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After more than 15 years on the platform formerly known as Twitter, Cambridge is leaving X in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] wjs018@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks for pointing this out. I am not that active on masto, but I am from the Boston area, so this might be the kick I need to check out that side of the fediverse. I lived in Somerville for 10 years before more recently moving to the burbs. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else in this country these days.

Is it true that the education system is crap in America? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] wjs018@piefed.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

Growing up in the US, other responders are correct that school systems vary a lot depending on what state/district you live in. Over the course of my K-12 education, I attended 10 different schools across three states because my family moved a lot. There were times where I would switch schools and suddenly be way ahead in some subject and have completely skipped over some other topics. As an example, I never took a course in world history, but ended up having three separate US history courses because the different districts taught those subjects in different grades.

I do take issue with some of the commenters painting all US schools with a broad brush as terrible. There are excellent schools in the US and excellent school systems. As an example, I currently live in Massachusetts, and if you took it as its own country, it would be one of the best school systems in the world. In general, the states that prioritize education and pay teachers well end up with better educational outcomes. It's not that surprising really, but a huge portion of the country seems to ignore that fact or spend money in less efficient ways.

Ketchup is shear-thinning substance, which explains why jams in the bottle yet flows freely with mild agitation. in c/science@lemmy.world
[–] wjs018@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My Ph.D. is in rheology and material science. One of the craziest papers I ever remember reading was about the non-Newtonian behavior of frog tongues and saliva. I still think about this paper from time to time. There was a sequence of pictures showing a frog tongue (removed from the rest of the frog) lying on a table, and then somebody touching it with an ungloved finger and showing how sticky it was as they retracted their finger. What they won't get poor grad students to do...

Link to the paper (pdf warning).

How do you feel about the current state of Lemmy? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] wjs018@piefed.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

discuss.online is doing it right. There is a significant overlap between discuss.online and lemmy.world's admin teams, and I generally think they handle it about as well as could be expected of a general-purpose instance of their scale.

As for piefed, I think the primary things that help users filter their experience are the additional blocks that are at their disposal; blocking communities with a word in their name, blocking posts that match keywords, blocking posts that point to certain domains, etc. However, it can only help if a user actually goes through the effort of setting them up.

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OpenAI to Acquire Astral (maker of uv, ruff) (openai.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by wjs018@piefed.social to c/python@programming.dev
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Today we’re announcing that OpenAI will acquire Astral⁠, bringing powerful open source developer tools into our Codex ecosystem.

Astral has built some of the most widely used open source Python tools, helping developers move faster with modern tooling like uv, Ruff, and ty. These tools power millions of developer workflows and have become part of the foundation of modern Python development. As part of our developer-first philosophy, after closing OpenAI plans to support Astral’s open source products. By bringing Astral’s tooling and engineering expertise to OpenAI, we will accelerate our work on Codex and expand what AI can do across the software development lifecycle.

OSHI NO KO Season 3 Season finale will be a 1 hour special in c/anime@ani.social
[–] wjs018@piefed.social 0 points 3 weeks ago

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

critical in c/fedimemes@feddit.uk
[–] wjs018@piefed.social 27 points 1 month ago

For those out there poking the code, please disclose responsibly! Don't just make a public post about a security vulnerability, reach out to the devs first to give them a chance to create a fix.

Hello, I'm new to Lemmy in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] wjs018@piefed.social 7 points 1 month ago

So, I see you joined ani.social and you have made mention of enjoying Japanese media elsewhere in this thread. In that case, I have some community recommendations for you:

There are plenty of other communities out there for specific pieces of media, if you are looking for those as well. Some of the more active ones I am aware of:

Hello, I'm new to Lemmy in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] wjs018@piefed.social 7 points 1 month ago

lemmy.ml defederated from ani.social ages ago, so OP is at least spared on that front.

Fedinsfw.app now has 479 MAU, making it the 3rd largest PieFed instance. in c/fedimemes@feddit.uk
[–] wjs018@piefed.social 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's a little known fact that we actually previously had an NSFW piefed instance for a week or two to do testing. Some of the features that were included to help instances like that were the disclaimer screen that comes up before any content page loads (this site has NSFW content...etc.). Also, I know some code was added to make some common NSFW hosting sites work better (as an example, there is some special code to deal with redgifs embeds).

