Rathgrith027

May 2

Just now, Persephone Emerald said:

Personally, that looks to me like a teen trying to dress more adult.

Eeeh, I'd say.. 18, maybe pushing 19?

May 2

3 minutes ago, Sammy Huntsman said:

I know this sucks, but you are either gonna have to comply with the new policies or leave. Again, I am sorry you are going through this though.

I had a discussion with a long time friend, and long time Second Life resident, about a hypothetical "if you ran LL" ultimatum - Either keep adult content, or keep child avatars. Knowing how much adult content, as much as Linden Lab may begrudgingly acknowledge it, drives our economy.. I'd painfully have to show child avatars the door, were it my decision - It's something I wouldn't want to do, but to preserve my - our home, it'd have to be that choice. They said that sooner or later LL may have to face that ultimatum. It may not be now, but when this problem rears its' ugly head once more.

That being said, I wish we lived in a perfect world where no one pursued *****, where CSAM and CSA was non-existant, and all lewd acts were done with consent, from those who can provide consent.

But sadly we don't live in such a world.

May 2

4 minutes ago, Chaser Zaks said:

From https://lindenlab.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/31000173097-child-avatar-faq

Governance isn't dumb. They know what is and isn't a child avatar, even if <insert random person> absolutely INSISTS that short people are children, or anime is children, or dwarves with hammers are children.

I have a few smol avatars that are of age but due to species are smol. I have confidence in LL that I won't be punished for using them.

I've seen friends shown the door even when they have features that.. clearly make them not children. I welcome this as a learning opportunity, but It is up to Linden Lab to convince me that they aren't going to repeat old mistakes in that regard.

March 25

3 minutes ago, MillyWH said:

Ok I feel like if this had been toward the beginning of this thread it would have cut to the issue instead of kind of dancing around it and having people get off on to tangents.

I honestly wish I did, Milly. Would have probably spared the Lindens more likely than not the trouble to come in here.. three times in a row.

But then again, I proceeded to roast the BBB over an open fire fervently in a deleted post made mostly out of frustration than anything else so... yeah.

March 25

16 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

It's too bad so much of the discussion here is missing the point of the OP.

It's not about whether someone gets left out of a coterie. It's certainly not about crapping on people who've put a lot of work into organizing fun events for residents -- no one would or could deny that the BBB does that. And it's not about someone who hasn't done the work wanting to "get in" -- the OP has contributed a huge amount to the community: she has an enormously impressive resume of work done that benefits SL.

The issues being highlighted by the OP here are systemic, and relate to how LL chooses to engage with community leaders -- and who it decides, for its own corporate reasons, to ignore or even hamper.

As much as I hate to suggest there is a sort of FIC dynamic at work here (it's a concept I've ridiculed generally in other contexts), it is absolutely clear to me, after having done a little digging around, that LL has managed all of this rather poorly, and has decided that there is a pretty select group of community leaders, creators, and so forth that it will listen to and employ for projects like this -- that it "favours" in other words.

I am sure that this is not malicious or deliberately nasty: LL is a business, not a democracy, and it chooses, I'm sure, approaches that seem most efficient for its own corporate purposes. But it's also very poor community relations, and it's evidently causing damage.

Kudos, genuinely, to the BBB for all of the great work it does. But the lack of transparency and openness, as well as an apparently very real tendency of LL to not merely ignore, but maybe actually impede "competing" creators and community leaders, is obviously a problem. And it's possible to find that problematic without hating on the BBB or even LL itself.

It's a system that needs to be rethought.

To be clear, I have no horse in this race, as I live on the Mainland rather than Belli. Nor am I in-world friends with anyone here involved. I don't have "insights" that aren't available to anyone who does a bit of reading and listening, and I can't vouch for the veracity of everything that has been said on either side

But this would be a much more productive and fruitful discussion if it stopped focusing on personalities and motives, and started to examine instead exactly how things are being run by LL and the BBB. In other words, how can the system be made better and more inclusive.

I couldn't put this into better words myself.

11 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

If only life were fair!

So letting a major community sit here and bully a competitor to one of their products off the grid, and having their associates gaslight her and all who either suffered her same fate or stand behind her, is okay to just let happen, Love? Not even regarding the fact they have a working relationship with LL? If I were head of Product Operations and I saw Feorie's video, I'd be ordering the event postponed and the BBB, B5APC come forth with Feorie and other concerned parties to bring evidence to the table and sort this mess out.

That is all I want, is some accountability and for the bad actors to be shown the door. If the BBB would disavow the actions of those who did wrong against Feorie et al, I would have *NO* problem with them. None at all. Sure, there would be bitterness from the fact it happened at all, but I would let time heal that wound and decide whether I would want to engage with them down the line.

