🚨 New record low (due to its low winter ice) - As we are moving into the freeze season now, it's the end of another year on my accumulation graph of total sea ice extent anomalies (i.e. newly open water relative to the 1981-2010 average)...
I’ve been having video conversations over Signal with people from Gaza who have Mastodon accounts on the fediverse in an effort to vouch for their authenticity.
This week, I whipped up a site to formalise this and to enable them to add a verified link to their Mastodon bios. Hopefully this will cut down on the amount of time they need to spend proving that their accounts genuinely belong to a person suffering through genocide and famine in Gaza and help them with their fundraisers.
I’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and I verify that their accounts are genuine. – Aral Balkan
are you familiar with the @tech4palestine set up by @paulbiggar ? What youre doing is something they would certainly appreciate and maybe even help support.
Also look up UpScrolled. An instagram alternative they’ve build to help Palestine. It’s really quite impressive 🍉🇵🇸
I’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and I verify that their accounts are genuine. – Aral Balkan
Thank you for this excellent work. I want to help but struggle with verifying which are genuine accounts and which are scammers. This gives me reassurance.
I'm so proud of you. Thank you for saving our struggling from being exploited by scammers. And thank you for making it easier for our generous donors. 💗💗 #FreePalestine
Apparently accounts have already started being created to pretend to be verified. Users unfamiliar with the link verification system might end up not realizing that the link needs to be green with a checkmark. Here's an example: techhub.social/@m7moodfamily10…
@Kiloku@burnthis.town
We live in constant fear as bombs explode nearby 💣. Children cannot sleep and cry from hunger 😢. Our future feels lost, but your help can save us. Please donate if you can 🤲.
https://www.gofundme.
@Kiloku I'm getting "You don't have permission to view this page" when I click on that link, so I'm not quite clear whether it was an example of a fake verified account or a genuine verified account.
Folks, just a quick heads up: I’m in touch over Signal with Mahmoud from the “Help Mahmoud Family” accounts you might have seen contacting you.
Like you, I was hugely suspicious of them due to the many accounts and automated spam-like messages (I also reported and had one of them taken down as a scam).
It’s looking to me now like this was more of a misguided (and understandably, given the circumstances) desperate attempt to get help.
I ask that we keep an open mind and offer Mahmoud and his family the benefit of the doubt.
Here are the steps we’ll be taking with Mahmoud going forward to try and fix this and give him a proper introduction to Mastodon and the fediverse and hopefully rebuild trust:
1. Joy and I will meet Mahmoud for a video chat next week.
2. Once we’re happy, I will contact a friend who runs a Mastodon server to ask that Mahmoud is allowed to set up his one (and only Mastodon account there). This way, we will also know that the account will be safe in the future.
3. Mahmoud has already agreed not to use automated messages in the future.
I will update you about the state of things next week, after our video conversation.
A much welcome initiative. Tying it to the Mastodon verification feature is an excellent move.
A little suggestion: the website just states "I verify that their accounts are genuine".
Could you make a more specific assertion of what that statement means, to you? At the moment, I could think of all, or some of the following:
Verified there is a person that looks like the avatar
Verified that the person lives in Gaza
Verified that the persons mentioned in their fundraiser stories exist
Verified that the facts in the fundraiser stories are correct. (This is just an example. I believe that verification may easily transgress into the territory of humiliation, when taken to far.)
So what does "Gaza Verified" specifically mean, from your perspective?
I've received follow requests from accounts asking for donations and had put them on standby until i could verify them, some have been deleted in the meanwhile (scams i guess), but two remain, one you already mentioned and have approved and will donate as soon as possible (Nouran), but another one is not on the list, \@lolorenad, who last posted on August 29 and seems real
@jherazob @lolorenad Thanks so much for the heads up, Jaime. I’ve contacted Lolo to try and set up a time to have a quick video chat so we can hopefully add them to Gaza Verified :)
You could design a certification program around this using verifiable credentials (w3.org/TR/vc-data-model-2.0/) that would allow you to give them something you've signed and contains stuff like maybe a link to an interview video or something that they can display as an emote or something--probably best if the video is embedded in the cert in case you get shut down and there's no place to put it. Or put it in a torrent in p2p land.
