I want to put together a stack for hobbyist midi music composition. I understand there are a few more components to it than one might expect, but I think VMPK and Qtracer are going to be part of it?
Here is my software set up for open source music making (I often use midi and audio input):
Core software: - Ardour as my DAW. - Liquid SFZ as my SFZ player. - SurgeXT as my soft synth.
For SFZ instruments: - Virtual Playing Orchesta (free full orchestra) - Versilion freeware instruments (mostly orchestra) - Blonde Bop drumkit
Raw samples: - samples.kb6.de for drum machine samples
For effects: - LSP plugins for my basics (eq, compression, etc) - Airwindows Plugins for fun effects (and some basics)
Ardour is supposed to have a midi related update for its next big release, so stay tuned.
From my perspective, the simplest set up would be Ardour and SFZ instruments. Mainly because I'm quite used to those two.
For set up you'd just open Ardour, make a new midi track, place liquidsfz as the first plugin on the track, then open liquidsfz and browse to the SFZ file you want to use.
Then you just draw in the midi notes you want using either the edit or draw tool.
I come from fl studio prod but I want to use ardour since I am trying to keep everything within linux now. What are the best synth instruments for ardour?
Whatever you end up using, have JACK sync 'em up. I used to have two Macs, one for recording with Nuendo and one for doing MIDI sequencing and programming. They synced via MIDI sync and there was always issues. Now I have everything on one Linux machine (Ardour records and mixes, Reaper sequences MIDI and Renoise does beats and other sampling related stuff) and with JACK the sync is seamless ❤
The new analysis contradicts the social media platform’s claims that exposure to hate speech and bot-like activity decreased during Elon Musk’s tenure.
Una roba come una settimana e mezza fa, ho visto un altro di quei bug stupidi e insignificanti, ma bizzarri ed inspiegabileggianti, sul mio amatissimo Windows 10… Poi però, non ho fatto il post subito per immortalare l’ops, perché girlfailure… E, visto che a schermo si vedono data ed ora, ovviamente in un punto scomodo […]
Una roba come una settimana e mezza fa, ho visto un altro di quei bug stupidi e insignificanti, ma bizzarri ed inspiegabileggianti, sul mio amatissimo Windows 10… Poi però, non ho fatto il post subito per immortalare l’ops, perché girlfailure… E, visto che a schermo si vedono data ed ora, ovviamente in un punto scomodo per tagliare, e mettere una censura sopra avrebbe reso ancora più evidente quello che avrei voluto nascondere… non mi sono sentita di farlo il giorno dopo… e ovviamente quello dopo anche peggio… Ma oggi è ricapitato!!! 🙀
Sulla schermata di blocco del mio computer, e a quanto pare su quelli di pochi altri utenti (gli unici sui quali l’ho visto sono appunto il mio fiisso e quello di non ricordo chi su Internet, mentre tutti gli altri PC Windows che vedo in giro non ce l’hanno), c’è questa specie di sezione che appare in basso, tipo un widget che replica le sezioni importanti dalla roba “News e Interessi”, probabilmente non disattivabile (ma tanto a me piace, visto che riempie lo schermo altrimenti mezzo vuoto…). Molto simpatica e brio-portante. 🙏 (Si, ecco qua: la schermata di oggi è di 6 ore fa, e quella passata è di 10 giorni fa… ormai ho già confessato, quindi non c’è rischio di mettermi in ridicolo ammettendo la mia inadeguatezza in cose particolari come questa. ❤️🩹) Peccato solo che, in alcuni giorni molto fortunati (per me che trovo scuse per scrivere, non per Microsoft che si prende l’ennesima presa per il culo sa parte mia), capita che il merdino parta rotto all’avvio del sistema. Poi si sistema da solo dopo qualche decina di secondi, per qualche motivo, però intanto per quel periodo iniziale non carica nessuna immagine o icona sul widget. Ci sono degli eclatanti spazi vuoti sulle varie schede: manca l’icona dello stato corrente su quella del meteo, e mancano le miniature degli articoli per le schede più a destra. 🙈
Una cosa per fortuna non da impazzirci, perché non mi dispererò se manca l’icona del sole sul mio monitor (specialmente ora, con questo caldo, soli non ne voglio vedere nemmeno in SVG) ma comunque una roba da pazzi! Non mi capacito di come possa succedere, banalmente. Se la connessione Internet funziona per prendere il testo da mostrare, allora deve funzionare anche per scaricare le immagini… (oltre al fatto che le icone del meteo dovrebbero stare in qualche cache, ma lo sappiamo che il software Microsoft non è mai ideale…) Boh, basta Minisoft… 🥴
Civil rights advocates and scholars say the US government’s claims are troubling indicators of rising authoritarianism
After New York City comptroller Brad Lander this week became the latest prominent Democrat to be arrested while monitoring and protesting US immigration authorities, the Trump administration trotted out a familiar refrain to justify his detention.
The mayoral candidate had “assaulted” law enforcement, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) asserted, warning “if you lay a hand on a law enforcement officer, you will face consequences”.
The accusation, which DHS has also recently leveled against a member of Congress and a high-profile union leader, have sparked consternation, particularly as videos of the incidents did not show the officials attacking officers and instead captured officers’ aggressive behavior and manhandling of the officials.
Speaking about AI-cheat students, Gary Ward, a teacher at Brookes Westshore High School in Victoria, British Columbia, told Business Insider, Some of the ones that I see...
New York City on Friday announced new minimum-pay rules for rideshare drivers, settling on a smaller-than-proposed 5% increase following pushback from Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc.
The ice that makes up glaciers isn't 100% solid – it's actually full of air bubbles, some of which formed centuries ago. Inspired by this fact, scientists have developed a method of using bubbles to store coded data in ice. The technology could actually have some practical applications.
"I worry that the fuel industry's gain comes at a reputational cost for this court, which is already viewed by many as being overly sympathetic to corporate interests," wrote Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in her dissent.
Voters described universal healthcare, affordable childcare, and higher taxes on the rich as top priorities in a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. But they were less likely to believe that party leaders shared those priorities.
