Yeah this one had previously been owned by a kid going by the minions stickers and the cracks on the back of the screen that could only have been from someone intentionally trying to break it
Hey, I recognize that magnesium alloy backplate and those black plastic edge bits... That's a CF-19! No wonder you can fully stand on it, that thing was built for battlefields and heavy industry.
Tumblr users have no excuse to not use Linux.... I know your ass isn't going outside, you're on this website. You have all the time in the world to learn what a bootloader is 🤨
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 annoying thing about the privacy nightmare that is age verification is that this is 100% doable with double-anonymity: The verifier doesn't know what site/app you're verifying your age on, and the site/app doesn't need to know your personal information.
The fun part is that you could do this extremely easily by just bundling a key with an item you can't buy unless you're 18. Like a beer that includes a PGP key, or a pornographic magazine with a page that's a randomly generated key.
The site/app doesn't need to know WHO you are, only that you have access to something you can only get by being 18. This way they're putting the burden of verifying your age onto someone else, someone else who is already legally required to do exactly that.
But no one is interested in developing this because the point of age verification has never been age verification. it's always been governments trying to tie a real-world ID to internet identities, and companies trying to get more private information on users so they can sell it to advertisers.
(and also, it's not like this would be a good system even if it'd work and do what it says it'd do: We shouldn't be blocking minors off of large parts of the internet just for the sin of being underage, especially when "mature" labeling gets applied to more than just pornography. Queer teens shouldn't be separated from their support groups by parents who don't think they're mature enough to learn about that, for example)
microslop is currently feuding with some nerd and it's the funniest thing ever
basically, some guy called nightmare-eclipse has found several zero-day exploits in windows and at first contacted microsoft about it but they kept ignoring him (even though they have a bug bounty program, so technically they have to pay him a grant for finding these)
so then he started posting them publicly whenever he found any in hopes of microsoft finally fixing them that way, but of course that leaves windows users vulnerable, because now not-so-nice hackers can see exactly how they can use those exploits. He has found FOUR so far and microsoft did nothing about it.
microsoft then deleted the guy's gitlab account and sued him, after which he said they should mark july 14th in their calender because he is done playing nice and is going to "shatter their bones"
tech news today is that Mullvad VPN has gone mask-off about being the major funding source for the Swedish Orebro party, who are racist nationalists. unfortunately all discussion of this is occurring on fucking Mastodon instances i can barely load
if you are a mullvad customer (as i am) and want to get out, here is guidance from this guy
If you don't want your Mullvad fees going to fund neo-Nazis - or @mozilla VPN fees, which is rebranded Mullvad - cancel and get a refund immediately
that's whose "free speech" the official account is talking about here, and that's where your fees go to
EDIT: Mullvad has a 14 day refund policy. But the message below is a direct call to ask for a refund if you don't want to give money to Nazis.
If Mullvad refuse a refund, call your consumer protection agency. And reverse credit card charges on the basis of deceptive refund policy representations. It's not like you ever want to be a Mullvad customer again.
archive copy of Mullvad statement: https://web.archive.org/web/2026062717
"As the title states, the Arch AUR has been hit by a huge malware infection campaign over the last couple of days. There's an earlier post referring to alvr. That's not the only package it's hundreds of them, many of them Aur packages average people would install like apple-music-desktop.
I don't have the full details of the scope of the malware campaign. I know it's a credential stealer so it steals ssh keys and browser login info and apparently has rootkit potential.
This was widespread and targeted orphaned packages. Aur for some reason allows other people to take over existing projects.
The bottom line is if you used the aur over the last couple of days you may have been infected and the problem with taking over orphaned packages I believe remains. I personally would not use the Aur for the foreseeable future, and ideally not at all. It's a security risk."
There is a script that you can run on your machine to detect if you have a package that is known to have been infected which you can view here. I have also linked the subreddit post here.
Just download it, make it executable and run the script with sudo and let it run, it will tell you what it found once it's complete.
⚠️ Also obligatory don't blindly trust random scripts on the Internet disclaimer ⚠️
Hey everyone. There's a new youtube feature that rolled out just yesterday that's raising some privacy concerns.
People in the U.S., U.K., Brazil, and Singapore can now share videos and chat with friends directly within the YouTube app. The update bring
This post talks about a new DM feature in youtube. What it fails to mention is that as part of this new feature is that when you send someone a link to a video, and they open it in the youtube app, they will see who sent them the link. Specifically, your channel name.
If your google account name is your real name, so is your channel name by default.
This means the new default behavior is that everyone you send a youtube link to will see your full name if they open it in the mobile app.
To turn this off:
Go to your youtube app settings
Go to Privacy
Turn off "Channel visibility for shared links"
Trimming the source id (the stuff after the '?' in links) will also prevent this from happening.
1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.
2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.
3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."
4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.
Additional source and more details below. Absolutely thrilled to say that this is real. And yeah, it's huge.
For all the reasons above AND ALSO because this particular lawsuit is a defamation case
Privacy lawsuits are hard because most privacy laws are super super weak, and there's very rarely a lot of money or enforcement backing privacy laws for...twenty million reasons, really...
But defamation suits? Those have teeth.
(In large part because, at least in some countries and including in the US, defamation laws protect public figures the least - and "public figures" legally includes most if not all politicians, and a hell of a lot of other rich ppl too)
A Munich court ruled Google's AI Overviews are its own words, making it liable for false claims, a decision that, if it holds, could reach e
A German court has ruled that Google can be held directly liable for false claims made by its AI Overviews, a decision that could put a serious legal dent in the whole “the AI made me do it” defense.
According to The Next Web, the Regional Court of Munich issued a temporary injunction after Google’s AI Overviews wrongly tied two Munich publishers to scams, subscription traps, and dubious business practices. The court treated those AI-generated summaries as Google’s own statements, not just ordinary search results pointing to third-party pages.
That distinction matters. Search engines have traditionally had more protection because they index and link to other people’s content. AI Overviews changes the machinery. Google is not just showing the web anymore. It is summarizing it, rewriting it, and sometimes apparently hallucinating a tiny legal grenade into the results page.
