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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Audacity 3.4 Released with Music Workflows, New Exporter, and More (9to5linux.com)

submitted 10 months ago by petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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[–] kakes@sh.itjust.works 49 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Did they ever fix that issue from a while back where they started collecting personal data on users?

https://www.engadget.com/audacity-privacy-policy-spyware-accusations-data-collection-210001803.html

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There was a Lemmy post with a video about how things have changed, which I even commented on, but I can't find anymore.

What I remember was that yes they did address most of the concerns. There were some issues still (unrelated to data collection iirc), and there's one other fork that's being maintained if you don't want that

Edit: I think the was the video, I don't want to watch it again but I'll link my TLDW if I find it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QfmDn1IaDmY

[–] Raffster@kbin.social 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That is the real question. Would like to recommend the program to people again.

[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 23 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Tenacity is a fork designed to address those concerns, and it is mostly beyond fork growing pains at this point

[–] Raffster@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

Oh very cool. Thanks a lot.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Growing pains?

[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Tearing branding and telemetry and build deployment stuff and crap out of forked software is a lot of work that takes some time

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

I see. Makes sense now.