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2026-08-10 16:08:59 UTC

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we will be implementing support for stuff like that, we are currently in a very aggressive "Performance moonshit", attempting to lower Ableton Live's minimum system requirements if running on Linux.
https://github.com/shibco/ableton-linux/pull/118

2026-08-10 15:51:08 UTC

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yes, ableton 11 is supported in this project!

2026-07-28 07:10:24 UTC

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I wrote an essay 6 years ago about this and nothing has changed.

2026-07-18 20:05:29 UTC

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good news! That is not needed anymore!

2026-07-18 06:00:36 UTC

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a lot of what you're seeing isn't what others are seeing. Can you share more details about your system and diagnostics in the GitHub issues?

2026-07-17 16:34:37 UTC

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glad to be of service! 😎

2026-07-17 15:10:15 UTC

**Ableton Live 12 Linux Compatibility update**
**New release: 2026.07.17.2**
Changes:
- WineASIO replaced with PipeASIO, a native PipeWire ASIO driver.
- Hardware inputs arrive as separate channels, Live can record from any PipeWire source, and the buffer size stays locked at 256 frames. Driver settings live in ~/.config/pipeasio/config.ini.
- Live now idles at about 2 to 5 percent CPU, dropping the baseline CPU usage by like 75%
- Theme regressions fixed. Live follows the system light/dark scheme again.
- Webview corruption in the Learn View fixed.
- The installer can now update in place. Live, your settings, and your license are kept.
Install:
1. Download https://github.com/shibco/ableton-linux/releases/latest/download/install-ableton-latest.run
2. Put your Ableton Live zip from ableton.com next to it.
3. Run: `sh install-ableton-latest.run`
Update an existing install:
1. Download https://github.com/shibco/ableton-linux/releases/latest/download/install-ableton-latest.run
2. Run `sh install-ableton-latest.run --update`
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2026-07-17 11:11:58 UTC

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having seen the difference between native game builds vs Wine (proton) alternatives, I'm convinced that Wine is the better choice for a lot of situations (like this)

2026-07-17 11:10:57 UTC

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it's not containerised but it should run ok on Bazzite

2026-07-17 10:10:54 UTC

Warez scene aesthetics, but for Wine releases

2026-07-16 19:58:39 UTC

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https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/steam-beta-gets-improved-pipewire-session-logic-on-linux/
https://github.com/Jovian-Experiments/pipewire
And the collaborations between Red Hat, Collabora and Valve.
To be very clear: I am not saying that Valve owns all of the achievements, nor all the credit. I'm saying that they provided a push. It's the push that the EU Commission or a consortium of companies should've been responsible for.

2026-07-16 19:22:45 UTC

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this is not a slight at Paul: the reason why Linux is ignored is because the vast majority of open source either doesn't give a shit about any form of creative expression beyond code, or truly believes that the ideological nature of their work excuses labyrinthian human-hostile interfaces. None of this was even remotely feasible until Valve Software invested all of their Steam loot box money into Proton and modernising the Linux A/V stack. Just in time, it turns out, but still a massive embarrassment to the software industry as a whole.

2026-07-16 19:18:28 UTC

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I didn't interpret you as being derogatory. The point is that these fixes should be relatively stable because I am trying to factor in a broader set of possibilities and edge cases. This was where LLMs helped a lot, because I was able to theorize edge cases I couldn't test, and expand the patches by adopting a more anticipatory posture.
As for legal, without taking a stance either way I have only heard good things so far about my work. But this is something I am completely unafraid of. I was targeted by a hostile US actor for my work last year and fought that off. Everything here is above board. https://www.infosperber.ch/freiheit-recht/datenschutz/e-ids-umkaempfte-studie-warnt-vor-grossem-irrglauben/

2026-07-16 18:05:14 UTC

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this is why I am running a fork and keeping prefix hygeine

2026-07-16 18:04:04 UTC

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you can set the wine prefix on installation! There's nothing inherently dependent on the wine prefix path. You can also symlink between prefixes, too.

2026-07-16 17:40:37 UTC

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quite honestly, I've come to realize that a Wine Implementation is often better than a "native" build, because the environment is ironically more stable and predictable once the patches are complete.

