Audacity may collect “Data necessary for law enforcement, litigation” and more

• audacity

  344 11,457 9.9 C

  Audio Editor

  

I've forked the codebase and removed most of the code related to networking, crash reports or sentry telemetry.

While I have been cautious and were trying to make sure that not any code could run by mistake (or false environment variable / ifdef checks down the like), I have to say that The Muse Group's intent seem to have been clearly that the code can be built without any of the tracking.

All networking related features seem to have been optional, and could be disabled via environment variables like `HAS_NETWORKING` or `HAS_SENTRY_REPORTING` etc.

I've detailed this more in my comment in the GitHub repository's issue [1] to make sure others will read about it, too.

Personally I think this is a classical miscommunication error, and it seems as the intent of Muse Group was to be as legally compliant as possible. Of course, a dialog where end-users could opt-in to everything would've been nicer than enabling/disabling it via build environment flags - but that could've been a simple rational discussion.

My current temporary (and building) fork is available at GitHub, too [2] and I would love to see this project being governed by a community of developers rather than a single owner that can potentially dictate integration of tracking mechanisms on others.

[1] https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issues/1213#issuecommen...

[2] https://github.com/cookiengineer/audacity

• audacious

  32 749 8.1 C++

  A lightweight and versatile audio player

  

> The audacity of it! (pun intended) Fork it, call it Audacious and be done with it.

Already taken by an audio related project: https://audacious-media-player.org/

I have used it for a long time. To my surprise, it is still alive and seems to have evolved a bit seeing the screenshot and it looks good, I think I'll look into it.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• audiocity

  6 66 2.6 C

  Audacity fork without any non-free software or telemetry, as all GPL software should.

  

• audacity

  54 4,012 9.8 C

  Discontinued Tenacity is an easy-to-use, cross-platform multi-track audio editor/recorder for Windows, MacOS, GNU/Linux and other operating systems and is developed by a group of volunteers as an open source software that respects user privacy. [Moved to: https://github.com/tenacityteam/tenacity] (by cookiengineer)

  

I've forked the codebase and removed most of the code related to networking, crash reports or sentry telemetry.

While I have been cautious and were trying to make sure that not any code could run by mistake (or false environment variable / ifdef checks down the like), I have to say that The Muse Group's intent seem to have been clearly that the code can be built without any of the tracking.

All networking related features seem to have been optional, and could be disabled via environment variables like `HAS_NETWORKING` or `HAS_SENTRY_REPORTING` etc.

I've detailed this more in my comment in the GitHub repository's issue [1] to make sure others will read about it, too.

Personally I think this is a classical miscommunication error, and it seems as the intent of Muse Group was to be as legally compliant as possible. Of course, a dialog where end-users could opt-in to everything would've been nicer than enabling/disabling it via build environment flags - but that could've been a simple rational discussion.

My current temporary (and building) fork is available at GitHub, too [2] and I would love to see this project being governed by a community of developers rather than a single owner that can potentially dictate integration of tracking mechanisms on others.

[1] https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issues/1213#issuecommen...

[2] https://github.com/cookiengineer/audacity

• opensnitch

  213 9,663 9.1 Python

  OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux interactive application firewall inspired by Little Snitch.

OpenSnitch[1] is mentioned[2] in the thread and was most recently featured on HN last year[3].

[1] https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/od3h8b/audacity_may_...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22206116

• duckduckgo-locales

  2,080 94 0.0 Perl

  Translation files for <a href="https://duckduckgo.com"> </a>

  

And "temerity" is taken by a startup that collects data.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Temerity+Analytics

• pytest-sentry

  2 44 6.0 Python

  Track flaky tests in Sentry

  

viraptor was not really responding to the discussion about the shell script at all, but was rather talking about stuff like https://github.com/getsentry/pytest-sentry

• SaaSHub

  www.saashub.com featured

  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

  

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