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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
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
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
OS replacement for Kobo eReader
Kobox/x11 support
OS built around security
root file system checked on boot
signed 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
30:20 Jim Whitehurst Leaves IBM
Jim stayed on after the IBM acuasition
Jim is leaving after 14 Months
IBM had nothing to do with CentOS
Google Forcing App Bundles
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
3.0.3 RC1 Released
Adds Binary for Linux via AppImage
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
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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