An image is checked before it is decoded

An upload went straight to libvips: whatever loader recognised the bytes ran (an SVG sent as image/png was rasterised),
nothing bounded how many pixels it would decode to (a small PNG could decode to gigabytes, three times over), a GIF
was loaded frame by frame and never resized, and all of it ran inside the request with nothing limiting how many at
once. A GIF was typed gifv but stayed a .gif, which a gifv player can't play; its metadata was kept; colours lost
their ICC profile without being converted; HEIC was advertised but the bundled libvips can't decode it.

Now:
- only libvips' JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP and HEIF loaders ever run on an upload (every other loader is blocked);
- the header alone says how big an image would decode, refused above Media:MaxPixels (40 MP) or MaxFrames;
- a still image is shrunk on load, turned by its orientation and brought into sRGB (thumbnail), then written without
  metadata, a profile picture the same way;
- an animated GIF becomes a looping silent H.264 mp4 typed gifv, as on Mastodon (PostMedia.Kind keeps it a gifv),
  and a remote GIF is an image;
- processing runs Media:Concurrency at a time, and uploads have their own rate limit per credential;
- HEIC and HEIF are no longer offered.

Tests: only the upload formats load, the header tells the size, an SVG posing as a PNG and an image too large are
refused before decoding, an animated GIF becomes a gifv and a still one an image, HEIC isn't advertised. The media
scenarios against the pasture (GoToSocial, Mastodon, Misskey, Akkoma, Pixelfed, Smithereen, Vernissage, Castopod,
PeerTube) pass: 329 checks.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LsXgEaXee4GCU1hwYgPJXw
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@@ -650,9 +650,9 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Api.Mastodon.Mappers
MediaAttachment Media(PostMedia media) => new()
{
Id = media.AttachmentId ?? media.Id.ToString("N"),
Type = media.ContentType switch
// a GIF is a gifv only once it is an mp4 (ours): a GIF itself is an image, which a gifv player can't play
Type = media.Kind == "gifv" ? "gifv" : media.ContentType switch
{
{ } type when type.StartsWith("image/gif") => "gifv",
{ } type when type.StartsWith("image/") => "image",
{ } type when type.StartsWith("video/") => "video",
{ } type when type.StartsWith("audio/") => "audio",