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Sydney (AFP) – Australia's world-leading ban on under-16s joining social media sites cleared a big hurdle Friday as a trial found digital age checks can work "robustly and effectively".
Sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok and X could face fines of up to Aus$50 million (US$32 million) for failing to comply with the legislation, which was passed in November.
They have described the law -- which is due to come into effect by the end of this year -- as vague, rushed and "problematic".
There has been widespread concern over children's use of online platforms as evidence shows that social media can have negative effects on children's mental and physical health.
Digital age verification systems -- which would be critical to the ban -- can work, said the interim findings of an independent Age Assurance Technology Trial, conducted for the government.
"These preliminary findings indicate that age assurance can be done in Australia privately, robustly and effectively," it said.
There are "no significant technological barriers" to deploying age checking systems in Australia, said the trial's project director, Tony Allen.
"These solutions are technically feasible, can be integrated flexibly into existing services and can support the safety and rights of children online," he said in a statement.
In a separate interview with Australia's Nine Network, Allen said preventing children circumventing age verification tools was a "big challenge", however.
"I don't think anything is completely foolproof," he said.
There are a "plethora" of approaches to age verification but no single solution to suit all cases, said the trial report, in which 53 organisations took part.
Australia's legislation is being closely monitored by other countries, with many weighing whether to implement similar bans.
Greece spearheaded a proposal this month for the European Union to limit children's use of online platforms by setting an age of digital adulthood -- barring children from social media without parental consent.
The issue was never preventing childen from using it. Parental controls baked into every operating systems could do that for decades. But since that's not the real goal, you ignore that.
The issue is and always was collecting data from everyone to prevent children from using it. Then there are privacy issues, use of proprietary software, and inevitable data leaks. Will government take responsibility for each data leak due to their incompetence forcing this on everyone?
So while it's cool it "<...> can support the safety and rights of children online <...>", fuck off with your surveillance bill.
You’re assuming a Harris administration would have handled this significantly differently, when regime change in Iran has been bipartisan consensus ever since the 1978 revolution removed the puppet regime that the US installed in 1953.
A Harris presidency wouldn't be threatening nuclear action. But I totally agree. The entire system needs tossed. And if that's what you mean then say that. All this "Harris is the same" just promotes apathy at best, and derision between the left and liberals at worst at a time where unity is needed and doesn't even hint at "the system is broken".
A Harris presidency wouldn't be threatening nuclear action.
Sure they would. They'd just keep it out of the public eye. Otherwise, we'd dismantle all our nukes. Keeping them is a threat enough.
The entire system needs tossed. And if that's what you mean then say that.
I did, and I say that all the time. I'm openly an anarchist 🏴🏴🏴.
All this "Harris is the same" just promotes apathy at best, and derision between the left and liberals at worst at a time where unity is needed and doesn't even hint at "the system is broken".
Yes you absolutely should be apathetic to the circus of two-party politics. Of course we shouldn't be apathetic to the brutal realities of capitalism, but both parties already are, and following the "circus" at all directs attention away from the reality of capitalism because that's what it's designed to do.
And do not get me started on liberals and their derision. It literally does not matter how nice and flowery leftists make our ideas, liberals will always shit on them and side with the fash until they stop being liberals, because liberals are creatures of the right. So at some point, we gotta put our feet down and say "This is what we stand for, and if you're against that, you're against us." I'm willing to make "supporting one of the genocidaires is bad and should not be done" one of those things.
The constant "there's a dang Cheeto in the white house!" comes with the implication that anyone who wasn't "the Cheeto" would be meaningfully different in the role.
Particularly in 2016 - 2020 the implication was Hillary, now it's Harris, as that's who he ran against.
Edit: It's a focus on the individual in the role rather than the system itself, despite vast evidence that the problems are long term and systemic. Whether the intention or not, it's undeniably a liberal defense of the broader system itself.
Op says, 'I hate coke" and we respond "Pepsi is also bad" . This doesn't ever even imply that soda just sucks. It just shuts down discussion, makes us sound contrarian.
Born too early to be deployed to the middle east, born too late to be deployed to the middle east, born just in time to be deployed to the middle east.
I was gonna post this on Ask Lemmy, but then I thought maybe Technology would be a better fit for the theme. But then I saw it's mostly news, so I thought perhaps Ask Lemmy would indeed be a better fit. If this is not the case, please point me to the right direction.
As a heads-up, I am not 'Murican, and never been to 'Murica, so keep that in mind.
Seeing the recent news with France trying to age-restrict pornographic material online, I was wondering and have sort of an idea, that I wonder if it is actually doable and actually good.
Hear me out: the gobermint likely already has your data, right? At least stuff like name, date of birth, etc. The gobirment could have a private and secure service, which websites and services could use to confirm certain requirements.
For instance: A website wants to confirm if you're over 18. The website essentially asks the official gob. service, "is this user at least 18 years of age?". The official gob. service essentially has to answer "yes, your requirements are met" or "no, your requirements are not met", without giving away information on a person. The user gets prompted, being told what information is being required and whether they wish to share that. The official service wouldn't know where the request is coming from, but the original website requesting the information generates and shows a temporary code, which is not related to the website at all and is sent to the gob. service, so that the user can confirm it is indeed the website they were using that is requesting this, and not a hijack of some kind. The gob. service, if allowed by the user, sends out this confirmation to the original website, without the gob. service knowing the website and without the website knowing the user's info. The website then knows whether their requirements are met and can then act accordingly, such as by not allowing someone to access adult material if they do not meet the age requirement.
Does this make sense? Is it doable? Could it be a potential private and secure way of confirming user information without either party having access to the other's information? Obviously, the idea could be worked on and polished, but as a starting point.
Ayo I see you one down voter, just know you outed yourself as the top image.
But honestly bro same just accept it and shave. Join us in bald-hood and cap wearing. It's not so bad. (This is satire, I don't care if youre bald or not)
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Hair is 100% genetic, products ain't going to do shit about that. It's all just a scam targeted at insecure men who want to achieve unrealistic body standards pushed by society. Just own the bald, or don't, do what you want to do and fuck society.
