As is your right. :) That being said, webp will discard user data by throwing out the higher bitdepth information they upload to Bluesky, whereas the other formats will not. Those users will only notice that their photos look washed-out and dark on Bluesky, whereas they look fine on other platforms.
If Bluesky wants to support #HDR images, as produced by many modern smart phones, webp is not capable. Ultra JPG (jpg + gainmap), AVIF (high bitdepth or gainmap, second broadest browser support after UltraJPG) or JPEG XL all do support HDR.
Tonight I managed to create a gainmap-style (SDR+HDR) #avif using the latest git version of libavif, converting from an UltraJPG (jpg with gainmap) using avifgainmaputil. Conclusion: No browser support! At least high bitdepth #avif is supported by all browsers except #firefox.
See blog.yuo.be/2025/05/08/p... for similar experimental results with Firefox.
I still think #AVIF is the way to go for web-friendly HDR images! FF will eventually catch up.
Looks like Firefox support for higher than 8 bit depth AVIF & higher bit-depth images in general are on the TODO list.
Implement support for AV1 Still Image File Format (AVIF): bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi...
AVIF support for 10-bit or 12-bit channels: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi...
... It seems that #bluesky converted the attached avif to jpeg, so you won't be able to see the difference.
Source AVIF (converted with #graphicconverter 12) is at: cpbotha.net/2026/02/07/t...
Alternative #AVIF, converted using AOM's official avifenc: cpbotha.net/2026/02/07/t...
Sunset over the sea at Betty's Bay, South Africa
All the #Chrome family browsers as well as #Safari render the attached #HDR #AVIF image correctly on my 16" M1 MacBook display. #Firefox 147 over-saturates / washes out the colours, also 16bit #PNG ver. gfx.color_management.mode=1 & restarting does not help. Source #blog cpbotha.net/2026/02/07/t...
Screenshot of the vertical tabs flag in chrome://flags
Vertical tabs now also available in the #Chrome Beta (146.0.7680.0)
Here is my highly personal yearly year-transition #blog post, later than usual and also a lot more disjointed than I would have liked: cpbotha.net/2026/02/07/t...
#reading #writing #running #exercise #biology #metabolism
New AVIF 1.2 standard with sample transforms for higher bitdepths + guidance on gainmaps for backwards compatible HDR: aomedia.org/blog%20posts...
(I have started experimenting with #AVIF on my personal #blog: cpbotha.net/2025/12/25/w... )
P.S. maybe I'm back on @bsky.app after 2 month break.
I took me a while to find a working solution to run #kitty terminal via the "Terminal" feature of #macOS #alfred, so I published it on my #til site. The focus of the effort was actually #zoxide directory jumping from #Alfred, which you might also find helpful:
charlbotha.com/til/zoxide-a...
Thinking about what it must’ve been like to be a fan of Trent Reznor’s new wave bands and then suddenly he comes out with Head Like a Hole and it sounds nothing like this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWcc...
![Comic. [Two people on shore looking at body of water] PERSON 1: Hey, where’s that big island we were looking at this morning? PERSON 2 with short hair: Oh, it’s underwater. The ocean’s depth here goes up and down by like ten feet every day. PERSON 1: What? PERSON 2: It’s because the planet has a big moon orbiting near the surface. It causes weird gravity effects. PERSON 1: *What???* [caption] People here are used to them, but tides are one of the weirdest and most sci-fi elements of life on Earth.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreidj2tdqhkgoamiqf5reqt7kvbpt26x3cgjxsp4rtwwb46qumcltdq)
Comic. [Two people on shore looking at body of water] PERSON 1: Hey, where’s that big island we were looking at this morning? PERSON 2 with short hair: Oh, it’s underwater. The ocean’s depth here goes up and down by like ten feet every day. PERSON 1: What? PERSON 2: It’s because the planet has a big moon orbiting near the surface. It causes weird gravity effects. PERSON 1: *What???* [caption] People here are used to them, but tides are one of the weirdest and most sci-fi elements of life on Earth.
Sea Level
xkcd.com/3135/
"bitchat location chat. chat with anyone in nearby regions (block/neighborhood/city/region/country). or teleport.
it works by using geohashes to map the world into chat channels, uses a new pseudonym per geohash for privacy, and decentralized relays to propagate (via nostr)."
x.com/jack/status/...
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Marcel Proust
(via Waking Up)
youtube.com/watch?v=-bYp... first few minutes are an entertaining yet informative summary of #Google 's pixel 10 updates
screenshot of kitty terminal using the solarized light theme, showing example lsd output, as well as the config file tweaks required to render readably in a light theme.
I'm using lsd [1] as drop-in replacement for #ls instead of exa [2], as lsd is closer and I can use the same invocations.
The screenshot below shows example output, plus the small config tweaks required to render readably in a light theme.
[1] github.com/lsd-rs/lsd
[2] github.com/ogham/exa
“It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.” — Ram Dass (shared by Waking Up)
#iPhone keeps on resetting bluetooth hardware #keyboard layout to #Qwerty, although I have only #Dvorak configured.
Work-around is to cycle through keyboards with ctrl-space on the hardware keyboard which usually gets it back to #dvorak.
A former colleague of mine managed to ship an epic looking and especially sounding heavy metal game on Steam. Releasing tomorrow, get it while it's HOT:
store.steampowered.com/app/2221780/...
P.S. HEAVY METAL
vec3 p;for(float i,z,d,b;i++<6e1;o+=vec4(1,5,2,0)/b-(dFdx(z)*r.y-z)/exp(d/.1))p=z*(FC.rgb*2.-r.xyy)/r.y-1.,p.z+=8.,z+=min(b=length(abs(p*=.1*mat3(9,0,3,0,9,2,-7,-2,8)).xy+min(.4*p.z-2.6,0.))/(cos(d/.1-t)+2.),d=max(d=length(p)-5.,d-length(p.xy)+1.-cos(d/.1)*.1))*.5;o=tanh(o/4e3);
Setting up #Huawei Band 10 for the 9yo. Great little smart watch BUT: 1. Huawei app on iOS disallows pasting into password fields (Argh) and 2. Child account can't pair with watch (so why support a child account in the first place?!)
Vegetable oil blend with 10% olives that misleadingly looks like olive oil
Misleading packaging (partner bought because at a glance looks like extra virgin olive oil) by Checkers here in South Africa, normally quite good.
"Vegetable oils (canola seed and/or maize and/or sunflower seed andor soybean" and olive fruit (10 %))."
Blue sky beautiful clouds reflecting on water layer on beach
Usually I let my experiencing self drive during #running but this scene was so epic that narrative self briefly took the wheel to take a photo before I could stuff him back in his box
The image is a piece of fan art titled "Klimt Eastwood," created by Carl Tétreault in 2016. It depicts actor and director Clint Eastwood in a style inspired by the Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt, specifically referencing Klimt's "The Kiss".
Please enjoy this Klimt Eastwood
Remember to double check... I have been receiving a bunch of phishing emails in German that were not really sent by netcup!
Official Superman poster highlighting new digital release date set for mid-August 2025, ahead of schedule by using the word 'preponed'
'Prepone' dates back to the early 1500s and originally meant “to place in front of, to set before.”
Now, it is primarily used in Indian English to mean the opposite of 'postpone.'
Dear @aptshadow.bsky.social - thank you for Alien Clay. I can't remember another book which made me feel this much. 50 million stars from an extremely grateful fan who is in awe. #booksky
