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moonpiedumplings

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  • No bad breeds, only bad owners

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  • Okay. So I did a little research since I was truly curious.

    https://www.animals24-7.org/2019/10/14/pit-bulls-new-gene-study-shows-it-is-not-all-in-how-you-raise-them/*

    Boom. A genetic link between aggression and certain violent behaviors and pitbulls. 15% of their personality. Caused by an aggressive period of selectively breeding them for dogfights.

    And now I think we should breed pitbulls out of existence.

    @Empicorn@feddit.nl (is this how you @ a user?).

    1 source. That's all it fucking takes. I don't understand why people who spend so much time on the internet are so mid at arguing. 4 articles of AI slop aren't going to convince anyone of shit. 2-3 other articles that don't actually back up your point have the same issue. But you're prancing all over this thread like you're hot shit. The issues I mentioned in my previous comment still apply, but here's a new source for you to use I guess, you're welcome.

    And of course, I have to obligatorily state that no parallels to human behavior can be drawn from this. No, black people were not "bred for strength". No, they are not inherently more aggressive. No, we should not just use eugenics to eliminate certain "races" because human races are a social construct (see above diagram). However, dogs work differently, it seems.

    *Edit: actually this source seems to be somewhat problematic since it seems to cover a dispraportionate amount of news related to pitbulls but that doesn't make the study immediately wrong.

    Okay researching further I found another scientific article going in the opposite direction.

    However, our community sample of Pit Bull-type dogs showed they are not more aggressive or more likely to have a behavioral diagnosis than other dogs. This does not support reliance on breed-specific legislation to reduce dog bites to humans [23

    (Damn, I said I wouldn't argue but now I seem to be arguing with myself. Don't worry chat. Imma win.)

    Opens google scholar

    Oh shit. It doesn't even mention the word pitbull. Investigating further, many of the claims that article makes, like the ones about certain dog breeds needing no/less training to do certain things, are just straight up unsourced and not mentioned in the study. wtf?!

    I am enraged that the article just straight up fucking lied to me and I fell for it. This is why I use google scholar and vet the studies myself, rather than using a search engine normally.

    But it seems like we are back to "pitbulls are products of their environments" again.

    On a miscellaneous note, google scholar seems to have really enshittified. It's now attempting to show me normal news articles and blog posts, rather than exclusively scientific journals. Eugh.

  • No bad breeds, only bad owners

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  • think one paragraph voids decades of data they’ve carefully collected

    Uhm... ackshually 🤓 it's two paragraphs.

    But in all seriousness, "carefully collected" is a pretty severe misrepresentation of the way the majority of these stats are collected. One source you link says 66%*, but wikipedia says 28%. This is an very large increase.

    This discrepancy is caused, in large part, because the police aren't very good at reporting on this kind of data. The article you linked, which I quoted goes mentions this, but it doesn't really go into detail just how bad it is. The police system, particularly in the US has a lot of inherent biases that lead to problematic behaviors and assumptions. Some of them are about race, and some of them are about... dog breeds.

    Long story short, I only really trust hospitals for this sort of data. Insurance companies get their info from the police, who aren't reliable. Hospitals can have problems, but aren't going to be problematic as our police system. Interestingly, hospitals also seem to report much lower numbers, like the numbers mentioned in the study mentioned by wikipedia versus the other numbers present. I wonder why that is?

    And one of the articles you linked was AI generated slop that claimed 66% but that was actually a hyperlink to wikipedia's claim of 28%. And most of the articles you linked were similar, clearly getting the data from the same place, but not actually linking it and/or having broken links.

    Even the best source, the study you linked has issues when it comes to supporting your claims. It acknowledges that which breed has been top of the list for dog fatalities has shifted over time and only now settled on pitbulls. That source also acknowledges how dog breed identification is difficult.

    And then of course, I won't deny that pitbulls do bite and kill at higher rates. But you are arguing that that somehow makes them inherently more dangerous, when there is simply no evidence for such a thing.

    And yeah, if my dog was a Pittie, I would be defensive too, but I would also be honest that people need to take extra precautions…

    The problem with this argument is that is is very, very similar to arguing that it's acceptable to be cautious around black people specifically because they are accused of crimes at higher rates. In fact it's so similar that I've seen "pitbull bad" be used as a white supremacist talking point. (which is part of why this argument gets so heated. Usually I just enjoy the popcorn but I finally decided to stop lurking).

    But I'm gonna be real, I don't really want to argue with someone who just throws a bunch of slop sources they clearly didn't read at me. Read your damn sources. Use google scholar or similar instead of just a normal search engine, so you don't get AI slop.

    And I'll give you some advice: If you want this argument to be well accepted in the future, you should throw in some points that make it clearly, distinctly separate from the white supremacist version of it. Some acknowledgement of the police being bad, or some acknowledgement of pitbull owners or some acknowledgement of how pitbulls don't rank top in bite strength (at least, according to two of the sources you linked). You complained about getting downvoted when you just posted stats but that's because people don't see those stats are an argument about pitbulls, they see someone preparing a setup for "What if I told you some races of people were inherently more dangerous?".

    As an endnote, human race isn't real. Perhaps this applies to dog breeds as well, which one commenter noted but you just dismissed it and threw a bunch of slop articles at them instead.

