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Re:Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash repor... by _bmeo on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @06:10AM (#27746263)
Creator of the fork here.

Had some troubles, as we (and I personally, and my loved ones) were hit by a 4chan raid. Take the comments in the issues on GitHub with a grain of salt, it's impossible to get ahead of this.

Need to wait for things to cool down to be able to organize everything later.

Anyways, AMA or something :)

Re:Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash repor... by dial_8 on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @07:23AM (#27746887)
> they also called me on my pinephone. More than 70 calls. [1]

That's rather horrible. Do you know where they might've found your pinephone number?

[1]: https://twitter.com/cookiengineer/status/1412201646378131459

Re:Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash repor... by TLLtchvL8KZ on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @10:14AM (#27748871)
>This Tweet is unavailable.

Strange.

Re:Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash repor... by dial_8 on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @10:21AM (#27748984)
Yeah the author deleted the tweet moments after I asked the question... I thought I messed up the link but that doesn't seem to be the case.

I just found it rather scary how these 4chan trolls are able to find his pinephone number despite it not being on his website or any of his social media.

Re:Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash repor... by diogenesjunior on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @10:27AM (#27749069)
Re:Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash repor... by southerntofu on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @07:42AM (#27747078)
Hello, long time (occasional) user of audacity here, who doesn't mind opt-in telemetry but surely is very angry at opt-out telemetry!

What's your personal view (and that of others reading this thread) on software freedom and how to develop free software?

I'm glad you people went with libera.chat and not Telegram. IRC is standard tech that can be bridged from Matrix/XMPP (and others). But what about github? I don't think github is fit for free software development (being a centralized, non-free platform) but i understand the argument that everybody's on there. More specifically, do you have infrastructure for the website/CI/CD so you don't have to rely on Github Pages/Actions?

Re:Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash repor... by southerntofu on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @07:46AM (#27747105)
One more question: what's your take on reproducible builds? I'm personally interested in systems like GNU/guix and NixOS which are functional package managers.

It seems like a good fit to get started to build binary builds in a reliable manner. Are you familiar with such tech? (or someone from your team)

Re:Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash repor... by ushakov on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @06:47AM (#27746566)
hey, could you make a blogpost about this whole 4chan story?

i think it would be an interesting peace to read for any FOSS dev

Re:Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash repor... by adsfasdfadsf222 on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @09:27AM (#27748217)
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Re:Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash repor... by adsfasdfadsf222 on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @09:28AM (#27748220)
Re:Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash repor... by arpstick on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @08:23AM (#27747486)
do you happen to have a list of the phone numbers harassing you so i can pre-preemptively block them for the future?
Re:Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash repor... by _bmeo on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @01:08PM (#27751371)
[deleted]

Touche, realized I was being trolled again.

Re:Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash repor... by arboles on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @01:25PM (#27751613)
That's rather embarrassing for the Pinephone project, maybe you should file a bug report? Edit: In the original tweet[0] you said it didn't crash?? Be sure to include the timeline of events and plenty of details in the bug report ok

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20210706000825/https://twitter.c...

Re:Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash repor... by sneeds on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @01:50PM (#27751952)
Obviously it crashed exactly on the 71st call. Just bad timing.
Re:Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash repor... by TLLtchvL8KZ on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @02:10PM (#27752214)
Deleted comment: https://i.postimg.cc/5ymLdYnp/1625592314739.png

You ever watch Judge Judy? She says quite often "If you tell the truth you don't have to have a good memory."

Re:Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash repor... by oscribinn on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @01:32PM (#27751709)
Man, I wish I had this level of truth-telling skill.

Original comment: https://files.catbox.moe/p41sbh.png

Re:Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash repor... by DesuDesu12 on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @07:36AM (#27747018)
Damn, could you tell us how to protect our own private information from these steroid-taking 4chan goons? What did you do wrong?