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.
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?
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
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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bufalo1973@piefed.europe.pub · 62 pts · 335d
Maybe it's the same for all checksums? They should get a prize if they did that.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 335d
The grand unified file.
MTK@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 335d
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.
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz · 26 pts · 335d
It’s the first time I’ve seen it. Are we supposed to memorize the specific length of each hashing function now?
MTK@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 335d
Cyberchef is your friend
https://cyberchef.io/
Uss the magic module or "analyze hash"
some_random_nick@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 335d
A solution to a problem that shouldn't even exist
Tenkard@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 335d
I'd just run the cli commands to check it
md5 filename sha256 filename
Etc.
As the other user said it should be one of the main ones
somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 27 pts · 335d
UBUNTU 20??!!!
That's ancient. Not even LTS anymore.
What on earth are you downloading that needs this old software?
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz · 19 pts · 335d
It’s Audacity’s AppImage. The Mint repos are terribly outdated.
MrSoup@lemmy.zip · 30 pts · 335d
You better get Tenacity.
https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity/releases
https://flathub.org/apps/org.tenacityaudio.Tenacity
toffi@piefed.social · 7 pts · 335d
Isn't the unofficial successor tenacity since audacity partly switched to a closed/proprietary license?
hddsx@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 335d
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
Lodra@programming.dev · 11 pts · 335d
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?
hddsx@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 335d
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
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 335d
https://github.com/audacity/audacity/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io · 1 pts · 335d
AFAIK the "issues" with Audacity were only that they added optional telemetry, and made the project lead a former Microsoft guy.
I may be wrong, I avoid looking too much into this type of drama.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 335d
Just out of curiosity: what do you need that the newer versions have but the version on Mint is missing?
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 335d
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.
Mwa@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 335d
Try using audacity flatpak
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 335d
The audacity website didn’t mention Flatpak, so I thought they didn’t support it. However…
Mwa@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 335d
It's a good try though, if it doesn't work for you uninstall it.
frankenswine@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 335d
to just use
to install it
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 335d
Kind of you to assume I have your favorite package manager installed
frankenswine@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 335d
it is a solution to your problem whether you like it or not
Greg@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 335d
Just install McAfee AND Nortons antivirus and everything will be fine
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 335d
Dev must've thought the name meant a user was supposed to check some algorithms until they find a match.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 7 pts · 335d
Love KDE's Dolphin. In the file properties you can just paste a hash and it will check the correct one for you.
JaxNakamura@programming.dev · 2 pts · 334d
Thanks for pointing that out. I had no idea that was a thing.
Magister@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 335d
not enough digits for md5, could be sha1 yes
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 335d
Just did a test of the character counts for different algorithms, here's the number of characters for each:
Sxan@piefed.zip · -2 pts · 335d
You're supposed to find out by trial and error. Ubuntu is gamifying security.
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 335d
This has literally nothing to do with Ubuntu.
Sxan@piefed.zip · -2 pts · 335d
You're right! Consequently, þe joke is even less funny.