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I agree with that, I'm just not sure if that is what they are doing, maintaining v3 "as it was".

I seem to remember at the time the plan was to pull all changes from Audacity across but not the team/company behind it.

TLLtchvL8KZon Audacity 4.0

I know it's not a proper metric to judge by, but Tenacity is 10k commits behind Audacity. That's quite a lot to get behind since the split. I'd be interested if Tenacity is actively developed or pretty much just maintaining the software from where they split.

TLLtchvL8KZon Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video]

I haven't used hg in years now, bitbucket discontinuing support is what killed it for me and I had no interest in self hosting.

My git usage is very basic, my gitconfig has been pretty much untouched for years but on those occasions where I get stuck or hit something I end up searching and usually get through a bunch of posts/comments/sites and wish I was using hg.

TLLtchvL8KZon The sad state of font rendering on Linux (2018)

I feel exactly the same, the font rendering in Linux drives me absolutely insane. The amount of hours I've spent over the past 15 years tweaking fontconfig, having to compile special patched packages etc etc doesn't bare thinking about.

I don't even have to edit anything on Windows now, and when I did a few years ago it was only on a clean install going through I think what was called cleartype config, you had a panel of 6 images/samples to choose from and after going through it all everything looked pretty damn perfect.

TLLtchvL8KZon [dead]

I've read the documents where one of his victims describes what he did to her, absolutely disgusting. It goes far beyond assault and r*e, it was torture with tools. To a 7 year old girl, for several years, multiple times daily.

And Canonical, Debian and Gnome are doing their best to protect him and close down any discussion. Although it seems earlier today Canonical have let him go.

TLLtchvL8KZon My unorthodox, branchless Git workflow (2020)

>drewdevault.com

The guy recently outed as a pedo who tagged drawn images of pre-pubescent girls being sexually assaulted as "happy sex"? Yeah I'm not visiting that site.

TLLtchvL8KZon The Stallman Report

Well you see this quite often, you have these men who protest very loudly online about CSA end up being found guilty of assault or in ownership of assault media themselves.

One can only hope Drews local law enforcement find a reason to seize all his computer equipment and do a forensic investigation.

Here is an interesting find from a comment 12 years ago made by Drew on reddit (https://undelete.pullpush.io/r/todayilearned/comments/udlwf/...): "What an ass, you don't have to call him out in the middle of a (mostly) unrelated post. I pity pedophiles - you can't control what turns you on, and they happen to be turned on by something illegal. It's a dick move to try and bring it up and shame him publicly."

Definitely needs his hard drives searching by authorities.

TLLtchvL8KZon The Stallman Report

He needs to do as much damage to Stallman while he still can. Stallman's recent health scares (as noted in the "stallman report") have most likely prompted this as Drew knows once RMS passes away he wont be able to get his revenge on the guy or have him removed from what has been his life's work.

There are screenshots from Drews live streams which show his browser history/bookmarks which show links to 4ch board for cartoon drawings of lewd/nude children which make this all the more sickening. No wonder Drew loves his "research" so much.

TLLtchvL8KZon The Stallman Report

Same thing happened on reddit.

Instant 100+ upvotes out of nowhere. A bunch of new accounts posting supportive messages that after checking about 20 of them had posted on the sub before and just magically appeared. Downvotes to anything asking questions.

There is one infamous mastodon troll "developer" that can't get enough of themselves and I would put money on them being involved in this, if you know you know.

TLLtchvL8KZon The tale of a GSM Kernel LPE

https://github.com/YuriiCrimson/ExploitGSM

https://t.me/itcrowdua/1/203010

Seems this jmpeax person didn't fins it at all, actually bought the hack from someone else but scammed them so the original author made it all public. The telegram link is the original author screen recording of theirs and jmpeax conversation with jmpeax trying to buy it.

TLLtchvL8KZon Microsoft blocks even more customization apps in Windows 11 version 24H2

I'm currently sitting on Windows 10 LTSC IoT and refuse to move. I am now planning, because my laptop is a little old now, to purchase an M3 iMac in a few months or at the end of the year.

I've tried 11 a few times. I do not like it, I do not like the look of it and most of all I absolutely HATE that I cannot have the taskbar on the left hand side of the screen.

TLLtchvL8KZon Xz: Can you spot the single character that disabled Linux landlock?

I worry about his home/personal system, this guy seems to have befriended Lasse in order to get the position, is it possible Lasse himself has been compromised?

I'd be nuking everything, possibly even disposing of hardware and setting up a new verifiable online identity on a clean system/hardware.

TLLtchvL8KZon FreeTube – The Private YouTube Client

I got that big warning about having 2 videos left before being locked out of youtube viewing due to running an "ad-blocker", that was last week, I've not watched a video on the site since.