@crazyeddie Thanks, appreciate the suggestion, but I’m not convinced it would add much real-world value at the moment given how niche it is. Trying to keep things simple :)
We cannot find the words to thank you enough for everything you do to support and help Palestinians 🙏🇵🇸. As a mother of three children, one of them with a disability, we suffer from hunger, displacement, and destruction every single day 💔.
Hi @shathamohammed123 I see you seem to have a new account, without verification I don't know if your account is legit. Aral abi created this service, feel free to let your account be verified and welcome to the fediverse :) 👍
A quick announcement that I’m very excited about: @joynewacc and I are going to run Gaza Verified together now and we’ll both be present during the video chats.
I’ll update the site as soon as I can to reflect this.
Thank you so much for volunteering to help in the middle of everything else, Joy. You’re amazing :)
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Explosions shake our homes while silence follows every scream we hear. Only your compassion today can save lives tomorrow. You can be the reason someone survives — click now 🙏💞
https://www.gofundme.
@elchorten Please consider the target audience: non-technical people in Gaza being shot at by tanks and soldiers, weak from famine. Do you think they have the time or nerves to fiddle around with Matrix?
@davidculley @elchorten Also if you know that Signal is somehow compromised, it is your duty to publicly disclose this with proof. Otherwise, please don’t spread FUD.
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@globcoco Sorry, that looks like one of the scam accounts. I believe it has already been removed.
Good way to check: has the person just joined (eg. Today) and do they already have lots of posts (eg. Over a hundred).
Variations of this account have been popping up on various servers yesterday/today and one even added a to link to gaza-verified.org to their account (of course it didn’t look verified).
I know Nouran uses ChatGPT for translations. I don’t know what they used for the videos they posted. But I do know I’ve chatted to her and her brother *live* over video on Signal.
@helmet91 And her older brother, Yousef, has an English Literature degree and was just recently asking me if I could help him find work. Does that sound like a scammer to you?
@helmet91 And her older brother, Yousef, has an English Literature degree and was just recently asking me if I could help him find work. Does that sound like a scammer to you?
Hey everyone, Yousef, @NouranKhaledGh’s brother in Gaza, is looking for remote work:
“Before the war, I was working as a copywriter in English and Arabic. I managed to get dozens of projects done successfully and I got a top-rated badge on Upwork.”
He wasn’t able to work during the war. In January, during the ceasefire, he was able to get short-term projects. He goes to a dedicated workplace every day even now, in the middle of an ongoing genocide, to have electricity and a working Internet connection to look for work but has been getting rejections on Upwork, likely because he’s based in Gaza.
“I just want to get back to work because I don’t want to lose everything in my life.”
@helmet91 These people are literally faced with genocide and famine and you’re out here acting like a dollar-store Sherlock Holmes.
I’ve told you several times now that I’ve had live video conversations over Signal with Nouran and her brother Yousef.
I don’t know what your problem is but what you’re doing by spreading this FUD is deplorable. I just saw that you wrote this blog post also: helmet91.com/post/how-not-to-g…
Congratulations, you are slandering people who are trying to survive genocide and famine.
Please think long and hard about what you’re doing here.
makes it so easy to donate to help people in Gaza. Aral verifies each account. I just donated a small amount to each of the accounts listed and it's easy. They are mostly gofundme or chuffed.org
I’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and I verify that their accounts are genuine. – Aral Balkan
@chris Thank you so much for your support. And I couldn’t do it without @joynewacc; we hold the video chats together, her from Gaza, me from Ireland :)
congrats! Their definition isn’t quite the same as you coined it, since it’s not just users that things get worse for, but it’s concise and close enough to how people have been using it.
Enshittification is an informal word used to criticize the degradation in the quality and experience of online platforms over time, due to an increase in advertisements, costs, or features.
Enshittification is an informal word used to criticize the degradation in the quality and experience of online platforms over time, due to an increase in advertisements, costs, or features.