2026-07-16 17:39:11 UTC

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these aren't actually hacks. They are full blown Wine implementations to add unfinished Wine implementations to the Wine API translation layer. Once they are included they should work forever unless Ableton makes drastic changes to their next version of Live.

2026-07-16 17:38:04 UTC

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good news! This is all fixed!

2026-07-16 10:04:54 UTC

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you can try it right now! https://github.com/shibco/ableton-linux/

2026-07-16 09:47:45 UTC

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you can always try it and find out!

2026-07-16 09:18:26 UTC

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max itself is a WIP experiment but mostly stable

2026-07-16 06:53:05 UTC

On the lost joys of music piracy https://www.pigeonsandplanes.com/read/music-piracy-what-cd-oink-nine-inch-nails-streaming

2026-07-16 04:17:38 UTC

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almost certainly, but also a community effort since Proton is still a diverging fork. Wine 11 has a lot of great updates to it though

2026-07-15 19:12:09 UTC

RE: https://post.lurk.org/@shibacomputer/116918472612368808
Dropped Ableton for Linux 24hrs ago and heard from dozens of people who have successfully installed it.
8 issues in 24 hours and all but one of them are QoL fixes.
Thrilled to have this out in the world
https://post.lurk.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/925/569/920/834/715/original/251a845a50363a3c.png
#note17sh…k2tr

2026-07-15 19:08:19 UTC

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we are just getting started 🥹

2026-07-15 19:06:54 UTC

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🫡

2026-07-15 17:08:35 UTC

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i hope so lol I am going to get a second pair of eyes over these patches first https://github.com/shibco/ableton-linux/tree/main/patches

2026-07-15 15:58:44 UTC

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no but it's good to know exactly what was stolen and how. You know, for policy and lawsuits.

2026-07-15 14:14:17 UTC

Hack and source code leak reveals how Suno was made: https://www.404media.co/hack-reveals-suno-ai-music-generator-scraped-youtube-deezer-and-genius/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter&attribution_id=6a578fbc6edaee0001da8817&attribution_type=post

2026-07-15 12:23:21 UTC

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it's already been leaked, there's an aborted effort to get the push 3 binary working elsewhere. I personally think Valve' Proton work shows that well designed Wine implementations can even outperform native builds.

2026-07-15 12:18:50 UTC

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it's possible with a lot of tears 🥲

2026-07-15 12:11:07 UTC

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better than the alternative imo!

2026-07-15 12:10:32 UTC

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thank you! Please share and try it out and report any issues!

2026-07-15 05:34:17 UTC

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thanks for sharing this with me! I had already seen it and wanted to use it in the project, had some issues getting Pipeasio working consistently across installs. I intend to get it working though!

2026-07-15 04:12:18 UTC

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it inherits the LGPL license of wine and obviously not, given the README.md directs you to download Ableton Live.

2026-07-14 13:11:29 UTC

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ITS HERE
https://github.com/shibco/ableton-linux
ABLETON LIVE 12 ON LINUX
+ EXPERIMENTAL SUPPORT FOR MAX FOR LIVE
+ SUPPORT FOR ABLETON PUSH
If you have ANY problems with this, make a github issue.

2026-07-14 13:05:11 UTC

ITS HERE
https://github.com/shibco/ableton-linux
ABLETON LIVE 12 ON LINUX
+ EXPERIMENTAL SUPPORT FOR MAX FOR LIVE
+ SUPPORT FOR ABLETON PUSH
If you have ANY problems with this, make a github issue.
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2026-07-13 11:40:01 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@JulianOliver/116912456126180020
Whenever anyone asks me why i am making Ableton work on Linux I'll fucking point them to this.
#note1puy…432e

2026-07-13 11:37:04 UTC

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Go to https://ableton.com and find out for yourself.

