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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • I was watching this late last night so I missed the first part and I didn’t realize that it was Patrick Galbraith on screen! I’ve been reading some of his works lately like Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan and his articles like Lolicon. I think everyone here on !anime should read his works.

    Anyway, I’m too young to know what much of anime culture was like two decades ago, and my only trip to Akihabara was a few years ago so I never really saw what the “old Akihabara” was like. Though my experience was pretty much exactly described as the “current Akihabara” in the video so it’s pretty cool to learn more about it.

    I should probably go back with a friend because I mostly just went around for a few hours looking at figures, searching for a particular monochrome Hitagi figure. Though it is true, there was a lot of ehh… sex industry stuff lol. Kind of funny how Galbraith mentions it in the video with such an ominous tone lol.




  • My Piefed testing instance only has two users so it’s hard to make a comparison with my Lemmy instance which has 180 monthly active users.

    This is what my Lemmy instance looks like (180 monthly active users):

    And my PieFed instance (2 users):

    Again, not a fair comparison at all but I think they’re both pretty efficient with CPU/RAM. Postgres will eat as much RAM as you give it. I noticed that Lemmy will spike CPU every hour. On the other hand, PieFed spikes every time you reload the page but I don’t have any caching for PieFed enabled yet.

    Anyway, I think another big concern in terms of resource usage is how big the DB grows. Technically, it grows infinitely. PieFed has this really nice feature that deletes old stuff over time per community (or that’s how I understand it at least) which is pretty nice:








  • I remember in elementary school we had a lesson on sex organs. When I turned in my test paper, I curiously asked my teacher, “If the sperm is in the male, and the egg is in the female, how does the sperm transfer over?”

    All she said was, “Well, what do you think?” To which I replied, “I don’t know.” Then I quietly returned to my desk. Later I discussed it with my friend and we concluded that a male must pee into a female. Because at the time, pee was the only thing we knew came out of the penis.