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First Look at Audacity 4: A Beautiful and Modern Revamp of the Audio Editor

I just remembered that I’ve been using Audacity on and off for about 20 years now. It’s always been the go-to program whenever I needed to trim an audio file or glue two tracks into one, or just extract a sample from an audio track. For me, Audacity was highly effective and reliable for this specific use case.

Shelly 2.3.3 Package Manager for Arch Linux Improves Flatpak/AppImage Support

Shelly is a modern reimagination and alternative to Arch Linux’s default package manager, supporting third-party app stores like AUR and Flathub, as well as AppImages. Shelly comes with both a graphical UI and a CLI version. CachyOS recently adopted Shelly as the default GUI package manager.

First Look at Antergos NeXT: A Modern Revival of Antergos Linux with KDE Plasma

Antergos Linux was created by developers Alexandre Filgueira, Gustau Castells, and Dustin Falgout back in 2012 as an unofficial Cinnamon flavor of the popular and flexible Arch Linux distribution. It was initially called Cinnarch (Cinnamon on Arch), but the developers renamed it Antergos in 2013.

GStreamer 1.28.4 Adds Support for FLAC Decoding and New Codec Profile Mappings

The GStreamer 1.28.4 release adds various new codec mime/profile mappings for WMV, VC1, AC3/EAC3/AC4, AAC, and H.265, as well as support decoding for FLAC files on Android, and support for SRTP, authentication, HTTP tunnelling, keep alive, stream selection, TLS validation, and latency configuration to the RTSP client plugin.

Systemd-Free Peppermint OS Devuan Is Now Based on Devuan 6 Excalibur

Based on the latest Devuan 6 “Excalibur” series, which is based on the Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system series, Peppermint OS Devuan ships with three init systems, including SysVinit, OpenRC, and runit, and features the lightweight Xfce 4.20 desktop environment by default.

KDE Frameworks 6.27 Is Out to Improve KRunner, Breeze Icons, and More

The KDE Frameworks 6.27 release is here to improve the display of disk sizes shown in various places across the Plasma desktop to fully respect your preference regarding storage units, and switching between light and dark Global Themes to prevent various Plasma UI elements from changing their colors halfway.

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M5Stack LLM-8850 Kit delivers 24 TOPS AI acceleration in M.2 form factor

The LLM-8850 Kit is an M.2-based AI accelerator designed for edge AI, embedded inference, video analytics, and multimodal large-model workloads. It combines the LLM-8850 Card, a compact M.2 M-Key 2242 module based on the Axera AX8850 SoC, with a PiHat adapter board for the Raspberry Pi 5.

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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 15, 2024

Idyllic sunrise on a Costa Blanca beach, Alicante, Spain

Updated This Past Day

  1. Microsoft Windows Down to 23% in Spain
    the rate of change is noteworthy
  2. Truth is Always Truth
    Desperate efforts to suppress the truth resulted in even worse chaos and some people are going to pay for it
  3. GNOME Foundation Welcomes Dolly
    It didn't work out with Molly and Holly
  4. A Response to Bill Maher's Senseless Attacks on Julian Assange and Wikileaks
    published a few hours ago
  5. The List of Sites or Sources for Linux News is Getting Shorter Over Time (Despite GNU and Linux Steadily Growing in Usage)
    A lack of publishing begets lack of educated, informed population (a return to Dark Ages where rulers leverage mass ignorance)

    New

  6. Debian History Harassment & Abuse culture evolution
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  7. [Meme] It Is Not About Empowerment, It's About Optics for Bigots and Businessmen
    Truth hurts
  8. Android Surges to New Highs in Georgia, Windows Plunges to 30% (It Was 99% in 2012)
    Until 2012 almost all Web requests there came from Windows
  9. Another Casualty of the 'GAI' Ponzi Scheme: Most of the News Cycle and News Sites
    accelerated death of journalism
  10. Empowering Predators Who Fancy Exercising Control Over Women (Using Corporate Money)
    Remember this when Google talks about diversity, women etc.
  11. GNU/Linux Continues Its Rapid Growth in July, Today We Look at Belgium
    Again, a word of caution: statCounter isn't a perfect yardstick
  12. Links 14/07/2024: Goldman Sachs Says 'Advanced' or 'Generative' Hey Hi (AI) is Just Hype, Thoughts on Negatives
    Links for the day
  13. Links 14/07/2024: Perils for AI PC Hype Train, Further Attacks on Freedom of the Press
    Links for the day
  14. The Number of Web Servers Has Gone Down
    Cloud fatigue deux?
  15. [Meme] GNOME Foundation's Relationship With Women
    Lots more coming soon, so stay tuned
  16. The Smugness of "I'm a Journalist"
    Attacking women for expressing their opinions (for example, about the abuse they received) isn't unprecedented
  17. It Takes No Courage to Become Another Corporate Stooge
    transition to spam
  18. Why Techrights Has Just Programmatically Blacklisted ZDNet
    Even their "Linux" writers are AWOL
  19. Gemini Links 14/07/2024: The Stress of 24/7 Notifications and FOSS tools for Sipeed Tang Nano 1K
    Links for the day
  20. Windows Already Down to 10% in Lao (It was 96% a Decade and a Half Ago), Vista 11 Adoption Has Stalled
    And GNU/Linux is topping a 1-year high in Loa
  21. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, July 13, 2024
    IRC logs for Saturday, July 13, 2024
  22. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Sunday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2024-07-08 to 2024-07-14
    /n/2024/07/09/ZDNet_Kills_the_Linux_RSS_Feed_Syndication_Redirected_to_Loads_.shtml
    2037 /n/2024/07/08/What_s_Growing_in_the_United_States_This_Year_is_GNU_Linux_Not_.shtml
    1885 /n/2024/07/08/Debian_Needs_a_Significant_Change_of_Direction_and_Recognition_.shtml
    1577 /n/2024/07/10/Apple_s_Main_Competition_Isn_t_Microsoft_But_Low_Cost_Chromeboo.shtml
    1515 /n/2024/07/08/5_Days_Have_Passed_and_Microsoft_Still_Refuses_to_Say_How_Many_.shtml
    1122 /n/2024/07/13/Holly_Million_GNOME_Foundation_departure_after_Albanian_whistle.shtml
    1061 /n/2024/07/12/EPO_Staff_Representatives_Say_It_Has_Gotten_Very_Hard_to_Get_Pr.shtml

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