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Second public release of Encreecia has just been set free.

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I’ve (mostly) finished upgrading my laptop from Debian Etch (+ backports) to Lenny, and overall it was pretty smooth.

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word is going around that the RIAA asked social music service Last.fm for data about its user’s listening habits to find people with unreleased tracks on their computers. And Last.fm, which is owned by CBS, actually handed the data over to the RIAA.

via Did Last.fm Just Hand Over User Listening Data To the RIAA?.

[ I think when I started using last.fm again recently, I asked someone if it wasn't just a very convenient way of giving the MAFIAA a nice index to sue users based on, and the idea was dismissed as insane ]

Russ comments:

Of course we work with the major labels and provide them with broad statistics, as we would with any other label, but we’d never personally identify our users to a third party – that goes against everything we stand for. [1]

Update 2009-02-23: RIAA has denied this as well. Which is why I’m seriously considering the chance that such a leak occurred…

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Finally. About time – this has been requested several times since 2006 or so.

The announcement: Git now available for SF.net hosted projects.

Interestingly, the features page mentions that there is no quota. In that sense, SourceForge seems to be better off than other git services that have a “soft” quota (repo.or.cz has 100 MB for example).

Some pros/cons:

• The write access permissions must be explicitly granted, which is quite different from how Gitorious works.
• There is no mirror mode (what repo.or.cz has) – you can only push to the repo.

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More or less. I got a lot of new ideas & important feedback. Six of us joined:

• Oak
• aGu
• beardy
• Targhar
• eladan
• xeno

There weren’t as many issues as I was expecting (testers might disagree), only major one was a last time change I did and blundered.

Thanks to everyone!

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Encreecia 0.0.9 has been released just now. This is the first public release, and comprises of two years of development and 14k+ lines of Java source (including newlines & comments). It marks my biggest single Free Software contribution so far, and hopefully the last big one, ever. From now on, I hopefully Release Early & Often

For a short flashback to the background of this project, check out the history page. Or go straight for the screenshots.

41d966ea51c20d40fd46114cc44ba66e3a09af4a  jfealdia-client-v0.0.9.zip
b42f8c9198046cacd5eef728df151f7770b5ebce  jfealdia-src-v0.0.9.zip

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