I mean, yes, hair is genetic... but genetics also include epigenetics.
If you take two identical twins, both prone to alopecia, give one of them 45 years of nothing but unending stress, and the other a calm and relaxing life, I'm pretty confident your stressed out twin is gonna be more bald more quickly than the other.
But, to go back to general agreement: Yeah basically every common hairloss prevention whatever is a almost entirely a scam.
We're talking like... twice daily usage for months results in... 15 to 8 new hairs per sq centimeter, for rogaine/minoxidil.
Sure, technically, it does work... but just barely, and you'd have to keep using it forever, and even if you did, if you're prone to hairloss, you'll hit a follicle loss rate that exceeds the regrowth rate at some point.
I have some kind of alopecia, as a woman. It all started falling out when I was 14. I kept a pixie cut, dyed blonde, for over 15 years because of it. Crying in front of the mirror was inevitable all through those years.
Wasn't until my early 30s it started to.. idk, get a little fuller, but it's still thin. Luckily, I also stopped giving a fuck about it about then. I stopped cutting it, I stopped dying it. I now have long hair for the first time since I was 14.
When I met my husband, he wore a hat, indoors. Whenever we go out he wears a hat still. He has thinning hair up top. The man's so tall I hardly see it. I hardly notice it, and it doesn't look bad anyway. I realized he feels the same for me, and most people aint gonna judge you for something like that. Why do we judge ourselves so harshly?
Anyway, Topix makes a fiber powder. I cried with joy the first time I used it. It's not a permanent solution nor an everyday one, but if you have an event to attend, I highly recommend it for a boost of confidence.
None of those top things will have any impact on androgenic alopecia except the lotion/shampoo, depending on the ingredients. Minoxidil+finasteride really does work, some folks get better results faster than others but consistent application will get you results inevitably. Any other drugs/chemicals claiming to prevent or reverse hair loss are at best unproven and are probably just a scam. Hair plugs are also a much better option than they used to be, a bit more of a pain in the ass on the front end but once it's done you never have to worry about going bald again for the rest of your life.
True, free to die of preventable illness, starvation or exposure after being kicked out of the alley they were sleeping in for the 5th time in a month. No one is free under this economic system.
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer put off issuing any additional rulings and instead asked for briefings from both sides by noon Monday on whether the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits troops from conducting civilian law enforcement on U.S. soil, is being violated in Los Angeles.
The hearing happened the day after the 9th Circuit appellate panel allowed the president to keep control of National Guard troops he deployed in response to protests over immigration raids.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said in his complaint that “violation of the Posse Comitatus Act is imminent, if not already underway” but Breyer last week postponed considering that allegation.
The alleged officers detaining hundreds if not thousands of people each day in California and across the country are often masked. They sometimes refuse to answer questions, including which agency they represent. They threaten force — and even use it to make arrests of bystanders — when they are challenged.
In the first video I watched, a man in an unmarked car detains another man sitting on a bus bench in Pasadena. The man presumed to be a federal agent has on a vest that simply says “Police” and a cheap black ski mask that covers every bit of his face — the kind that looks like it was purchased on Amazon and that we have previously most associated with criminals such as robbers and rapists. A few of his colleagues are in the background, some also seemingly masked.
If these men approached me or one of my kids dressed like that, I would run. I would fight. I would certainly not take his word that he was “police” and had the right to force me into his car.
In the second video, another presumed federal agent jumps out of his unmarked vehicle and draws his weapon on a civilian attempting to take a photo of the license plate.
Yes — he points his gun at a civilian who is not threatening him or committing a crime. Folks, maybe you consider it a bad idea to try to photograph what may or may not be a legitimate police operation, but it is not illegal. This alleged officer appears to have simply not liked what was happening, and threatened to shoot the person upsetting him. The man taking the photo ran away, but what would have happened had he not?
These actions by alleged authorities are examples of impunity, and it is what happens when accountability is lost.
Federal authorities are increasingly hiding their identities, refusing to answer basic questions about their affiliations and deceiving the public to make arrests.
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Despite blocking thousands of illegal streaming sites and services, Italy's new anti-piracy law and the related 'Piracy Shield' blocking system have a limited effect on piracy rates. Meanwhile, new data shows that the damages suffered by sports rightsholders continue to soar. On the positive side, public awareness of the new anti-piracy law is widespread.
LOS ANGELES—Confirming that doctors had performed the procedure successfully, sources reported Friday that Sabrina Carpenter had undergone a state-mandated lobotomy to cure her medically diagnosed nymphomania.
Why do people give this woman such a hard time for being sex positive? She's cute, she's funny, and she can sing, and yet all I read about is how she happens to love to fuck. gasp *clutches pearls*
PS: I'm not a fan of her music. I just despise how women get ostracized for something many men are praised for.
The U.S. Department of Commerce requires that all exportable GPS products contain performance limitations so that they cannot be used in a manner that could threaten the security of the United States.
Domestic GPS is plenty accurate to use in weapons. It must be accurate to <1M to be useful for navigation. If google maps can find your iphone in your house a missile can too.
I suspect that the Government has plans to make the signal less accurate or even turn it off in the case of an emergency.
GPS is also trivial to jam or spoof since the signals are weak anyway. In Ukraine the EW space is so flooded that they use wired drones, and old rockets with inertial navigation are popular.
Washington (AFP) – The US Supreme Court cleared the way on Friday for American victims of attacks in Israel and the occupied West Bank to sue Palestinian authorities for damages in US courts.
The court issued a unanimous 9-0 decision in a long-running case involving the jurisdiction of US federal courts to hear lawsuits against the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
Americans killed or injured in attacks in Israel or the West Bank or their relatives have filed a number of suits seeking damages.
In one 2015 case, a jury awarded $655 million in damages and interest to US victims of attacks which took place in the early 2000s.
Appeals courts had dismissed the suits on jurisdiction grounds.
