v0.1.10 — desktop reads dark bars correctly

Full Changelog: v0.1.9...v0.1.10

v0.1.9 — swipe the feed, and the demo app says so

Full Changelog: v0.1.8...v0.1.9

v0.1.8 — core audit fixes + squared lightbox

Full Changelog: v0.1.7...v0.1.8

Mememage Provenance v0.1.7

Verified install: this release publishes SHA256SUMS.txt, and the one-line installers (install.sh / install.ps1) now verify the download by SHA-256 before running.

Binaries attach automatically once the build workflow finishes. App is functionally unchanged from v0.1.6.

Install: https://mememage.art/install

Mememage Provenance v0.1.6

Desktop rebuild. macOS, Windows, and Linux binaries attach automatically once the build workflow finishes.

What is new since v0.1.5:

• Dashboard, README, and glossary copy rewritten in Simplified Technical English (clearer instructions, tooltips, and error messages).
• Faster bar decoding (the core 0.1.7 performance work, now in a desktop build for the first time).

Install: https://mememage.art/install

Mememage Provenance v0.1.5

Robust HTTPS out of the box + UNSUPPORTED verify state.

• certifi HTTPS everywhere — minting, blasting to distribution surfaces, and record fetches now validate against Mozilla's current root bundle instead of the OS trust store. On a fresh or un-updated machine (Windows especially) a stale store made valid Let's Encrypt certs fail as "certificate has expired," blocking mint/fetch with no user-fixable path short of terminal surgery. Now it just works. Verification is never disabled — self-signed peers still opt in explicitly.
• UNSUPPORTED verdict — verifying a record whose hash_version is an application-defined model the core doesn't implement now reports UNSUPPORTED (not ALTERED). It fails closed but is not tamper evidence — verify it in the app that defines the version.

Unsigned per-platform desktop builds attach below. Install via https://mememage.art/install.

Mememage Provenance v0.1.4

Rebuilds the desktop apps against current code. The previous release (v0.1.3, July 6) predates everything below, so every download until now shipped July-6 code.

Decoder

• Half-size copies now decode. The bar's M/Y/C anchor bands shrink with the image; at 0.5× they hit 4px and JPEG chroma subsampling smears them past the strict colour cutoffs, so the decoder gave up before reading a single bit. A soft channel-ordering fallback recovers them. Strict predicates still run first, so pristine images are unaffected, and false anchors are rejected by the frame's magic bytes + CRC-16 + Reed-Solomon. Ported to both the Python decoder and the browser decoder (codec.js).
• Honest downscale envelope, measured on real images rather than synthetic ones: images ≥ ~1000px wide survive a resize to 0.8× plus one recompression (59/60 round-trips across three resamplers and JPEG q70–q80). Beyond that, nothing is promised — survival depends on the image, the resampler, and whether it was recompressed, and it is not monotone in scale.

Chain integrity

• chunk_state is a cache; the records are the truth. New site_pack reconcile rebuilds the star counter, decoder chunk index, and heart star by walking the chain from genesis and counting only records whose content hash verifies. site_pack status now reports drift out loud instead of printing a number it knows is false.
• Root cause of the drift it repairs: the test suite wrote into the operator's real chain (chains.CHAINS_ROOT is bound at import, so patching MEMEMAGE_ROOT alone still resolved to the live chain). Twelve hardcoded ~/.mememage/received paths now resolve through chains.received_dir(), and tests/conftest.py redirects both roots and fails the run if the real chain state changes.

Documentation

• Two claims retracted because the code doesn't support them: "below 0.5× nothing decodes at any size" (a lossless 0.35× copy decodes) and "a bare bar cannot be transplanted onto another image" (true only on textured content — flat, dark, bright, or noisy content decodes from the 2 data rows alone, with no reference row).
• AI-generated framing removed from published text. Zenodo depositions no longer describe the image as AI-generated, and the celestial certificate's docstring no longer implies it. Mememage is provenance for any image.

Downloads

Unsigned builds for macOS, Windows, and Linux attach below. Install via mememage.art/install, which sidesteps Gatekeeper/SmartScreen — a direct download needs a manual unblock.

Mememage Provenance v0.1.3

Light-chain images on the Internet Archive

Conceptions on light-energy chains now publish the full minted image to the Internet Archive alongside the soul record — so an image is publicly viewable and decodable straight from the Archive at archive.org/download/<id>/<id>.png.

• Gated on chain visibility: dark-matter chains never publish their image (IA items are permanent, so a sealed image would leak irreversibly). Light chains only.
• Non-fatal and additive: the soul record stays the primary artifact; an image-upload hiccup just logs and moves on. Nothing about verification changes.

Desktop binaries below carry the Polaroid icon and this change. Unsigned — see the install page for the one-liners that sidestep Gatekeeper/SmartScreen: https://mememage.art/install

Mememage Provenance v0.1.2

Maintenance release — refreshes the desktop app with the new Polaroid icon and the latest brand/UI changes.

What's new since v0.1.1

• New app icon (the Polaroid mark: a white card framing the image with the M/Y/C bar) across the desktop app + web favicon
• Latest decoder / validator / feed (Open Graph social cards, polish)
• Install page refinements

Same install as before: https://mememage.art/install

• macOS — Mememage-Provenance-macOS.zip
• Windows — Mememage-Provenance-Windows.exe
• Linux — Mememage-Provenance-Linux

macOS/Windows binaries are unsigned; the one-line installers at mememage.art/install open them cleanly.

Mememage Provenance v0.1.1

Maintenance release.

Fix: on the phone conception page, the per-surface Download soul buttons (archive.org, your mint host) failed with "Load failed." They fetched each surface's own URL cross-origin — archive.org sends no CORS headers, and a loopback/http push URL is mixed-content and unreachable from a phone. The soul is content-addressed (byte-identical wherever it landed), so downloads now pull the same-origin local copy (/api/mint/<token>/soul); the label still shows where it landed.

Desktop binaries below bundle the fix. Install: https://mememage.art/install