Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Audacity 2.2.0 Released
98 bugs/annoyances in 2.1.3 fixed.
New:
– Playback of MIDI files (really? It’s 2017. Are people still using this?)
– 4 new themes (dark below).
– Better organized menus (definitely needed).
– Help link buttons in many dialogs lead to the relevant manual pages (what did they lead to before?).
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Edge Sucks And Everyone Knows It
16% market share and falling.

Oh No He Didn’t
Tim Cooke called out Social Media because, “some of these tools are used to divide people, to manipulate people, to get fake news to people in broad numbers so as to influence their thinking.” I agree, well, actually I think social media is proof of humanities downfall and is the offspring of the devil and the Borg queen.

Off Topic

Anthony Bourdain Hates Yelpers
But Twitter and Instagram are OK?

$200 Beer That Is Illegal In 12 States
Sam Adams has a 28% ABV show stopper. Maybe 20 of us can chip in and we each get a sip?

Houston Astros Are Champs!
And Justin Verlander got his ring.

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Nvidia 388.13 WHQL Drivers
“Provides the optimal gaming experience for Call of Duty: WWII, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, and Need for Speed Payback”
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Off Topic

Linus Would Be Proud
Youngstown State University got 972 people to dress up as penguins and broke a world record. Wait, there’s a world record for that?!
Are you Linux Geeks gonna sit there and take this???

Yes Sir, I Have My Scars
Some dude bought some old pictures for 2 dollars. Turns out it was of Billy The Kid and a couple of his fellow Regulators! Should be worth some bank and is a cool find.
I still choose to believe Brushy Bill Roberts was Billy!.

Browser Updates
Chrome 62.0.3202.75 (32-bit here.)
Firefox 56.0.2
Tor Browser 7.0.8

Software Updates
Adobe Flash Player 27.0.0.183. Download for Firefox, Opera or Internet Explorer
CrystalDiskMark 5.5.0
EMDB 3.05
Mp3tag 2.85

Twankers
The Twits at Twitter overstated the number of users for many years. They claim their users number around 330 million. No word on how many of those are fake accounts and bots. Although I’ve run into few accounts there that weren’t too bad, most seem to be filled with self-serving, lying twaddle. Maybe that’s why A third of America wouldn’t care if Twitter disappeared.

A KeyGen? Really?
I didn’t even know these things were still floating around! Anywho…
Some dude at the NSA disabled his AV (Kaspersky), tried to use a fake key generator, got pawned, NSA stuff exposed.
So says Kaspersky anyway. Source: El Reg

Off Topic

MegaRipoff
Already at ridiculous odds, Megamillions odds just got worse and more expensive to play.
“Starting on Saturday, tickets will cost $2…the odds of winning the jackpot will get worse jumping from 1 in 258.9 million in this week’s drawings to 1 in 302.6 million.