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[–] recklessengagement 43 points 1 month ago (4 children)

My exact experience finding out Audacity has adware

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's why Tenacity is here to save the day!

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

After all of the controversies, Tenacity was born. It first started as temporary-audacity on GitHub since it didn’t have a name. In order to decide a new name for the project, the lead maintainer at the time held a vote. Among the new names were “Audacium”, “Sneedacity”, and “Tenacity”. The name Sneedacity would later gain traction among 4chan members, resulting in a large volume of votes for the name Sneedacity.

In response to the large volume of votes by 4chan members, the previous maintainers had an emergency vote, choosing the name Tenacity instead of Sneedacity. This upset some, leading to the creation of a new fork with virtually the same intentions. Unsurpringly, this fork was named Sneedacity.

Sneedacity lmao

[–] JASN_DE 14 points 1 month ago

Did they learn nothing from the Boaty McBoatface disaster?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

>Formerly Chuck's.

You can vote as long as you vote for my favourite option.

[–] TexasDrunk 9 points 1 month ago

Reading your comment is how I found out. That makes me sad.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No it doesn't?

I just googled it to be sure, but i already assumed you meant 'spyware' (which is something completely different), referring to the telemetry (which i can get is a sensitive thing, but anonymous usage statistics to know where to focus their development sounds like a decent idea, and afaik they implemented it with respect for the user)

[–] recklessengagement 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I remember the concern years ago was: since the application was bought (acquired?) and the tool was still publically free, that the new owners had added the spyware to try and monetize the data coming from said spyware/telemetry.

After reading your comment I went back and did some cursory searches, and it looks like the general concensus is that its less of a concern than it was originally - although, there is still uncertainty around how the tool is being monetized, which is enough for some to stop using it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

It just joined the musescore project, great open source music notation software. For funding the only commercial thing they offer is a site where you can upload & download scores, with the paying part also paying licensining fees for copyrighted music. Imo all looks very legit. I was already familiar with musescore before this drama, and watched some of tantacrul (head of the musescore project, and now also audacity i guess). He's a very down to earth guy that has quite some insightful videos on the musescore development and figuring out what to keep/remove when going for new versions. But also great videos regarding other topics.

So far i've seen nothing that rings any alarm bells. The open source community can sometimes be a bit too sensitive regarding paid services linked to open source software. But in this case as long as the actual software remains open source, and the paid part actually adds value (a nice place to exchange sheet music, without any copyright issues as that's covered by your payment, so a very legit reason to ask money), why not?

[–] shneancy 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

though not 100% audio software, i recommend davinci resolve! it's free, and no ads

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

And it does a pretty damn good job as audio software, tbh. Fairlight kicks ass.