▲ 115 ▼ In your opinion, which FOSS software is by many considered "old" or "obsolete", but are in fact, in your opinion, in many ways better than the newer alternatives? (feddit.dk) submitted 3 years ago* by privsecfoss@feddit.dk to c/foss@beehaw.org 227 comments fedilink hide all child comments I'll start: RSS and blogs, news vs. social media XMPP vs. WhatsApp/FB messenger/Snapchat IRC vs. Matrix, Teams, Discord etc. Forums vs. Social media, Reddit, Lemmy(?)
[–] Pilirin@kbin.social 13 points 3 years ago (4 children) audacity. that shit was mature in the 1990s. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] NightOwl@lemmy.one 5 points 3 years ago (1 child) What did happen to Audacity? I remember there was some controversy about them years back, but are they good now? In May 2021, after the project was acquired by Muse Group,[53] there was a draft proposal to add opt-in telemetry to the code to record application usage. Some users responded negatively, with accusations of turning Audacity into spyware.[54] The company reversed course, falling back to error/crash reporting and optional update checking instead. [55] Another controversy in July 2021[56] resulted from a change to the privacy policy which said that although personal data was stored on servers in the European Economic Area, the program would "occasionally [be] required to share your personal data with our main office in Russia and our external counsel in the USA".[57] That July, the Audacity team apologized for the changes to the privacy policy and removed mention of the data storage provision which was added "out of an abundance of caution."[56] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audacity_(audio_editor) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] useful_idiot@lemmy.eatsleepcode.ca 1 point 3 years ago There is a great chapter in the book “architecture of open source applications” dedicated to audacity! https://aosabook.org/en/v1/audacity.html permalink fedilink source parent [–] catacomb@beehaw.org 2 points 3 years ago Audacity was probably, unknowingly, the first GPL program I directly used as a kid (as in, not a library or software on a server.) We had it on school computers and made silly voice recordings. It was either that or Tux paint where we made silly drawings :) permalink fedilink source parent [–] alottachairs@beehaw.org 2 points 3 years ago It's still one of the first things I install permalink fedilink source parent
[–] NightOwl@lemmy.one 5 points 3 years ago (1 child) What did happen to Audacity? I remember there was some controversy about them years back, but are they good now? In May 2021, after the project was acquired by Muse Group,[53] there was a draft proposal to add opt-in telemetry to the code to record application usage. Some users responded negatively, with accusations of turning Audacity into spyware.[54] The company reversed course, falling back to error/crash reporting and optional update checking instead. [55] Another controversy in July 2021[56] resulted from a change to the privacy policy which said that although personal data was stored on servers in the European Economic Area, the program would "occasionally [be] required to share your personal data with our main office in Russia and our external counsel in the USA".[57] That July, the Audacity team apologized for the changes to the privacy policy and removed mention of the data storage provision which was added "out of an abundance of caution."[56] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audacity_(audio_editor) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] useful_idiot@lemmy.eatsleepcode.ca 1 point 3 years ago There is a great chapter in the book “architecture of open source applications” dedicated to audacity! https://aosabook.org/en/v1/audacity.html permalink fedilink source parent
[–] useful_idiot@lemmy.eatsleepcode.ca 1 point 3 years ago There is a great chapter in the book “architecture of open source applications” dedicated to audacity! https://aosabook.org/en/v1/audacity.html permalink fedilink source parent
[–] catacomb@beehaw.org 2 points 3 years ago Audacity was probably, unknowingly, the first GPL program I directly used as a kid (as in, not a library or software on a server.) We had it on school computers and made silly voice recordings. It was either that or Tux paint where we made silly drawings :) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] alottachairs@beehaw.org 2 points 3 years ago It's still one of the first things I install permalink fedilink source parent