audacity VS duckduckgo-locales

Title feels misleading - skip to the end:

> As for me, I still believe in open source, and even in the commercial potential of open source. It requires creativity and a clever business acumen to identify and exploit market opportunities within this collaborative framework. To win in open source you must embrace this collaboration and embrace the fact that you will share the commercial market for the software with other entities. If you’re up to that challenge, then let’s keep beating the open source drum together. If not, these new movements(source-available software) may be a home for you – but know that a lot of hard work still lies ahead of you in that path.

This article feels more like a critique of the new "source-available" trend in tech whereby existing OSS projects sell out and try to retroactively re-license themselves to be more closed-source friendly. I've been sort of aware of this phenomenon since there was a small upset when Muse Group bought Audacity, though it appears it is still GPL[1].

[1] https://github.com/audacity/audacity/blob/master/LICENSE.txt

#5467 Fix 24-bit recording.

The time stretch algorithm is implemented in https://github.com/audacity/audacity/blob/master/libraries/l... particularly functions _time_stretch and _process_hop. It looks to me like a classic phase vocoder with vertical phase coherence (c.f. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_vocoder).

The basic idea is this. For a time-stretch factor of, say, 2x, the frequency spectrum of the stretched output at 2 sec should be the same as the frequency spectrum of the unstretched input at 1 sec. The naive algorithm therefore takes a short section of signal at 1s, translates it to 2s and adds it to the result. Unfortunately, this method generates all sorts of unwanted artifacts.

Imagine a pure sine wave. Now take 2 short sections of the wave from 2 random times, overlap them, and add them together. What happens? Well, it depends on the phase of each section. If the sections are out of phase, they cancel on the overlap; if in phase, they constructively interfere.

The phase vocoder is all about overlapping and adding sections together so that the phases of all the different sine waves in the sections line up. Thus, in any phase vocoder algorithm, you will see code that searches for peaks in the spectrum (see _time_stretch code). Each peak is an assumed sine wave, and corresponding peaks in adjacent frames should have their phases match.

https://github.com/audacity/audacity/releases

If you are able to build from source, you could download the latest source code, or the latest release version source code, and manually apply the patch.

FWIW: We'll be ditching the atlases for 3.4 most likely, in favor of having themes work like they do in source anyway: With individual PNGs for the icons and a Colors.txt containing all the color definitions. With that, custom themes would be much easier to author and also would stop breaking every time we introduce a new icon.

https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issues/4639 this bug mentions everything, I guess it's Audacity after all. To be fixed in 3.3.2

> one of the first websites I know of that is specifically tailored to getting Rust programmers jobs programming IN RUST

I don’t know where you were looking, but there have been plenty of attempts for quite a few years, and a few of them are still active (though most die quickly), and it’s not hard to find them: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rust+jobs.

Great! Next thing we'll have Killer Hornets with a hard-on!

Killer Hornets:

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=killer+hornets&ia=web

> Not British but I've been to both countries and can't say I noticed much difference in their bread.

I've lived in both places multiple times for years and decades. But even a cursory visit should show you vast differences. The Brits don't even believe in rye.

You can do a simple visual comparison from the comfort of your own home:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!i+deutsches+brot

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!i+english+bread

Does the world need another RSS reader/mousetrap? We already have so many.

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=rss+readers

What is your friend's idea to revolutionize with their new reader?

In the US perhaps, where I live the whole cyclists vs non-cyclist thing does not exist, everybody is a cyclist, but generally in normal clothes, on a normal bike (not racing, but like this [0]), with no helmet and on bike lanes where you never meet a car.

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cortina+u1&t=ffab&iax=images&ia=im...

Just because the plan requires a low ceiling doesn't mean the end result needs to look like a dead midwest shopping mall.

It doesn't have to be like this specifically, but it demonstrates the point: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=moscow+subway&iax=images&ia=images

I feel like advertisements are on a spectrum, and that (let's call them) "first party" advertisements are not what come to people's minds, when they read a title like "Instagram is using my face on ads targeted at me". I'd like to prove this point by the following image search: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=instagram+ads&iax=images&ia... . The top results all relate to advertise something on Instagram that is not Meta-related.

It works both ways.

When Trudeau first took office, the whole world was swarming with Canada's young and handsome PM, and he enjoyed a good few years of "honeymoon" period that many leaders can only wish for.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=2015+justin+trudeau+handsome&df=20...