The last thing that comes to mind is to allow admins to specify countries for which NSFW content is blocked (based on IP address). This was added in response to admins wanting to deal with content restrictions like the UK have and are sadly becoming more common across the globe.

Ask PieFed: How do you choose your user flairs for different communities? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] wjs018@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

Pretty easy for me as I tend to not comment too much other than about development issues and bug reports. So, I usually have my user flair set to PieFed Contributor or something along those lines.

The world just got brigther! in c/fedimemes@feddit.uk
[–] wjs018@piefed.social 21 points 1 month ago

It's been a pretty heroic effort from @nykula@piefed.social. Really well done and much appreciated.

PieFed vs Lemmy. What say you? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] wjs018@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The reputation score (sum of upvotes - downvotes) is something that only admins can see. I absolutely agree with a lot of the criticisms people have with reputations systems like this or reddit's karma, but at the same time, it is one of the most reliable and highest signal to noise indicators of spam/scam/etc. accounts out there. If we were to remove it entirely, it would take away a powerful tool for flagging accounts like that to admins earlier rather than later. Oftentimes, we can spot accounts like that even before they get reported by other users because users are much more likely to downvote/block than go through the trouble of creating a report.

To address your other reply in the same place, ngrok is not affiliated with X's (twitter's) Grok. ngrok is a service that provides https tunneling much easier than manually managing domains. Developers often use this for proof-of-concept stuff or testing features that need SSL because ngrok addresses can be created and destroyed easier and quicker than manually managing your own dns.

In actuality, I didn't even realize that ngrok was a sponsor. Or, was a sponsor at some point. Is this still accurate @rimu@piefed.social?

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[News] "The Ghost in the Shell" (2026) New Key Visual, PV (ogre.natalie.mu)
 

Premieres July 2026. The new PV is here. Check out the ANN article for additional information. Synopsis from AniList:

Ghost in the Shell is a landmark work of cyberpunk science fiction set in a near-future when information networks envelop the world and highly advance highly advanced cyborg augmentation technology has enabled the creation of the cyberbrain. It follows the story of the full-body cyborg Motoko Kusanagi and the combat force she leads in the fight against cybercrime.

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Bug: Tap and Hold On an Image With Alt Text Doesn’t Bring Up the Share Menu (piefed.social)
 

Tapping and holding an image in a comment sometimes brings up a share menu where you can copy the image link, etc. and sometimes it just collapses the comment. From doing some testing, I have found that whenever the image has alt text in the markdown is when it just collapses. So...

...an image in a comment written this way will bring up a share menu if tapped and held:

![](https://site.tld/image.png)

However, an image written this way will just collapse the comment:

![a really cool image](https://site.tld/image.png)
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Dragon Ball Super: The Galactic Patrol Anime Officially in Production (www.crunchyroll.com)
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"Ubunchu!" - The Official Manga from The Ubuntu Magazine Japan has now been fully translated into English (under an open license of course) (media.piefed.social)
 

Here is the full series available to read on Mangadex (under a CC license), and direct link to Chapter 1 (of 16).

If you had never heard of this series before, Ubunchu! was published in the Official Ubuntu Magazine Japan periodically between the years of 2008-2013 (with some digital extras afterwards found in chapter 16 on mangadex). The series was released using a CC license and subsequent translations are also CC (plus the translators have directly communicated with the original author).

Praise open licenses

Chapters 1-8 were translated years ago, but the final chapter was only translated just a couple days ago.

