elilla&, travesti madam
I guess more people are into gemini than I thought! I love gemini, though my main struggle with the minimalist format is the lack of embedded images. I understand the rationale, but for things like gardening blogging, I feel like I really benefit from text and image side by side.
even after making this poll with the cool technologies I'm honestly leaning towards wordpress, specifically for the media handling... there's ghost but the homepage to ghost gives me nausea...
elilla&, travesti madam
@crashglasshouses no, I want to set an image description at any point on e.g. my cellphone photo manager, or on Photoprism (online photo collection manager), and I want that description to be stored inside the photo file (the standard for that has existed for 28 years), and I want that description inside the photo to be automatically set as alt text on Wordpress or Mastodon etc. when I post it.
Inken Paper 🇵🇸
@elilla the GNU program with an ableist name includes a description entry box for Export. is that what you mean?
elilla&, travesti madam
hmm: it's much clunkier than I'd like, but if I go on Photoprism to "Edit/Files", I can get a "Filename" from the physical store. I could make that available to the web via symlinks, then use it for hotlinks on #Wordpress.
but images online these days are complicated (what isn't?), what's with srcset and everything. perhaps at the cost of some backing store duplication, I should just import my images into wordpress; thankfully, a mass import CLI tool is provided.
the one snag in my workflow is that, contrary to what I assumed, #photoprism does not write metadata back into the exif! there's a large thread about it on github but it's clearly the kind of thing that users care about but devs shy away from. the state of acessibility in open source is abysmal, there's basically no tools at any point (photo app, cellphone gallery apps, online gallery apps, blogging, #mastodon....) that will let me write image descriptions that stay with the image when the image is copied somewhere.
I would like to emphasize that the exif ImageDescription field has existed for 28 motherfucking years.
For now I think the least effort, albeit significant effort, would be to mouse-click the filepath of each photo I want and copy it into a list on Nextcloud, and that list is automatically wp media import'ed on cron.
I could conceive of writing a script to scrap the Photoprism database (inside goddamn Docker!) to find the $#!@# image description SQL column and paste it into Wordpress' image description SQL column and hope neither database schema changes next week, but at this point it sounds like a better deal to just manually copy-paste image descriptions everywhere images are exposed.
"fuck you visually impaired people"—FOSSbros
elilla&, travesti madam
I think the ideal would be to leverage my existing setup. Photos are automatically synced from my cellphone to trans mom dot love via syncthing, where they get automatically imported into photoprism and automatically indexed. Photoprism machine classification of subjects/porn is hit-or-miss but it does give me a convenient UI to type in the image description and save it as metadata (I wish gallery apps on the phone did that!).
however, how do I pull these images with the description metadata into Wordpress or the like conveniently? :thounking: I wish Photoprism had like, a "publish" button or the like that simply made the direct link to the image publicly available, and Wordpress something that would pull exif description into alt text…
Aral Balkan
@elilla @crashglasshouses Apparently there’s a way to map an Exif field to alt text in Wordpress. Would this work for you?
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mapping-iptc-exif-to-alt-text/
This is something that could so easily be standardised. I‘ll look into whether I can bake it into Kitten* so that you get that heading field as alt text in file upload requests by default so Small Web apps can use it.
(And thank you for the excellent idea.)
Aral Balkan
elilla&, travesti madam
@aral @crashglasshouses thanks for doing work to improve things!
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