Audacity telemetry backlash

What kind of fool would go to Github or similar to make a Pull Request on an open-source software like Audacity? Like what motivated him to come up with a foolish idea that would evolve into something shady? I've been using Audacity for basic adjustments and stuff, like adding Fade Out, re-exporting something in WAV format and making a mixtape by arranging portions of the tracks in order and making various adjustments. It's quite a free and open-source alternative to other tools with similar adjustments. At the time the controversy occurred recently, I looked up online to see if there's a forked version with offending features excluded and it seemed like there's one on Github but only its source code is available.

Some things about the telemetry features in Audacity that would get people angered was the usage of Google and Yandex-related metrical features for the sake of development improvement and other things. The other person who turned out to be the one working for Muse Group had made a new pull request with a new announcement, saying that they vowed to add error-reporting and software-update features and drop the telemetry bullshit after the backlash. The discussions there were mostly professional looking and it's right to be angry in a professional way over the backlash like this. Unfortunately, there's something uncool there as well in which someone defended that backlash by taking those angry people and ranters for losers. It might seem like he was trolling on them but they discussed about his immature behavior in a professional way. Some of the replies can tell that this is not the social media land.

Through the source code, the change-to-be was caught before the merge happened and Purism even had a news article about this. It even mentioned the fact that even with the privacy settings adjusted, you still can be tracked by some companies and that has been the famous example with some Google services and Windows 10 so it sounds like certain privacy settings are not real whatsoever. For a backlash like this for Audacity, once it happens, it will open doors to alternative-software-seeking like looking for a forked version that is more respectful than the original software. The last time the backlash happened at one of the Github repositories was over the Final Burn Alpha emulator which was forked by the same team excluding the offending developer into a new alternative that succeeded it.

MrGirl's questionable contents

As if MrGirl's positive review of that obscene Netflix movie, Cu***s, wasn't controversial enough, how about his own YouTube channel itself? Most of the contents will contain tons of inappropriate stuffs but the one that caught Tipster the attention was the music video MrGirl posted. I won't mention the video title but it surely sounded like MrGirl had gone quite deep sometime after having made and taken down that positive review video. That review video was made viral and stirred controversy at the time and he got called out and other stuffs for his actions. Man, what were his complaints about what happened to him at that time for when he made that music video that was easily as inappropriate as other contents he made?

Granted, about the videos of Top 10 worst movies of last year, not many of those videos had that movie in the list as if there were other movies much worse than that. There's another video from Tipster with regards to that movie although that involved a saga I won't mention things about in details but it took place sometime after the movie was released on Netflix.

Soulja Boy's response to criticism regarding TRDR Pocket

I can assure you that most of the videos about TRDR Pocket or other Soulja Boy game consoles are mostly negative due to his history of illegal game console manufacturing starting with pre-bundled games he doesn't have the rights and license for. As if the lesson and C&D given to him were nothing to him, he had the audacity to make positive comments on certain YouTubers' videos about the TRDR Pocket.

One thing that will piss you off like it did to me was that, from his response livestream about the fact that he got criticized for his actions, he mentioned that the earlier consoles like the Powkiddy A19 and the original Retroid Pocket were ripoffs of the TRDR Pocket when IN REALITY, ITS EXTERIOR SHELL LOOKED IDENTICAL to the one from the previous consoles. If the new specs are true, that makes a difference. HOWEVER, adding his history of manufacturing knockoff game consoles and the on-going skepticism of the TRDR Pocket as the two factors you should have, and you get something unbelievable and unconfirmed like the new specs for the TRDR Pocket and the inclusion of touchscreen. It's a shame that those things were mentioned in the Soulja Boy Edition of the console but not standard ones. Another trust-damaging thing he mentioned was that the TRDR Pocket console was made from scratch. That's what the Rangok Skies developers mentioned, like the assets being made from scratch and the game's credits seemed questionable with some sound effects stolen from other games in addition to the sound effects taken from freesound.org.

Again, there's no telling if the TRDR Pocket will actually arrive to the YouTubers' places or not but if it doesn't, it's basically a mistake repeated like there's no way to know if Soulja Boy will make amends for it or not. It's like he never learns the lesson after being given the C&D the last time. The way he responded to the criticism over the TRDR Pocket was like tantrum-throwing in my opinion but this blog post may as well qualify for an angry rant as the things he mentioned from that livestream are unspeakably eccentric. There will be no intentions to support his music if this keeps up with no time for mistake realization.