Life may not be fair, but it sure as hell is not an excuse to tolerate injustice.

March 25

53 minutes ago, Persephone Emerald said:

Hell, No.

Do you read or watch sci-fi?

Yes, I do.

No, I don't think Black Mirror is an excuse to reject CBI/BCIs.

March 25

Neuralink Implant? No.

Full Dive VR kit? I'll sign up for the beta.

March 24

2 hours ago, Teresa Firelight said:

This thread accuses the BBB of doing something horrible -- spending a year working hard to organize/prepare an big event for all Bellisserians (... actually for all SL residents....) to celebrate Bellisseria's fifth anniversary. Such a crime! how dare they give hours and hours and hours of their time and effort for a whole year to organize this??? Perhaps we should hang the B*stards!

Except...

As it turns out, the BBB is not organizing this -- it is organized by seven people (listed above in Prudence Anton's Post). Not a single one of them is a member of the BBB.

Putting sarcasm aside, I would like to thank each of the seven committee members for all their work. I look forward to Belli's milestone anniversary and I am grateful that a big fun event is being organized to allow us to celebrate it together.

Prior to Harley's moderation actions, Feorie had brought up a response that essentially boils down to a sizable chunk of those in the Committee have ties to the BBB User Group.

Out of respect of Harley and Dyna's wishes that I respect the peace, I am going to stress this as politely as I can - The BBB User Group is an invite-only group, to my knowledge. What is to say those members in the committee aren't complicit, or at least, have a conflict of interest?

March 24

The BBB has some nerve to rear their heads after Feorie's allegations.

As someone who was witness to her original video, I cannot stress this enough - regardless of your opinion on me, this event should be boycotted - along with any initiatives by or in coordination with the BBB. Not until we get answers from the lab about what happened between BBB and Forever Tourist.

March 4

I've often alluded to SL as Agni, sort of as a loving term for the place I've called home for 10 years. I implore all our residents to take a closer look at the inner workings of the place and its' history. It's why I love it so much - such a fine tapestry of beauty forged from chaos.

16 hours ago, Constance Finchy said:

Okay, so you are officially cooler than all of us. Just saying.

Worst I've done is fly from Sansara to Second Norway out in the Blake.. I couldn't fathom the planning and navigation a 9 hour flight would take. Dude's got balls like Duke Nukem.

January 4

Personally, I don't give a damn what a store looks like as long as it - A. looks like the owner at least made an attempt to make it look like a storefront and B. isn't attempting to either flashbang me like I'm playing Ready or Not, or having me trip over ***** in the dark.

December 10, 2023

6 hours ago, animats said:

Large View Distances. You've got to have impostors. I've written on this before. I'm looking at using OpenDroneMap, which is free software, to make mesh impostors of entire regions, to be displayed like off-sim meshes you can never get close to. When you get close, the real region replaces the impostor. These would be made by having a bot take some 2D pictures of each region once a week or so, then running them through OpenDroneMap. Anybody interested in working on this?

I unfortunately cannot really contribute, but I cannot stress how genius this is. As an aviator in Second Life, the biggest issue I've faced has been draw distances. Faking large DD by making the SL world outside of either the current region or nearby regions, would seriously pave the way for helping improve SL aesthetically and in circumstances like aviation and elsewhere, functionally. Computationally and otherwise, I don't see it being too difficult to implement, and I'd say make sim mesh updates a nightly thing. Oi - Lindens, if you're looking for a nice thing to do after Puppetry, you got one right here.

July 29, 2023

3 minutes ago, Reyetta Claven said:

It's just a waste of money if they end up upgrading later, right? Why don't they just charge new users $60 USD for their account and start them with Maitreya or Jake and a Lelutka EvoX head and a smattering of clothes from some big brands?

Reyetta hun, I know you're being sarcastic, but please don't give the Lindens more bad ideas.

That being said, Senra was never meant to be a top-of-the-line body. It was meant to be a sufficient body for new users that doesn't look dated, and is open for people to develop for. That being said, it doesn't excuse the very terrible inefficiencies that are present in the model.

As much as I'd love to bring my boyfriend into SL and have him use Senra with something like M4 Mars / Venus or something, right now I'd rather test my luck with the old TMP bodies.

October 15, 2022

Land has been abandoned. Please contact Linden Lab Land Concierge to request sale of the parcel.

October 15, 2022

UPDATE - I'm very intent on selling this land ASAP, so I'm lowering the price to 6000L$.

