fix: disable console for init tests

[galargh]

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As explored in #5804, I have found that testing function that use console.log (i.e. write to stdout) can lead to Unable to deserialize cloned data due to invalid or unsupported version. errors.

In this PR, I introduce a helper function, which disables console.log/console.warn/console.dir (the console function which interact with either stdout or stderr directly). I also described how we could expand the helper in the future if needed.

An alternative I considered was overwriting the process.stdout and process.stderr streams directly, however I found that this can interfere with the reporter's output.

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