2026-07-13 11:23:18 UTC

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to be clear im very keen on help once I'm ready, I am cleaning everything up and getting a small workflow together to help people get set up. My goal is to try to get as many people on this as possible.
And when I say "once I'm ready," I mean, "this week"

2026-07-13 08:56:32 UTC

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Ableton is very generous with their trials

2026-07-13 08:55:59 UTC

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thanks for this! It appears that stability for most people is the biggest problem over latency, but we will see how much we can squeeze out of this fork

2026-07-11 14:52:56 UTC

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yooo
https://post.lurk.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/901/908/517/557/364/original/018e7310438bdfee.png

2026-07-11 14:52:24 UTC

RE: https://post.lurk.org/@shibacomputer/116892289767858341
progress update - nearly finished the Ableton Live 12 Linux beta testing pipeline
idk exactly when i'll be happy with it, but likely sooner than i thought!
#note1m8q…9yg3

2026-07-11 14:33:30 UTC

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I got good news for you, probably

2026-07-10 21:48:56 UTC

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arch running gnome 50 with a custom Catppuccin Mocha theme that I've been slowly adding to over the last year, blur my windows (with a custom script that turns off the display effect on battery), arc menu and dash to panel, colloid system Icons and a custom dark/light script for my system tray icons so they are always readable against my wallpaper

2026-07-10 21:27:19 UTC

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it's dash to panel with colloid catppuccin icons, blur my shell, and a custom script I wrote that changes my task bar colours from dark/light based on the background colour

2026-07-10 19:00:58 UTC

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I'm patching wine, but I'm not patching against fl studio so I have no idea if anything I'm doing will help.

2026-07-10 17:07:28 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/116891709684972050
posted without a shred of self awareness.
#note1pwf…slcs

2026-07-10 15:52:46 UTC

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the beta test is to go from "works on my machine" to "works on our machines" 🥹

2026-07-10 15:42:09 UTC

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because i want to make music with ableton

2026-07-10 14:08:15 UTC

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well there's a list in my posts about what makes this fork special. But more generally: Live 12 is notoriously unusable on Wine, VSTs behave erratically or not at all, WinASIO is a struggle for most people, and anything that disconnects cannot be recovered without rebooting Ableton. The fork addresses all of these issues and more. It is, as I said in my post, a fork that turns Ableton into a first class citizen

2026-07-10 14:03:23 UTC

Nerdsniped the fediverse again

2026-07-10 13:53:40 UTC

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thanks for the repost!

2026-07-10 13:07:33 UTC

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custom patches for Ableton, vsts and hardware

2026-07-10 10:35:11 UTC

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yes, offline activation with drag and drop support, meaning once you download the auz, you drag and drop it on Ableton live and it is activated. I am currently researching online activation

2026-07-10 08:05:42 UTC

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i actually don't know! that's part of the next section of my research

2026-07-10 07:33:32 UTC

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not a blanket yes, yet because there are a lot of factors per VST, but it's looking promising.

2026-07-09 23:42:31 UTC

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that depends entirely on whether the wine devs bully me for my incoherent and barely legible patches
in all seriousness, the answer is maybe. i did this out of desperation, and it needs a lot of polish.

2026-07-09 23:26:45 UTC

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I recorded a little unprepared video of this Ableton 12 wine fork
Here it is. Just messed with a synth, midi controller, played the demo set.
https://post.lurk.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/892/605/148/296/524/original/3d101cba67c26a58.mp4

2026-07-09 22:29:18 UTC

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sheesh is what I said every day when I committed a sin to the wine fork repo, fr fr

2026-07-09 22:26:47 UTC

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oh yeah
did i mention................
full max for live support
also ableton's new extensions sdk support
every single major visual issue squashed
vst JUCE framework fuckery un-fucked
and very stable
o m g is this copy of live stable
aaaaahhh
ableton should've fkn hired me to do this
https://post.lurk.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/892/369/396/217/403/original/c850a505f3b52298.jpeg

2026-07-09 22:14:05 UTC

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you can dl trials at Ableton.com, if this turns out to be good enough to publish then I will be distributing it as an install script

2026-07-09 22:08:33 UTC

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tbh this needs a lot of work and testing
but i may ask for beta testers soon
so email me if u wanna be on a future beta test list
cade@parare.al