October 14, 2022

Nestled in the winterlands, my home for quite some time now is now for sale as I have decided to take up residence elsewhere.
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cortina/225/125/131

FOR SALE - 2240 Square Meter Parcel w/ in bountiful winterlands

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For questions, please contact Nodoka Hanamura in world. Price may be negotiable and will subdivide to 2048 if requested, house not included, second image shown for perspective of southern area outlook.

June 24, 2022

I'm not currently in Education, but I feel this would be an actually pretty cool idea for someone to implement. I know the NCI Kuula campus has a very pretty cove out and away from the main area that doesn't see a whole lot of foot traffic and is actually pretty nice scenic wise - perfect for a study group gettogether.

December 24, 2021

On 11/29/2021 at 4:12 AM, Anna Nova said:

All the Linden homes areas are 'Moderate', so nothing 'interesting' is allowed to happen outside. How about Linden homes in an adult region, with a choice of homes like: (1) a camper, but in a 1024sqr; (2) a tent in a 1024sqr; (3) no home at all in a 1024sqr allowing the whole allowance for 'toys'...

Similar to the prudes getting all the adult stuff moved to Zindra. And this would give a nice boost for the LL revenues as the 'I'm only in SL for the sex' crowd rush to go premium.

It doesn't have to be connected to the ~~prudist~~ moderate regions at all.

You are technically allowed to engage in sexual activity in moderate regions as long as both the parcel is restricted to the public, that adult content cannot be seen at a glance from the outside of the parcel, and no one can see avatars inside or out of the parcel.

If you want to do that unbounded, unfortunately your only option is to move to Zindra or to a private estate like the Eden and Fruit Islands.

December 23, 2021

First time I've heard of MrAnonyMoose. Not gonna lie, it brings a tear to my eye to see members of the community do this out of the goodness of their hearts. I might bring this up on Good Morning Agni for the next episode in January

December 23, 2021

14 hours ago, Jaylinbridges said:

~~wrong~~ and wrong

~~account passwords are never stored in the "linden server".~~

They are encrypted in your own computer, based on hardware configurations, and can never be decoded without the encryption key, which is generated by your local computer ~~and unknown to anyone else on the internet, including SL servers (on the AWS cloud~~).

There - I crossed out the misinformation. my excuse was too much wine

I still don't think the "linden server" was hacked - AWS would be in trouble

That's not how this works. Linden Lab servers do in fact have your password, it's just that it's stored as a salted, encrypted hash using something like AES-256 or some other encryption technique.

I don't know about local storage, such as with viewers, but I believe that is also a salted hash and is decrypted using a unique system ID that belongs to *your* computer in its' current state. If it's modified (say for instance, you replace the CPU or one of the hard drives), the key is no longer valid and you have to reinput your credentials.

Soft Linden or someone in either InfoSec or Engineering could probably elaborate better than me on this.

Edit: Or Wulfie can, because I deadass don't read through a thread. Guess the Gacha thread kinda caused that for me - Good write up, by the way

December 21, 2021

The reason why Zindra was abandoned is because of the fact that demand for land was outpaced by supply. People who wanted adult land would rent from land barons on private estates and regions. Mainland at the time was seen and somewhat still is, seen as laggy and gaudy. Whilst Zindra has improved, along with the rest of the mainland in regards to aesthetics, the problem is that the overwhelming majority of land on Zindra is owned by Life Properties and other land holdings companies. Hell, even my old home on the Southeast Bypass that connects the North and South road networks (which is now replaced by a proper linden road, thanks for doing that well after I moved out and filed that support ticket, Linden Lab), was bought up by those accursed barons.

Linden Lab has no reason to expand Zindra because not only is it isolated from the rest of Agni (Literally on the other side of the grid from the rest of the continents and the majority of standalone regions and estates), if I want a place to ***** people to call home, I'll take advantage of both cheaper land and privacy by using the adult content in moderate land loophole that Linden Lab has in place.

As much as I love Zindra, having spent some of my first years on SL calling it home after I left the now defunct Gulfport in Hotei, Sansara - It honestly is an obsolete concept that was created because of public outrage from the CSI episode and other bull***** media coverage that tried to place SL in a bad light with little evidence to prove their accusations, which on top of that, was made in one of Linden Lab's many kneejerk reactions which equated to shooting one's self in the foot in slow motion, repeatedly. The only way it'll expand is if public interest in the continent demands it. And as long as Zindra is not just barren, but held mostly by land barons who still think it is 2008 and charging for land like it is, I doubt that'll ever happen.

December 21, 2021

On 12/18/2021 at 4:54 PM, animats said:

Blackslough has been sold to an airport builder. Helvellyn has not been sold yet; those auctions close at noon SLT on Sunday, and the current bids are at L$0.50/m^2.

