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On March 12, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave his first press conference since the U.S. and Israel first attacked Iran. Some social media users doubted the authenticity of the video address, and led them to question whether Netanyahu was still alive.

In the image, Netanyahu is pointing with both hands, and social media users said his right hand appears to have six fingers.

But upon closer look at the video, Netanyahu’s hands looked normal. A trick of light likely made part of his palm appear to be an extra finger.

Gonna use this one at the bank. "It might initially look like I owe you guys $100.000, but upon closer look you will realise that is merely a trick of the light.

He gestured with his hands a lot and no irregularities appeared.

No irregularities appeared, which is why people observed irregularities.
His right hand (viewers left) does weird stuff and has artifacts the other hand doesn't a couple of times. From 5:28 in the briefing:

A video of Netanyahu’s press conference doesn’t prove he is dead. We rate this claim Pants on Fire!

They must hire people directly from reddit to write for them. This is the most basic bad-faith smuglord trick in the book. The claim isn't that the video proves he's dead, the claim is it looks like he has an extra finger, which it does.

Anyway you can also just watch the press briefing itself, if you want to harm yourself for some reason - youtube

cross-posted from: https://lemmus.org/post/20843056

Hacker News.

I'm kind of sick of being a dev. I hate AI with a passion.

I hate the hallucinations, I hate slop, I hate megacrops, I hate the environmental impacts, I hate the massive costs. I could go on but you get the picture.

At work I often times have to review vibe code slop from people who clock in 9 to 5 and don't give a fuck (I respect that, I just wish your fucking code wasn't slop)

I'm sick of it, I'm sick of hearing about AI tooling or new models or bro agentic actions bro based on your documentation bro.

I want to switch careers, so which career is not ruined by AI?

Oops I forgot to attach the image.

I assume we're not going to have elections this year because "bad people". But if we do have a real Congressional election, I would encourage you to vote for anything or anyone other than the MAGA Republican garbage.

I don't care if your a Green, Liberal, Anarchist, Satanist, Leftist, Libertarian or otherwise, the MAGA Republicans have shown their true colors. They read Bible verses from their positions of power, to military leaders. Important new trends are emerging all the same time. We live in a special moment in history.

And it is ultimately our responsibility to transform the whole thing into something silly. Love, Light and Language are our signatures and tools. Make TM proud. Make art.

Best of luck to everyone.

P.S. - We might disagree on choices but roughly 95% - 98% of us are on the same team. The other 2% - 5% are among the most dangerous humans who have ever lived. That's a fact.

We’re happy to present the first release of GIMP 3.2!

This marks a year of design, development, and testing from volunteers and our community.*

Here are some of the many highlights to look out for:

Link Layers

You can now use Link Layers to incorporate external image as part of your compositions, easily scaling, rotating, and transforming them without losing quality or sharpness. It functions similar to the “Linked Smart Object” concept from Photoshop. The Link Layer will automatically update if the external image is changed in another editor – for example, if you include a SVG logo as a Link Layer in GIMP, you can edit it in Inkscape and see the changes live in GIMP as well!

You can create a new Link Layer by choosing Open as Link Layer... in the File menu. You can change the image used at any time in the Layer Attributes dialog, which you can access by double-clicking the layer in the dock or by choosing Edit Layer Attributes... from the layer menu.

Vector Layers

The Path tool can now create Vector Layers, which lets you draw shapes with adjustable fill and stroke settings. The shape of the vector layer also automatically updates whenever you adjust the path, and you can non-destructively rotate, scale, and transform it too

PaintBrush improvements

The MyPaint Brush tool has been upgraded, adding 20 new brushes, including a much-requested arrow brush. It now automatically adjusts to your canvas zoom and rotation for more dynamic painting.

Better Text Editor

Our Text Editor has been the focus of several development projects to improve its usability and functionality. You can now drag the on-canvas text editor to move it out of the way when writing text. Several common shortcuts are now supported (such as Ctrl + B for bold, Ctrl + I for italics, and Shift + Ctrl + V for pasting unformatted text).

Non-Destructive Filter Updates

As well as working on new non-destructive layers (vector layers, link layers, and text layers), we’ve also been working on the non-destructive filters! You can now apply filters to channels non-destructively, in addition to layers and layer groups.