I'm currently listening to episode 500 of your podcast containing an excerpt from #Enshittification the audio book.
At the beginning you not only quoted Ed Zitron, you actually had him say: "I'll never forgive them for what they've done to the computer." I thought that was super cool.
It made me think the audio book would be even better with more people voicing their own quotes, like having @tveastman actually say "I'm old enough to remember when the Internet wasn't a group of five websites, each consisting of screenshots of text from the other four."
I don't know if he'd be interested, and I don't know if it's possible at this stage, but IMO it would really enhance the audio book experience to do that.
@Fledglingnerd I made this slide in my talk at Everything Open in January mostly ‘coz it amused me but also ‘coz we sometimes have young folk in the audience… 💁♀️
(yes, I read it out as “en-poop-ocene”, “en-poop-ening”, etc. 🙃)
Nice, but is Enshittification restricted to digital platforms? For example: Isn't the way products like smartphones, kitchen appliances, even cars, or train locomotives, become less and less repairable an enshittification, too?
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On this day in 1939, Nazi SS agents took over a Polish radio station and broadcasted counterfeit anti-German sentiments damninteresting.com/the-man-wh…
In August of 1939, German forces were amassing along the Polish border in preparation to invade. Europe was still haunted by memories of the brutality of
Minifree sells Libreboot computers to fund development of Libreboot; I'm Libreboot's founder and lead developer.
#libreboot is a free software project, replacing the proprietary BIOS/UEFI firmware on supported computers. It offers many security and performance benefits compared to most proprietary firmware, and it's highly configurable.
Your choice of Debian Linux, other distro or BSD.
tl;dr I sell Libreboot, and Libreboot accessories.
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this is really cool! ive been looking to get a linux-based computer for awhile and this might be one option ill consider! i was wondering if the price would be on the cheaper end of the computer pricing, but if not thats totally reasonable aswell!
L14 Gen 2 is not possible unless another method of bypassing bootguard is found. All ThinkPads newer than Haswell (and all Haswell ThinkPads without socketed CPUs, so including T440/X240 but not T440p/W541) have bootguard, which makes porting coreboot impossible, with one exception: on MEv11 systems (which are vulnerable to CVE-2017-5705), bootguard can be bypassed with deguard. This includes Skylake (6th gen), Kaby Lake (7th gen), and Kaby Lake Refresh (some mobile 8th gen) systems, so T460/T470/T480 generation.
Hallo. I have sent two e-mails on 23 and 27 sept to info@minifree.org but didn't get a response. I would like to purchase one of your products. my e-mail is raffaellougo@tiscali.it Thank you raffaello
Our oceans are warming. Here is a look at the globally averaged sea surface temperature over the last three months relative to each May-June-July period since 1854.
The Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature (ERSST) dataset is a global monthly analysis of SST data derived from the International Comprehensive Ocean–Atmosphere Dataset (ICOADS).
just when new results are updating the likelihood of AMOC shutdown, and showing how important it is to understand the dynamics of currents and heat exchange in the Arctic...
Something about two guys who are ship wrecked on a remote island, with nothing but a hat. To pass the time, they trade the hat back and forth. When they are finally rescued, both are millionaires...
@nyrath @kentenmakto Yes and yes. It was basically a racist joke about that some "people" (often Asian) could sell each other rocks in the desert and make a profit.
@ranmatoranma No worries: AI generated an earlier report pointing out the (non?) problem...perhaps based upon an even earlier AI generated accounting sheet.
In the late 1980s, our team was pressured to implement some "vitally important functionality" report that some person was spending FULL TIME producing. We were being forced to, so we went to every person who received the report, to determine their real business needs.
NOT A SINGLE PERSON EVER USED THE REPORT!
Not at all. Not once. Not ever.
It was 100% filed, ignored, and then later discarded.
Doesn't surprise me. A few years ago, I read a book titled Bullshit Jobs by an anthropologist who found, during a freak survey, that anywhere from thirty to forty percent of all people held jobs they honestly believed contributed nothing to society. A lot of these are professional-managerial positions that produce exactly those kinds of reports, and exist mostly to make upper management feel important.