That's some good news at least. Here's hoping others buy and contribute to East River in one way or another.

October 23, 2021

This really was a bad idea. NFTs and what not have a negative connotation towards them for various reasons, including:

The exorbitant commodification of art
The heavy energy consumption of generating NFTs
The inherent pointlessness of NFTs due to their disconnection from the art or work they're supposed to digitally represent, as well as the lack of protection of the work
The theft of existing art for the purpose of making and selling them as an NFT
The fact that the market for NFTs have since popped and are unlikely to recover as they're nothing more than overglorified digital beanie babies / beenz (if you remember either of those).

Linden Lab and Zenescope, who for the record, I had never heard of since their collaboration with SL, and that's saying something as someone who knows people who are devout comics fans and occasionally discusses them with said friends, have made a big mistake by doing this, and not just for the reasons above. If I were Brett (or one of the Lindens in Upper Management), I would be withdrawing Linden Lab and SL thereby from this sweepstakes effective immediately.

..And to think, LL was doing so well lately..

October 12, 2021

On 9/15/2021 at 11:08 AM, Mystie Slade said:

Hi @tickubuck , the group admin here from Nihongo Tea Room (Cypris Chat Japan). I'm adding you to our access list so you can visit us any time. Before you join us for activities, please make sure you have a working microphone and earphones/headphones as we are voice only group. If you are not sure if you mic is working properly without much noise, go to Voice Echo Canyon (http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Voice Echo Canyon/128/128/2) to check with your mic on. You will only hear your own voice on this sim unlike any other parts of the world.

*Friday Shiritori Language activity from 5:30 am PDT / 6:30 am PST.
*Saturday Beginner level Japanese Class with textbook and homework -Yes, serious lessons but fun - from 5 am PDT / 6 am PST.
Currently we are near the end of the first book, but if there are enough interest, Yoshi sensei might start the same beginner level again.
Usually done sitting, but Yoshi sensei is pretty creative, so you might be asked to be more active during the lessons.

There are also Shougi board and some Japanese learning Karuta cards on the ground which you can play on your own or with 3 other people together.

Looking forward to meeting you soon!

Nihongo Tea Room is for learners of Japanese language.
Cypris Chat Japan is for Japanese people who want to speak/learn English, mostly beginner levels, therefore you are allowed to speak both English and Japanese.
Cypris Chat English is for anyone who want to learn and practice speaking English, and only allowed to talk/chat in English.

I'd love to participate in this class as I've only recently begun my Japanese learning, only knowing Hiragana and Katakana (mostly the former). Is there an accompanying in world group?

October 7, 2021

On 10/1/2021 at 7:18 PM, Fritigern Gothly said:

It's baffling that a dev like you couldn't even manage to run a simple wizard for the GPU drivers.

It's not that hard for NVIDIA at least, though it does require you to know some console-fu, namely knowing how to enable executing a program and executing it, as well as how to shut down X (The software responsible for linux having a graphical interface). There's also the option to use the PPA on Ubuntu to just automatically update.

Seriously, I think we'd be in a better place if Linux was more predominant. Microsoft wouldn't be as stalwart in making stupid-ass UI/UX, software and firmware decisions.

On 10/4/2021 at 3:13 PM, Profaitchikenz Haiku said:

Oh, and to try and be as fair-minded as possible, I do agree with some of the comments about the annoying hoops you have to jump through for Linux.

Linux is by no means perfect, and is just as good as Windows sometimes at being a law unto itself

Lubuntu 20.04 in particular has decided that anthing Microsoft can do, it can do...

"There's updates for your computer. Yes I know you were busy but I had to tell you right now. No, you can't look and see what they are and pick and choose. You do them all or you don't. I can wait all day if I have to..."

I don't bother with mainstream Ubuntu. Whilst I've got a modded out derivative of KDE Neon, I don't really feel comfortable using something like Manjaro or Arch, at least not yet.

On 10/5/2021 at 2:37 PM, Nick0678 said:

It is nice and clean but it isn't easy ...

(better stay with windows unless you are willing to learn many new things in regards to computers)

What TPV is that? I've never seen one like that before. Aura, was it?

On 10/5/2021 at 10:23 AM, Ceka Cianci said:

Is that Linux version pretty user friendly?

I've been dying to get away from windows, especially this last version.. They really seem to want to get more and more in my business or put me out there more..

I don't care for all the junk that came with the version I'm on now..

I want some peace and quiet and peace of mind for a change.. hehehe

If you're new to Linux, I recommend personally using either KDE Neon or Linux Mint. Both are very newbie-friendly distributions of LInux.

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