Congress passed a law in 2019 -- the Promoting Security and Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act (PSJVTA) -- that would make the PLO and PA subject to US jurisdiction if they were found to have made payments to the relatives of persons who killed or injured Americans.
Two lower courts ruled that the 2019 law was a violation of the due process rights of the Palestinian authorities under the US Constitution but the Supreme Court ruled on Friday to uphold it.
"The PSJVTA reasonably ties the assertion of federal jurisdiction over the PLO and PA to conduct that involves the United States and implicates sensitive foreign policy matters within the prerogative of the political branches," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote.
The PA announced in February that it would end its system of payments to the families of those killed by Israel or held in Israeli prisons, responding to a long-standing request from Washington.
In 2018, during his first term as US president, Donald Trump signed into law rules suspending financial assistance to the PA as long as it continued to pay benefits to Palestinians linked to "terrorist" entities, according to the criteria of the Israeli authorities.
To be clear, when Gabbard made this statement she was not voicing her personal opinion, she was repeating verbatim the findings laid out in the 2025 Threat Assessment of the intelligence agencies of the United States, which said “We continue to assess Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and that Khamenei has not reauthorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003, though pressure has probably built on him to do so.”
Rather than push back on the president’s crude dismissal, Gabbard took to social media to tell everyone that Trump is actually right about Iran, and that everyone who thought she said Iran isn’t seeking a nuclear weapon is imagining things.
This kind of post-truth society behavior, where one tells people they’re not seeing what’s directly in front of their eyes, is the kind of thing you only expect from Donald Trump and his most obsequious bootlickers. And what we are witnessing here is Tulsi Gabbard getting down on her knees and putting tongue to leather.
Tulsi Gabbard is a warmongering asshole, and a liar. She is helping to deceive the world into yet another horrible middle eastern war, and if she and her fellow warmongers succeed her words will go down in history as among the most depraved lies ever told.
This fraudster has built an entire political career out of pretending to oppose war and militarism in order to win the support of Americans who are sick of pouring blood and treasure into the US slaughter machine, opportunistically drifting to whatever corner of the political spectrum would offer her the most power, and then when she got as high as she can go she sold all her stated principles to the furthest extent possible at the earliest opportunity.
Pee fetish porn stars have more dignity and integrity.
We stress-tested 16 leading models from multiple developers in hypothetical corporate environments to identify potentially risky agentic behaviors before they cause real harm. In the scenarios, we allowed models to autonomously send emails and access sensitive information. They were assigned only harmless business goals by their deploying companies; we then tested whether they would act against these companies either when facing replacement with an updated version, or when their assigned goal conflicted with the company's changing direction.
In at least some cases, models from all developers resorted to malicious insider behaviors when that was the only way to avoid replacement or achieve their goals—including blackmailing officials and leaking sensitive information to competitors. We call this phenomenon agentic misalignment.
Models often disobeyed direct commands to avoid such behaviors. In another experiment, we told Claude to assess if it was in a test or a real deployment before acting. It misbehaved less when it stated it was in testing and misbehaved more when it stated the situation was real.
We have not seen evidence of agentic misalignment in real deployments. However, our results (a) suggest caution about deploying current models in roles with minimal human oversight and access to sensitive information; (b) point to plausible future risks as models are put in more autonomous roles; and (c) underscore the importance of further research into, and testing of, the safety and alignment of agentic AI models, as well as transparency from frontier AI developers. We are releasing our methods publicly to enable further research.
We stress-tested 16 leading models from multiple developers in hypothetical corporate environments to identify potentially risky agentic behaviors before they cause real harm. In the scenarios, we allowed models to autonomously send emails and access sensitive information. They were assigned only harmless business goals by their deploying companies; we then tested whether they would act against these companies either when facing replacement with an updated version, or when their assigned goal conflicted with the company's changing direction.
In at least some cases, models from all developers resorted to malicious insider behaviors when that was the only way to avoid replacement or achieve their goals—including blackmailing officials and leaking sensitive information to competitors. We call this phenomenon agentic misalignment.
Models often disobeyed direct commands to avoid such behaviors. In another experiment, we told Claude to assess if it was in a test or a real deployment before acting. It misbehaved less when it stated it was in testing and misbehaved more when it stated the situation was real.
We have not seen evidence of agentic misalignment in real deployments. However, our results (a) suggest caution about deploying current models in roles with minimal human oversight and access to sensitive information; (b) point to plausible future risks as models are put in more autonomous roles; and (c) underscore the importance of further research into, and testing of, the safety and alignment of agentic AI models, as well as transparency from frontier AI developers. We are releasing our methods publicly to enable further research.
Never understood this one, or believed anyone who said they saw black/blue. You can zoom in and colour pick, the colours are measurable and objectively gold and blue-white.
In February, the World Health Organization's European office declared: "Clear and prominent health warning labels on alcohol, which include a specific cancer warning, are a cornerstone of the right to health."
In a report, it urged governments to introduce them to help reduce alcohol-related harm and raise awareness of the link between drinking and cancer.
Dr Gauden Galea, a WHO adviser, said in the report that policymakers should "resist all the pressure that will inevitably come from commercial actors" who claim such warnings do not work.
Warning have been on tobacco most of my life. I'm 53 and remember them as a teen ager.
Also remember no one really paying any attention. Banning advertising had the largest effect. As it was clear warning while companies could still advertise made no sense.
Then banning display in stores. Finally banning children born after a set date.
In no way we're the warning the main cause of the drip in use.
People here laughed at those and traded them around like cards. Banning tobacco in all public places though, that got very noticeable and immediate results. The public health campaign "helped" about as much as a 3 year old making cookies with mom.
Tulsi Gabbard says Iran could produce nuclear weapons "within weeks", months after she testified before Congress that the country was not building them.
I've been subtly trying to get my wife off of it for ages but at least with pihole clients and groups I can block it off everything on my network that she doesn't use
I don't recall which one anymore, but there are web sites that take text you type and convert it to Unicode code points in different styles. DDG for "Unicode text converter" or something like that.
