MuseGroup acquires the much beloved audio editor Audacity, Ubuntu 21.04 upgrades have been blocked for some users, open-source firmware for your IP security cams, and turbo charging the Amiga with a Raspberry Pi. All this plus your email.
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Musing Audacity
https://www.ghacks.net/2021/05/03/open-source-audio-editor-audacity-is-now-part-of-musegroupac/
- Audacity is open-source, if they do anything to jack it up people will stick a fork in it.
- Martin was responsible for Ubuntu Touch.
- Like a lot of you I put up with Audacity because it gets the job done.
- Admiditaly I use it as little as possible because it fights you every step of the way.
- The Audacity interface is a running joke, it’s pre 2008 Blender levels of bad.
- Non-destructive editing for audacity please.
- Spawn Jack syncs before hitting record.
- For the love of FSM give me a generate silence hotkey.
- Smooth scroll while tracking.
Ubuntu upgrades
https://uk.pcmag.com/operating-systems/133082/upgrading-to-ubuntu-2104-is-not-a-good-idea-right-now
- If you have a pre UEFI device and you’ve enabled EFI booting, you may want to hold off on updating to 21.04 until the issue is resolved.
- So I won’t be upgrading one of my Thinkpads that has Ubuntu 20.10 on it to 21.04 for quite some time, because that machine has an early version of EFI.
Rocky 8.3 RC1
https://www.debugpoint.com/2021/05/rocky-linux-8-3-rc1/
- Wow, kernel 4.18.
- Guess they really do mean to keep the promise of continuing the old cent legacy.
- Wow, the developers of Rocky Linux are sure making quick work of it!
- Rocky Linux 8.3 release candidate 1 has been released.
- Rocky Linux is the free and open source CentOS replacement that is 1-to-1 binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, made by the creator of CentOS.
- Based on the current stable RHEL 8.3.
- GNOME 3.32 desktop, samba 4.12.3, rpm 4.14.
- Make sure to download the ISO, test and report bugs!
Trinity 14 (RTheren)
https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Release_Notes_For_R14.0.10
- That looks like KDE ¾?
- Ships with the original and improved classic Amarok music player.
- It’s so nice to see that the fork of KDE 3.5 is still getting love.
- The Trinity Desktop Environment R14.0.10 is now available, and includes many updates and bug fixes.
- Now includes KlamAV, the KDE frontend for ClamAV antivirus.
- And the Komposé application which gives a fullscreen view of all your tasks and/or virtual desktops.
- Added adjustable icon spacing functionality in KDesktop.
- And now supports RISC-V 32bit and 64bit.
- I tried installing it on Fedora 34 but it seems to have been hardlinked against specific library versions, so I’d have to go back to 33.
That IBM thing
- And this is why most internal emails shouldn’t be public
- I remember reading this a few months ago and thinking that’s not right, IBM has always encouraged contributions to open source by their employees, whether it be personal or working for IBM.
- That is the way open source should work, and many companies encourage it.
- Some.
- Todd Moore, VP Open Technology at IBM stated:
- “IBM has over 80,000 employees who are trained to contribute and participate in open source.”
- “We respect our developer’s need to be individuals, and their open source code contributed under a personal ID represents them and their resume.”
- Best I can make of it is that dude was using his personal GitHub ID to contribute to VNIC.
- IBM has a system in place where employees use their IBM GitHub ID so big blue can track contributions.
- Didn’t see any denial that all of your code contributions are belong to IBM 100% of the time.
- This sounds like a “smooth things over” bit someone was told to write.
- I’m not just saying that because ViacomCBS tapped an IBM executive last year to lead its media initiatives.
- I’ll let you guess the parent company of ZDNET / Techrepublic.
IP cameras
- Open firmware for your video surveillance cameras, nice!
- Because, ironically enough, security cameras and the systems backing them are usually the most exploitable in the stack.
- The OpenIPC is a Linux operating system based on OpenWrt/Buildroot projects and targeting IP cameras with chipsets from different vendors.
- They aim to develop universal, portable firmware supporting a wide range of manufacturers and delivering updates and fixes which vendors oftentimes don’t.
- Hi3516Cv200
- Hi3518Ev100/200
- Hi3516Cv100
New YT GUI
https://github.com/JaGoLi/ytdl-gui
- V2.5 was released 6 hours ago.
- This version fixes some bugs, adds options for vorbis codec and has a new icon.
- Unlike the other one we talked about, this is just the GUI
- You still need to have youtube-dl installed
Slice of Pi
PiStorm
https://github.com/captain-amygdala/pistorm
- Turn your Raspberry Pi 3 A+ into a processor for an Amiga.
- I’d love to get my hands on an Amiga 500 and maybe do something like this, but I really don’t want to spend the kind of money people want for one of them nowadays.
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