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5 minutes ago, Vincent Nacon said:
Andrew Linden is the one to blame for ...
Second Life
without Andrew Linden there wouldn't be a Second Life
Philip Linden at the SLB19 mentioned that in the early days of Second Life, Linden was scoffed at by 'the industry' for being a bunch of hackers who didn't know nothing. And Philip said yes we didn't know anything about how to build a 3D virtual world that emulates the real world from a design perspective and neither did anyone else. So we (;Linden) went with design-by-doing. Which means in practice, we hacked it together, to get it up and running and making money before the VC funding ran out. We meaning Cory and Andrew, hackitty hack hack. Wooo! that works, not great but oh! well. Crude actually working is better than elegant not working at all. So release it and we come back and have another go at it another day
which is what Linden did. 19 years later, Second Life still up and running, and being unhacked (Improvements Viewer most recent part of the work) and Second Life still making money
Oz Linden let it slip on occasion that the codebase he inherited as VP Engineering drove him and his team nuts sometimes, when responding to user requests. But when he stepped back and looked at the Second Life codebase in its wholeness, then was a marvelous thing. And that every software engineer knows that hindsight programming is even more marvelous
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2 hours ago, Devilgrey said:
maitreya body
in the Maitreya 5.3 folder is:
Maitreya Mesh Body - BoM Add-On Parts V5.3 and Maitreya Mesh Body - BoM Add-On Parts HUD V5.3
wear the BoM Add-On Parts and use the BoM Add-On Parts HUD to smooth breasts, nipples, bellybutton, pelvis and toenails (for socks/stockings)
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1 hour ago, Jaylinbridges said:
Missing from this discussion entirely is the concept of paying for Performance. Equal work in the same job does not equal the same Performance. The companies I worked for, and managed technical groups, all used 3 month performance reviews to determine salary increases if any. Of course there were rather large gaps between some of the employees all doing the same work
this can be a careful what you wish for situation
when a team member gets paid more than another team member, with the only distinction between the team members being remuneration, then the boss tends to load up all the hard jobs, and out of scope attributes, onto the first team member. On the simple basis that we (the employer) pay you more
the second team member gets all the easy, non-demanding, work as befits the boss' understanding of the second team member's capabilities. The second team member doesn't grow, and more importantly is never pushed to grow. The first team member gets fed up (no matter how much they get paid), leaves and the team can't deliver the difficult jobs because there is no one left on the team capable of doing it
even worse is when the first team member (paid to deliver) is unable to deliver. The whole team is sunk, and the employer is still paying out
if we want to pay a team member more, then we give them additional responsibilities. Like sub/team leader, preceptor/coach to junior team members, etc
team leader, 2IC, sub-team leader, junior team preceptor, junior team coach are out of scope attributes formally brought in to scope. In scope attributes/responsibilities build the team as a whole - whole team leadership. Leadership that comes with extra pay and formal recognition of the role(s) by the employer
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with Linden viewer I find that zooming my camera away on another angle, and then bringing it back tends to make stuff appear in front of me. I think is something something interest list
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i have read thru the US Supreme Court's Dobbs vs Jackson ruling
it opens the door to a successful appeal to this US Supreme Court against individual State laws that provide for abortion anywhere in the United States
the Dobbs vs Jackson ruling makes many references to unborn human beings and goes to great length to say in numerous places through out the text, that Dobbs v Jackson is only about abortion and its adverse impact on said unborn human beings. Adverse meaning termination meaning death
the door is open for a case to come before this Court that can cite prior judicial rulings that fetus' are human beings. And that prior judicial citing will be largely if not entirely the judicial reasoning of the majority in this Dobbs vs Jackson. Ergo the induced death of human beings is unconstitutional, therefore state laws that permit the death of unborn human beings are also unconstitutional
Justice Alito might be a lot of things but he is also very cunning
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15 minutes ago, Marius Darkheart said:
I never said partition or having east and west. Said to let states decide on their own and let the people decide.
dividing the country into red and blue areas and telling the inhabitants to choose one or the other is partitioning
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1 minute ago, Marius Darkheart said:
People would need to make a decision about the state they live in and if it matches their beliefs and way of life
when advocating separation on non-amicable terms, then is best to look at previous attempts at this. For example. the partitioning of East and West Pakistan from India didn't work out to well. Nor did the partitioning of Yugoslavia. Nor has the partitioning of the USSR been all that great for Ukrainian people
for those who don't move when a country is partitioned then matters tend to get worse for them. They get treated as the enemy in the land of their birth
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8 minutes ago, Xiija said:
Is there a list of these anywhere?
