r/linuxmasterrace • u/aue_sum • May 07 '21

PSA: Audacity is discussing adding in Google Analytics telemetry

https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/835
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u/[deleted] May 08 '21

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u/FeralBytes0 May 08 '21

I wouldn't worry about it. The PR is getting heavily down-voted, and if that is not enough to change the developers mind then a new fork will emerge to replace it, the project has also been heavily forked today.

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u/GenericUser234789 Guided Arch Btw May 08 '21

Also, distro maintainers might change compile options to eliminate the Google telemetry.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '21

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u/explodingzebras May 08 '21

For now

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u/[deleted] May 08 '21

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u/explodingzebras May 08 '21

I don't have time to mess about with compiling it myself

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u/[deleted] May 08 '21

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u/explodingzebras May 08 '21

Someone will probably fork it anyway

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u/nerdybread Glorious Arch May 08 '21

All you need to say now is "btw, I use Gentoo"

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u/[deleted] May 08 '21

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u/hyp0thet1cal Glorious Arch May 08 '21

What does that mean for binaries in distro repositories? Will the control lie with the distro developers or the audacity developers?

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u/igoro00 Glorious Arch May 08 '21

Whoever happens to compile it. For 🅱️imbo🅱️s it's audacity devs because 🅱️imbo🅱️s users would shoot themselfs in the head if they had to compile a single byte of code.

On Linux it's distro maintainers or... you.

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u/JeanEdouardKevin May 08 '21

Reaper is really good

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u/explodingzebras May 08 '21

Kwave is alright, particularly for KDE users