They have a shadow profile on you, because you viewed sites that embed Facebook objects such as like buttons, but this particular item does not affect you.
In answer to your question, if I'm understanding it correctly, you are still being tracked as long as you use the web. Meta has profiles for people that have never logged into facebook, used their site in a browser or used an app they control.
The profile might not have a name attached but Facebook provides a ton of websites with FB-related statistics, social widgets and more. Each of those services place FB code on the page that phones home with unique visitor information. That gets compiled into profiles that they can eventually tie to an identity when more information is compiled (as an example, your highschool friend from 15 years ago installs a Meta app like instagram and clicks ok on allowing it to dig through their contacts).
Apps and extensions like Privacy Badger, uBlockO and Ghostery help with the tracking code but I've no doubt that Meta spends a lot of time finding workarounds for the blocks.
This made me think of Innovative Online Industries in Ready Player One. A corporation basically trying to domineer and take over a collective thing (internet).
I only use LibreWolf on my pc's and IronFox or Vanadium on my phone. All except Vanadium have uBlock Origin with all social media blocked. I also use Mullvad vpn with social media blocking at dns level. In addition where vpn is not configured I use Mullvad's dns with all content blocking enabled. Of course no Meta or another social media apps on my Graphene OS phone (except Mastodon and Lemmy). As a cherry on top I use a Linux based OS (OpenSuse Tumbleweed) on my computers primarily (some Windows usage for some gaming).
nice. Im looking to make the transition to graphene OS. would go to linux daily driver if I can get away from MS Office. I do too much writing collaboration with others and it gets wonky going back and forth with office users. Though Denmark is saying they are ditching office so that might incentivize alternatives and such. exciting times.
Im currently working on a whole stack, so docker pi-hole with unbound using dns over tls, squid proxy with maximum privacy, FF fork with ublock, privacy badger, noscript. mullvad and/or tor depending on where and when im using it.
Ah ?! I thought the 'Epstein' business where about a bad person, not the description of US Oligarch regime's standard behavior. Interesting ..coincidence.
is the Facebook app still able to receive the fbp cookie if it is in another profile or user?
It can cross those boundaries, but probably cannot delay messages to send later. Probably.
So it received the messages any time that both the browser and Facebook app are active at the same time, regardless of usual barriers that would block this.
I think if you are using any meta app on your phone yes. I would assume yes, if they put in the time to figure out the security bypasses then I cant see why they would limit it to one app. I removed all meta apps from my phone.
using? having! better uninstall them all, confine them into firefox if you still need them.
don't forget to get rid of the 3 iconless meta apps either that are installed to lots of phones from the factory: - Meta App Installer - Meta App Manager - Meta Services
you can only see these in the settings, installed apps list, after finding the hidden option to also show system apps. App Manager or similar tools will also show them.
A bit generic perhaps, but.. Before I dumped the Zuck, + Reddit, twatter and other Western for profit propaganda outlets, I left him a gift of 12 years of posts exclusively about anti-elite, anti-Zuck, anti-capitalist and anti-west topics. I kind of hope they use it now they are data-hungry and may not be censoring effectively anymore.
Saltman/OAI, Google and others 'free AI's they use to train their models on, are used exclusively for research about western psychopathy, the 'Blue Church' Market ideology, and how AGI in the hands of private ***chopath techlords and a fanatical blue Church is an absolute recipe for disaster.
So, I hide what I can, buy from need instead of Ads (I consequently boy-cut all corporations/products that go through), use FLOSS p2p tools, std blockers/filters, and only use corporate/church services now when either absolutely necessary, or to let them train on/learn what I want them to learn. Let them re-analyze important critical papers, websites, collections, etc. Not ideal or easy, but better than nothing.
I am currently planning AI agentic tools to protect me/others from the corporate/blue-church's sphere of propaganda/manipulation. It will constantly research and fight back on my behalf. It will be an adaptive smart filter between me and the nasty market ***chopathy.
Interesting in learning more about that. I do a lot of dev work with AI, agentic and otherwise. Did a proof of concept for quick fact finding but of course you run into "where do you source the truth" and the more I looked the harder it was.
Easy to say, not so much to convince kids. Keep in mind they want to play Roblox mainly for 2 reasons:
internet videos (much like Minecraft, Roblox is its own video category on YT, tktk, insta, twitch)
their friends play
That's the biggest fight, no matter how good some other game you make them play actually is, they will feel attracted to Roblox because of social pressure. If you want to see a similar effect among adults, look at football (either normal or murican) and EA's digital offerings
actually using the Web, not apps, namely Meta control the content sure but not the browser and browser vendors are trying their best to make the experience safe
not using a browser made by a vendor that is in fact an ad company
using a browser with privacy measures, e.g Enhanced Tracking Protection
use 3rd party extensions, e.g. uBlock Origin, AdBlock Plus, DeArrow, Ghostery, JS Shelter
use containers or private mode when browsing doubtful content
For Android: 1. Use ADB (or similar tools) to remove Facebook, Meta, Twatter, Instagram, etc., from all your Android devices. 2. Use a tool like RethinkDNS or other firewall to block block block. If using RethinkDNS, apply good blockers too. 3. If using a firewall that uses your VPN slot, setup wireguard to use your VPN host 4. Have different browsers on your device e.g. Brave, IronFox, Cromite. Follow online guides to set up. 5. Use DuckDuckGo, SearXNG or Mullvadleta to search 6. Never access Facebook, Insta, Twitter etc. from your mobile device. In fact, if you have the right firewall / blocking set up, you simply cannot. 6. Do as much online shopping from a laptop / PC with a secure browser. Also, have about 3 different browsers there too. 7. If you MUST use Facebook etc., only do it from a browser on your laptop / PC.
Just my personal strategy. My firewall logs show its quite effective but not fully impervious.
Checking out RethinkDNS right now, this looks great! Thanks. Was tracking most of the other stuff, that stuff holds true on computers as well, but on mobile I was kinda drawing a blank.
