

Why’s this post at a 27%?
They/them
Aromantic, agnostic, ADHD, depression, anxiety
Leftist
Scholar of many fields, expert in none
I spend time playing video games, making pixel art, studying japanese, composing music, learning software development, writing short stories and blogs, reading books, manga and comics, and occasionally watching anime, movies, or TV.


Why’s this post at a 27%?


Dbzer0 cuz it was the freest instance I could find. I’m anti-ai, but they haven’t banned or censored me for it, so I’ve just decided to stick with it. I have a quokk.au alt but I don’t like the UX of piefed so I don’t use it much. I happen to align mostly with their politics though so that worked out.
I’m pretty much only on Voyager. How I spend most of my time here: I default to the all page, hide all scores, and block every community that I’m not interested in, and subscribe to ones that seem active and have decent posts. Then randomly browse my home page every week or two.


It is too expensive for me.


I think they were saying there’s no way to trace if the malware activated or what files it affected, but you can determine if you have the infected versions by the checksums yeah.


Yes. If I randomly search “I hate X” OR “x sucks” it will lead to nothing but posts that say stuff like: “The X hate is getting ridiculous” or “why do people say X sucks? It’s great.”


More accurate to say if you have downloaded Cemu for Linux between 6-12 May and either unzipped it or run the appimage you are assumed to be infected.


Kind of weird to specify the American remake of the Japanese original movie, and kind of weird to say “inspired” rather than “based on.”
I recognize the person that runs my instance, and I recognize some names because a good amount of time a single user on here is the only one that keeps a comm active.
And I recognize some of the alts of users that I block.


I would be more mad that she was a billionaire than I would be that they didn’t tell me.


God damn it
I’m not going to engage with this poster specifically since they seem to be trolling, but if anyone else cares I did some research.
The image they posted is from a site called World Animal Foundation, and their information comes from only one source: dogsbite.org (incorrectly spelled Dog Bite org above).
dogsbite.org’s primary concern is self-disclosed as being the gathering of data of fatal dog attacks in an effort to increase knowledge of what they consider to be dangerous breeds with what they say is the intention of advocating for victims.
https://www.dogsbite.org/dogsbite-about.php
This means the organization is not focused primarily on non-biased academic research. They’re interested in proving a theory that they believe to be true, primarily, that pit bulls are dangerous and should be banned.
Their methodology involves primarily scanning a vast amount of media outlets for dog attacks with some supplemental coverage. Their identification methods seem to primarily be photos and social media. They do not mention DNA or professional veterinary verification.
https://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-statistics-fatality-citations-data-collection.php
I would determine the organization’s data is compromised by several forms of bias, including reporting bias, confirmation bias, publication bias, and observer bias. You can find a brief overview of biases in the link below.
https://casp-uk.net/news/different-types-of-research-bias/
Proper data collection should be handled by a third party and the research should also be reviewed by a third party.
An article published by JAVMA in 2000 investigates the issues of expensive DNA testing, and the importance of reliable identification.
Another article published in 2022 by the National Canine Research Council concluded that breed was not a good indicator for behavior.
**tldr; **
Maybe don’t just blindly trust a single infographic from random strangers on the internet.
You might want to consider spacing out posting them a bit, rather than posting the same person’s blog four times in one day.