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allows an attacker to delete images uploaded by other users

this is a feature not a bug, depending on what cursed stuff the other users have been posting.

i jest, thanks for another update!

not such thing as getting the prompts right.

ai can’t write good code, and they will sooner or later need actual coders back.

i live somewhere with mandatory voting, and have looked into places with ranked choice. it doesnt do much.

the problem is capitalism and the rich’s interests being paid for instead of ours. not how the ballots are made or counted.

most countries that are not the US have more than 2 political parties.

both sides are literally fascist. one is just covert about it.

it doesn’t ultimately matter. i see neither a “user friendly” nor a “industry standard” UI on GIMP.

i’m also a sysdmin now, who sees the same tendencies as you just described, and have GIMP installed for an honest retry at 3.0. i have also studied UX as part of the formation i used to need photoshop for.

what it needs is for users and devs to stop being so stubborn about it and recognize its faults, and do like the Blender people did. its not good as it is, and people will keep wondering why everyone hates it until the status quo on it changes drastically.

its a shame because its very good software underneath the bad UX.

go after such a project. a lot of the bigger ones can very much use designers, and are sometimes actively looking for contributors. this type of manpower is rare to see in the foss world.

onboarding is sadly not that good most of the time, though.

i cant even sleep on my old bike, and i still have property tax to pay for it.

you could probably pull this off with a boat nowadays.

i’d chime in with a “havent you people ever heard of class consciousness”

its much better to face these kinds of things with a sense of poise and rationality.

malicious compliance, folks.

let the ai ruin their codebase, get paid to fix it again.

thats more a lack of people to do the things we need to be done problem, than some secret formula of how to make good UX.

LLMs won’t help here, we need an attitude shift away from excusing GIMP just because its FOSS, and the money/manpower to execute it.

if the good folks at Blender did it, we can do it too if we really wanted to.

thats a golden opportunity for some sweet malicious compliance.

let ai fuck their codebase then get paid for the long time you’d need to fix it. punish their money for being dumb, and do it by giving them exactly what they want.

their only ally is a country that plays both sides (and would most likely side with china if pressed)

this is hilarious.

i used to literally use it for work. its not just my own opinion, and its slightly supported.

of course the landscape could have changed in the meantime, but that was the consensus among professionals at the time. you couldn’t send your delivery with anything other than a .psd, and gimp must have that success if we are to use it in lieau of other foss tools like krita at least.

i want things to be better in that respect and i know gimp has the potential to disrupt the crappy status quo if it had a better ui.

thats sometimes peoples life savings. not that this makes me specially sad, but isn’t a lot of retirement schemes in the US tied to the stock market?

not everyone has good financial education, and not everyone can afford to lose so much money when they are currently living off it.

say what you will about adobe and you might be right, but photoshop was perfected over years for an efficient pro workflow, and the industry coalesced around how similar software works.

to the point GIMP is not an effective tool. I would excuse them for trying to make it actually “intuitive”, but as it stands, its neither “industry standard”, nor “good for everyone”.

this is my point. wanna come up with something better? please do, but its not close.

no, we want the tried and tested workflow that works well for pros to use.

take it as someone who used photoshop professionally in the past.

what do you mean? the empire keeping us down is dying.

our forced dependency on it will make for a rough while, then we are literally free to develop for the first time in maybe a century.

that is if the us doesnt start nuking everything out of spite.