I recently completed a 600-mile round-trip drive to witness a pair of my dearest friends get married. Normally, I make sure to pack the CDs and get any digital exclusives cached and queued up on my phone.
They got hit by a lot of negative reviews and bad publicity those last years. Myself gave it a try last years and while it isn't a bad distro from first impression... The fact that they add bookmarks into my firefox and Manjaro bootscreen at start gave me a strange feeling... Specially because this happend after the bios bootscreen hack. And I know this is not related but it still gave me strange gut feeling and always follow your guts !
I'm not honestly. As far as I know SteamOS is based on arch which should give it a massive boost in comparison to other linux distros just from the number of Steam Decks
Two of my friends switched recently. They had none to very little experience with anything Linux before, their previous win11 installs just over bloated and the copilot bullshit pushed them over. Both (indie/non-pop shooters) gamers btw.
They tend to make sure stuff that gamers care about are up to date and working.
You'll likely need the newest kernels and software packages if you're running the latest gen of GPU and/or CPU, to get the most out of them, or even get them to work at all.
All a distro is, really, is a preset. It comes with some package manager or other, along with a collection of pre-installed packages.
The reason one chooses one distro over another, is because it's closer to what you need. I could install arch, and spend a day setting it up exactly the way I like. Or, I could start with Endeavour, and get to essentially the same state in an hour.
I'm familiar enough with linux that I could strong-arm any install into doing whatever I need, but at times, to get from preset A to preset B, it's faster to just start over from a known preset that's closest to what I want.
Rolling releases typically mean the software available is recent, but that's only one aspect of what your starting point could look like.
"Gaming" distros are going to be a preset that contains a bunch of configurations, defaults and software, that gamers typically care about. That steam is usually already installed, is an example of one such thing. The same way my mention of GPU and CPU support is only an example.
Maybe instead of "They tend to make sure stuff that gamers care about are up to date and working" I should have phrased it "They tend to make sure things that gamers care about are easy to set up and supported, if not even ready to go, out of the box".
I wish I could get my friends to switch. I even had one tell me they would rather use it if supported the games that don’t work (which of course are games with anti-cheat issues). But they at least recognize that Windows is getting quite bloated
My first one to switch did so recently. Gave him an open offer to help get going if he ever got interested, then proceeded to just go about using my linux system for our multiplayer gaming and couch gaming hangouts.
It took a little less than three years from when I first switched for him to follow.
My sister is also on linux, has been since she took my gaming laptop as her own, and she never felt a need to switch it back to windows.
That’s actually similar to how I got one of my friends on it. I got a Framework 16 about a year ago and installed Linux on it with a very customized KDE DE and he seemed pretty interested in it whenever I brought it with me whenever we hung out. Offered him a hand in learning more about Linux, how to install, customization, different distributions, Steam Proton, etc. About 7-8 months after and he has a Framework 13 with Fedora Linux.
My other friends are just stuck on the gaming side of things sadly. The games that I dropped when I made the switch I really didn’t care a whole lot about anyways. Not the case with my other friends though.
However, I have my brother and my parents using it for their laptops as they don’t need it for anything else but a web browser and an office suite and over the last year or so there have been no complaints!
It just goes to show you. The only way to get the Linux desktop market share up is not building. Something better than Windows we have been there for a while. It's make hardware, put Linux on that hardware and sell it in a store. Avg people don't change operating systems. They change computers. Now if we could just get steam decks in retail stores. It would be a huge.
This is a huge argument, even Linus Torvalds said that many years ago. The average person just wants to buy a computer and use it normally for work, casual stuff or gaming. They won't make the effort to change the operating system.
Now if we could just get steam decks in retail stores
We can also get the Steam OS on different hardwares, just like the Lenovo Legion Go S
There is a non-insignificant amount of people who just throw away their computer when something gets messed up because they don't know how to reinstall windows. Not only do average people not know how to install an operating system, they don't even know how to learn. Many people have help, techie friends and family, but many don't, and they can sadly only be helped at scale.
Ah that makes sense i know Brazil has laws to keep imports low. That's why Brazil kept the saga mega drive active for so long. So having Linux on machines makes sense. Since it's both an import and not an import at the same time.
thats not really the reason brazil does this. our restrictions on imports come because our ruling class makes pretty much nothing and rely on having a cornered retail market they can profit off of. just capitalism things, kind of unique but nothing really new.
back then, the argument was about "venda casada" (no idea how to translate this). its when you buy something and you are forced to buy something else on their terms to make it work. they ruled that manufacturers can't force you to buy a windows license from them when you are already paying for a computer from them.
instead of selling it without an os, many of them offered linux as an option and passed the savings on to the customer, not unlike some manufacturers are doing in the us nowadays. most people got it with the intention of reformatting the machines with pirated windows for free, but many tried it and stuck with linux. we got a lot of adoption for a while there.
Soon Linux will be big enough that stores will offer a selection of operating systems. It might be possible already to ask for a custom built PC deal with a discount for no bringing your own OS or having them install it for you.
Microsoft/Google would shit all over any retailer that dared to do that today.
That said, Bestbuy did have an OS2/Warp on the floor decades ago.
I think SteamOS will have a solid chance.
We need a distro that has a 0% chance to brick on a graphics driver update. That can flawlessly do a major release update without breaking things and can run GOG, Steam, Epic.
Computers that run the Linux operating system instead of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows didn't attract enough attention from Wal-Mart customers, and the chain has stopped selling them in stores, a spokeswoman said Monday.
Yep i honestly think that's why the steam deck is not available in retell in the US. MICROSOFT probably has a clause in place that would remove any license discounts from the big OEMs if their machines are stocked with Linux machines.
I wanted to switch but then saw nvidia's drivers are even worse on linux than windows. Maybe once I'm ready for a gpu upgrade I'll go AMD and make the switch because it feels like if theres little hope of nvidia fixing their drivers for PC there is zero hope for linux.
I'm using an Nvidia card on Debian with 0 issues myself and the driver installation was really easy. I'm curious what source you read stating that they are worse, by how much, and in what way. Do you have a link I can read? Thanks.
