Comment on Audacity adds AI audio editing capabilities thanks to free Intel OpenVINO plugins

• drislands@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What? You must be joking. Really? The entire thing was about opt-in error reporting?

  … seriously, that can’t be it, can it?

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  • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not really, it was an apparent change to the privacy policy that vaguely anticipated collection of arbitrary user data, which shook the confidence of the open source community on the project. The fact this happened right after audacity was sold was the cherry on top.

    github.com/audacity/audacity/issues/1213

    Changes were eventually reverted.

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    • doctorcrimson@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Were they? I’ll have to check later, but an official statement from Muse Group stated they provided the data they collected to third parties so idk. If the telemetry is still there then I’m not downloading it, Open Source projects generally don’t need telemetry to begin with.

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  • xor@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    yep… really just that…

    i’ve used it forever with a very restrictive firewall and i’ve never seen it do anything unexpected… or any phoning home at all…

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  • doctorcrimson@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    in 2021 Audacity was acquired by a company called MuseGroup who added unnecessary telemetry and they admit that they do provide the data the collect to third parties. It’s spyware as far as I’m concerned.

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    • StereoTrespasser@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If opt-in telemetry is spyware then the FOSS community truly is off the rails.

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      • doctorcrimson@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If it was truly opt in, then why did the community feel the need to create forks removing the telemetry? Plus, a lot of FOSS don’t need telemetry to start with. They get tons of voluntary high quality feedback without automated collection.

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    • Klear@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve read this exact or very similar comment from you for the fourth time at least. You’re a spambot as far as I’m concerned.

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      • doctorcrimson@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Lmao

        Pot says the Kettle exagerates.

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• books@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Point a has always me me wonder, is that accurate? Are there actually people going through the code to make sure open source isn’t malicious? I can barely read my coworkers code… Let alone a strangers.

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  • xor@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    people are definitely going through the code on a project as popular as audacity…
    less well known stuff is much less scrutinized, of course

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  • aidan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Its way less work than going through the code to check for telemetry unless it is an intentionally hidden attack- just use Wireshark and check if there is network traffic other than checking for an update on program start.

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  • lemmeee@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If a project is popular people will make changes to it every day. But you can look at the repo and judge for yourself.

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• doctorcrimson@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s not entirely true, Audacity was acquired by a company called MuseGroup who added unnecessary telemetry and they admit that they do provide the data the collect to third parties. It’s spyware as far as I’m concerned.

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  • xor@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    i don’t believe you

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    • doctorcrimson@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And thats fair, you should always do your own research and make your own informed decisions.

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