Arduenn Schwartzman

I had trouble logging in for a few minutes too. I tried three different locations to log into. Only the third one worked. Oddly, I could then tp to the first location from there. Maybe it was rolling restarts. The error message upon failed login that I got was 'due to internal error'. [Update] It didn't seem to be a restart. A friend was logged in at location number one for hours already.

But please please don't forget to tip all the jars! Think of the poor jars! I don't even notice the begging for tips too much. Or maybe it's gotten worse, because I stopped visiting clubs long ago. To me, much worse is what the average music club in SL looks like. It's like a blast from the past, 2006-ish, or earlier. Not a pleasant thing at all, being surrounded by all those bright Roblox-style decorations the whole time. It's like visiting a Las Vegas casino on a bad acid trip. With the exception of clubs playing indie music. Those tend to be more hip. Maybe the majority of club-owners and goers just don't like change?

I think with 'block camming', the OP means 'hiding avatars' at certain altitudes, just like what's now possible for parcel borders. It's a handy feature for people who like to rent stacked skyboxes, I guess. But that's about the only application, and it's one LL will profit less from than from people renting parcels, so I doubt it'll become a thing.

(If you pardon Sid's Dutch spelling.) I wanted to compare SL and Meta to VHS and Betamax here. But I think it's better to compare SL and Meta to a bottle of scented massage oil and a collection of black stains on the floor in a car repair shop, respectively.

Would you serve Amnesia Haze in your coffee shop? I got some for tonight, New Year's Eve. Stirred into butter and baked into a cake. I didn't add any lemon, but it's slightly lemon-scented through the leaf.

A great English author once wrote a book about doing exactly that: rabbits going through great lengths climbing on a hill and dying on it.

Don't worry. Meta is not a virtual world. It's vaporware serving as a media distraction for Facebook being exposed during a US Congressional hearing by whistleblower Frances Haugen.

I don't believe in de Big Bang. I only trust that astronomers are correct in determining that galaxies twice as far away from us move twice as fast away from us, at a rate (approximately 70 kilometers per second per megaparsec) that suggests that the density of the universe was incredibly high 13.8 billion years ago. Astronomers will be happy to admit they are wrong, if someone can provide proper proof against this consensus. In the mean time, research done with your tax money keeps confirming this notion. Can't wait for more precise results from the James Webb Space Telescope in the next few years.

If the universe is infinitely large, then, statistically, by pure coincidence, there must be another planet out there exactly like ours. With people exactly like us. With the same names and same Social Security numbers. And an infinite amount of those exact copies of our planet scattered throughout the universe, at that. It sounds so ridiculous that, maybe, the universe is not infinite after all. I hope that in my lifetime, we'll discover life on other planets or even on moons or dwarf planets, like Ceres or Pluto , in our own solar system.

And the follow-up question is: 'What are you going to do about it?'

Saw this in someone's house last year:

Oh, jeez, I just tested my own vendor at an event. Thanks. And IRL: yay, a life-time supply of fountain pen cleaning kits - syringes, tubes, needles, cleaning fluid.

As of 31th January 2012, llGiveInventory now has similar throttle to instant messages. A throttle of 5k per hour per owner per region; with a maximum burst of 2.5k. This throttle only affects gives to agents, not to non-agents. "With 3k subscribers you will want to send slow enough that it takes ~45 minutes to send 1 item to each subscriber. A general safe way would be to send ~2k as fast as you can, then wait 31 minutes and send another 2k." Kelly Linden on SVC-7631 Roughly 1 gift per person per second. If destination is an avatar the script sleeps for 2.0 seconds. (Giving to objects or attachments has no delay) To achieve 1 gift per person per second, you'd need 2 scripted giver objects. http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LlGiveInventory

Check your inbox or spam folder. There may be an email from Linden Lab in there in which they require you to send them a copy of your ID card/passport/driver's license. If you send them some form of ID, they'll reactivate your account.

Happens to me on one browser, sometimes. And then I try another. Firefox, Chrome, Brave, Opera. It usually works in one of them.

A follower (fake attachment) script to play with in a sandbox. Just paste in a script in any object, preferably phantom. vector gPos; default{ on_rez(integer Param){ llResetScript(); } state_entry(){ llSetTimerEvent(.023); // SL 'Planck time' } timer(){ list Details=llGetObjectDetails(llGetOwner(),[OBJECT_POS]); vector Pos=llList2Vector(Details,0); if(Pos!=gPos){ llSetRegionPos(Pos); gPos=Pos; } } }

Technically, others can not attach anything to you in SL without your permission. Also technically, objects can be scripted in a way that they appear to be attached to you without your permission. In reality, they follow you and stay very close to you. Hope this resolves any confusion.

There's a few options, really: 1. Wait until LL solves the problem for you. 2. Be pro-active and try a few lesser-known sandboxes. (Or the more extreme: 3. Give up and leave SL.) I'd personally go for a pragmatic solution, rather than one that's based on one pertaining perceived entitlement.

They do. They protect premium members from griefers by giving them access to premium sandboxes. It's like a lot of businesses IRL. If you invest some in them, you might get a lot more in return. E.g. I could choose not to invest in software that helps me in building and texturing, but the return would just be a lot less too. If your business relies on free LL resources like public sandboxes, then LL really doesn't owe you anything at all, because they have very little to gain from you.

Ok, so the problem is that you are currently relying on publicly accessible and rezzable land to make your things. I think this is part of the business model of SL: if you want privacy and peace, you'll have to invest some money in it. The best option that would cost you no money would be to find a lesser known piece of land that isn't notorious for griefers. I'll give you a suggestion in DM.

Hi Dorien. Is your current store on a land that allows your customers to rez objects? Rezzing abilities are the culprit of griefing. You might still consider relocating, or at least gain the right to disallow rezzing for visitors. Most shopping areas don't allow rezzing for customers at all.

Firestorm, putting back the Asynchronous in AJAX.

Will blockchain tech such as crypto currencies and NFTs ever be dissociated from their current speculative bubbles and quick money making schemes that try to create value out of thin air? It seems to take a lot longer than tulips and dot com businesses ever needed time for, in order to outgrow their humble, yet volatile beginnings, and become mainstream.

The northern part of Korea look less traditional, but seems very colorful, still.

Good day to you too!! I'm so glad you are considering coming back to Second Life. There's one thing I'm kinda curious about, though, and you'll have to forgive me if this sounds a little off-topic, but: why are you posting your text in a way that makes me have to scroll sideways? Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.