I've had family members tell me they felt like they spent more time filling out paperwork about their work than actually working, that they felt useless when promoted to management because the team already knew what they were doing, and a friend of mine who went on to read the book claimed it explained so much of what went on at his tech workplace.
In my experience, it's revelatory. It's not a doom-and-gloom book bemoaning the evils of modern society. The author takes a very constructive approach to his subject matter and is among the most optimistic I've seen.
I'd love to respond to this, but since the article is behind a paywall, I'm afraid I really do have to judge a book by its cover. Can you give me a summary?
I'm not sure I even see a response in those highlights. He basically handwaves away Graeber's entire argument. In no way does he demonstrate how the sorts of jobs Graeber describes are not bullshit, how public/private partnerships end up creating more positions and bureaucracy instead of less (a major point of evidence—if it's more efficient, why all the red tape?), or provides a convincing alternative explanation for why so many people (a metric ton of people responded to his survey) think their jobs are useless, or explain how rising productivity has actually compelled us to work just as much, if not more, than we used to but for less.
Meanwhile, here's a practical example in Graeber's support: when I was doing political activism for single-payer healthcare a few years back, an opponent of the bill my org supported wrote an article complaining that a Medicare-for-All style program would be *too* efficient. That would eliminate a ton of bureaucratic positions, obviously, but also reduce demand for imaging equipment and such that would be rendered unnecessary by reduce
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I'm not sure I even see a response in those highlights. He basically handwaves away Graeber's entire argument. In no way does he demonstrate how the sorts of jobs Graeber describes are not bullshit, how public/private partnerships end up creating more positions and bureaucracy instead of less (a major point of evidence—if it's more efficient, why all the red tape?), or provides a convincing alternative explanation for why so many people (a metric ton of people responded to his survey) think their jobs are useless, or explain how rising productivity has actually compelled us to work just as much, if not more, than we used to but for less.
Meanwhile, here's a practical example in Graeber's support: when I was doing political activism for single-payer healthcare a few years back, an opponent of the bill my org supported wrote an article complaining that a Medicare-for-All style program would be *too* efficient. That would eliminate a ton of bureaucratic positions, obviously, but also reduce demand for imaging equipment and such that would be rendered unnecessary by reduced specialist demand. We had to maintain the current system, according to the writers, so that those people could keep there jobs.
If people would be just as healthy, if not healthier, under a single-payer system, but the economy would shed jobs due to its efficiency, those jobs are bullshit jobs. The extra time and energy spent on selling medical imaging equipment would be in bullshit jobs because that level of demand can only be maintained by keeping people sicker than they ought to be. The workers making those products, as well as delivering that extra specialist care, would serve as "duct-tapers," according to Graeber's typology. Meanwhile, if increasing access reduces the number of bureaucrats, then those positions were, in fact, pure bullshit jobs, because obviously their task wasn't to provide healthcare, but to *prevent* people from obtaining it. How can a job be more ridiculous than that?
If the author wanted to mount a serious critique, he would've done well to address the question of whether or not Graeber's estimates, in the realm to 30-40%, were too aggressive. But doing so would require engaging with his argument seriously, and bringing the empirical rigor they claim Graeber lacked. Sadly, the author was neither committed enough to science to compel nor enough to comedy to amuse.
@lautreg J'ai bien ma petite idée pour une suite, dommage que le "Cookie Monster" ne soit pas libre de droit 😆 Va peut-être falloir que j'en invente un dérivé.
@jargoggles Oh oh, "dark pattern" in a fantasy shop. I like it! Can I borrow you the idea against a credit? No promise, but I would like to note it somewhere ☺️
you buy a long sword. In the darker corner a tired mage looks up and snaps his fingers. Now you see ads for long swords everywhere you go. The serving platter at the inn. The bottom of your mug. Even the gate to leave town is begging you to buy a new long sword.
You find a wizard to remove the ad curse. He'll offer you a discount if you put his business contact info on the back of your armor. You sigh and take the deal.
