Chaser Zaks

Yes! I did also find a video of old Orientation Island, unfortunately the cyber rats is a very brief segment, but here it is:

I joined back in 02/05/2007, but my now account was in 2008, which I then left for reasons (i was underage and left sometime mid/late 2008 on my own will when finding out I had to be 18. Yes LL knows, and we resolved this situation. My real DOB is on file now. You can blame Neopets for advertising SL to me) and came back when specific reasons were no longer a factor. I remember this, which I still have to this day(I wish I could re-visit this place!): I recall the building tutorial area which LL was trusting enough of people to allow people to rez something without grey gooing the entire region, as well as the "Get the torch and wear it" quest, which resulted in a lot of new people wearing torches around SL. But I also remember going to a place called FlyinTails Airfield and meeting a friend that had disappeared for unknown reasons. Someone was nice enough to me to give me some money to get a non-freebie avatar and pointed me to Luskwoods, where I was then promptly scammed by someone asking to borrow some L$ and promised to pay me back, which I was dumb back then and also very overtly nice(which I still am, but to a lesser extent). I also remember the lack of sculpts. If sculpts were to be found, they were a rarity because no one knew how to use them. It was only a few years later while I was gone that people seemed to figure out how to use them. I still have some of the old primitive based avatars sitting in my inventory, such as the Phase 2 "Crax" avatar which I am unsure of the history of, either bootleg crux, original crux, or prototype crux. Or this "Violator" or "Spawns Enemy Avatar". Either way, they are fully primitive based, sculpts are verbatim!: Also these where everywhere, and you'd get llInstantMessage'd to click it when entering areas: Also no Marketplace. Wanted to find something, GO REGION HOPPING! No search unless the product you were searching for was seen as important enough to the seller to put into the parcel description. LL's viewer was the most popular back then too IIRC, so there was no "STOP CAMMING ME" stuff. And in my personal opinion, copybotting was much more of an issue back then than it is now. Now it is mostly just people ripping meshes from games these days.

Two reasons: 1. Marketing and advertising. (Note: none of these names are sponsored nor am I endorsing them, they are just names that came to mind.) Why do you think malls are(where?) a thing? Say you are going to Old Navy to buy a pair of jeans, but to do so, you have to walk through the mall past all these other stores. Each store you walk by, there is a chance something will catch your attention, be it say Spenser's or Game Stop, maybe even the big guns like Sears. Another real world example of this is Ikea. Most Ikea stores have their store layout so that you have to go through the entire store just to get to the exit. Point being: If you have to walk by more things you can buy, there is a chance you will stop and look at it, and if you stop and look, you have the chance to buy. 2. Frustration prevention. If a new resident teleports to a store and they get stuck under Terrain or in a building, they might not know how to get out, and they may assume it is "broken". For older residents, this can be annoying, especially if you are trying to find the entrance in a very cluttered and poorly laid out store. As for pushers: Because "REEEE STOP BUMPING ME YOU ARE HARMING MY PIXELS". Same drama as look at targets. Pushers are just designed to make it so people will less likely bump into each other, thus reducing drama and potential loss of customers due to arguing or seeing arguing.

