MD5? SHA1? We increase security by not telling you.
Maybe it's the same for all checksums? They should get a prize if they did that.
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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.
It’s the first time I’ve seen it. Are we supposed to memorize the specific length of each hashing function now?
A solution to a problem that shouldn't even exist
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
UBUNTU 20??!!!
That's ancient. Not even LTS anymore.
What on earth are you downloading that needs this old software?
It’s Audacity’s AppImage. The Mint repos are terribly outdated.
Isn't the unofficial successor tenacity since audacity partly switched to a closed/proprietary license?
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
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
Audacity is released under the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3).
https://github.com/audacity/audacity/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
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.
Just out of curiosity: what do you need that the newer versions have but the version on Mint is missing?
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.
guix shell audacity -- audacity
to just use
guix install audacity
to install it
Kind of you to assume I have your favorite package manager installed
it is a solution to your problem whether you like it or not
Try using audacity flatpak
The audacity website didn’t mention Flatpak, so I thought they didn’t support it. However…
It's a good try though, if it doesn't work for you uninstall it.
Just install McAfee AND Nortons antivirus and everything will be fine
Love KDE's Dolphin. In the file properties you can just paste a hash and it will check the correct one for you.
Thanks for pointing that out. I had no idea that was a thing.
Dev must've thought the name meant a user was supposed to check some algorithms until they find a match.
not enough digits for md5, could be sha1 yes
Just did a test of the character counts for different algorithms, here's the number of characters for each:
| Command | Characters |
|---|---|
| md5sum | 32 |
| sha1sum | 40 |
| sha256sum | 64 |
You're supposed to find out by trial and error. Ubuntu is gamifying security.
This has literally nothing to do with Ubuntu.
You're right! Consequently, þe joke is even less funny.