Peter Sanchez @PeterSanchez@mastodon.social

https://www.al.com/news/2021/07/im-sorry-but-its-too-late-alabama-doctor-on-treating-unvaccinated-dying-covid-patients.html

70% of alabama is unvaccinated.

Fun fact, Freenode owns libera.net. Of course, irc.libera.net redirects to chat.freenode.net.

Replacement for Audacity

So, what is actually a decent replacement for audacity.

Less Mixing, and more just waveform editor on linux, can't be too complicated, and can't be ridiculously plebeian, such as being based on TK.(needs Qt OR GTK)

Needs to work on linux, X11, and pulse audio. Pulse audio? If it runs directly on ALSA, it interferes with the system running pulse. Not looking to run jack

Hi #fediverse if you use the #opensource software #Audacity it's time to find something else to use. It is now collecting personal data from users!

Let's #askfediverse - what alternative #foss app would you recommend to replace Audacity?

Harvard study looks at 7300+ #blacklivesmatter protests in all 50 U.S. states; finds 95% of them had 0 arrests; 96.3% had 0 property damage; & 97.7% had 0 reported injuries to anyone.
"When there was violence, very often police or counterprotesters were reportedly directing it at the protesters." E.G. the 104 vehicle attacks against #blm protestors over the last several months.
https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news-and-ideas/black-lives-matter-protesters-were-overwhelmingly-peaceful-our-research-finds

Coca-Cola: Palestine is offensive. Israel is kosher.

https://us.coca-cola.com/store/personalized-bottle

#Palestine #FreePalestine #BoycottDivestmentSanctions #BDS #CocaCola

Wonder why houses are selling like crazy? Here might be the reason why. Read the thread.

https://imgur.com/gallery/JugI5k0

please boost this toot! any recommendations for a dehumidifier? preferably one that's very cost-effective and not too expensive

Linus Torvalds drops the mic on antivaxxers on the Linux kernel mailing list.

https://lore.kernel.org/ksummit/CAHk-=wiB6FJknDC5PMfpkg4gZrbSuC3d391VyReM4Wb0+JYXXA@mail.gmail.com/

Law enforcement agencies have circulated backdoored "AN0M" smartphones: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-and-afp-created-a-fake-encrypted-chat-platform-to-catch-criminals/

If you want secure encryption without backdoors, open source is central. Tutanota has been published as open source since 2014: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/open-source-email/ #encryption #foss

> ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing.

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax

If I were a developer, I would simply not use GitHub.

remember voat? where such subreddits as r/fatpeoplehate r/pizzagate, r/incels moved when reddit kicked them to the curb

telnet irc.voat.co 6667
Trying 107.167.8.10...
Connected to irc.voat.co.
Escape character is '^]'.
:redondo.freenode.net NOTICE * :*** Looking up your hostname...

#freenode