(she/it) this is foxelfire (jan waso Wakuse)! i'm birb but also person. if i haven't made it obvious yet, i have the autism. loves other birbs, linguistics, pixel art, modding minecraft... posts whatever
my favorite logical fallacy is definitely the fallacy fallacy, because it's an error that specifically only people who know a little bit about logical fallacies actually ever make but they make it constantly, acting like someone arguing their point badly proves that their point is false when really all it means is that they're bad at arguing
it's the only logical fallacy where calling it out by name when you see someone use it is the most effective counterargument. if you insult someone while you're arguing with them and they go "um, if you're resorting to ad hominem attacks then I think we both know who's really in the right here 😏" you can and should say "oh wow you used the fallacy fallacy! I guess that means you were wrong actually"
I can't find the post but there's this one post that's like "aging is less than 1% as terrifying as whatever the fuck is going on with people desperately trying not to age"
That but with weight.
Getting or being fat is less than 1% as terrifying as whatever the fuck is going on with people desperately trying to not be fat.
"I'm supposed to be fine because art styles can't be owned."
...yes, you are? What's the issue here? You should probably evaluate what pressures specifically are turning this from a reasonable statement into a fear for you before making a post like this
Rather than distinctly male or female, the human brain is much more like the heart, kidneys and lungs – basically the same no matter the sex of the body it's in.
“This collapse is a telltale sign of a problem known as publication bias. Small, early studies which found a significant sex difference were likelier to get published than research finding no male-female brain difference.”
one of the most embarrassing parts of the internet archive debacle was looking at the checkout rates for the artists involved in bitching the hardest and the loudest and the vast majority of them had been borrowed a single digit number of times. libraries, and even piracy, are not a barrier between you and millions of dollars, fame, and fortune. your barrier is public disinterest
Waow, I had this in my drafts for so long, wanting to make a tutorial for this. Welp.
Here I am, a little late to the party, but in case anyone (or specifically @awaken-music) needs it in the future:
What you need:
Winetricks (for setup)
Lutris (to actually run FL Studio)
A web browser (duh)
Part I: Gathering materials
What you need:
FL Studio installer (LEGALLY obtained of course *wink wink)
Microsoft Edge WebView 2 (Pick the Offline installer)
Optional:
.NET Framework 4.8
Visual C++ Redistributables 2017-2022 (x86) (x64)
Windows fonts
(Anything listed under optional will still be needed and installed, but winetricks offers ways to install it from there. I do recommend gathering the needed installers though, as it makes the actual installing part WAY easier. I will provide links where possible but also talk about what to do if you want to stick with Winetricks as much as possible)
Part II: Building your Wine Prefix
Open Winetricks and create a new x64 wine prefix
Run an arbitrary exe file to install the C++ Redists.
(Alternatively, install the following Windows DLLs with Winetricks:
vcrun2019, vcrun2022. Doing so, will download the packages and install them anyways.)
Install the .NET Framework (or install dotnet48 with Winetricks).
If you have a working Windows PC/partition/VM, you can copy its Fonts from:
C:\Windows\Fonts
to
~/.local/share/fonts
If this folder doesn't exist, create it.
(I keep them inside a subfolder called "WinFonts")
After that, run fc-cache and restart Winetricks.
The advantage of doing it this way is that whenever another prefix needs Windows fonts in the future, you already have them installed whereas installing the allfonts package with Winetricks, you need to install this whenever the prefix asks for it. If you dual boot or just happen to have Windows somewhere, you can just install the fonts on your PC once and be done forever.
Alternatively, in Winetricks you can install allfonts. It just takes some time, because it grabs the fonts from old office installers. Give it some time and grab a sippy dink while u wait :3
Open winecfg and set your Windows version to Windows 10 or 11. This is needed for Edge Webview to work.
Lastly install WebView.
(I don't know if it's just peak Microslop programming or if installation silently failed but I never got a notice about WebView being successfully installed)
Part III: Installing and configuring FL Studio
Now grab your FL Studio installer and install it!
If your installation requires additional steps, like copying patched files (as you have when you sail the seas) do the additional steps before starting FL Studio for the first time. Also you can import .reg files by opening Wine's implementation of regedit
Now start Lutris and add FL Studio as a locally installed game.
As the Starter, select Wine,
For the Wine version, pick System,
The executable is FL64.exe from your install directory inside your Prefix,
The prefix directory is ~/.local/share/wineprefixes/[NAME OF YOUR PREFIX]
Toggle on using Winetricks of the system
In System settings, disable the Lutris runtime
(and also maybe gamemode, for some reason FL wouldn't start when it was activated)
When you start FL Studio for the first time, you may get the error that the MIDI device is already in use. I don't have any MIDI devices plugged in, so I just ignored it.
Some report you can install WineASIO to solve that issue. I haven't tried it. I'll just link it here, just in case:
https://github.com/wineasio/wineasio/
If you want to install a DAW, you can do it with Winetricks inside the prefix, no need for stuff like yabridge, since it's directly "running on Windows"
If FL Studio or some VSTs have performance issues, try installing vkd3d and dxvk with Winetricks. Some report that this may help with Synths like Serum.
the framing of generative ai as "theft" in popular discourse has really set us back so far like not only should we not consider copyright infringement theft we shouldn't even consider generative ai copyright infringement
who do you think benefits from redefining "theft" to include "making something indirectly derivative of something created by someone else"? because I can assure you it's not artists
obvsies i thought relentlessly hounding artists because of genAI use in art or writing was a pointless waste of time to begin with but getting mad at indie game devs for using claude code or whatever is just completely unsustainable lol you are asking dev teams who already have less money and resources to fully swear off a de facto standard element of every modern professional coding workflow
It's very interesting how big of a revolution will LLMs cause (and are already causing) in genetics and bioengineering since DNA and proteins are, for all intent and purposes, really really long words
It's so funny that people have such strong opinions on AI but every geneticist I meet is like "oh god finally. This thing does all the work for me. We will find the catgirl gene soon"
And no this isn't just the specialized models like alphafold. You can ask Claude or Deepseek to make pipelines and bioinformatics stuff for you and they work.