ty.
here: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Remove_Prim_Properties
to these we can add everything we can edit with the Build Tool. Position, rotation, texture, color, alpha, etc
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13 minutes ago, Arielle Popstar said:
Well no because religion in America will not be defeated but changed from one to another. It will go from Christianity to wokism or muslim or something. Religions are never defeated because at their core, most humans need to believe in something and it is the only way to really unite people under a banner
is not so much a matter of needing to believe in something
people cling to religion because of the redemption element. That there is a deity who will forgive me, and love me, no matter what I have done
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the erosion of civil rights comes when the right to free speech is given supremacy over other rights, and in this circumstance our actions and beliefs are interpreted to be free speech
the egregious example of this is apartheid and its derivatives like the separate but equal doctrine, etc. We get into this state by going: It is my sincerely held belief that I cannot be compelled by the State to associate in the public space with people who I sincerely believe are detrimental to my own way of living (according to my own beliefs)
this doctrine when left unchecked moves from the public space into the private spaces. Private spaces like Second Life, Facebook, etc are co-opted into the public space (there is a push on from some legislators to make this happen)
and then it moves into our own homes, our private lives become public business. And we can't be diversely gendered or interracial, neither in private or public as it imperils the free speech right (and actions) of those who would have a sincerely held belief that discrimination (an action) is free speech
which is the thing. Just because we sincerely hold to a belief, doesn't make the belief correct
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1 hour ago, Akane Nacht said:
Born when flexi was cooool 😎
flexi is still cool says my neko tail. And says the flexi hair strands that I saw on this person's head at a SLB19 concert today
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3 hours ago, YugiOhki Shuffle said:
I have many models with rigging ripped from a defunct Japanese mobile game that I wish to upload into Second Life and use as personal avatars
this is the doesn't hurt to ask basket
suggest that you track down the owner(s) of the game copyrights. Never know, they might just say sure why not and give you the right to do this, make your own copies. Hello Kitty does this, so might be the same with this other content owner. They might say yes, then you will be good to do it without any worries
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6 hours ago, Teagan Tobias said:
But I do think playing with a free mesh body and head that is modify could give me hours of fun in Second Life. After all, that’s what I’m here for.
this I think for non-new residents is an attraction with the NUX
is also consistent with what Oberwolf and Philip Linden were talking about in their SL19B chat. That Second Life is still fundamentally a creative activity. And I think a full permissions mesh starter avatar lends itself to continuing this creative tradition
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On 6/23/2022 at 12:45 AM, Patch Linden said:
I see this as better than doing nothing, and we're trying to do something of value that you all have requested since the beginning. I don't see this as a bad thing.
this is a good point. As is true that lots of people who are into Linden Homes have wanted some fair and reasonable way to request a home of their choosing. And as you have mentioned also already, your team will keep an eye out for those few who might try to abuse this
if left unchecked then there might also come a time where all of the more desirable waterside parcels are snaffled up leaving only interior parcels for new residents. But am pretty sure that Linden Homes department have already factored this in to the availability distribution model
so altogether I agree that this is not a bad thing for Linden to have done
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1 minute ago, Quistess Alpha said:
Yeah, would be better to automatically force a detach and reattach rather than a strong suggestion. detaching is easy enough, and re-attaching is easy wit RLV (detaching with llDetachFromAvatar while @detach=n is restricted would probably fulfill the inventory reset) but for things where you can't reasonably expect people to have RLV on, . . . I've never gotten secondlife:///app/inventory/<id>/select to do anything.
i would like a llReattach function as well. Which combines detach and attach into one call (Not sureif this is even possible tho for the general case, where an item could be anywhere in the user's inventory) Might be able to be done in some way with My Outfits links? not sure exactly how tho
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On 6/24/2022 at 2:36 AM, ValKalAstra said:
Transfer solution B:
Use a Savestick. An Attachment that is sent the data upon button press and which then stores it in the item description of the attachment. Sharing possible via the exchange of the savestick. Loading would be - attach, then click button. Pro: No fussing around with chat export. Cons: Safety. In theory someone could make a pretend attachment, pass it around as genuine and do harm that way. I thought about adding a function to shout warnings if the savestick was tempered with or I'm not it's creator but by then the damage would be done already.