Due to when it was written and published, it is a bit of a time capsule. You can relive some of the formative linux and Ubuntu events of the 21st century such as:

Unity Desktop
Unity is an alien

The rise of linux mint
Linux Mint as a JK

OpenOffice & LibreOffice
Battle lines are drawn in the office suite war to come

Ubuntu Touch
Ubuntu Touch, the third pillar of the mobile OS ecosystem

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"Ascendance of a Bookworm" Season 4 New Key Visual (static.animecorner.me)
 

Premieres Spring 2026. Check out the AC article for additional information. Synopsis for the source novels from AniList:

A certain college girl who's loved books ever since she was a little girl dies in an accident and is reborn in another world she knows nothing about. She is now Myne, the sickly five-year-old daughter of a poor soldier. To make things worse, the world she's been reborn in has a very low literacy rate and books mostly don't exist. She'd have to pay an enormous amount of money to buy one. Myne resolves herself: If there aren't any books, she'll just have to make them! Her goal is to become a librarian. This story begins with her quest to make books so she can live surrounded by them! Dive into this biblio-fantasy written for book lovers and bookworms!

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"The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten" Season 2 New Visual (ogre.natalie.mu)
 

Season 2 Premieres April 2026. Check out the Crunchyroll article for additional information. Synopsis for the first season from AniList:

Amane lives alone in an apartment, and the most beautiful girl in school, Mahiru, lives just next door. They've almost never spoken—until the day he sees her in distress on a rainy day and lends her his umbrella. To return the favor, she offers him help around the house, and a relationship slowly begins to blossom as the distance between them closes...

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"Eleceed" Anime Adaptation Announced with Key Visual, PV (ogre.natalie.mu)
 

Premieres sometime in 2026. The new PV is here. Check out the ANN article for additional information. Synopsis from AniList:

Jiwoo is a kind-hearted young man who harnesses the lightning quick reflexes of a cat to secretly make the world a better place – one saved little child or foster pet at a time. Kayden is a secret agent on the run, who finds himself stuck in the body of a…um…decidedly fat old fluffy cat. Together, armed with Jiwoo’s super powers and Kayden’s uber-smarts, they’re out to fight those forces who would let evil rule this world. That is, if they can stand each other long enough to get the job done.

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"My Hero Academia: Vigilantes" Season 2 Announced with Teaser Visual, PV (ogre.natalie.mu)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by wjs018@piefed.social to c/anime@ani.social
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Premieres sometime in 2026. The new PV is here. Check out the Crunchyroll article for additional information. Synopsis for the first season from AniList:

Kouichi Haimawari is a dull college student who aspires to be a hero but has given up on his dream. Although 80% of the world’s population has superhuman powers called Quirks, few are chosen to become heroes and protect people. Everything changes for Kouichi when he and Pop☆Step are saved by the vigilante Knuckleduster and get recruited to become vigilantes themselves!

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Special Illustration for 7th Kyoto Animation Exhibition (ogre.natalie.mu)
 

This illustration was released to commemorate the upcoming 7th KyoAni Exhibition. Check out the AC article for additional information. Most relevant for this coming Summer season is one of the characters featured is from the about-to-premiere City the Animation. Synopsis from AniList:

This town, is not just a normal town.
There's laughter, love and emotional moments.
An unpredictable ordinary life presented by the residents.
Exciting stuffs come one after another. Welcome to CITY.

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"My Dress-Up Darling" Season 2 New Key Visual, PV (ogre.natalie.mu)
 

Premieres July 5th. The new PV is here. Check out the ANN article for additional information. Synopsis for the first season from AniList:

High schooler Wakana Gojou cares about one thing: making Hina dolls. With nobody to share his obsession, he has trouble finding friends—or even holding conversation. But after the school’s most popular girl, Marin Kitagawa, reveals a secret of her own, he discovers a new purpose for his sewing skills. Together, they’ll make her cosplay dreams come true!

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"The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen" Season 2 Announced with Illustration (lastame.com)
 

No premiere date announced yet. Check out the ANN article for additional information. Synopsis for the first season from AniList:

It’s one thing to get reincarnated as a righteous hero. It’s another thing entirely to get reincarnated as a villain! Our protagonist was just reincarnated into the body of Princess Pride Royal Ivy, the last boss and ultimate villain of her favorite otome game. But evil just isn’t her style, so she’ll use Pride’s powerful abilities to sow peace and love instead of discord! Can she change the fate of this vile villainess, or is her role in the story already rotten to the core?

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