The transformer architecture, and LLM’s have very valid and very benefical advantages for humanity. At the same time, however, the raging psychopats who control these companies have indeed completely abandoned their humanity, and removed themselves from the human condition completely.
To let these people decide the fate of the world and its future is utter and sheer madness and self destruction for mankind.
I don't think they're raging pyschopaths or that they are deciding the fate of the world, let alone the destruction of humankind. I just think they want a lot of money and this stupid unequal (read, capitalist oligarch) economy is letting them get away with stupid things. LLMs are a great technology for research and yes, even entertainment. I just don't need them in every single thing I use and I don't need them to replace jobs that need a human touch.
They were using this tech to generate potential cancer-fighting proteins when I was in uni about a decade ago. I assume they can do it better now with modern models but I've been out of the field for a while. They'd use what we now call "generative AI" to come up with potential proteins, they'd be screened for the most viable (and actually makeable/refinable) candidates, and they'd be tested on cell culture assays to investigate their effect on cell growth.
When I was in my geology undergrad course about 13 years ago, one of my colleague's undergrad thesis involved the use of neural networks for studying drill cores, and I very briefly was the intern of a professor where one project I started involved developing predictive code to automatically interpret gamma profiles (what was sandstone, what was limestone, etc). Another professor of mine did her post-phd about seven or so years ago with using neural networks for generating possible seismic profiles in a simulated block diagram created from a small number of drill cores, and they were generally accurate to the regional geology.
It's only when this stuff could get somewhat passable at making entertainment that it really exploded into the mainstream, but the technology has been in the works and evolving for a very long time.
to be clear this is a fully sincere political belief that I have. I am pro copyright infringement and in fact anti "asking for permission to make derivative art"
a few people in the notes seem to be under the impression that this is a stance that requires caveats. so just so we're all on the same page: no exceptions. "stealing art" (copying existing works for personal gain) is a good thing.
some of you seem to have bought into the capitalist lie that copyright infringement causes artists to "lose money", which fundamentally assumes that everyone (or even like a notable portion) who obtains a would-be-illegal copy would have otherwise paid full price to obtain the original. and like we all know that's not true right
So without copyright, what would prevent capitalists from taking a book and selling copies of it at a much lower price than the author? (thereby preventing the author from making money on their creative work)
this is already how copyright law works. working creatives (the majority of people in the industries) already sign away their work to "capitalists" (problematic wording - petit bourgeois artists are typically already capitalists, but i do understand the intent) and then are not permitted to make money off of or sell their work, have no claim to it, and will be legally decimated if they try to outside of whatever very narrow avenues may be granted to them
Copyright law was initially created *for* the owners of printing presses to allow *them* to own the works of authors and artists over other printing press owners. An artist's profit and control of their work was never a goal of copyright; rather, the goal was codifying "intellectual property" as a commodity, the production of which could exploited by the owners of the means of production (the printing press initially)
copyright does not protect artists or protect their right to produce or sell art. it gives them the right to *prevent others* from producing or selling art.
actually, it doesn't even give them that right-- it gives that right to the *owner* of the intellectual property, not the *creator* of it. out here in the real world, almost all the IP is owned by corporations and capitalists, not the person who originally created it. they either signed a contract which automatically gave over ownership to their employer, or they sold their IP rights directly in order to keep themselves fed.
Everyone things of Linux as this uber nerdy serious thing, and it is, it basically is the backbone of the internet and digital tech, however...
There's a terminal program called "sl" you can get where, if you type it into the terminal, it summons an ascii steam locomotive. The people responsible for it include "sometimes displays the files in your home directory" as a bug, because "ls" is the command you use to list the files in whatever directory you're in.
Another terminal program you can get is "cmatrix" which does that digital rain from the matrix because of course we like the matrix.
There's a completely independent Linux Distro called YiffOS. It's a completely independent non-meme linux distro that just so happens to be furry themed. It's package manager is called "bulge".
The reason the Mascot for Linux is a Penguin was because Linus Torvalds, who started Linux, got bit by a penguin. His name is Tux, but there was another entry into the mascot competition which was a Fox called Xenia. Her creator originally intended her to be male, but when she was rediscovered she was drawn as female. The creator approves of this, and now we have an alternate mascot which is a transgender Anthro Fox.
Unixsocks is a community where transfemme linux users show off their set ups wearing thigh-high socks.
Yes, the main photo editor for Linux is called GIMP. It stands for "GNU Image Manipulator Program".
everyone rightfully complains about how the r word is back in vogue now but I think the people talking about how using ChatGPT makes you a small brained lazy degenerate are getting off way too easy
I think the funniest thing Toby Fox could do is not have Papyrus show up in Deltarune at all and then in the post credits after you you beat the game you'd see a message appear that says "you can now play with Papyrus" and then he'd be retroactively inserted into every single chapter like some kind of new game+
