Soft Linden • Pettable • Infosec director at
@LindenLab
, creator of
@SecondLife
• Personal account, opinions are mine alone • Chaotic Good • ⭐️⭐️☆☆☆ 🧀
@mysk_co
@ProtonVPN
Proton has been trying to get Apple to address this for years:
Kudos to you and anyone else who helps raise awareness. It would be great if the app highlighted the issue too, though Apple’s app reviewers might not be amused.
A few were speculating: It's a Xeon x3230. We went through a few classes of machines, and that's from one of the earlier classes. It would have been a flagship simulator CPU... way back in 2007.
By 2020 it had long been repurposed for much lighter tasks. :)
Free!
"Second Life, December 2023
Dear Resident,
Physically Based Rendering (PBR) is here. Long story short: you will be immersed in it whether you like it or not. Objects may potentially look weird and ugly when you use the new PBR-enabled viewers (see
I met
@FlippyBear25
, who takes
#SecondLife
pictures (
#furry
or not), enhances them in Photoshop, and uses AI to finish the image. This is an update to my dog girl av. The process took about an hour from pose to finish.
🐈
@Kitty_Barnett
🐈 developed emoji support and contributed the source for everybody's benefit. That support just went live in the official viewer: Thank you so much, Kitty!
Your trip to
#SLJP
Hamster Festival can start here:
It's not actually a Gacha. The art is old. Click the specific hamster that you would like to be. Then you can go home and put it on. It's a complete avatar, so remove everything you're wearing now!
1. Go to the Stillman Bazaar to get the original Default Furry avatars
2. Use the head and tail on a modern mesh body, any way you like
3. Reply with a link to your photo tweet
I'll RT any that made me smile. If you want to use this to promote a store or hangout, that's fine!
Avatar attachment trends that have come and gone in Second Life:
• Flight Feathers
• Face Lights
• Loud, looping "Clicky Heels" Walkers
• Evil Titlers
• Radar HUDs
• Animated Prim Breasts (before body physics)
• ...what else?
When it comes to Second Life photography, I'm about as bad as one can be.
Are there any guides or video tutorials that might turn a dunce into Ansel Adams?
For inspiration, who are some of your favorite Second Life photographers?
Did you know HUDs can be performance killers? Clothing or body HUDs with a bunch of 1024x1024 textures may always load at full resolution. Even if the HUD is mostly transparent or slides mostly off-screen when not in use, other scene textures begin to thrash in and out of memory.
Google is nerfing ad blockers in Chrome. If you want an alternative that still feels familiar, consider
@brave
. It’s based on the same open source engine as Chrome. It supports all the same browser extensions, including the ad blockers Google is breaking.
@PicturesFoIder
@itsblanaba
One of my favorite experiments involved sitting audiophiles down to listen to high end speakers using $2,000 premium cables, $10 Radio Shack cables, and a few runs of coathanger. There was no statistically significant ability to tell which were different, let alone best.
Why are there 40 SL girl pics for every guy pic on Twitter? If you photograph your avatar skillfully and have a boyfriend in SL, help him take and share some good photos. It would be a cute Valentine’s Day gift. Give him a nice ego boost!
I expect there will be more messaging about this later. But today's Tilia announcement doesn't change a single thing about Second Life.
Second Life is *not* part of the bank investment. You won't be asked to change a thing you do today, and they don't get access to your SL data.
Soft Linden, circa 2007. Funny thing: Over the years, I've had more awkward questions when I flip the avatar's gender back and forth than when I spend time walking about as a giant flip phone or a talking blimp.
If you spot an error that might hurt an artist, let them know. This isn’t like an accidental Amazon double shipment. It can be a matter of whether an artist eats well for a week or two.
@tiyachows
Sure, but that was happening a couple days each month no matter how clean the contacts are. I didn’t like rolling the dice on whether I’d get music or the sad battery noise.
I’d love to hear if that problems been 100% solved with the AirPods Pro 2.
Imagine that Second Life vending scripts had an option that enables a 5% refund to users who wear the DEMO for an outfit while purchasing the full version.
Would you enable that on your in-world vendors?
What’s the most important and non-obvious thing that more regular Second Life users should know?
For example, mainland costs 10% less tier if it belongs to a group instead of a single account.
What if all identical landmarks in each folder were automatically merged? The survivor could still retain the most recent creation date, so it would still appear at the top of the "Recent" tab.
@6502_ftw
It looks like it’s fixed in place with a nut instead of a screw. Maybe they were terrified of anyone using a screwdriver next to that death trench.
> You have been ejected from 'Blueberry Store VIP'
I always feel like I must have done something wrong whenever somebody's simply cleaning up their groups. Should we even send group removal notices to non-officers? Or perhaps the word "ejected" is too pointed?
How did Reed Linden choose his penguin avatar?
Years ago, Reed popped into Frank's Jazz Club to help with an issue. A staffer playfully scolded about not following club dress code, so Reed TPd out and returned with a "tux."
It has stuck ever since.
I was just thinking it would be cute to have a “sleepover” or “pajama party” parcel for people who like leaving their avatars logged in while they’re away.
But then I realized I’d reinvented something a bit less wholesome.
Introducing legs is a bold move for Meta. I wish them luck in figuring out how to stop women from shameful displays of bare ankles.
Second Life never cracked that nut.
Significant if true: Redditor says the Steam store now rejects games with AI assets if the developer can’t demonstrate ownership of the training source material. There’s a link to another user reporting a similar rejection in the comments.
@cypher07h
@chizidotdev
@BrentSudeck
@mistshoo
@mysk_co
@ProtonVPN
There are competing considerations. For many people, a 2nd- or 3rd-hand smartphone is their only device.
A separate concern is that fully encrypted traffic from hardened tools stands out, painting a target. Fixing solutions used by commodity VPN users will help add cover.
@DelilahPossum
Are you like me?
I spend a lot of time running about on a spare account that just blends in, never introducing myself, seeing the things people make, or just enjoying relaxing while strangers chat.
On some days, it's nice being alone in a crowd. ❤️
Whenever something has a following script, it's fun to sit on it and see what happens.
(I didn't notice
@Milky_Little
was there until it was too late. Hello!)
Somebody's actively trying to distribute malware this weekend under the guise of offering a "fixed" viewer or drivers. For third-party viewers, always go directly to the official website for that viewer:
Firestorm's blog has a cautionary piece about content theft viewers. The account security risk is real. I've seen bad viewers that silently send passwords and L$ balances over IM, post them to anonymous websites, or smuggle credentials out via DNS queries.
Some of you really like it when your partner or friends help you put together an outfit. Here’s a secret tip: Most fatpack HUDs don’t check who clicked them if you rez them on the ground.
People remember to leave marketplace reviews when they’re mad or frustrated.
Are you overdue to say something nice about a recent purchase?
It means a ton to creators, and it helps other shoppers feel confident.