Indeed, it’s true that not all cookies are advisable to eat: take Cookie AutoDelete to ensure that the bad ones pass through your system quickly without causing too much harm 😉
Nice, however we care for here, how will she get out of this ambush ?
.... In a next board, after realizing she’s been mischievely tracked, "Mmhhh, let’s look at these Cookie Quick Manager and Cookie Auto-Delete pieces of gear I found last time... How does it work exactly ?
(tries to get the stuff working) Puf ! Aww’, here it goes ^^"
Si seulement il n'y avait que les cookies Si seulement le concept de par feu et de ne pas exécuter des programmes automatiquement dans les navigateurs furent éviter. browserleaks.com/
@mangeurdenuage Je conaissais pas le fingerprint basé sur les polices d'écriture installé, qu'on peut testé sur le lien que tu as transmis. Flippant celui là, surtout pour les graphistes avec une collection de font de travail toujours unique et identique. Je ne savais pas qu'une page web pouvait siphonner cette liste. 😱
in this world kindness is turned into WEAKNESS. Feed one, you’ll find yourself feeding all. Gotta always keep your head high and stand your ground. Nobody can take nothing from you 👍
The NOAA Merged Land Ocean Global Surface Temperature Analysis (NOAAGlobalTemp, formerly known as MLOST) combines long-term sea surface (water) temperature (SST) and land surface (air) temperature datasets to create a complete, accurate depiction of …
I feel very big urge to act to this, but I read and its makes me angry and anxious . I would like to see there I can participate and support this nonsense. Because we want conscious people, not just acting to their emotions . If you have listen, the respond message give a proof that you did listen
A huge THANK YOU to everyone who contributed in any way - from testing and submitting bug reports through to designing, coding, fixing, packaging, testing some more, translating, documenting, hosting, administration, so many people, so much work, so much to be thankful for!
GIMP is produced by volunteers. If you want specific features, yes, please file issues. If you want to be on the design team join the design team. But without code being written by volunteers, there won’t be changes. Vague suggestions like “modern editing tools” are hard to implement.
@Scott_Trakker@mastodon.world @GIMP@floss.social
Go way dude. You're the one that showed up in my mentions to complain that someone doesn't appreciate trash.
You're not king of the internet, bro.
Go away.
I love what you’ve done with the app, this seems like a significant upgrade, but *please* consider renaming it to something that isn’t also a slur. Surely it’s not worth the constant hassle and having your team’s literal decades of hard work disregarded and belittled because you are stubborn about it being OK to be just a *little* bit bigoted.
@reflex it has not been ruled out for the future. It’s actually a lot more work than it sounds - e.g. could affect the plug-in API, as well as docs, translations, and the entire codebase.
@supertobi @mxjaygrant yeah I know all that. But the thing is, the more I grow away from my nerdy teenage self, I understand it less and less. The "coincidence" while finding an acronym is just incomprehensible. It might have been "funny" back then, but now it isn't any more. The FAQ reads like the project didn't grow up which is sad because the program is great and the new people involved are as well. So I wonder why keep that cruft.
@piratenpanda @mxjaygrant Remember, renaming costs money and is a lot of work that the team might prefer to invest in the product. Should gimp be renamed? Probably. Do I want to take on the work and the costs? Definitely not.
@supertobi @piratenpanda @mxjaygrant They aren't open to changing the name. If they were and actually said we want to but we need to do such and such and it costs money they would actually get support to help. Right now they are just being obtuse.
A few years back, someone forked GIMP into Glimpse because the term “GIMP” was offensive in a way.
Not just limited to the name, but the fork also aimed to do better than what GIMP offered, with a potential to introduce an easier user interface and …
Congratulations on the release. It's amazing the history GIMP has now. Almost 30 years old, and I heard from Jill on the Destination Linux podcast ( @Jill_linuxgirl ) that it was even used for movie production in the early days, the 2000 movie "The Perfect Storm" to be precise, but it has come such a long way since then.