if this a universal data transfer system (applicable to a wide variety of uses) then I think attachment savesticks are the way to go
in application, a savestick is no different to any other kind of HUD attachment that communicates with a data receiver object. The data receiver script validates the sender before it uses the data. When the receiver doesn't recognise the sender (savestick in this case) then it ignores the sender/sender messages. Validating a sender is a fairly well-documented procedure
users also understand how attachments work. They also understand how attachment delivery works as well. Receive it into their Inventory, find it, wear it, and done
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On 6/24/2022 at 4:41 AM, Quistess Alpha said:
Also FWIW attachments are not "safe" for storing data if the user is jumping between sims a lot. I worked on a system ~9 months ago that stored data in a HUD, and there have been complaints that crashing on region crossings caused people to lose some or all of the data stored in the HUD. You'll probably want some way to store backup in some object or system that is not attached.
picking up on attachments
the issue is that changes to attachment properties are only safely saved in all cases when the attachment is detached. So if the updated property data is critical to the app then is best (at this time) to prompt the user to detach and reattach the object after the data update
one day maybe Linden will fix this so that all attachment property changes are persistent and can survive crashes and borked region crossings
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22 hours ago, Coffee Pancake said:
I await the BLENDER dev kits and documentation.
i vote for Blender kits, docs and tutorials as well
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i think this is a good thing. Mostly for the simplified learning aspect of how to dress my avatar. A learning which can then be applied to more advanced avatar models as new residents grow their inworld experience
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14 minutes ago, Da5id Weatherwax said:
many long conversations about how the old traditions I was raised in, here in Scotland, aren't really that much different from how America's first peoples saw the land they lived with - not just on
yes. Is the same when move thru all the continents like Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas, Australasia/Pasifika. We all have our folklore handed down to us thru 1000s of years. The names might change from group to group, the way the stories are told may be different, but is lots of things we can relate to in the ways of other peoples due to their commonalities with our own
like european peoples didn't start with the invention of the steam engine. There is 1000s and 1000s of years before that. Peoples who went thru as much as any other indigenous peoples as hunter gatherers and then as farmers and on to engineers. Knowledge of things that they learned along the way (same as everybody else). Knowledge that is still passed on to the next generations as they have always been, no matter where in the world the peoples are
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1 minute ago, Da5id Weatherwax said:
Some of us still are. When you stand on ground that knows and welcomes you, and feel the seasons change around you then you're standing on holy ground, wherever you are.
a saying that many cultures still share about the land that nurtures us
we do not inherit the land from our ancestors, it is loaned to us by our descendants
in some ways I think we as Second Life people feel the same way about our virtual world. That everything we make within it is for the benefit of those who will come after us
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14 minutes ago, Gabriele Graves said:
While we're here...
@Mollymews Ngā mihi o Matariki, te tau hou Māori
kia manaakitia koe me tō whānau i tēnei wā hari
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8 minutes ago, Gabriele Graves said:
There's no Premium Quarterly Plan either any more it seems. At least there is no option for either plan on my dashboard.
if so then somewhere between the Linden Product group and the Development group there has been a break down in communication
maybe @Grumpity Linden or @Patch Lindencould enlighten us on what is happening here
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7 minutes ago, Liaa Nova said:
I may be wrong, but couldn't the same be said for premium eg we're not rl poor if we upgrade from a free account, to premium, which nobody needs
everything is relative yes, no matter our personal financial situation. Is true that a argument can be made that nobody needs anything relative to any other thing
and yet, when we are a pensioner or a person with disabilities and are unable to get out and about in the real world as those more fortunate than us, then we can bring the world to us thru the power of the internet
and is any number of people who are able to do this thru Second Life. To have a little virtual home, to have friends, to have some little brightness and happiness in their otherwise rather grim real life
and despite their real world difficulties were able to do this thru Second Lilfe and were also able to pay their own way. Paying our own way (as little as that may be sometimes) gives people dignity. I might be poor, I may be frail and in ill-health, but I do also have my dignity
Linden to their credit understood this
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so how is your virtual world product getting on ?