• eroc1990@lemmy.parastor.net
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    1 year ago

    Over on the site that shall not be named, I was able to find a thread that describes it. It was real, and it was the valid splash screen for GIMP from December 2010 to September 2011.

    Someone else in the thread remarked that this release was when they introduced the cage tool, so the image does make sense…

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      A church IT administrator somewhere does a full system update and goes home for the night, while the next morning the pastor decides to load it up to do a bit of graphics work on the church newsletter…uh oh…

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        Deleted my original bc someone posted the same thing I did moments before, but yeah… thankfully it was just a dev build, so thankfully for them in that hypothetical situation, it isn’t something they would have seen.