bumps golangci-linter version to 1.44 and fixes newley reported issues

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Codecov Report

Merging #47 (960ccca) into master (e518a29) will not change coverage.
The diff coverage is 100.00%.

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##           master      #47   +/-   ##
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  Coverage   97.57%   97.57%           
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  Files          12       12           
  Lines         660      660           
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  Hits          644      644           
  Misses         16       16           

Impacted Files	Coverage Δ
assert/error_messages.go	100.00% <100.00%> (ø)

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