I just download it with yt-dlp or throw it in to mpv. If those stop working I'll probably just stop watching youtube altogether since I only watch maybe 6-10 vids a week anyway. This "app" does look quite good, but for how long it will work if g**e keeps making it difficult I don't know.

TLLtchvL8KZon Ask HN: DarkSky Alternatives?

At least for me here in the UK the live-updated rain was very accurate, you could watch it come and go in pretty much real time combined with looking out the window.

I'm struggling to find anything like it now, it was incredibly useful since I go out a lot to do little jobs and if its a crappy weather day (pretty much every day this time of year) it was nice to check to see if I had enough time to do something or if I'd need to go out and cover some things up.

I've never used the app, only the website.

TLLtchvL8KZon Systemd isn't safe to run anywhere (2021)

So the tl;dr for this is blog post is pretty much:

- high loc = bad

- lennart pottering = bad

- github issues count is a valid metric of how good/safe/secure a piece of software is

- some babble about violating unix philosphy

- please support me on patreon :^)

TLLtchvL8KZon An account was suspended

This is my experience too, I honestly believe that for anyone using twitter being permanently suspended is the best thing that can happen to them. It's just an awful place.

Spam, bots, fake stories, constant outrage. It's miserable but people seem to become addicted.

TLLtchvL8KZon Twitch finally takes action against gambling

That entire twitch site seems like pure brain rot, from what I understand it's entirely giving people money to watch them play games or for women to say your name. The whole thing seems unhealthy from the get-go.

TLLtchvL8KZon Viral “racism in academia” story deleted when I started asking questions

I'm glad I don't have a reddit or twitter accounts anymore, you see this kinda stuff all the time and I'm convinced 99% of it is made up by people dreaming up weird fantasies for fake internet points.

TLLtchvL8KZon Debian's Chromium changes default search engine to DDG

Didn't DDG recently have some controversy about censoring things they didn't like related to Russia or Russian sites/news?

I don't have links stored in history but it was fairly recent, it was their CEO on twitter I believe and they got a LOT of backlash.

TLLtchvL8KZon Google Search Is Dying

I come across these sites so often it's not even funny.

Different website. Different title. Exact same content. 4 or 5 in the first page of search results.

I'm assuming they're all ran by the same person, throwing as much ** at the wall knowing some will stick.

Many of my searchers now include "reddit" or "forum" at the end to filter out all the spam/crap.

TLLtchvL8KZon Micro – a modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor

Doesn't seem to be mentioned yet but at least on my machine, it knows shellcheck is installed and as I save scripts I get red arrows at the side of "problems" and the description, for eg,

    Quotes/backslashes will be treated literally. Use an array. [SC2089]

At the bottom, I find it quite useful although I'm not sure how one would turn it off as I didn't turn it on.

TLLtchvL8KZon Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2021 edition

>It puts all the burden on the user compared to other main stream operating systems

When I asked for help for my sound (in linux its only 50% volume and sounds like its a cheap speaker inside of a tin can) I was blamed for:

- Using a laptop

- The brand of laptop

- The audio hardware of my laptop (its their fault, not the kernels "generic" driver)

Then was told to either carry around an external DAC + Speakers or buy a desktop with a "proper" audio card.

It was the first time in 6 years I'd installed Linux and it lasted less than a week.

This happens all the time.

TLLtchvL8KZon O&O ShutUp10++ – Free anti-spy tool for Windows 10, 11

I prefer https://privacy.sexy/ - it generates a script that I can read/edit.

TLLtchvL8KZon Sham, a Linux shell (SQL blew my mind)

That must be hosted on my server, 6 points and the site is dead already :^)

TLLtchvL8KZon File picker meme

Many in charge seem to employed by Red Hat. Really makes you go "Hmmm...".

TLLtchvL8KZon File picker meme

GIMP is crap, the reason they make up all those excuses is because they have nothing better than it. The majority of them talking online seem to think GIMP is a superior image manipulation tool than Photoshop on a technical level despite the fact gimp cannot even simply or reliably draw a circle.

TLLtchvL8KZon Widelands is a free, open-source real-time strategy game

If we're giving shout-outs I would like to give one to etlegacy* - the assets needed from Wolf:ET are not open but the engine/game/mod etc all are.

Very important project for me as I've been playing W:ET since 2005!

* https://github.com/etlegacy/etlegacy

TLLtchvL8KZon Firefox lost 50M users since 2019

Surely this would show up in dns? The only thing my DNS shows me from edge usage is smartscreen.

TLLtchvL8KZon Firefox lost 50M users since 2019

Feels like a lifetime ago they were humble-bragging about their Paris office with gold leaf ceilings!

TLLtchvL8KZon Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash reporting

Deleted comment: https://i.postimg.cc/5ymLdYnp/1625592314739.png

You ever watch Judge Judy? She says quite often "If you tell the truth you don't have to have a good memory."