Ezbeharra

Yes, it's definitely better now than it was, but I only have third party fingernails because I'm cheap. Toenails still require the Styles tab and I'm horribly absent minded, so once in a while I find myself running around with media enabled.

This is true, I mean come on creators, most of the eye shadow/liner is freaking nutso. I want a little bit, maybe.

This is absolutely true and I am not disagreeing with you. Everyone should do this. But I am going to point out, just for the purpose of encouraging mutual understanding, that it is extremely easy in an annoying sort of way to enable these settings and forget about it, because a certain very popular body maker whose body I admittedly chose to wear decided to require media for certain parts of their absolutely atrocious HUD, not only in the expensive version that I have but in the free version that a lot of clueless newbies get for themselves. So it's kind of crappy that it can be taken advantage of. I have forgotten to switch it back numerous times even though I know better, and plenty of people don't know better at all. It kind of sucks that this is an all or nothing choice, and that a certain body maker continues this stupid and harmful practice. I don't know the technical feasibility of it, but it would be very nice if media could be allowed only for one's own attachments, to prevent people who want a really nice butt from forgetting to turn off the thing that allows any random object near them to phone their IP address to some jerkwad.

This is 100% true and I wish I had the patience to sit and take a pictures of everything but I just don't. When FAGA gave all their group gift hair packs to subscribers, I was absolutely thrilled to find that most of them included an image of the ad for that hair, so I could just open that and see what it was without putting it on.

This really is the key for me, too. As soon as you unpack it, file it. My top level inventory is really sparse. Even demos go to a Demo directory with subdirs for whatever thing I'm working on, or whatever event I'm grabbing them from. What's really killing me right now is cosmetics. I don't even buy that much but I have a ton of stuff I've picked up as gifts. Eye makeup and lips would be an easy distinction, except often times you get them together, and then sometimes they're appliers and sometimes they're BoM, and sometimes they include both which is great (seriously, thank you!) but I think I'm going to have to basically make a link farm to keep track of them all. So it all goes into Cosmetics for now, ugh what a mess. Hair is also difficult. How do I subcategorize this? Updoes, long, short? Lots of gray areas with that. Again, I don't even buy that much but I have a hard time passing up gifts. Another wrinkle with this is that I need to copy the ones I use to my #RLV/.Core (nostrip) folder because no you are not taking that off me, and since they're not mod you can't change the name. So I have multiple copies of the same hair in that folder, since I prefer to delete scripts on them after I get the color/style I want with the HUD and I always want a crazy color and a natural brown. But yeah, Ceka is absolutely right, the key is organizing it as soon as you unpack. Inventory chaos is always lurking in the shadows, watching.

When life hands you lemons,

You know, a concerted effort like that could it into a porn site. Or maybe I'm just eager to over-share.

There is a qualitative difference between sharing data about something or someone seen in Second Life at one particular place, at one particular time, from the vantage of one particular user, and gathering a constantly updated pool of data about many users in many different places that is regularly updated over time. The latter can be used to bypass in-world privacy measures meant to protect users from stalkers and griefers. I can't believe this has to be constantly explained, and I'm going to say that anyone who claims not to understand it at this point is just willfully refusing to consider the possibility of the impact things like this can have on anyone besides themselves.

https://observatory.mozilla.org/analyze/bonniebots.com

Even if I take this at face value, I have to wonder what else you haven't thought through, given that you're gathering a rather large store of data about users and their in-world activities.

If you use any kind of normal email service for normal people then sending an email will not reveal your IP address but it will certainly give them your email address. However, since there's no way to know the email address for any given SL account, it's not clear how they would be able to verify that you are opting yourself out and not some other person. You can also use burner addresses for this same reason, whether it's for yourself or, just hypothetically speaking, every user in the SL database.

Yeah okay this is just wrong. Nothing binds web crawler bots to obey robots.txt and in fact a large number of them completely ignore it. It is, at best, a request. If I am in SL as a user, and in the same region as you, I can know your location and your attachments. By itself, that's fine, and necessary for SL to function. And if I send out hundreds of myself all over the place to create up to date lists of everyone's locations and attachments, that's kind of a different matter, isn't it?

I mean, if this is the amount of thought they've put into their opt out process then I really have to wonder how much thought they've put into securing all the raw data they collect.