2026-07-09 22:06:32 UTC

So
after 14 months(?) of work
and a lot of frustration
barely knowing what i was doing
i think i made someting special (!)
presenting:
a Wine fork
for Ableton Live 12
on Linux
stable
pixel perfect
vst support
1st class gnome citizen
device hotwire support
low latency audio
tell ur friends 🥹🥹
https://post.lurk.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/892/289/752/249/585/original/1c3dcb6ea8ae1122.jpeg

2026-06-28 13:32:00 UTC

One Million passports leak online.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/one-million-passports-leaked-online.html

2026-03-12 13:28:52 UTC

hello new followers!
300+ new followers here in less than 8hrs. Crazy!
In less than 24 hours, 10,000 people spent 20+ minutes on the NDC website, reading `Who Will Remember Us When the Servers Go Dark?`
If you want to learn more about the circumstances surrounding this essay, we put a short update out on the New Design Congress mailing list: https://newdesigncongress.org/email/11d79bbe-72f0-4a55-b2ca-4e219672e35b/
There is an entire pipeline of work coming. Please stay with me as we publish!
You can also keep track of NDC work via-
Signal: https://signal.group/#CjQKIJ6knE20PSojjfgFcxR4GZCBQ8ptFYclrS2dFXoQ-SWCEhAJ9T26QwIbJTAcxMxa_L_m
Telegram: https://t.me/ndcdrops
Newsletter: https://newdesigncongress.org/en/#/portal/signup/free
(also please enjoy this photo of my shibas, Ripley and Kodak)
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2026-03-11 20:03:23 UTC

In 2015 I was on a beach in Hawai'i helping build the prototype of what became Signal. I argued that the app needed pseudonyms because abusers know their victims' phone numbers. I lost the fight that day. History proved me right, and Signal would move to usernames under [@Mer__edith](https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith )'s stewardship.
In this new essay, I trace the line from Barlow's Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace through smart-home forensics, metadata killings, and Archive Team's non-consensual Tumblr scrape to ask: when did we decide that a jpeg is a photograph, that a profile is a person, that storage is memory?
The answer involves a boat off Honolulu, the early days of Signal, Iran's missiles over Amazon's Dubai AWS facilities, and the communities already building for a world where the server goes dark. This is an essay about infrastructure, memory, archiving without consent, and what we lose when we mistake the filesystem for memory.
It is also the angriest and most personal text I've ever written. I'm furious, and you should be too. We bet an entire civilisation on a brutal and unreliable stack. Now, fate has come to collect that wager.
California has a lot to fucking answer for.
https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/who-will-remember-us-when-the-servers-go-dark/
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2026-01-14 23:06:26 UTC

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2025-12-29 11:33:01 UTC

I got to spend time with someone very close to me at 39C3, who has been instrumental to me staying above water this year. He gave me a fucking Casio CFX-400 scientific calculator watch. I am utterly surrounded by people who know me so well they are willing to help me realise my Gaddafi-tinted aesthetic dream 🥺
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2025-11-06 16:15:55 UTC

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2025-08-04 09:37:46 UTC

So I started a new R&D lab with a couple of friends.
Here's the logo :eyeless_angel:
More soon
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2025-03-17 16:00:43 UTC

It is deeply hilarious to me that, in some anonymous but overly colourful room deep within the bowels of the YouTube campus, a team of 10× Googler engineers work day and night in an arms race against uBlock Origin so that you can be force fed a sovcit preroll hardcore financial scam as an entree to whatever slop you were about to watch.
To those engineers, I hope you regret this work on your death beds
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2025-02-08 16:05:26 UTC

lmao, the guy who founded roblox and oversaw it blossom into world's largest pedophile nazi groomer gaming platform for kids now expects to govern the real world. Fascinating stuff. Imagine if democratic governments understood these cohort of freaks from this context and responded appropriately.
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2024-12-22 11:50:08 UTC

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2024-11-20 12:46:55 UTC

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2024-09-13 19:04:21 UTC

This AI trend will go down in history as the big credibility destroyer apparently absolutely nobody is immune to this brain damage https://proton.me/blog/proton-scribe-writing-assistant

2024-09-09 19:10:21 UTC

The Internet Archive seriously needs a black ops wing.

2022-11-07 13:27:34 UTC

the wisest.
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