Forked FTW

After a privacy policy update to Audacity, a FOSS audio editing software has been forked. Google is forcing new apps to use app bundles instead of APKs starting in August, and Jim Whitehurst steps down from his role just 14 months in.

After a privacy policy update to Audacity, a FOSS audio editing software has been forked. Google is forcing new apps to use app bundles instead of APKs starting in August, and Jim Whitehurst steps down from his role just 14 months in.

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01:00 User Responds to User RE: MBOX - Jay

Mbox Viewer
Supports files larger than 4G
Export all attachments
Export in EML
Export all to separate EML

03:50 File permissions TrueNAS/NFS - Gray

Check your permissions

dataset - including child datasets
NFS share

FreeNAS/TrueNAS configuration is separate from the ZFS dataset

06:30 Matrix server question - Vladimir

EMS (Element Matrix Services)
Matrix is a server/client relationship

Server - Synapse
Client - Element

Account portability/P2P is coming

Dendrite

Matrix Migration Tool

17:30 Feedback/thanks - Lukasz

Thank You Noah

21:22 Email - Charlie Reacts to Audacity - Charliebrownau

Why are governments/companies allowed to hijack opensource projects
Bad things on the horizon for audacity

22:50 Pick of the Week

InkBox
OS replacement for Kobo eReader
Kobox/x11 support
OS built around security

root file system checked on boot
signed packages

Kobo eReader Affiliate Link
Kobo Packages

24:50 Gadget of the Week

Rain Design 10037 mTower Vertical Laptop Stand

High Quality
Aesthetically Pleasing
Fits a variety of Laptops
One piece / nothing to strip
Heavy / doesn't slide around
Rubber padding protect laptop

Amazon Affiliate Link

30:20 Jim Whitehurst Leaves IBM

Newsroom Article
Jim stayed on after the IBM acuasition
Jim is leaving after 14 Months
IBM had nothing to do with CentOS

Google Forcing App Bundles

Slash Gear
Google Developers Blog
Google is forcing new apps to use android app bundles (.aab) instead of APKs in August
Play Asset Delivery replaces OBB

better compression
dynamic delivery (deltas)
smaller apps

Play Feature Delivery

allows minimum app download
the rest of the app downloads in the background

Utilizes Google Play only features
Requires developers to do the heavy lifting
Requires developers to maintain 2 versions of their app if they want to distribute their software outside the play store

49:10 Audacity

Github Disccusion
Reddit Discussion
Slashgear
3.0.3 RC1 Released
Adds Binary for Linux via AppImage
Ubuntu Handbook
Switch to 64-bit Windows binary
Dropped Windows XP support
Improved default spectrogram colors
Fix user interface display issue on HiDPI display in Linux.
Fix that font size scales incorrectly.
Updated Privacy Policy
3 Compile Flags

Network Flag = Off Default, no networking features are built regardless of what other flags are set to
Sentry Reporting - Default ON -- Enables error reporting to sentry.io
Crash Reports - Default ON -- Sends crash reports data to breakpad

Updates Check - Default ON -- Requests data from audacityteam.org about latest release
Slashgear
Community Audacity Fork
Nothing bad in the current version
FOSS (GPL) prevents projects from dieing / being taken over
License makes it too easy to cut and run

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