@jonathankoren Yes, but at least you'll get some funding for development out of it. Maybe even some insight into what features paid users are missing. Right now, complaining is free without much benefit - instead you have to put in time and effort to reply.
@opensourceopenmind @jonathankoren Thanks! We do have patreon links for some of the developers, and people do donate. Development direction is partly what interests the volunteers (since they are volunteers!) and partly informed by the thousands of requests and issues we get on gitlab and elsewhere.
@Toastface @supertobi @giggls @scy Would anybody be interested in a rebranding fork? We leave everything as it us, but change the logo, name, which means making a new repo, doing some changes to the website contents, registering a new url, and then advertise in thr community why the change.
@fallbackerik @Toastface @supertobi @giggls @scy and also change the plug-in API, rewrite 10,000+ plug-ins and scripts, courses, documentation, 70+ language translations, find hosting for > 100K downloads/day...
Changing the name is a possibility for the future; for now we have what we have. A hostile fork is always possible, but you do need a team of developers.
I understand the scope of work and don't expect miracles. Perhaps rewording your FAQ would make it seem a little less hostile to the idea that the name might be inappropriate.
big congrats for this awesome milestone. I've been using GIMP for a lot of years and I could not live without it now. I'm very exciting for the new version and I wanted to thank you all these efforts.
@rawrmonstar @CmykStudent @supertobi @piratenpanda @mxjaygrant@triangletoot. Thanks.. It’s on the agenda to discuss, which would include the practicalities. As the individual (@barefootliam) responding in this message, i’ll say ii hadn’t noticed that FAQ comment before today and will suggest changing it, if whoever wrote it isn’t too wedded to it. We have parts of the Web site going back almost 30 years!
Hooray! I don't know how long I've been using GIMP, but I think it was the one of the first image manipulation program I ever used ... and I am still using it.
thank you for the work! I made my first donation today. I use #GIMP I think as long as it exists on Linux. I hope my people take the opportunity to be reminded and make a donation today, too!
Hey GIMPS, thanks for that amazing Upgrade and many hours of hard work! i would like to ask very gently when gimp 3.0 will be available on linux mint; does anyone here know?
@thom @hiker We do not manage the packages in the various Linux distributions so we don't know when updates will be available. You should ask Linux Mint about it. 😄
@fallbackerik @Toastface @supertobi @giggls @scy "Rewrite 10,000+ plug-ins & scripts" is disingenuous, to start with. Nobody anywhere is asking you to make those changes right away - & indeed, probably most people wouldn't even perceive the most difficult changes. Admit it: You just don't want to change it.
@FeralRobots @fallbackerik @Toastface @supertobi @giggls @scy Personally i do want to see change. We don’t today have consensus in the team to make that change, so posting as GIMP_Official i can’t say what will happen yet, but we’ve agreed last yearto discuss it further. It’s more work than it might at first appear. I should have said, some things that would be affected include... rather than change... we wouldn't be rewriting all the scripts you're right, sorry.
@Mgfp @carl the people who first made GIMP were entirely unaware that the word had connotations beyond being the name of a character in a film. Some of the current developers also have no experience of this - with English not their first language.
@jonathankoren They spent thousands of hours on this release and this is were you come up with? Your comment is very disrespectful. Please visit some other parts of the internet.
That is assuming, that you really want to remove the word from everything. It'd be way easier to only adjust the branding, while keeping the API stable, right?
A patch for optimizing GIMP 3.0+ for Adobe Photoshop users, including features like:
Tool organization to mimic the position of Adobe Photoshop;
New Splash Screen
New default settings to maximize ...
I never knew you cared. This is not a joke? Better get the gimp.
I use Linux because it generally does what I do every day. There are a few ok programs out there like gimp, blender, and kdenlive. I mean they get the job done mostly without me having to reboot. Really I had a lot of pirate software and I could not open the gateway for them to report home in Windows is what brought me to Linux. (sorry I thought I was responding to Tom Ellard aka Lard Motel)
Thank you for all the hard work! I've been using GIMP for a while.