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  • Abuse and mistreatment can play a large role in a dog’s aggression, and pit bulls are often subjected to such conditions. In situations like this, dogs learn to be aggressive and will bite humans as a result. However, studies have shown that pit bulls’ aggression is largely due to their living conditions, and they aren’t necessarily naturally dangerous dogs

    While many pit bulls can be held responsible for dog bites, it’s also worth noting that their reputation makes people quick to blame the breed. Other dog breeds have similar physical features as pit bulls, so people assume that’s what they are.

    From the very article you linked in the other comment.

    Don't talk facts when your source refutes your claim.

  • No bad breeds, only bad owners

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  • I have created my Portfolio site as a computer underGrad. Please rate / roast it.

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  • Firstly, you are probably going to need a pdf version of your resume. I've tried to get people to accept a website resume but they refuse, and explicitly want pdf. I link to a pdf on my website because of this. Do something similar.

    Your notes are very in depth, and organized.

    However, I agree with the other commenters about the overall site design and (over)use of JS. The cropping and spacing is overall poor, which only harms the site design further, given the already bad overall organization.

    Another thing is icons. These are big and unevenly spaced. Use something like fontawesome (probably not this since it doesn't have everything, you may end up having to find svg logo's of the various things yourself) instead. If you are trying to do web development, your portfolio must look cleaner. Like in bootstrap, the place where the icon is, has sharp corners, which extend outward from bootstraps rounded corners.

    I do disagree with one of the other commenters on the use of the term "language". I like it. Especially for a resume, brevity is better. I think overall, you should compress your site down, rather than having so much wasted space.

  • Intel GVT-g - ArchWiki

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  • If you have an older nvidia gpu, you can use vgpu unlock to unlock these features on that.

  • Turning a mini-pc into a WiFi access point

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  • Freshtomato is not out of date. The last stable release was december of 2024 And the github repos are being actively updated as well.

    Perhaps you are confusing freshtomato with some of it's predecessors, like tomato or advancedtomato, which are no longer currently maintained.

    As for openwrt instead, that doesn't support broadcom wifi chips, whereas freshtomato does.

  • Web-based Document Editor?

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  • This is like that other recommendation of a linuxserver/kasmvnc docker image as well. It doesn't allow for collaborative editing like cryptpad or google docs does.

  • Microsoft hates freedom

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  • https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/ or vscodium

    And: https://open-vsx.org

    This is what I use. Arch Linux packages code oss, hooked up to open vsx by default.

    Also some of Microsoft's extensions, like their docker and kubernetes one's, are open source (and available in the open vsx), but their C# stuff is proprietary.

  • Implementing a form of websites white listing today, is it actually possible?

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  • Yeah you probably want a proxy based solution. Have a network that has no internet access except through a proxy that you control.

    You would also have to lock dns down. The problem with dns based blocks is that things like dns over https allow people to use an alternative dns server. But, if you control the devices that you are managing, then you can also control what dns server they use.

  • Implementing a form of websites white listing today, is it actually possible?

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  • Noscript. Ublock origin strict/export mode, where you must manually accept connections. Dns filtering. A socks proxy. VPN. Etc, there exist many ways.

    But which of these methods is best depends on what you are trying to do.

  • Debian is Ditching X (Twitter) Citing These Reasons

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  • It is, they are switching from X to wayland.social, a mastodon instance.

    (/s, they aren't actually doing this though.)

  • Linux 6.14 With Rust: "We Are Almost At The 'Write A Real Driver In Rust' Stage Now"

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  • There are exactly 3 types of phoronix commenters:

    • Trolls
    • People falling for the trolling
    • Professionals working at intel, red hat, etc who use that site as some kind of communications board for some strange, unknown reason

  • How to become a competent coder? - I was advised to cross post here.

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  • Remote deployments of different capabilities

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  • I already replied to your last post, but my reply here is the same. You want kubernetes and gitops. There exists many ways to do staging/preprod/prod setups with gitops.

  • If money was not an issue, is there a movie, series, or a video game you would fund as a passion project with no intention on making a profit on it?

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  • I don't know cuz I've never played it. But given that it's developed by people who want it to be fun (all open source), I can assume it's gonna actually be fun.

  • What are some exceptions to the standards problem?

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  • There are many, I think. Like what other people have mentioned, sometimes the new standard is just better on all metrics.

    Another common example is when someone creates something as a passion project, rather than expecting it to get used widely. It's especially frustrating for me when I see people denigrate projects like those, criticizing it for a lack of practicality...

  • If money was not an issue, is there a movie, series, or a video game you would fund as a passion project with no intention on making a profit on it?

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  • Using Jenkins to deploy Docker containers?

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  • I'm gonna be real: You want kubernetes + gitops (either fluxcd or argocd or the rancher one).

    I mean sure, jenkins works, but nothing is going to be as smooth as kubernetes. I originally attempted to use ansible as many people suggested, but I got frustrated becuase it struggled to manage state in a truly declarative way (e.g. when I would change the ports in the ansible files the podman containers wouldn't update, I had to add tasks for destroying and recreating the containers).

    I eventually just switched to kubernetes + fluxcd. I push to the git repo. The state of the kubernetes cluster changes according. Beautiful. Simple. Encrypted secrets via sops. It supports the helm package manager as well. Complex af to set up though. But it's a huge time saver in the long run, which is why so many companies use it.