Pirate Site Blocking Decreases Internet Traffic, Research Finds
In recent years, website blocking has become one of the most widely-used anti-piracy enforcement mechanisms in the world. ISPs in several dozen countries prevent subscribers from accessing a variety of ‘pirate’ sites. While new blocks are added every month, research on the effectiveness of these efforts is rather limited. Early Piracy Blocking Research One of the earliest pieces of academic research, based on UK data, showed that the...
Using mocks in Python
Using mocks in Python Moshe Zadka Sat, 04/01/2023 – 03:00 April 1st is all about fake stories and pretending. This makes it the perfect day to talk about mocking. Sometimes, using real objects is hard, ill-advised, or complicated. For example, a requests.Session connects to real websites. Using it in your unittests invites a…lot…of problems. Basic mocking in Python “Mocks” are a unittest concept. They produce objects...
