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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 08:08:58 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   it has been zero days since I started building another meme generation tool.

   based on https://xkcd.com/2501/

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 08:18:47 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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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

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 08:19:28 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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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.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 08:33:28 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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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"

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 08:34:21 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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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

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 08:35:01 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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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

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 08:35:36 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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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

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 08:36:05 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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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

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 08:40:23 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Glyph

     @glyph well, that saves me some time

   • Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 08:40:24 JST Glyph

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     @foone https://www.iptc.org/std/photometadata/specification/IPTC-PhotoMetadata#description

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 08:54:17 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • scy

     @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

   • scy (scy@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 08:54:18 JST scy

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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.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Oct-2024 06:16:14 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Pichu0102

     @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

   • Pichu0102 (pichu0102@raru.re)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Oct-2024 06:16:15 JST Pichu0102

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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?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Oct-2024 05:32:54 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Agorakit

     @agorakit standards exist, yes, but are they supported?

   • Agorakit (agorakit@phpc.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Oct-2024 05:32:55 JST Agorakit

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     @foone aren't there standards already for that? Would be an interesting area to dig.