The final vote came down to a very narrow margin between our top two vote-getters. If you are curious about the very close runner up (that I voted for), that was the opening song from “CITY The Animation” - “Hello” by Furui Riho.

Links:

• anime OP (animated, but edited down to 1:30): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10eZAXGuVT4
• Full MV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxyACq69HgA

It’s a great pick and one of my favorite vocaloid songs. Teto has been blowing up in the past year and Jamie Paige has put out some of Teto’s best stuff.

Follow-up question: I am trying to get a feel for the “international hit” rule and how to apply it in this case. Anime is already a bit of a niche, but it can certainly break out into the mainstream, and I don’t want to contravene the spirit of this event by just choosing something that already hit it big so to speak.

My initial thought for an easy way to gauge this for our community is that videos over a view threshold should be excluded. An arbitrary value might be something like 10M or so. Looking over the award nominees from 2025 in the community for musical piece, that would exclude 3 of the 6 nominees.

Does that seem reasonable?

Question: would the !anime@ani.social community be able to submit an anisong from this past year? That would be a song made for an anime show or movie.

I’m pretty sure that’s what is happening and I am really looking forward to it.

My experience is in Lightroom, not Darktable, but LUTs just take an RGB value at each pixel and map it to a different RGB value. The LUT (look up table) is just a big table containing these mappings. They are most commonly used near the end of the development pipeline to do color grading. It’s a common way to do something like emulate the color response of a specific type of film, even if you shot digitally.

So, typically I would do my developing (lens profile, crop, exposure, etc.) first, then apply a LUT. After the LUT, then I would tweak the color sliders if there are any I still want to adjust. The color is usually the last step of the process for me.

All that being said, these days I don’t really use LUTs any longer. I am mostly doing product photography using a flash in a controlled studio environment. So, I pretty much have some develop presets all dialed in.

It took me a minute to figure out how this was a Harry Potter reference. For those also confused, these three magics correspond to the Unforgivable Curses.

This series has been super impressive with how consistently funny it has been. Too often I will read a series that is funny for a bit, but the jokes wear out or get too predictable. I still find myself surprised each chapter of this series at how funny it is.

This chapter, the two jokes that really got me were that Rona’s head is full of cats (just like the old internet!) and that death gods are a popular moe trope.

@blaze@piefed.zip has been asking for this feature for ages and @Skavau@piefed.social made an issue for it on the codeberg already. The reason this isn’t in the api yet is because it isn’t anywhere in piefed yet. AFAIK, the read/unread status of comments isn’t currently tracked anywhere within piefed. Additionally, for this feature, I don’t believe we track the timestamp at which you do interact with a post…so doing something like calculating the number of new comments that have occurred since you last opened that post isn’t possible…yet.

I don’t have a great idea of how to do this in a db-efficient way. Keeping track of when every user opens each post sounds like db-query hell. However, there might be clever caching tricks to make it a bit less computationally intense. @rimu@piefed.social would likely have a better idea of how to do this.

Yeah…I don’t consider this a spoiler. This is just a joke, it’s not really significant to the plot at all. Do people consider any frame or panel a spoiler? Really?

Yeah…I think I am going to have to check out Journal with Witch. Too many people in this community have said too many good things about it.

Mbin 1.9 just came out and lets users basically set a custom image to go with the link. However, the way it federates is kind of messing up lemmy and piefed, where they just think it is a link to the image only.

Looks like it since it came from fedia. I would need to take a peek at the AP json to be sure when I get a chance. The picture and the link come as two attachments, and PieFed just pulls the first one, the picture.

Rebuild World

I didn’t realize this was based on a light novel. I have been keeping up with the manga and it has been good. It’s basically a post-apocalyptic bullet hell.

That makes sense! Thanks for the explanation.

option to filter comment search by instance

Does this mean to search only for comments from users of a specific instance? Or does it mean comments made in communities local to a specific instance? I wasn’t even aware this was in lemmy’s api.

TIL Yunohost’s site runs on Flask, just like PieFed! Also, they use TailwindCSS, which is actually really nice. I messed around with it a bit at one point and was a fan.

Congrats on the release! Really happy to see the new piefed api features rolling out so quickly. My commits on poll features were only 3 days ago!

I remember they announced this immediately after the end of the first season. I enjoyed the first season, but it had its ups and downs. It always managed to stay unpredictable though. Is it an isekai? a fantasy? magical girls? The show decided to be all of those things at once.

I run a personal lemmy instance and two personal piefed instances, so I was just doing some comparisons. My instances are mainly used for development and testing, so they are only subscribed to a handful of communities and just have one active user.

You are correct that when it comes to performance, like snappiness and responsiveness, the database is probably going to be the bottleneck. Unless you are scaling up to a huge degree, I would be surprised to see meaningful differences in the number of requests that could be handled due to language differences between rust and python. Yes, python is an interpreted language, but most of the libraries you are using are basically calling other system libraries written in a language like C, and the program can execute way faster than your database I/O can give it data to process anyway.

Here is my usage summary. The lemmy instance has been running for about 1.5 years while the piefed instance has been running for just shy of a year now. I have only included the memory usage and disk since I don’t think either is really CPU hungry or bound in my use case.