BEWARE! Audacity Is Now Spyware. Time To Fork? DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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Fork Sakes, I was using audacity only the other day and I was thinking to myself, this would be a dangerous program to be spyware.
Next day in my suggested videos, this pops up!.
The reason I was thinking about this was because its normally connected up with a very high quality microphone and people have a habit of leaving them switched on in the back ground.
Also if your a Critical Thinker and using Audicity for Podcasting or/and making Videos then your raw audio is been monitored in High Definition.
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Fork Sakes, I was using audacity only the other day and I was thinking to myself, this would be a dangerous program to be spyware.
Next day in my suggested videos, this pops up!.
The reason I was thinking about this was because its normally connected up with a very high quality microphone and people have a habit of leaving them switched on in the back ground.
Also if your a Critical Thinker and using Audicity for Podcasting or/and making Videos then your raw audio is been monitored in High Definition.
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Steven
can someone help me. i notice after I use the compressor tool, no matter what settings I use in the compressor, there are peaks in my audio that go down below -12 db (to down to -2db) which I don't want as they sound loud and distorted. how can I get rid of this without isolating each soundwave manually, hitting the amplify button then hitting -3db
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can someone help me. i notice after I use the compressor tool, no matter what settings I use in the compressor, there are peaks in my audio that go down below -12 db (to down to -2db) which I don't want as they sound loud and distorted. how can I get rid of this without isolating each soundwave manually, hitting the amplify button then hitting -3db
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IAMSEYMOUR!
Meh. If it's collecting cpu info and ip address, that's essentially collecting nothing. There's no government agency rybbing their hands like -finally! A list of IP addresses!- They are probably doing it so they can use telemetry to make a better UI, etc. If I'm particularly bothered I guess i can just stop it phoning home using a firewall
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Meh. If it's collecting cpu info and ip address, that's essentially collecting nothing. There's no government agency rybbing their hands like -finally! A list of IP addresses!- They are probably doing it so they can use telemetry to make a better UI, etc. If I'm particularly bothered I guess i can just stop it phoning home using a firewall
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JeanBzh
well, that's one of the problems when a project is controlled by a company. That does not bother me so much, people forks, and once the dust settles it's fine again. What will be more painful to move from is when the infrastructure and tools used by these projects are controlled by companies such as Microsoft (Github, VS Code, Atom...).
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well, that's one of the problems when a project is controlled by a company. That does not bother me so much, people forks, and once the dust settles it's fine again. What will be more painful to move from is when the infrastructure and tools used by these projects are controlled by companies such as Microsoft (Github, VS Code, Atom...).
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Wamauro
Some questions, if I may:
1. how does an open source software go that way? Is there some kind of brand behind open source software who could do whatever they want to the app? Isn't that anti-ethical to the freelance devs?
2. why does someone need an up-up-up-to-date software?
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Some questions, if I may:
1. how does an open source software go that way? Is there some kind of brand behind open source software who could do whatever they want to the app? Isn't that anti-ethical to the freelance devs?
2. why does someone need an up-up-up-to-date software?
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TheBattousai
This is why I don't want Linux to go mainstream. When a project gets big enough it becomes an effective tool of the ruling class to spy on users, that is when they take things over. Stay small and it won't be worth it for the ruling class to mess with you.
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This is why I don't want Linux to go mainstream. When a project gets big enough it becomes an effective tool of the ruling class to spy on users, that is when they take things over. Stay small and it won't be worth it for the ruling class to mess with you.
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tucket2000
I don't get the whole free and open source thing. It seems to reek of entitlement. Do you expect software developers to just make everything for free? If an app doesn't have a charge, they've gotta make money somehow. So they bake in ads for a profit.
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I don't get the whole free and open source thing. It seems to reek of entitlement. Do you expect software developers to just make everything for free? If an app doesn't have a charge, they've gotta make money somehow. So they bake in ads for a profit.
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rwprime1
Disappointed here. I watched this whole video hoping you would say what the last version of non-spyware Audacity was and possibly where to get it if we don't have it and you never even mentioned anything like that.
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Disappointed here. I watched this whole video hoping you would say what the last version of non-spyware Audacity was and possibly where to get it if we don't have it and you never even mentioned anything like that.
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Here_Be_Subtitles
I just realized I'm still using a version from like at least 2016 - I love it, but there are newer editing options I kind of need. Should I just stick with the old version do you think? I'm on Windows :)
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I just realized I'm still using a version from like at least 2016 - I love it, but there are newer editing options I kind of need. Should I just stick with the old version do you think? I'm on Windows :)
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urbancombatkill
So here's the thing. Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) cannot be bought. Whoever sold a FOSS application to a corporation needs to be publicly flogged and permanently exiled from the FOSS community.
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So here's the thing. Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) cannot be bought. Whoever sold a FOSS application to a corporation needs to be publicly flogged and permanently exiled from the FOSS community.
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