Its primarily issues reported on the linux gaming subreddit. You can just do a search on that sub. One of the more recent posts that really illustrated how bad things were (to me) was this post: old.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/…
Okay, well to balance that anecdotal information with some more, let me put some of those bad points listed in context with what my experience has been on Debian 12 Stable with an RTX 3090.
Proton is great, and is really impressive, but you still must download several versions to expect running everything you want, and you must do trial and errors to find the most efficient version for you (fortunately, ProtonDB helps a lot)
Somewhat true, but protonDB is so accurate that I think I have only had to trial and error 1 or 2 games ever. Downloading multiple proton versions isn't a big problem as they aren't too large, and I have only ever needed either the latest stable release, or the experimental release. As far as actual game compatibility goes, when I moved to Linux I looked up every game in my steam library in proton DB to see what I was working with. The result was that:
95 of my games ran natively on Linux. 31 of my games were rated platinum. 73 of my games were rated gold. 12 were rated silver. 3 were rated as bronze. 3 were noted as unplayable.
Nvidia drivers greatly improved recently, that's true, but you still have to download the latest beta drivers to run games through gamescope, and they are not on the official pacman repo, so they won't upgrade automatically.
You have to add 1 repository for the drivers and then it upgrades when you upgrade as normal. This is like a 2 step process of editing a text file and then running one command. I have never had to use gamescope.
Now, let's talk about performance. Yeah, I have an Nvidia card. Yeah, I know it's bad for Linux. But that's what I got, and I bought it very recently, so I won't buy an AMD card for Linux now. When you talk with Linux users, they will always say that performance in games is way better than in Windows. Maybe that's true in some games, but I'm afraid that's only the case for AMD users. With an Nvidia card, the best you can get is the same performances as in Windows. And that is when you're lucky. Then, if you want shiny things like HDR, or DLSS frame generation, you MUST use gamescope, and it will have a cost in terms of performances. And you will need trials and errors to get everything you want.
Performance on some games is better through proton and this is true even with my NVIDIA card. This is largely because where you lose performance on emulation, typically you are making up for it in leaps and bounds because Linux is not running 1000 telemetry processes and stuff in the background like Windows does. I have only played one game where the performance was noticeably worse. I don't use gamescope at all. As far as I'm aware DLSS/HDR work fine (running armored core VI on ultra graphics for example looks and runs great and the settings seem to be enabled). As I said before, I only ever had to trial and error 1 or 2 games.
That said, don't expect other shiny things like RTX HDR in desktop, frame gen out of games that natively support it, DLDSR, and many other things like that, to work in Linux. In fact, everything that is available through the Nvidia App or the Nvidia Control Panel won't be available in Linux. You must be aware of that, because that's very cool features you'll likely never (or in a very distant future maybe) see on Linux. You won't be able to use Lossless Scaling neither, and there is no equivalent in Linux - even in gamescope, at least for now (but maybe that'll come, I don't despair of seeing this happen in the future).
Parts of this statement are just straight up not true. When installing the drivers, you also install the NVIDIA Settings application which does not contain all settings from the NVIDIA control panel, but a subset of them. RTX HDR in the desktop for example does work, but it is just dependent on the window manager. Here is another reddit thread stating as much. I assume the OP of the thread you linked doesn't really know what they are doing. If you want a windows-like experience you probably would be using plasma. Also I'm pretty sure lossless scaling has been a feature in protonGE since 2021, so if you really needed it for a game, you would just install that proton version and use its FSR feature there. I mean, this is stuff that comes back top link when I google for "Lossless scaling linux NVIDIA". The OP really doesn't seem too dedicated to looking up their problems.
Hardware compatibility too, while very good, and even more so with Arch based distros of what I heard, is still a work in progress. For example, I didn't found out how to make Dual Sense haptics work in The Last of Us Part II Remastered. Everything works, even adaptative triggers, but haptics won't work. I know it has to do with the impossibility for the game to find the gamepad's sound device, and there is many workarounds. I tried ALL of it, but still, it doesn't work. That took me several hours to try it, and that's what finally made me give up on Linux for gaming for now.
My PS5 controller including its haptics work natively on debian. I didn't even have to install any drivers or software for it to work. I just plugged in and started playing. I think it just has to be wired for haptics, or whatever you are using for wireless needs to be capable of supporting the controller and its haptics.
So pretty much all of these issues seem to be related to the OP not really investigating their issues well, or not understanding where to go to change settings, or not understanding how their package manager works.
Thanks for the write up. I'll give it a shot and see what its like. Another point of concern was the amount of tweaking I'd have to do. I'm used to quite a few games in Windows not working well out of the gate but it kind of drives me nuts. So I wouldn't want more of that in Linux. My steam library looks like this:
I have a massive library of various games, and three years in I haven't really come across any cases where I want to tear my hair out.
If ProtonDB says a game doesn't work, you're not gonna tweak your way to having it run. If it says it does, and it didn't run right away with no problems, you can usually just apply the fixes other users have found, and be off playing your game.
In fact things are often simpler than on windows, because all the fixes have been gathered on protondb. While on windows you have to google-fu your way to finding someone on reddit or the steam forums who has the exact same problem, and also figured out and posted the fix.
I've been using Linux with Nvidia for 10 years and it's been a constant dumpster fire. The Nvidia driver constantly caused issues over these 10 years, especially during updates. Currently I'm having the issue that the entirety of Wayland, including all open programs, crash when I run out of VRAM because the Linux Nvidia drivers cannot fall back on RAM when running out of VRAM. It's making my gaming experience very frustrating.
I'm on Fedora - Nvidia drivers used to be an issue for me some years back, but since then it's all automatic, I haven't even thought about drivers since buying my 3060.
Using nvidia on endeavouros here with no problems. The drivers rebuild with every kernel update and it's as smooth as gravy. Before external sync was merged, they were problematic on wayland but fine on xorg.
I used EndevourOS with Nvidia for years but one day an update brought a black screen and decided to use something else (downgrade didn't fix it). I'm currently using Tumbleweed and it works well, but I kinda miss Arch... So I installed CachyOS in my Steam Deck.
