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GPL doesn't guarantee you security in any way, shape, or form nor is a privacy policy.
Sure and I agree. However Reddit is sometimes a source of sensational misunderstanding, fear, uncertainty, doubt and misinformation.
I know accessibility for low vision users was mentioned, but I wonder, with all these changes, whether version 4 will be accessible to screen reader users, and if so, whether any major features will nevertheless remain inaccessible.
We'll need to spend time making sure it's applying correctly to every corner of the app - but when it's done, the app will be far more broadly supported than V3.
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The code is GPL. https://github.com/audacity/audacity The application privacy policy is here https://www.audacityteam.org/desktop-privacy-notice/
GPL doesn't guarantee you security in any way, shape, or form nor is a privacy policy.
Audacity does not store any personal information of any kind, and never did.
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GPL doesn't guarantee you security in any way, shape, or form nor is a privacy policy.
Sure and I agree. However Reddit is sometimes a source of sensational misunderstanding, fear, uncertainty, doubt and misinformation.
Is it still controlled by the Russian WSM Group? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27728784
I don’t know when it happened, but earlier in the week a non-tech member of staff, who was trying to install Audacity, called me really confused because it was asking about installing and then saving to some sort of cloud storage that was being pushed during the installation process. I personally haven’t used Audacity for a couple of years, so the cloud storage stuff added in 2024 is new to me showing up during insta…
I think Musehub.com is a sister project within Muse Group that helps mitigate the cost of paying professional developers to work on Audacity and MuseScore. In the case of Muse Score it also provides a marketplace for third parties. I don’t use it but I can see why it exists…ordinary folks expect cloud services these days. And if I had a different use case, it would help me get stuff done. But for what it’s worth with…
A lot of projects propose cloud storage without trying to force it on you. More the How than the What which is questionable here.
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I think Musehub.com is a sister project within Muse Group that helps mitigate the cost of paying professional developers to work on Audacity and MuseScore. In the case of Muse Score it also provides a marketplace for third parties. I don’t use it but I can see why it exists…ordinary folks expect cloud services these days. And if I had a different use case, it would help me get stuff done. But for what it’s worth with…
Yes. And ? A lot of projects propose cloud storage without trying to force it on you. More the How than the What which is questionable here.
Add in all the people who just don’t care and there is only a relative handful of people who are bothered.
Now filter out the people who don’t use the software from that relative handful and there’s an actual handful of users who might have to find something else because everything isn’t for everyone.
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Sure and I agree. However Reddit is sometimes a source of sensational misunderstanding, fear, uncertainty, doubt and misinformation.
Who said anything about reddit?
I don’t know when it happened, but earlier in the week a non-tech member of staff, who was trying to install Audacity, called me really confused because it was asking about installing and then saving to some sort of cloud storage that was being pushed during the installation process. I personally haven’t used Audacity for a couple of years, so the cloud storage stuff added in 2024 is new to me showing up during insta…