So I can send an email to opt anyone I want out of data collection.

I do a more simplified version of what Ceka has, where I use my Clothing folder with subfolders like Tops, Bottoms, Dresses, Sets, etc. The main thing is to make sure I put something in one of those as soon as I unpack it. I don't switch bodies so I don't copy body-specific versions around to different places, but Ceka's approach sounds like a good one if you do that. Subfolder categories aren't always perfect and "Sets" in particular tends to become a catch-all. Sometimes you get sets that are, as you would expect, tops and bottoms that can be worn separately but also go well together, but then sometimes you get "sets" that are tops with matching socks or some similar combo, so something being in "Sets" isn't always helpful. I've started linking things when multiple categories seem appropriate, just so I can find them again. In addition to clothing type folders, I have a separate subfolder for Costumes/Roleplay stuff since there's a bit less of that and I'll not likely be mixing and matching it with the rest of my stuff. I guess a skater skirt and a breast plate could be quite a fashion statement but it's not one I'll be making. I also have a separate subfolder for Applier/BoM clothing, and since I don't have a lot of it I don't bother categorizing beyond that. If something has a texture HUD then what I will do each time I make an outfit with that item is save a copy with that texture in a subfolder and use that one for the outfit so I can just change clothes without fiddling with the HUD again. Not great for reducing inventory bloat but a real time saver. One thing that's really helpful, and I am grateful to the creators that do this, is having an image of the item in the folder even if it's just the ad. This lets me see what the item is without having to put it on, because I can't remember all this stuff and I really don't want to spend time taking pictures of each thing. In terms of Outfit organization, I have a starting outfit saved with my body and other essential attachments (actually I have 2 separate ones which I guess you could call PG and Adult), then build outfits from there and save them separately. Changing outfits is only done by replacing one entirely with the other since items in common remain unaffected. I have separate, top level folders for Cosmetics and Hair, both of which are unmitigated chaos at the moment.

It's typically the case that the connection information needed for the stream connection is not sufficient to also get a list of connected IPs, but once you're connecting to some external service it's their system, their rules, and if they want to have a public list of currently connected IPs there's nothing stopping them from doing that.

Streaming media services like Shoutcast do not stream to you through your connection to SL. Your viewer makes a separate connection directly to the streaming media service. Otherwise LL would have to carry the additional data over its own network connections, for no benefit of their own. So when you connect to any system on the internet directly, such as the streaming media service, your public IP address (usually your home router if you're like most people) is visible to that system, and someone managing the service will be able to see it. Now, they can't map this directly to your SL account, but what they do is notice the time you arrived on the parcel, and look at the times the connections started for the various IP addresses connected to the stream, and they match those times up to figure out your IP address. This is a good reason to leave your media/music off in your viewer until you want to turn it on. If you're at a place with lots of coming and going, it becomes a lot harder to match IP to avatar in this case. There's really nothing mysterious or obfuscated here, it's just a little complicated.

Having a free account does not give me enough group slots to waste any of them on irony.

I was surprised to log in this morning and receive an update for a L$15 product I forgot I even bought, just to include the Gen X versions. Looks like people are actively creating for Gen X on some level.

Well I took all my excess triangles there without a problem. Not sure if I'm helping someone evade a ban, but you did remember to turn off your music before you took your alt there, right?

This by itself would be a huge improvement. If even a few shops did this together, it would be a big selling point for me.

I don't have a Gen X but I'm watching with interest and I've started to notice things here and there at the stores I visit. Maybe a slow ramp up is still possible. I hope so, I really do like the body.

Noble Creations and Pucca Firecaster may also have some things you'll find suitable. Cool character!

I think clothing makers have every incentive not to do this, and instead make their clothing all rigged to fit together, and then it's very easy to get dressed provided you're only buying mega-packs from Bumbleberry or whatever. Anyway, you're absolutely right that it should be better than this and in layer clothes days, it actually was, but there's probably no solution that anyone will actually take the time to implement. For modesty, I find c-strings or panties that let you turn off the waistband to be sufficient (there are some good cheap ones on MP and available as group gifts at a few places). The much more vexing problem is outerwear. Imagine having a jacket you don't have to wear with one specific shirt!

Honestly that sounds like it would rule. I hadn't even thought of it before, and now I'm sad we don't have it.