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Audacity adds AI audio editing capabilities thanks to free Intel OpenVINO plugins (www.notebookcheck.net)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If opt-in telemetry is spyware then the FOSS community truly is off the rails.

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

If it was truly opt in, then why did the community feel the need to create forks removing the telemetry? Plus, a lot of FOSS don't need telemetry to start with. They get tons of voluntary high quality feedback without automated collection.