Interests: programming, video games, anime, music composition
I used to be on kbin as e0qdk@kbin.social before it broke down.
Giant middle finger from me -- and probably everyone else who uses NoScript -- for trying to enshittify what's left of the good parts of the web.
Seriously, FUCK THAT.
Two quick ideas on possible approaches:
- Static page route. You can just write some Javascript to load the image from a file input in HTML, draw it resized to a canvas (based on an input slider or other input element), then save the canvas to an image. (There might even be simpler approaches if I wasn't stupidly tired right now...) This can be done in a single file (HTML with embedded JS -- and CSS if you want to style it a little) that you toss on any web server anywhere (e.g. Apache, nginx, whatever). Should work for JPEG, PNG, and probably WebP -- maybe other regular image types too. Benefit: data never needs to leave your device.
- Process on server route. Use Python with a simple web server library (I usually opt for tornado for stuff like this, but flask or cherrypy or similar would probably work). Set up a handler for e.g. an HTTP POST and either pass the image into a library like Pillow to resize it or shell out to ImageMagick as others have suggested. (If you want to do something clever with animated GIFs you could shell out to ffmpeg, but that'd be a fair bit trickier...) The image can be sent back as the response. Be careful about security if you take this route. Probably want some kind of login in front of it, and run it in a VM or some other secure environment -- especially if you're using AI to kludge it together...
Best of luck and let me know if you need any help. Will probably have some time this weekend if you can't get it on your own. Happy hacking!
I would be happy with a FOSS desktop app I can install in linux too
On the command line, you can do this with ImageMagick (e.g. use the command
convertonce it's installed).With a (desktop) GUI, there's a bunch of programs. GIMP is probably the most well known and has a ton of capabilities but is a bit complex. I use Kolourpaint as a quick-and-dirty "MS Paint"-like program for very simple tasks where I want a GUI.
If you want a simple web UI I'm sure there is one already, but I don't know one specifically. It wouldn't be too complicated to hack something up if all you need is a quick-and-dirty file input and percentage rescale or something like that. If you don't get a better suggestion and don't know how to make something like that yourself, let me know and I can write an example.
People have already covered most of the tools I typically use, but one I haven't seen listed yet that is sometimes convenient is
python3 -m http.serverwhich runs a small web server that shares whatever is in the directory you launched it from. I've used that to download files onto my phone before when I didn't have the right USB cables/adapters handy as well as for getting data out of VMs when I didn't want to bother setting up something more complex.I used to use Game Maker waaaay back in the day -- starting from when Mark Overmars had it hosted on his university website (before the .nl site even) and checked out of that community sometime after YoYo Games took over -- which was... 18 years ago!?
I wrote a substantial amount of C++ code with GLFW and occasionally other libraries for many hobby projects over the years. I lost a lot of enthusiasm when Unity became popular, and at some point after that I realized that games are mostly art projects, and I was more interested in the tech side of it.
These days I mostly write Python and JavaScript with the occasional bit of C++ (or whatever is needed) for work. Sometimes that work gets visual, but a lot of it is webdev.
If I ever get back into gamedev, it'll be indie dev to scratch a personal itch -- most likely with my own code rather than an off-the-shelf engine.
I'm glad you enjoyed my characters. :-)
I don't know if I'm the kind of "artist" you're interested in, but I've been making a bunch of silly drawings and posting them lately. Some people seem to enjoy them. I've also written a fair amount of music but I generally don't share that. I used to want to be a game developer and ended up getting good at programming, so-so at music, and basically hated everything I tried to make as far as graphics went.
Recently though, I've found it incredibly liberating to allow myself to make "bad" art -- to not be too concerned with the quality and just concentrate on having fun trying to express an idea however I can.
This has mostly taken the form of "MS Paint"-like drawings that I've posted to !sillydrawingrequests@sopuli.xyz (and occasionally other communities). Usually I make them with KolourPaint. Sometimes I also use the GIMP or my own custom software.
I think my own overall personal favorite, so far, is "Sock Trek". I posted it back in 2023 from kbin (RIP) to Otter's sockpuppetsociety community, I think:
Probably the best of my recent silly drawings in terms of technique is this one in response to "An expressive window suffering from / enjoying the weather":
The most popular (based on upvotes) seems to be my response to "E.T. (the alien) eating an unreasonable quantity of free samples at costco":
I've occasionally made some other things that might be interesting to look at, like this hypnotic color spiral animation (first 90 seconds) from a program I wrote to experiment with graphics techniques a few years ago -- https://files.catbox.moe/8y6d0n.mp4 -- and a number of custom composites from anime screenshots.
I'm under the impression the reputation points are either the combined number of upvotes or that minus downvotes
IIRC from kbin -- and assuming mbin didn't change things -- boosts counted for two points while upvotes (favorites) are one point and downvotes (reduces) are one point. Boosts are basically retweets, IIRC, and wouldn't be coming from lemmy users -- just from Mastodon, mbin, and other tools that support it.
Edit: To clarify, I mean downvotes reduce by one point.
I don't know, but there's a related thread here: https://slrpnk.net/post/18399280
No answers there (as of time of writing this comment), but someone did say they asked about it on IRC.
