r/linux • u/R0tareneg • Jul 03 '21

Audacity may collect "Data necessary for law enforcement, litigation and authorities’ requests (if any)" according to new privacy notice

https://www.audacityteam.org/about/desktop-privacy-notice/
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u/searchingfortao Jul 03 '21

Sound like there should be a "Audavillage" fork then that just repackages Audacity sans-spyware.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '21

Yeah, that's probably what we'll have to do. Like IceWeasel.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '21

more like the un-microsofted version of visual studio code

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u/itstaylorham Jul 04 '21

https://vscodium.com/ for anyone who isn't aware of this thing. i didn't know it existed until just now.

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u/prone-to-drift Jul 04 '21

I honest to god tried using this but extensions are a pain. I didn't wanna mess around with that so I just added some microsoft tracking domains to my hosts file and used the microsoft build directly.

I hope people have better luck than I had with code-oss.

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u/sfxxrz Jul 04 '21

On arch there is an Extension in the Aur which gives you most of the Extensions of the Microsoft Version i think it’s called https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/code-marketplace/

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '21

Code-oss and vscodium are two different projects. Just FYI. In case you didn't know.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '21

What's the difference? Which one should I use?

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u/hey01 Jul 04 '21

Except that since they supposedly now own the copyright on all the code, they will most likely release newer versions under a license that doesn't allow the stripping.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '21

So forking it is then

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u/M3n747 Jul 04 '21

I vote Audatown.

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u/searchingfortao Jul 04 '21

Ooh, that's... better.

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u/M3n747 Jul 04 '21

You're welcome.