Overwrite Mode

A new Overwrite paint mode allows you to draw over existing colors without blending their transparency. It has many useful applications when working with pixel art

UX/UI improvements

This release includes a TON of small user interface and user experience improvements

New System color scheme

There is a new System color scheme for Default themes. If set, it will automatically update GIMP’s theme colors to match the current OS settings.

Automatic transparency

The Crop Tool and NDE filters now automatically add transparency to a layer when necessary, rather than requiring you to remember to do it manually.

Switch between tools easily

You can now quickly switch back and forth between your two most recent tools with the Shift + X shortcut

Welcome Dialog improvements

The Welcome Dialog has received improvements to help streamline user workflows.

It now recognizes the Ctrl + 0, 1, 2… 9 shortcuts for opening the most recent images.

It now recognizes your shortcuts to create a new image, or open an existing one (whether the respective default Ctrl + N or Ctrl + O, or your custom shortcuts)

It no longer appears if you intentionally open GIMP with an image

Flip images with your keyboard

The Flip and Shear Tools now respond to the arrow keys, similar to the Move and Rotate Tools.

Flip Tool: You can use the Left and Right arrows to flip the image horizontally, and the Up and Down arrows to flip it vertically.

Shear Tool: You can use the Left and Right arrows to shear your image horizontally, and the Up and Down arrows to do the same vertically. Like the Move tool, you can hold down Shift to shear with a larger value.

For Script and Plug-in Developers

GIMP 3.0 brought non-destructive filters and a new GimpDrawableFilter API for script developers to create them. However, it was not always easy to find the names and properties for the extensive list of potential filters, especially for third-party GEGL filters.

A new GEGL Filter browser has been added to make it easier to find non-destructive filters to use.

New formats

GIMP 3.2 includes built-in support for even more file formats! These range from well-known formats like APNGs to obsolete archival formats such as Seattle FilmWorks photos, supporting your quest of old data retrieval. For retro game developers, we now support Sony PlayStation TIM and Sega Dreamcast PVR textures.

We also added export support for JPEG 2000 images, which is the standard for the digital cinema industry. This now matches our import support, which we’ve had since GIMP 2.8

In addition to our existing darktable and RawTherapee plug-ins, we’ve added support for using ART for editing Camera RAW images.

As a side effect of adding support for NASA‘s .hgt.zip image format, GIMP can now load compressed images from any format that we currently support.

Total Ink Coverage value

You can now see the Total Ink Coverage value for a color in the CMYK Color Selector. This is useful to know when soft-proofing your image for printing, as your printer may have an ink coverage limit to prevent over-saturation of the page.

https://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-3.2.html#usability-improvements

This release is a GAME CHANGER!! Nothing will ever be the same. Adobe just got punched right in the face.

You can support Gimp

• If you’re a developer, we always welcome more code contributions – we’ve even marked some reports for “Newcomers” to help you ease into the codebase.

• We’re looking for more feedback from designers to help create a better user experience.

• You may also donate to support the existing team members.

Thank you SO MUCH to developers, designers, translators, testers, donors and all members of our community 👏🏼👏🏼.

An eerie quiet hangs over Ras Al Khaimah’s industrial port. Usually a thriving maritime hub of the United Arab Emirates, now ships stand docked and silent. Not far out along the hazy horizon, a backlog of hundreds of tankers have lined up in recent days, halted along a waterway flooded with danger.

Any vessel heading past Ras Al Khaimah out to the Arabian Sea must traverse the world’s most treacherous strip of water for shipping today: the strait of Hormuz. Just over 20 nautical miles from Ras Al Khaimah, two oil tankers heading for the strait were attacked by Iranian missiles this week, one catching fire.

It is one of the many consequences facing Gulf states as they are pulled deeper into a war that they did not start and had diplomatically tried to prevent.

For decades, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar and Oman have allowed US military bases, infrastructure or access on their soil, and have been among the largest buyers of American weapons and technology. In return, the US has stood as the Gulf’s closest and most significant military partner and protector.

But now, Gulf states have growing concerns over the relationship, analysts say, after Donald Trump was seen to wilfully torpedo peaceful diplomatic negotiations in favour of starting a war in the Middle East.

I was looking at Graphite Editor project and how the hell is 24k stars on GitHub translate to 600$ per month?

This is not the first open source project that I see with this problem.

Why the hell is no one supporting open source developers?