Info hubs often attract those with big opinions, griefers, and trolls, due to the lack of moderation. This is "normal" for a info hub. Info hubs are not safe in that way. Info hubs are safe, as in, if you log in and the region you were previously in is no longer available, or you happen to get ejected from somewhere, safe hubs provide a place for people to still be able to log into, even if they are not dressed. While the general and moderate safe hubs encourage those to dress as soon as possible, adult safe hubs do not require this, and you will see all sorts of weird stuff. Policing sounds like you are actively sitting there waiting on people to do something so you can report them. You are under no obligation to report people, yet alone police people. While yes, Linden Lab relies a lot on people reporting abusive residents, they don't encourage people to go to the point where they actively seek out people who may be violating the rules, as that in it's self can be seen as harassment. New users are directed to visit Social Islands and other places listed in the destination guide. I'm not fully sure if this is a legit post at this point. Is this a troll post? (Also it is singular Lab, there is only one Linden Lab) Just because you report something, doesn't mean it will be dealt with the way you want, or that you will be notified if it is dealt with. When something is reported, Linden Lab takes their time to ensure they do not punish someone for something they didn't do. They also do not punish people for subjective reasons, such as "hate and evil". I could say that hating cats is "hateful and evil", but you probably wouldn't agree with that. Hate, just like free speech, is a subjective subject. It isn't something that is easy to agree upon. Just because Linden Lab doesn't ban someone, doesn't mean they agree with what they say. They are simply ensuring equal treatment of Residents. Personally, I do not want to see Second Life become like Facebook. Facebook has taken to censoring people who have views that do not align with their own. Second Life allows people to be themselves, within reason. It also encourages people to be adults and use the block button when necessary. Take for example, there is a lot of stuff I have seen others say that I disagree with and would personally see hateful, but is it truely hateful? They would say "No, it isn't hateful", and that is their opinion, which disagrees with my opinion that it is. So I would rather them not be censored, lest I risk my own opinions be censored.

Did you not read what I said? He has done the whole arm waving thing before. He was not mocking the reporter.

He does that when making fun of people, he has done that before that interview. He also talks with his hands a lot, so he is super exaggerating his hand movements. The whole "he is making fun of a person with a disability" is just the media yet again trying to attack Trump with baseless accusations. Sure, Trump has done some things I disagree with and I think would be news worthy, but if you are going to attack Trump, at least do it for something actually did.

DISCLAIMER: I am part of the FS team(Specifically on the bug squishing team), while I will attempt to be non-biased, these have always been my views even before being part of the FS team. Firestorm's AO is actually quite efficient, as it off loads the AO state checks to the viewer it's self(not that the code is CPU heavy). It can be used without the bridge even, so there is zero scripts involved. I have no idea where the claims that it is using scripts to do AO stuff is from. Theoretically, the FS AO is actually faster than script based AOs as there is no LSL VM(either LSO or Mono). LSL has clock speed limits to prevent it from killing the simulator. Although I am unsure if it really matters that much, because we are talking nanoseconds in difference. If you'd like to review the code yourself, here are the relevant files: XUI Code: https://vcs.firestormviewer.org/phoenix-firestorm/files/tip/indra/newview/ao.cpp https://vcs.firestormviewer.org/phoenix-firestorm/files/tip/indra/newview/ao.h Engine code(Where the magic happens): https://vcs.firestormviewer.org/phoenix-firestorm/files/tip/indra/newview/aoengine.cpp https://vcs.firestormviewer.org/phoenix-firestorm/files/tip/indra/newview/aoengine.h I believe this code is relevant to setting up AO templates?: https://vcs.firestormviewer.org/phoenix-firestorm/files/tip/indra/newview/aoset.cpp https://vcs.firestormviewer.org/phoenix-firestorm/files/tip/indra/newview/aoset.h All animations are handled by the LLAgent::sendAnimationRequest which uses the AgentAnimation message. This is how the viewer plays every other animation that isn't triggered by the simulator it's self. While true, it isn't perfect and there are some bugs here and there(such as it sometimes pausing if the viewer is minimized, however this is due to how the viewer handles being idle), I personally find it as good as any other AO. All things have bugs, it is impossible to iron them all out, especially on a code base as big as SL. You squish one bug, two more appear in it's place. If you do see bugs related to it, please do file a Jira issue regarding it here: https://jira.firestormviewer.org/ Also I have found that crouching/uncrouching(just tapping c) will often cause the AO to wake up if it somehow went to sleep.

I think they stopped doing that when they hit 1 million+ residents. 64 million birthday emails is a lot to send out per year, especially if you don't want to upset the spyware giants' spam filters(Google, Yahoo, Yandex, and Hotmail(does anyone even use that anymore?)).