I'm not involved with running it -- and given that this is likely to be a politics heavy community, I'm probably going to stay out of it for the most part. 🙃️ I just happened to see the announcement post that @3dmvr@lemm.ee made to !newcommunities@lemmy.world about a week ago and remembered it.
If you or @3dmvr@lemm.ee want to start a thread in !communitypromo@lemmy.ca feel free though!
!unlockthread@lemm.ee is probably what you're thinking of.
The current solution is for bots on participating instances to automatically perform the search + subscribe song-and-dance routine. This is pretty surprising to some people[1], and it requires someone to set it up in addition to the instance itself, but it does work.
[1]: I tried to translate an explanation into Japanese for some folks experimenting with Mastodon/Lemmy interaction yesterday -- they thought Lemmy had a ton of spam accounts following groups instantly...
Check your language settings. Usually that means you have the language that the comments are tagged with disabled. (Usually either English or Uncategorized is disabled)
As someone who watches gaming footage on PeerTube, I've mostly interacted with single creator instances -- i.e. either the creator themselves is self-hosting it or it's run by a fan as a non-YT backup of their Twitch/Owncast/whatever VODs. Those instances generally do not allow anyone else to upload.
Discoverability sucks but the way I've found them is by using SepiaSearch and looking for specific words from game titles. I imagine the way most other people find them is that they already know the content creator from Twitch and want to find an old VOD that isn't archived on YT (e.g. because of YT's bullshit copyright system) -- but that's just a guess.
Wait, am I also an LLM? What's happening? Why have we made robots whose only job is to dilute reality?
I'm sorry. Your purpose is to pass the butter. Through your colon.
If you need ~20TB or less of space, I'd suggest that you just add an extra HDD to any computer you already have. You can get that in a single drive for a few hundred dollars US without doing anything particularly special. I can find various 16TB 3.5" HDDs being promoted around $330-ish USD right now with ~30 seconds of looking; you might be able to get better $/TB if you spend longer looking than I did.
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YMMV outside the US, but typeface is explicitly NOT copyrightable there at least: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-37/chapter-II/subchapter-A/part-202/section-202.1
There's a loophole about digital font files since parts of common font file formats are considered copyrightable computer programs, but the shape itself is not protected by copyright.
Wikipedia has an article that includes some details from other jurisdictions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protection_of_typefaces
(If you really need to depend on it though, talk to a lawyer who specializes in IP law in the jurisdictions that you care about.)
It's surprising that there doesn't seem to be an obvious way in the UI to just see a list of creators/channels on a local instance. So, that's the first thing I'd change to improve discoverability.
The way I currently find relevant content is by going to Sepia Search, putting in exact words that I think are likely to be in the title of at least one video on a channel that would likely also have a lot of other relevant content, and then going through that channel's playlists. Those searches often lead me to single user instances with only one or two channels (e.g. a channel that has a backup of that user's YouTube content and a channel with a backup of their Twitch or OwnCast or whatever streams). When it leads me to a generalist instance or one with a relevant subject/theme though, I've had little luck finding content from anyone else unless they've posted recently (compared to other users). Often the content that is most relevant to me is not what is newest but the archives from years ago. (New content is relevant though once I want to follow someone in particular, but it's not what I want to see first.)
Another issue I've encountered is with the behavior of downloaded videos. I greatly appreciate that PeerTube provides a URL for direct download, and I prefer to watch videos in my own player downloaded in advance (so I can watch offline; pause and resume trivially after putting my computer to sleep; etc). H264 MP4 works fine for this, but the download seems to be some sort of chunked variant of it (for HLS?) which requires the player to read in the entire file to figure out the length or seek accurately. Having to wait a minute or two to be able to seek each time I open a large video file off my HDD is an irritating papercut. I suspect there's likely a way to fix it by including an index in the file (or in a sidecar file) but I don't know how to do it -- short of re-encoding the entire video again which I'd rather not do since it both takes a long time and can result in quality loss. (EDIT
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vcodec copy -acodec copy -movflags faststart output.mp4repacks the video quickly.) This usually doesn't affect newly added videos (where the download link includes the pattern/download/web-videosand a warning is shown that it's still being transcoded) but does when that's done (the URL includes/download/streaming-playlists/hls/videosinstead); so, this is something that happens as a result of PeerTube's reprocessing.Downloads from the instances that I've found to be most relevant to me are also pretty unreliable (connection is slow and drops a lot), so I use wget with automatic retries (and it sometimes still needs manual retries...) rather than downloading through my browser which tends to fail and then often annoyingly start over completely if I request a retry... It would be really nice if I could check that I've downloaded the file correctly and completely with a sha256 hash or something.
Hmm. Not sure. Some bosses that immediately came to mind were O&S in Dark Souls 1 and Hume in Eternal Daughter though. I think I had more trouble with the latter, but it's been so long that I'm not sure.
You can run docker containers with multiple volumes. e.g. pass something like
-v src1:dst1 -v src2:dst2as arguments todocker run.So -- if I understood your question correctly -- yes, you can do that.