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emma 🇵🇸 @emma.cafe · 18d

that makes sense, i've been reading about grain synthesis and how it's implemented differently in different encoders and decoders and yeah, it does kinda seem like a mess right now

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emma 🇵🇸 @emma.cafe · 18d

as for alpha being on a separate layer, is that not functionally the same as other image formats, but with potentially more control over compression level for the alpha layer specifically? i'm not sure if that's necessarily a downside, but i also don't know for sure

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emma 🇵🇸 @emma.cafe · 18d

oh yeah you're right, my bad! it looks like avif advanced profile does support larger images, but i'm not sure if the easily-accessible encoders (e.g. squoosh, adobe camera raw, etc) make use of it

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emma 🇵🇸 @emma.cafe · 18d

(double checking, but i had a much larger avif just recently)

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emma 🇵🇸 @emma.cafe · 18d

?? i don't think any of that is true, avif supports larger image sizes with tiling, as well as an alpha channel

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emma 🇵🇸 @emma.cafe · 18d

no love for avif?

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emma 🇵🇸 @emma.cafe · 25d

tyyyy :)

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emma 🇵🇸 @emma.cafe · 26d

i’m 26 that’s wild

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emma 🇵🇸 @emma.cafe · Aug 11

i put together a new email template system for browsertrix & wrote a bit about it

Webrecorder @webrecorder.net · Aug 11

Browsertrix 1.18 is out, with support for large seed lists and a new email system so invites, password resets, and everything else is clearer, smoother, and prettier.

Also better QA and a setting to automatically fail a crawl when you get logged out.

webrecorder.net/blog/2025-08...

Browsertrix 1.18: Large URL Lists and Beautiful Emails • Webrecorder Blog

Browsertrix 1.18 brings support for large URL lists, new email templates, and UX improvements for crawling and curating.

webrecorder.net

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emma 🇵🇸 @emma.cafe · Jul 18

it's a little janky but it's less janky than my receiver's software. the other option might be a dedicated streamer of some sort, a sonos port or a pi running volumio or something like that

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emma 🇵🇸 @emma.cafe · Jul 18

not sure how feasible "run another service on your home server" is for everyone, but if you have an easy way to do that i recommend it

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emma 🇵🇸 @emma.cafe · Jul 18

not an ideal solution but i run music assistant (www.music-assistant.io) configured with various sources (it supports spotify, among others), it's a much nicer interface than my receiver & streams over UPnP/DLNA to the receiver

Music Assistant

Music Assistant is a music library manager for local and streaming providers

www.music-assistant.io

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trndytrndy @trndytrndy.com · Jul 17

When's the next soundcon gonna happen

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emma 🇵🇸 @emma.cafe · Jul 17

i just let the domain expire last month :(

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emma 🇵🇸 @emma.cafe · Jul 1

it’s been fun being a test subject for this! hoping luna can find some funding for this and keep expanding it, it works quite well (for the most part) even as it is now

luna @l4.pm · Jul 1

i've been working on my own feedgen project throughout the past month with a goal to replace Discover, named nagare aka @nagare.pds.bsky.ln4.net

it is very much not an easy feat, even harder when there's heavy cost constraints attached to it!

a screenshot of bluesky showing the account of nagare. its bio says "a fever dream for a better discover by @l4.pm. tester-only for now, dm @l4.pm for more details"

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · May 7

Andor is fun to watch but fyi, y'all should be pirating it, Disney+ is a priority target on the BDS list

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cayce רחל חנה @caycef.bsky.social · May 4

protect the dolls

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · May 1

sometimes you do have to hand it to them

NY Post front page:

Trump admits tarifis will raise some prices, cause shortages:
Maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls
SKIMP ON THE BARBIE

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emma 🇵🇸 @emma.cafe · Apr 29

i like that you can select the devtools' emotion

a screenshot of a little bit of chrome's devtools, showing several icons in a couple toolbars, and a dropdown with its contents truncated to "://"

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Sage Divinorum 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · Apr 19

“Trump did Covid-19” is a federally funded graphic-design shitpost i never could have asked for & i love how incomprehensible it is.

my favorite part is that the page has a signature from Covid-19 itself. like damn, that must have been an expensive autograph.

The WHITE HOUSE
LAB LEAK
THE TRUE ORIGINS OF Covid-19
THE ORIGIN

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emma 🇵🇸 @emma.cafe · Apr 19

much to consider with this "unlock with artist pro" button too

screenshot of soundcloud's upload page showing that i've uploaded more than the allowed minutes available on my free plan. there's some text that says "Unlock unlimited uploads, monetization, distribution, and much more with Artist Pro" and then a button that's very jankily broken into two lines that says "unlock <line break> with Artist Pro"

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emma 🇵🇸 @emma.cafe · Apr 19

and the funny part is they're not explicitly setting it anywhere, that's just the default browser style for buttons when you set another border property (in this case, border color)

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emma 🇵🇸 @emma.cafe · Apr 19

soundcloud is the only modern website i've ever seen use border-style outset in 2025

a screenshot of soundcloud's "Upgrade now" button

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · Apr 16

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

Headline: ICE came for their neighbor so these Tennesseans formed a human chain to protect him

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Hex Feathers 🎃 @lexfeathers.ca · Apr 11

If you're trans and based in Canada, my friend @torontopubliclibra.com made this neat site which can help make sense of the process for updating your IDs.

Sharing because... yknow.

tg-id.ca

TG I.D.

TG I.D. is an online resource collecting information on how to update legal names, gender markers, and identity documents as a trans, non-binary, Two-Spirit, or gender non-conforming individual living...

tg-id.ca

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ZenithVal @zenithval.com · Apr 10

Bad AAPL

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