Hey everyone! 9 months after we started our rebase adventure, we're finally complete. The result is Tenacity 1.4 alpha 1, which contains several new features, improvements, and plenty of other new goodies!

The first highlight of this release is the fact that Tenacity is now based on Audacity 3.7.5. This means that Tenacity now has realtime effects, beats and bars support, new toolbars and a new toolbar layout, basically anything that was introduced in Audacity since about 3.0.4 or such. Yes, all networking features have been removed, including the new cloud integrations that were introduced in newer versions of Audacity.

The second highlight of this release is also how we restored our CI. For end users, this doesn't mean much except one thing: nightly builds are back! You can visit tenacityaudio.org/nightly to download them (this is a new convenience redirect link). This should help ease testing pre-release versions of Tenacity as users no longer need to compile the latest development version of Tenacity from source.

In addition to there being nightly builds, our CI restoration also means one thing: we now have a new Windows on ARM build! Unlike our other Windows builds, this build requires Windows 11 or later. In addition, in this release, we will not be shipping FFmpeg builds for Windows on ARM. Instead, that will be done in the next release, 1.5.

Despite us restoring CI, you may notice that there are no longer any macOS nightly builds unlike in times past. Unfortunately, macOS builds are currently failing due to a theme system related issue, and we will not be fixing it as we are pending a theme system rewrite anyways. By 1.4 alpha 2, we will have some form of macOS builds restored, though we can't guarantee that they will work.

Finally, we are aware of a few issues with 1.4 alpha 1, the most notable being that our themes are missing. Regarding the themes, this is intentional because, as mentioned earlier, we are waiting on a theme system rewrite to be complete. Once that's complete, we will port over our themes to the new theme system and then they'll be restored.

As usual, we do appreciate any and all feedback! We hope you enjoy this nice little preview of what's to come, but be warned that this is only the start of what's to come! 😀

P.S. Apologies for the delay on making this post. For some reason, programming.dev was having some 504 gateway timeout errors. Only now was I finally able to make this post.

Our knowledge of anything—morality, time, of the experience, science, history, philosophy, math, and even the influence of the divine to whatever extent that we keep alive or "living" via our unique and profound ability to retain and transfer knowledge in contrast to nature, is a consequence of being as conscious to both ourselves and everything else as we humans sure seem to be. Sure, we may give life or create any degree of knowledge of morality or time, but that doesn't make them not real. Sure, we give life to there being a past and a future via the images of either or that we instill in our minds through our imaginations, and right now may be the only time there is, but that doesn't make time itself not real or cease to exist if theres something not capable of giving life to it so to speak, as we can plainly see when we observe something decaying or measure how long something has existed for. Of course the same can be said of our knowledge of morality no matter the source, like religion, stoicism, or even a proverb from where or whenever. Our knowledge of morality is of course born out of our imaginations as well, but more specifically when it comes to morality: Our unique and profound ability to imagine ourselves in someone or something else's shoes and really try to imagine feeling all that they're feeling, or in other words: Empathy (the law and the prophets as a whole that were meant to be fulfilled; "love thy neighbor as thyself").

All knowledge exists with or without something capable of acknowledging it or to give life to it so to speak; it's there waiting for something to come along and reveal it. Therefore, anything conscious enough to retain any degree of knowledge is only capable of behaving out of what it presently knows, making anythings doing a doing out of a lack of knowledge; an ignorance. This is what Socrates meant when he said all evil is born out of an ignorance (Socrates on ignorance and evil:
sparknotes.com/philosophy/apol…) because of course lack of knowledge to any degree is going to come along with our unique and profound ability to acknowledge any extent of it in the first place. Which in turn makes all lack of knowledge therefore to be just as much of a consequence of consciousness as any possession of knowledge to any degree. This is the knowing necessary to gain the understanding, thus, will to forgive any lack of knowledge to any extent we all encounter at some point, in some way or another throughout our lives.

"And the Lord said, 'And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?” - Jonah 4:11

"Know thyself." - The first of three Ancient Greek maxims chosen to be inscribed into the Temple of Apollo where the Oracle of Delphi resided in Ancient Greece

"When you can understand everything [things] you can forgive anything." - Leo Tolstoy

Disclamer: I'm not a Christian; knowledge is knowledge no matter the source and no matter what we've rendered it ever since its been revealed and labeled.

When Tolstoy speaks of Christianity, he's referring to his more objective, philosophical, non-supernatural interpretation of his translation of the Gospels: The Gospel In Brief. For context: lemmy.world/post/23133528

