that you are able to do it properly without thinking.