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[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 25 points 3 weeks ago

F2 -> backspace backspace backspace -> "png" -> enter

[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 weeks ago

Chaotic Stupid 😄

[-] x0x7@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I'm the ffmpeg guy. It's the pandoc of binary media, except it actually does do everything.

Hmmm. I need to write an PR for converting mardown to jpeg.

[-] Ozonowsky@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

what about recreating the image pixel by pixel from scratch?

[-] iamkindasomeone@feddit.org 12 points 3 weeks ago

Found the embedded systems engineer!

[-] JackRiddle@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago

Neutral eldritch

[-] Klear@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

You'd first have to destroy and re-create the universe. So probably evil.

[-] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

I was expecting to see a hex-editor or something as one of the options.

[-] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 11 points 3 weeks ago

Where is "changing the file type extension" in the name?

[-] Australis13@fedia.io 9 points 3 weeks ago

That has to be Chaotic Evil.

[-] somenonewho@feddit.org 3 points 3 weeks ago

You know who used to do that? Microsoft Teams. I would take photos with my phone and upload them via Teams, Teams would display them just fine but saving them teams would name them .png (even though they were jpeg) and I couldn't open them with the gnome image viewer (this is also how I found out that the image viewer prioritizes extension over magic byte (which seems stupid to me).

[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

that would be renaming the file extension but keeping the same format opening it up in an app that breaks it totally, then saving that and sharing it with a Windows user and spending an hour with them trying to make it work because they have to see it!!!!!

[-] Natanael@infosec.pub 3 points 3 weeks ago

You'll quickly learn which software trusts extensions and which uses MIME type detection

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

That's not on the chart because it doesn't convert it. It only renames it. A JPEG ending with .png is still a JPEG

[-] x00z@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

That's what the mimetype cult wants you to believe.

[-] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

One could argue that they have converted it, but it was done poorly.

In a similar sense, the screenshots and phone photos are not conversions. They are entirely new images.

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I would say that's not comparable. One process (screenshotting or taking a photo as PNG) results in a PNG as the output. The other process results in an image of the same format as the output. I guess at best you could make a philosophical argument as to what is ontologically a PNG: is it something that ends in .png, or is it a file that follows the PNG format? I think most people would say the latter, so if we say the definition of something is just a description of how it's used, then the former process results in a PNG and the latter process does not.

Also, how is screenshotting an "entirely new image" in a way that e.g. putting it into GIMP and exporting to PNG isn't? That's doing the same thing. You know there isn't some "canonical" JPEG to PNG algorithm, right?

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 10 points 3 weeks ago

Where does "just change the extension to .png" fit in this chart?

[-] TechieDamien@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago
[-] AnotherPenguin@programming.dev 8 points 3 weeks ago

Rename file extension to .png

[-] yesman@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Works every time for *.webp .

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Why is ffmpeg Chaotic? I use it for video edits sometimes, too. Like if you need to stack videos in rows and columns, FFMPEG is my go-to.

[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 3 weeks ago

Using the video tool for a single still image is a bit chaotic, but it's still a tool made for the job so it's good. Chaotic Good. Makes sense to me.

[-] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

It's a hugely powerful tool.

However, as we all know, some people treat the terminal as if it is the very inky blackness, in which, writhes the tentacles of C'thulu itself.

[-] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

What's always missing is nomacs - the best image viewing and light editing toolkit app on linux.

Nobody ever mentions it. Why is that? Why? It supports all the formats. It has the best slideshow options. The UI is as minimal or as informative as you set it to be. WHYYYYYY DOES NOBODY TALK ABOUT IT??? Who paid you to be silenced?

(and yes, it can convert the formats)


https://nomacs.org/

https://github.com/nomacs/nomacs

[-] Metz@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

I used it for a long time years ago and it is indeed very great. But its only maintainer stopped around 2021/2022 because he got a new job or something along that line. As far i see he partially returned later but is still looking for more contributors. so the future of the project is not really secure. e.g. see https://github.com/nomacs/nomacs/issues/987

So more eyes on Nomacs would be indeed good.

[-] Kanda@reddthat.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

It's so crazy to me that guy was unemployed and is spending his days making a high quality software product for free

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[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago

This sounds pretty sweet and it's indeed the first time I've ever heard about it so... keep spreading that word brother???

[-] not3ottersinacoat@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Mint has an "Action" for that, what does that make me?

[-] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

Damn, that's really handy. I would kill for Dolphin to have this.

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[-] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 2 points 3 weeks ago

actually lawful good, imagemagick and ffmpeg barely do anything different in this case, and the python script uses imagemagick if I know PIL right

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

the "shitty website" box is also likely just ImageMagick too

[-] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 1 points 3 weeks ago

i guess it fits the 'lawful' part then

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[-] will_a113@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

What’s it called if you’ve done all of these?

[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Never asked chatgpt, or the camera.

But otherwise, yahtzee.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

oathbreaker

[-] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

split personality

[-] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

I use imagemagick, but the commands changed recently and I don't use it often enough to remember the new ones.

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[-] Sat@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

Now I'm curious if the chatgpt way works

[-] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

With how reliable and useless AI is, it would probably just rename the file with .png on the end.

[-] Limonene@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I assume bash scripts using jpegtopnm | pnmtopng are also in the neutral good category (from Netpbm).

[-] Australis13@fedia.io 1 points 3 weeks ago

It's missing the "take a screenshot on your mobile phone" (which drives me nuts when people do this instead of sending me the link or the original photo).

[-] Deebster@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Look at bottom centre

Edit: I'm getting upvotes but I'm not technically in the right here...

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