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(DIR) Post #AnDETWcXolfWWKBtNg by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-20T23:08:43Z
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it has been zero days since I started building another meme generation tool. based on https://xkcd.com/2501/
(DIR) Post #AnDEdlkIREAwKFhY7k by VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
2024-10-20T23:10:34Z
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@foone wildly... and the reverse is true too. Laymen have no clue how deep the knowledge of experts go. đź‘Ť
(DIR) Post #AnDFFG1gooy6xBiFt2 by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-20T23:17:21Z
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@endrift I wasn't sure if I did either, but I went "it's SiO2, right?" and then looked it up. so apparently I didn't think I knew it, but I did
(DIR) Post #AnDFLiXlhkIl8VnWQC by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-20T23:18:34Z
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This image is actually an SVG that I'm intentionally exporting to a tiny JPEG to get lower quality text to match the original.I'm using the xkcd-script font to try and match the original text as much as possible.https://github.com/ipython/xkcd-font
(DIR) Post #AnDFPSTBPQU4RTR8U4 by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-20T23:19:15Z
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that was mainly a proof of concept. I think SVG is too limiting to do this dynamically, so I'm probably going to write something that uses embedded webfonts and a <canvas> element, like the Death Generator already does.
(DIR) Post #AnDGU7QbAXAmaJ0vlA by vv221@fediverse.dotslashplay.it
2024-10-20T23:18:59Z
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I’ve been a software developer for more than a decade, and still do not know even the basics about C++ ;P(my go-to language is POSIX Shell, and I will laugh at the face of anyone pretending that no serious software can be written with it)
(DIR) Post #AnDGU8mG9U5slm9kA4 by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
2024-10-20T23:31:33.851371Z
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@vv221 @foone Meanwhile here I only know my way around C++ because it's derived from ancient C (and as far as I know then only cherry-picked bits of actual C standards) and then few rare bits from debugging C++ programs.JavaScript… I'd rather forget it.Other scripting languages well there's posix shell, perl, lua, …So I could validate foone's edit but I wouldn't say I'm average. ^^
(DIR) Post #AnDGf5BtpJSWpdMnFw by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-20T23:33:11Z
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I also want to make it dynamically change the image size (like some Death Generators do) where it can just get taller if you type too much text into it. That'd be fun for some examples of "experts"
(DIR) Post #AnDGjruoc1GX6eeqMS by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-20T23:34:07Z
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I'm also gonna have it do something I've been thinking about adding to the death generator:Automatic alt-text generation! It'll have a button you can press that copies some text that is the alt text for what you generated, which'll be a templated generic explanation of the comic plus whatever text you entered. That should make it easier to provide alt-text when posting these to places that want alt text
(DIR) Post #AnDGnU33I8x2F4EaIa by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-20T23:34:48Z
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someone REALLY needs to develop an ad-hoc standard for embedding alt-text in a PNG/JPEG, though. I'd love to have the site just hand you a file that automatically has alt text when you upload it
(DIR) Post #AnDGqexXBIaix0ASY4 by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-20T23:35:23Z
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maybe I'll have to Be The Change I Want To See In The World and develop my own standard and then add support for it in Mastodon
(DIR) Post #AnDGtDjAssa1MVfjk0 by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-20T23:35:50Z
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but that's more work than I can manage on a day when I can't even sit at a desk, so I had to do all this work from a nearly-flat recliner
(DIR) Post #AnDH2Ld2sRz6TP9plg by virtulis@loud.computer
2024-10-20T23:37:26Z
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@foone apparently there's an ImageDescription EXIF tag. I wonder if anyone has ever used that.
(DIR) Post #AnDH5bCRRQjFdOGRLU by glyph@mastodon.social
2024-10-20T23:38:03Z
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@foone https://www.iptc.org/std/photometadata/specification/IPTC-PhotoMetadata#description
(DIR) Post #AnDH87p97GNhObZYKe by scy@chaos.social
2024-10-20T23:38:24Z
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@foone I've thought about this multiple times, but the thing is, alt texts for one and the same image might be hugely different based upon the context in which it is used.I mean, sure, embedding _something_ is probably helpful nevertheless, but it's not that simple to consider all requirements.
(DIR) Post #AnDHHDiEalyIGUfzrU by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-20T23:40:09Z
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@glyph well, that saves me some time
(DIR) Post #AnDHQa9wVKlGUO6JZg by glyph@mastodon.social
2024-10-20T23:41:51Z
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@foone see also https://exiv2.org/tags.html Exif.Image.ImageDescription and Exif.Photo.UserComment
(DIR) Post #AnDHfrAjX95Jb4kome by silvermoon82@wandering.shop
2024-10-20T23:44:36Z
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@foone There's 2 or so "standard" places to put it in the exif data; I haven't seen a js-only solution to use it right in the web UX, but I bet exiftool plus modern wasm tooling either already exists, or could trivially.
