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   iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 07-Aug-2026 07:26:36 JST iced depresso
   somewhat surprised there isn't a "open this image" API. like just given a blob or a file handle, identify the type and size or get the pixels.
   
   this kind of thing DOES exist but its usually through some asinine route like gstreamer pipelines
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 07-Aug-2026 08:01:27 JST iced depresso

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     @s8n yes people have done it. it's also one of the most obvious things to just be part of the desktop apis.
     
     (amigaos did something like this, even.)
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     THOT POLICE (s8n@posting.lolicon.rocks)'s status on Friday, 07-Aug-2026 08:01:28 JST THOT POLICE

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     @icedquinn canvas is the open this image api for javascript. OpenCV will do it in python straight to a numpy array. I assume there are tens of thousands of other libraries that can convert images of many formats into pixel arrays