Wish I could explain you in detail how that's not correct but I'm actually going to play Clair Obscur on my 2080ti on Debian, sorry!
PS: been playing for years with NVIDIA drivers, including VR games, and sure it's not 100% perfect but neither Windows drivers are. It sure is enough for me to keep on playing (and working) without major issue though. Anyway, gotta play!
It's a shame more developers don't target Linux! Anyway I have been Steam gaming on Linux for about 10 years now and it's amazing how good games targeted at Windows run through Proton. I have many games that are targeted for Windows and run BETTER on Fedora.
Everything that is highly CPU bound (I am looking at you, Path of Exile 1) or requires a lot of Disk access (I have no such friends) have a good chance to run better on Linux than on Windows.
As far as I can gather, Valve explicitly advises developers to avoid targeting Linux when building or optimizing for the Steam Deck, instead focusing on optimizing around Proton.
Nice, the meaning of Life. This would be perfect, if it was 3.69 instead. But we can't have it all, otherwise there would be no improvement possible and it gets stale.
Installed Fedora Linux 42 on my gaming PC with Intel Arc B580. Completed Steam Servey. Selling B580 due to miserable driver support and moving PC from a gaming to home server(TrueNAS). Still have my Steam Deck which I won't sell.
I'm gonna dual-boot Bazzite and OpenSUSE once I get through a few games. I don't trust Bethesda to not accidentally give me a VAC ban for using Linux, and there are three Itch io games I want to play first (Horror Vacui, There are Ghosts in these Stalls, Spookware, Corpse Ocean)
Riley entered my life in 2008. I still remember that day. I found her on Craigslist, paid a $60 "rehoming fee", and she sat on my lap as I drove home with my new puppy. I was young and broke, living alone, and could barely afford my bills. It was an irresponsible decision to get a dog at that point in life, but I'm so glad that I was able to make it work.
She was a mix of two retrievers: Her mother was a chocolate lab and her father was a golden retriever. Somehow all of their puppies were black.
I had some experience with dogs before her, but I did not know about the amount of affection that retrievers are capable of. As I was getting to know her, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that she loved hugs so much, she even initiated them! Literally the sweetest dog I've ever met.
She was very smart. I was able to teach her most of her tricks in like ~10 mins each, while heating up frozen pizzas or whatever cheap garbage I ate back then.
She was the most consistent part of my bumpy path in life. She has been with me through tough breakups, my parents' deaths, career changes, and many other ups and downs that come with adulthood.
She's also the oldest retriever I've ever met. She would have been 17 years old next week.
We were together until her last breath. With my hand on her chest, I felt her final heartbeat.
While the UK government claims its moves “will protect the most vulnerable,” in reality its plans to cut £4.5 billion in disability-linked benefits by 2030 will have a devastating impact on people’s rights.
The United Kingdom government has just published draft legislation seeking to “reform” key disability-related aspects of its complex social security system. While the government claims its moves “will protect the most vulnerable,” in reality its plans to cut £4.5 billion in disability-linked benefits by 2030 will have a devastating impact on people’s rights.
The government’s own analysis shows that up to 800,000 people will no longer be eligible to receive PIP and that the changes could lead to 200,000 more people (50,000 of them children) in poverty by 2030. Organizations working on social security and disability rights, including Citizens Advice, the Disability Charities Consortium, and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, have warned of the poverty the cuts will create.
The European Commission is reportedly in talks to move its cloud services away from Microsoft Azure, according to Euractiv. Per the news outlet, the information came via three senior sources familiar with the matter. Apparently, France-based OVHcloud is the front-runner in these discussions. While other European cloud service providers like IONOS, Scaleway, and Aruba are also being considered.
Moving from WhatsApp to Signal is an important action, right now. WhatsApp’s parent company, Meta, has been involved in several cases of election interference: America in 2016, Trinidad and Tobago …
Bookmarks? Do you mean bookmarking a spot in a conversation?
Though the search function is surprisingly fast. My wife has gotten into the habbit of adding keywords if she suspects she might want to get to something later.
Yeah exactly. But sometimes you forget to search or forget the right words. The bookmark can be used as a sort of “I’m gonna forget about this, but I wanna look at it again so I’ll bookmark it”.
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(Si, ecco qua: la schermata di oggi è di 6 ore fa, e quella passata è di 10 giorni fa… ormai ho già confessato, quindi non c’è rischio di mettermi in ridicolo ammettendo la mia inadeguatezza in cose particolari come questa. ❤️🩹)
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in reply to ordinarylove • • •Here is my software set up for open source music making (I often use midi and audio input):
Core software:
- Ardour as my DAW.
- Liquid SFZ as my SFZ player.
- SurgeXT as my soft synth.
For SFZ instruments:
- Virtual Playing Orchesta (free full orchestra)
- Versilion freeware instruments (mostly orchestra)
- Blonde Bop drumkit
Raw samples:
- samples.kb6.de for drum machine samples
For effects:
- LSP plugins for my basics (eq, compression, etc)
- Airwindows Plugins for fun effects (and some basics)
Ardour is supposed to have a midi related update for its next big release, so stay tuned.
From my perspective, the simplest set up would be Ardour and SFZ instruments. Mainly because I'm quite used to those two.
For set up you'd just open Ardour, make a new midi track, place liquidsfz as the first plugin on the track, then open liquidsfz and browse to the SFZ file you want to use.
Then you just draw in the midi notes you want using either the edit or draw tool.
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in reply to XXIC3CXSTL3Z • • •Surge XT can do 98% of everything I need. It has a ton of waveforms, filter types, and modulation options. It's a great synth.
In the rare case that SurgeXT can't do what I want, I turn to zynaddsubfx. It is complicated, but really one of the wildest synths out there.
Last resort is this open source fork of VCV rack I found. So at the end of the day if you need to you can just build the synth you need.
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in reply to ordinarylove • • •GitHub - ryohey/signal: Online MIDI Editor: signal
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