MD5? SHA1? We increase security by not telling you.

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[–] 40 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It's not that uncommon because they have specific lengths, so usually just by the length you can know the checksum. Of course it's not perfect, but for file verification it's usually MD5, SHA1, or SHA256, so the length is enough to differentiate between them.

But yeah, dick move.

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  • [–] [S] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It’s the first time I’ve seen it. Are we supposed to memorize the specific length of each hashing function now?

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  • [–] 57 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Maybe it's the same for all checksums? They should get a prize if they did that.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    UBUNTU 20??!!!

    That's ancient. Not even LTS anymore.

    What on earth are you downloading that needs this old software?

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  • [–] [S] 19 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    It’s Audacity’s AppImage. The Mint repos are terribly outdated.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Isn't the unofficial successor tenacity since audacity partly switched to a closed/proprietary license?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It’s not the license. It’s the opt-in telemetry. I’m not sure if this is prepackaged binary or not. Either way, that’s why people switched

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I absolutely understand not liking opt-out telemetry. Do people generally not like opt-in telemetry? Is this really why the community shifted to a different project?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Given that they were planning to implement Yandex telemetry, I’m guessing the answer is yes. Plus they decided to age “limit” to 13+ to support these changes.

    If I could recall anything I ate today, I’d tell you what else I remember about audacity back then. As it stands, I can’t. So, sorry about that

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Just out of curiosity: what do you need that the newer versions have but the version on Mint is missing?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago

    The volume meter is cut off on my old version. I assume that Audacity reads the dimensions of my internal screen (2560px) instead of the one I’m actually using (1920px) when computing the width of the meter.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    guix shell audacity -- audacity

    to just use

    guix install audacity

    to install it

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  • Dev must've thought the name meant a user was supposed to check some algorithms until they find a match.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Love KDE's Dolphin. In the file properties you can just paste a hash and it will check the correct one for you.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    not enough digits for md5, could be sha1 yes

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You're supposed to find out by trial and error. Ubuntu is gamifying security.

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