(Sorry about all the angry replies, I wish they'd be civil about how they disagree! Change the "offensive" name if you want, but keep up the good work with the actual software! ❤)
have you considered dropping "Program" from the name? It's implicit that's a program and then the acronym would not be a bad word anymore (I think, English is not my first language).
@fallbackerik @FeralRobots @Toastface @supertobi @giggls @scy not right now, sorry. It would likely be considerably more than a single pull request, involving legal contracts, moving the Web site and all the bugs, and a lot more. This is not to say it should not be done, but if you heard about the GIMP 3 release you'd presumably also hear about a name change. Thanks for asking!
awesome. thank you for the new version. great job with it. i will need a computer with a bigger screen to run it like i would like. because the side toolbars are getting too fat and cannot be reduced further. now i'm working with one toolbar which has tool options, layers, brushes, paths etc. also have to modify a few of my "scm" scripts. but don't mind my griping. again great job!
I've built GIMP-3 from source. It's nice. My #Linux distro will keep GIMP-2 and feature GIMP-3 as well. I'll comment that, for me, two features are missing from GIMP-3:
SVG support requires Rust now. Rust is a huge dependency to need to add just to get SVG. Additionally, Rust isn't available for some distros and/or architectures. So, for me, GIMP-3 will need to omit SVG. I think that some other distros will make the same decision.
The Create Logo command is gone as well.
Comment to @GIMP : It shouldn't be difficult for "file-svg.c" to support the 'C' version of librsvg. In fact, the code is already there in an "#else" block. It looks like relatively minor changes are needed. However, I haven't been able to make it work yet.
On the other hand, Resynthesizer and #GMIC both build and work. The base GIMP-3 filter
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I've built GIMP-3 from source. It's nice. My #Linux distro will keep GIMP-2 and feature GIMP-3 as well. I'll comment that, for me, two features are missing from GIMP-3:
SVG support requires Rust now. Rust is a huge dependency to need to add just to get SVG. Additionally, Rust isn't available for some distros and/or architectures. So, for me, GIMP-3 will need to omit SVG. I think that some other distros will make the same decision.
The Create Logo command is gone as well.
Comment to @GIMP : It shouldn't be difficult for "file-svg.c" to support the 'C' version of librsvg. In fact, the code is already there in an "#else" block. It looks like relatively minor changes are needed. However, I haven't been able to make it work yet.
On the other hand, Resynthesizer and #GMIC both build and work. The base GIMP-3 filters plus those two add-ons are most of what I need.
Note to distro admins: To build Resynthesizer for GIMP-3 from source, you presently need to use the "resynthesizer3" git branch.
@gmic may be pleased to hear that GIMP 3.0.2 and GMIC 3.5.3 are confirmed to be simpatico. See the attached screenshot.
Note: The distro and desktop used here are my own 30-year-old project, Laclin. I'm as fond of it as the GIMP and GMIC teams are of their projects.
@oldcoder @gmic GIMP supports the C version of librsvg. We never bumped the minimum requirement on purpose so that it's still possible to build with the last version of librsvg (just before it started to use Rust).
In theory, yes. GIMP-3 builds with the 'C' version of librsvg. In practice, I observe an "unknown error" [ or similar wording ] when I use the resulting copy of GIMP-3 to open SVG files. If I'm able to learn something more specific, I'll report it.
@oldcoder @gmic yes, please feel free to file an issue with a test case.
For the old logo scripts (which probably no longer work), you can try tools / gegl filter, and choose GEGL Styles or Filters / Generic / Text styles (same thing) will get you a long way.
#gmic 3.6.0 is out. I thought I'd mention that the G'MIC speech bubble feature, which is new in 3.6.0, is confirmed to work in both #GIMP 2.10 and 3.0. This opens up new options for #webcomics creators.
Illustration: Use of G'MIC 3.6.0 speech bubble in GIMP 2.10.
just chiming in to share my support for this idea! A name change is a powerful way to let people know that you are taking a new approach to things. I can see a lot of people talking about this maybe for something like a 4.0 release (I know, we just got 3.0, but I'm thinking several years out).
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