"In the beginning stood the knowledge of life ["I am WHO I AM;" consciousness], as the foundation of all things. Knowledge of life stood in the place of God. Knowledge of life is God. According to Jesus's proclamation, it stands as the basis and source of all things, in the place of God. All that lives was born into life through knowledge. And without it, there can be nothing living. Knowledge gives true life. Knowledge is the light of life. It is the light that shines in the darkness and the darkness cannot extinguish it. The true light [knowledge] has always been in the world and it illuminates every person born into the world. It was in the world and the world is living only because it had that light of knowledge within itself, but the world did not hold on to it. It revealed itself to its own, but its own did not keep it. Only the ones who understood the knowledge, they alone were given the opportunity to become like it, by virtue of their belief in its essence. Those who believed in the fact that life is based in knowledge did not become sons of the flesh, but became sons of knowledge. And the knowledge of life manifested itself in the flesh, through the person of Jesus Christ, and we understood his meaning that the son of knowledge, a man in the flesh ["man (humans) are the son of God"], the only begotten of the father, begotten from the source of life, is the same as the father, the same as the source of life. The teaching of Jesus is the perfect and true faith. Because by fulfilling the teaching of Jesus we have come to understand a new faith in place of the old ["a teaching (a general knowledge) that gives meaning to life"]. The law had been given through Moses, but we have come to understand the true faith, based on the attaining of knowledge, through Jesus Christ. Nobody has seen God and nobody ever will; only the son, the one who is within the father, he alone has shown the path of life." Leo Tolstoy, The Gospel In Brief, "Introduction: Knowledge of Life"

Our knowledge of anything—morality, time, of the experience, science, history, philosophy, math, and even the influence of the divine to whatever extent that we keep alive or "living" via our unique and profound ability to retain and transfer knowledge in contrast to nature, is a consequence of being as conscious to both ourselves and everything else as we humans sure seem to be. Sure, we may give life or create any degree of knowledge of morality or time, but that doesn't make them not real. Sure, we give life to there being a past and a future via the images of either or that we instill in our minds through our imaginations, and right now may be the only time there is, but that doesn't make time itself not real or cease to exist if theres something not capable of giving life to it so to speak, as we can plainly see when we observe something decaying or measure how long something has existed for. Of course the same can be said of our knowledge of morality no matter the source, like religion, stoicism, or even a proverb from where or whenever. Our knowledge of morality is of course born out of our imaginations as well, but more specifically when it comes to morality: Our unique and profound ability to imagine ourselves in someone or something else's shoes and really try to imagine feeling all that they're feeling, or in other words: Empathy (the law and the prophets as a whole that were meant to be fulfilled; "love thy neighbor as thyself").

All knowledge exists with or without something capable of acknowledging it or to give life to it so to speak; it's there waiting for something to come along and reveal it. Therefore, anything conscious enough to retain any degree of knowledge is only capable of behaving out of what it presently knows, making anythings doing a doing out of a lack of knowledge; an ignorance. This is what Socrates meant when he said all evil is born out of an ignorance (Socrates on ignorance and evil:
sparknotes.com/philosophy/apol…) because of course lack of knowledge to any degree is going to come along with our unique and profound ability to acknowledge any extent of it in the first place. Which in turn makes all lack of knowledge therefore to be just as much of a consequence of consciousness as any possession of knowledge to any degree. This is the knowing necessary to gain the understanding, thus, will to forgive any lack of knowledge to any extent we all encounter at some point, in some way or another throughout our lives.

"And the Lord said, 'And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?” - Jonah 4:11

"Know thyself." - The first of three Ancient Greek maxims chosen to be inscribed into the Temple of Apollo where the Oracle of Delphi resided in Ancient Greece

"When you can understand everything [things] you can forgive anything." - Leo Tolstoy

Disclamer: I'm not a Christian; knowledge is knowledge no matter the source and no matter what we've rendered it ever since its been revealed and labeled.

When Tolstoy speaks of Christianity, he's referring to his more objective, philosophical, non-supernatural interpretation of his translation of the Gospels: The Gospel In Brief. For context: lemmy.world/post/25679868

"In the beginning stood the knowledge of life ["I am WHO I AM;" consciousness], as the foundation of all things. Knowledge of life stood in the place of God. Knowledge of life is God. According to Jesus's proclamation, it stands as the basis and source of all things, in the place of God. All that lives was born into life through knowledge. And without it, there can be nothing living. Knowledge gives true life. Knowledge is the light of life. It is the light that shines in the darkness and the darkness cannot extinguish it. The true light [knowledge] has always been in the world and it illuminates every person born into the world. It was in the world and the world is living only because it had that light of knowledge within itself, but the world did not hold on to it. It revealed itself to its own, but its own did not keep it. Only the ones who understood the knowledge, they alone were given the opportunity to become like it, by virtue of their belief in its essence. Those who believed in the fact that life is based in knowledge did not become sons of the flesh, but became sons of knowledge. And the knowledge of life manifested itself in the flesh, through the person of Jesus Christ, and we understood his meaning that the son of knowledge, a man in the flesh ["man (humans) are the son of God"], the only begotten of the father, begotten from the source of life, is the same as the father, the same as the source of life. The teaching of Jesus is the perfect and true faith. Because by fulfilling the teaching of Jesus we have come to understand a new faith in place of the old ["a teaching (a general knowledge) that gives meaning to life"]. The law had been given through Moses, but we have come to understand the true faith, based on the attaining of knowledge, through Jesus Christ. Nobody has seen God and nobody ever will; only the son, the one who is within the father, he alone has shown the path of life." Leo Tolstoy, The Gospel In Brief, "Introduction: Knowledge of Life"

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Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)