(DIR) Post #AnDI7HeHCcpJWzePqq by wollman@mastodon.social
2024-10-20T23:49:32Z
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@foone Pretty sure there is XMP for that.
(DIR) Post #AnDIGJuy8QvBAvlecK by cygnathreadbare@retro.pizza
2024-10-20T23:51:11Z
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@foone exif should include alt-text and tags, I'm tired of building a nice collection with all the photos i've taken ever, nicely classified by location, people etc and every 5 years having to rebuild it again because google shut down picasa, canon shut down irista, flickr promised not to change anything and then they made it unusable for free accounts, let's see what happens with google photos at some point...
(DIR) Post #AnDIWG8bxMt05LkV3A by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-20T23:54:04Z
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@scy oh yeah.But for a lot of images it's possible to get a good-enough alt text automatically, because a computer is generating the image from known components.And I'd design it as a "default alt text", not as a definitive alt text. So you could leave it, edit it down to the important things, or replace it entirely. It'd just try to save some time if possible
(DIR) Post #AnDMFtcyHVE5SDP1g8 by cliffordheath@mastodon.social
2024-10-21T00:35:52Z
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@foone SVG dynamics work just as well as HTML dynamics. I've written a web-diagram-svg diagramming SDK, soon to be open sourced. Undo/Redo, Hover, drag&drop, all works fine. https://dataconstellation.com/ActiveFacts/ORM/
(DIR) Post #AnDjE9ec1RELWfJCu8 by KikoKate@mstdn.party
2024-10-21T04:53:18Z
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@foone Point.
(DIR) Post #AnDkXi6mFJwjq9N5km by CWilbur@sfba.social
2024-10-21T05:08:04Z
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@foone Note: the average person can barely type a social media post.
(DIR) Post #AnEHQsaGCGpqn1VpJY by bifo@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-10-21T11:16:23Z
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@foone i seem to remember downloading an image of the cover of the anarchist's cookbook many years ago that also contained the full text of the book, but i forget if it was a compressed file or encoded in the metadata
(DIR) Post #AnErDuqu33mCPVPm9A by Pichu0102@raru.re
2024-10-21T17:57:33Z
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@foone Wait a minute, are you going to use this to encode a base64 of the shareware doom source code into the alt text of an image?
(DIR) Post #AnF8vm71bRtPGZSGqO by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-21T21:15:57Z
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@Pichu0102 no I already encoded a version of doom into the actual images that I posted on twitter. I don't need more "stuff doom in a png" tricks
(DIR) Post #AnKaLO3xJHeElBFx0y by platypus@glammr.us
2024-10-24T12:16:39Z
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@foone this would be so much easier than the literal .md files I keep on my computer!
(DIR) Post #AnRPkP1Tisdmf50A0e by nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social
2024-10-27T19:20:57Z
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@foone You're close. I once knew some C++ (I've forgotten all of it though.) Also I knew the MegaZeux OOP scripting language and mIRC scripting. Well, I've forgotten all of those too.Don't know any Javascript though.
(DIR) Post #AnRVIOBppG3Th8s4a8 by drj@typo.social
2024-10-27T20:23:06Z
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@foone haha, I did this with fonts the other day talking to my brother-in-law. "Look, the restaurant uses American Uncial" ...*Blank look*"It's the most popular foundry Uncial type" ...*Blank look*"Ya know, Uncial???"*Sigh*
(DIR) Post #AnRVzMtuUiDI9Hyt8a by jon_giraffe@mastodon.social
2024-10-27T20:30:54Z
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@foone I mean, why else would they build in developer tools into every browser?!
(DIR) Post #AnT1SOAo8L9eEMA94K by agorakit@phpc.social
2024-10-28T13:58:13Z
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@foone aren't there standards already for that? Would be an interesting area to dig.
(DIR) Post #AnTaemhbMHxL34JF7A by foone@digipres.club
2024-10-28T20:32:35Z
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@agorakit standards exist, yes, but are they supported?
(DIR) Post #AnhUB49zPwpXhCQAAS by triple@typo.social
2024-11-04T13:25:59Z
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@foone I read people saying that alt-text was publication specific and I see their point. But I guess one could always edit after the auto import!
(DIR) Post #AnhURFwvLwwEtQ1uC0 by drj@typo.social
2024-11-04T13:28:58Z
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@foone PNGs has iTXt chunks, http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/spec/1.2/PNG-Chunks.html#C.iTXt, and it includes a utf-8 description. But i've never really seen tools use them (including my own).