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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.

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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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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 02, 2025

Vintage Physical World Map.

Updated This Past Day

  1. Microsoft FakeHub: Identity Theft in Microsoft GitHub (Microsoft Won't Bother Addressing It; It Gives a False Impression of Adoption by GNU/Linux Veterans)
    This is the same company that kept intact deleted accounts and counted them as if they're live and active (to hide the gradual abandonment and demise of the "hub")
  2. Microsoft Tries to Force People Into Vista 11 by Stopping Vista 10 Patching, Herding Them Into TPMdom
    It's backfiring
  3. CyberShow Blog Upgraded, RSS Feed Added
    CyberShow Blog has just had somewhat of a facelift
  4. [Meme] The Microsoft Syndrome
    Typical Microsoftism

    New

  5. Last Day of 2024 Was Spent by Brittany Day Publishing Only Fake 'Articles' (LLM Slop) About "Linux", Joined by Serial Slopper Brian Fagioli
    Not even a holiday was enough to stop Day from "spamming" the Web with fake 'articles' (LLM slop) about "Linux"
  6. Gemini Links 01/01/2025: Looking Back at 2024 and Happy 2025
    Links for the day
  7. Addendum: What the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) Really Is
    Not serum free light chains (SFLC)
  8. Sitting on a Mountain of Money (Almost 8 Million Dollars) is "Pro Bono"
    Does the general public realise what SFC is?
  9. Software Freedom Conservancy Inc (SFC) Lost Revenue and Also Got Rid of "Senior Director of Diversity and Inclusion" (Sage A Sharp, Formerly Known as Sarah Sharp, Who Ran an Ill-Spirited Campaign Against Linus Torvalds, Theodore Tso, and Other Prominent Linux Developers)
    Not much needs to be said; a little needs to be shown (from an authoritative source, the IRS)
  10. In Operating Systems, Google Was the Biggest Winner in 2024
    Nevertheless, 10% of the managers are to be laid off shortly (after a leak led to confirmation by the CEO)
  11. FSF-EEE (Colonial Splinter Group Based in Germany) Promotes Microsoft
    New and misleading
  12. Did GAFAM or IBM 'Downgrade' Pensions to 'Insurance' (Which Can be Denied)?
    'Insurance' does not mean what it may sound like
  13. Gemini Protocol Continued to Grow in 2024
    it's no longer hosted from home
  14. GNU/Linux Gained About 0.5% Last Year, According to StatCounter
    2024 ended with "proper" GNU/Linux at +0.4%, ChromeOS at +0.1% (based on statCounter/StatCounter)
  15. Geoffrey Knauth, FSF President and Treasurer, Comments on the FSF Raising Over $300,000
    Now almost $304,000
  16. Links 01/01/2025: Whistleblowers Shunned, EU/Germany Blasts Twitter (X, MElon) Interference
    Links for the day
  17. Mother of OpenAI Whistleblower Says Her Son Was Murdered (He Accused OpenAI of Copyright Violations at a Massive Scale, OpenAI is Running Out of Money That It Borrowed)
    "Mother of OpenAI Whistleblower Alleges He Was Murdered, Says There Were Signs of Struggle"
  18. Housekeeping and Productivity
    The less we tinker with those things (system administration tasks), the more we can write and curate links
  19. The Engineering Side in 2024: A Look Back, Taking Stock
    uptime was somewhere around 99.95%
  20. Dr. Andy Farnell Nominates Gromit the Dog "as an Unlikely Hacker Hero."
    The world needs more decent engineers
  21. The Free Software Foundation's (FSF) Holiday Fund-Raising Campaign Reaches About $303,000
    in some parts of the US it's still 2024
  22. Gemini Links 01/01/2025: Reflecting on 2024 and FSMs
    Links for the day
  23. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  24. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, December 31, 2024
    IRC logs for Tuesday, December 31, 2024
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Wednesday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2024-12-26 to 2025-01-01
    1608 /n/2024/12/30/In_2024_Under_Linux_Foundation_Management_Linux_com_Produced_an.shtml
    1553 /n/2024/12/25/Brittany_Day_Can_Rest_and_Let_Microsoft_Chatbots_Write_Fake_Art.shtml
    1314 /n/2024/12/29/Move_to_GNU_Linux_and_Save_the_Planet_CCC_Talk_Explains.shtml
    786 /n/2025/01/01/GNU_Linux_Gained_About_0_5_Last_Year_According_to_StatCounter.shtml
    599 /n/2024/12/27/Gemini_Links_27_12_2024_Slop_and_Self_hosting.shtml
    579 /n/2024/12/27/Small_Codebase_is_Typically_Safer_More_Aftermarket_Snakeoil_Mea.shtml
    573 /n/2024/12/29/New_Year_s_Resolution_for_Techrights_No_More_Very_Short_Posts.shtml
    540 /n/2024/12/25/Gemini_Links_25_12_2024_Reality_Bites_and_Gopher_Thanks.shtml
    540 /n/2024/12/27/Links_27_12_2024_Perfect_Desk_Banning_Cellphones_Many_Cables_Cu.shtml
    528 /n/2024/12/28/Gemini_Links_29_12_2024_Supernatural_Mystery_and_Mechanical_Peo.shtml
    505 /n/2024/12/30/A_Free_Software_Foundation_FSF_Led_by_Dr_Richard_Stallman_Can_S.shtml

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