Wait. It’s out already?!

edit: It’s 30 minutes long. It starts with a live action shot of an egg cracking. That’s how you know it’s good.

It retains a lot of what I love about the Monogatari series. Lengthy dialogue paired with its unique visual style that sets it apart from a lot of anime. It still has that really harsh and bloomy lighting style that creates weird geometry from shadows, the space around the characters are surreal, the style of animation interchanges, and the cuts are quick.

I think the music is a bit different from what we usually had though but a lot of sound effects (like when the characters talk sometimes) are still there.

Nadeko really changed a lot. This shot explains it:

She’s my second favorite character in the series so I’m happy we’re getting more of her especially since she’s the character who had some dramatic changes.

The voice actors are great! We just saw Hayami Saori’s performance in Giji Harem and her emotionless monotone voice as Ononoki sets the role apart. Everyone sounds just as they did over a decade ago (especially Hanazawa Kana whose voice is unforgettable!).

We didn’t get an opening theme yet but we do have the ED theme with Yoasobi’s performance and Hajime Ueda’s illustrations of the characters.

I’ve never read the novels, so I couldn’t tell whether the adaption is faithful or not.

A pleasant Sunday morning!

Here’s a compilation of some of my favorite shots (in a spoiler tag so it doesn’t take up the entire page):

I just finished the manga the other day so it’s still fresh in my mind. I wasn’t expecting Hayami Saori as Nanakura but it was a pleasant surprise. She’s played a really wide range of characters so it’s fun to see her in a role that does… exactly that.

Okay, for the actual Giji Harem: CUTE! They’re both just teasing each other throughout the episode. It’s really playful and funny at times. Not much else to say yet since we’re only establishing the characters.

Can’t wait for the rest of the episodes!

I absolutely love Doom. Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal are some of the best singeplayer FPS games I’ve played.

Slay the Spire: surprisingly addicting for a simple card game. I played other online card games in the past and its the first I enjoyed deck building. I got fed up though because I lost to the third boss in my Watcher run. I’m doing an Ironclad run again because he’s my favorite.

Oxygen Not Included: I put almost 30 hours in my first two days. I like Rimworld more for the combat but it’s still pretty fun.

I’m thinking of buying Civilization V on Steam. I’m fed up with League of Legends, I need something else to play especially for the summer.

“Sans Soleil” by Chris Marker.

It’s a documentary that only uses “stock footage” and a woman reading letters. It’s about time and memory and other philosophical stuff.

My queen

I see. That could also be the problem. In that case, it might be better to stick with WEBP so other people aren’t left out.

Good to know that Thunder and Voyager works. It doesn’t for Jerboa, Boost, and Sync. Maybe we can open an issue or message the developers about it.

Not sure how it is for iOS apps though.

pictrs can handle it separately. It’s possible to use AVIF for static images and GIF/WEBM for animated images. I know all modern web browsers can handle it but I’m concerned if common Lemmy apps can.

This is an AVIF image to test:

edit: I tested a bunch of Lemmy apps on Android. Voyager was the only one that could display properly.

I also really like the tunnels feature. It makes self hosting at home easy for those under NAT/CGNAT or whatever it was called.

The Great Train Robbery (Edwin S. Porter)

It’s really impressive and frightening how good her impressions are lol

Yeah I did realize that LemmyAutomod’s tools are admin specific. I’m also interested to see how effective fedi-safety is. It has a dry run option so I’ll be able to review things and delete them myself. Thank you as well for everything you’ve done for this instance!

サメビーム！

Advent felt like they debuted yesterday. I’m surprised they’re pumping out another batch so soon.

This Lemmy instance is much harder to maintain due to the fact that I can’t tell what images get uploaded here, which means anyone can use this as a free image host for illegal shit, and the fact that there’s no user list that I can easily see. Moderation tools are nonexistent on here.

0.19.4 provides a way to see uploaded images (although not the best) but this version was only recently released so I can see where the frustration is coming from especially since the CSAM attacks happened nearly a year ago. At the time, I had to make a copy of pictrs, view everything on a file manager, and manually remove those images. People can still upload images without anyone seeing it however.

It also eats up storage like crazy due to the fact that it rapidly caches images from scraped URLs and the few remaining instances that we still federate with.

This was fixed in 0.19.3 (released 7 months ago) where you can disable image “caching”. This has solved storage costs for us together with pictrs’ image processing.

plug in an expensive AI image checker to scan for illegal imagery

It’s unfortunate that we need this. Not everybody has the resources to run fedisafety nor does everyone live in USA where they can use Cloudflare’s CSAM scanner. I think a good way to deal with the issue is to have images that are not public, not be stored (or have no private images at all). This way images can be easily reported.

Overall, I understand the frustration and to some degree I also feel the same but I also limit my expectations considering the nature of the project.

Sorry. This one is actually my fault. I was using lemmy-thumbnail-cleaner to remove “thumbnails” prior to v0.19.3 (the version that gave the option to disable Lemmy from making a copy of every picture that federates over).

I felt it was necessary to remove those because it used up a lot of storage space and there might have been files there that I haven’t been able to clean out (such as images that copied over from several CSAM attacks in the past).

Everything seemed to be fine until I noticed some recent local images were being removed. Thankfully, it did not remove any older local image. I can restore some of these manually but it will take some time. Everything should be fine now though and any new image shouldn’t be removed.

Is this related to disabling iframes? https://ani.social/post/2612139?scrollToComments=true

It’s not related to disabling iframes. For disabling iframes, I just added a CSP header to disable iframes from other websites except YouTube and Vimeo (I can’t think of a better way to fix this TBH). This should prevent weird behavior from other websites downloading files now.

edit: I am going to make a post about all of this and a lot of other info as part of “June 2024 notice” but I’m a bit busy with school right now and other personal matters.

OsmAnd~

Makes navigating around easier especially as someone who likes walking.

Edit because somebody mentioned about the lack of description and link of apps:

OsmAnd~ is a FOSS alternative to Google Maps and uses OpenStreetMap for its data. You can download it here.

There’s a lot of subs like these which I don’t want to name. Basically, subs with anti-corpo principles but refuses to leave corpo Reddit. I’m happy for the subs who are still dark even until now (and even more reason to be now that Reddit is deleting older DMs and removing awards/coins).

My favorite r/selfhosted comment.