Could be various things: Dropped packet Is in a role that doesn't have "Reveal Members" set Group is too full and the server is refusing to send the member list More than likely it is thing 2. Being banned from SL doesn't remove you from any groups or change your inventory. If they are banned, they will likely show up as "Unavailable" on the web profiles(my.secondlife.com):

SOON(TM) https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/BUG-17958 I presume this will come when LL integrates two factor authentication. It is on the long list of things to-do(which is quite big, so don't blame LL).

Assuming you have somewhere to rez a object permanently, you can use this script I made. No configuration required, just plop it into a object and it will automatically resolve everything. As for email, LL introduced a feature to email the owner of the script without seeing what the email address is. integer lastStatus = 0; key onlineCheck; key ownerKey; string ownerName; default{ on_rez(integer p){ //Could use CHANGED_OWNER, but this is just as fine llResetScript(); } state_entry(){ //Caching is easier than calling dataserver each time to resolve the name ownerKey = llGetOwner(); ownerName = llKey2Name(ownerKey); llSetTimerEvent(60); } timer(){ onlineCheck = llRequestAgentData(llGetOwner(), DATA_ONLINE); } dataserver(key id, string data){ if(id == onlineCheck){ integer status = (integer)data; if(status == 1 && lastStatus == 0){ llTargetedEmail( TARGETED_EMAIL_OBJECT_OWNER, "Log in event for "+ownerName, "Avatar "+ownerName+" has logged in at "+llGetTimestamp() ); } lastStatus = status; } } } Alternatively, if you do not have somewhere to rez this, you can use this alternative script which you can place into any worn object that you will always be wearing. Ideally, you will place it in it's own object and just attach it somewhere to the hud and place it off screen, but it will still be subject to being detached. This will trigger a email event any time the script is re-attached! This is because the attach event doesn't provide information if someone just logged in or re-attached the script. I presume you will know which: default{ state_entry(){ llSetMemoryLimit(0x2000); } attach(key id){ //Naive approach, assume this will be worn 24/7 if(id){ string ownerName = llKey2Name(id); llTargetedEmail( TARGETED_EMAIL_OBJECT_OWNER, "Log in event for "+ownerName, "Avatar "+ownerName+" has logged in (or re-attached the log in tracker) at "+llGetTimestamp() ); } } }

So homes in SL are a weird thing. SL is divided into two groups of home owners: Those who don't mind visitors, and those who do. Neither is in the wrong as it is purely up to them what they do with their property. However this adds to the confusion I am going to go further into. I know there are people who have came over from utherverse/red light district due to people over there talking about SL, and there are people who come over from video games. A lot of these people, when they are new, often do not understand Second Life's culture very well, and presume that everything is public. When people like me welcome them into their homes, it often will further aid the assumption that everything is public unless prevented. I personally will make a effort to help new people and educate them on SL's culture when possible, this includes stuff along the lines of "You are more than welcome to come over to my home and set a home point if you'd like, just keep in mind that while I keep my home open to the public, lots of people do like to keep their homes private". I've encourage those to take a welcoming but firm approach to fixing this issue. Don't start off with yelling at people, but explain to them that it is private property, not everything in SL is public, and they should ask before entering. As for camming, I always presume the following: If you are in public view, expect to be filmed or have pictures taken. I know there is the machinima policy, but people who are not going to respect people's privacy will not be respecting that policy anyway. If someone says they are taking pictures of me, I will joke about it, but I understand for many this will make them uncomfortable. The best way to deal with this is remember "They'd be taking pictures of me anyway, even if they didn't tell me.", block, and report. As for blake sea/public waters, they are public waters. You can sail there, but expect it to be like RL oceans, there's pirates out there because no one owns it(except LL does in this case and only enforces griefing issues). While people will try to ruin other's fun, it is important to keep in mind that it is technically public property. Final notes, LL does read all reports. It may often seem like they don't, but trust me, they do! They get like 300 reports a day(or was it per hour?). It is a lot of reports to go through, and each one has to be carefully investigated, lest someone get banned for something they didn't do.

I actually feel a lot better reading just this. Knowing that the investors want to engage with and meet the community makes it feel like they are not here purely for max profit and will allow LL to continue the healthy community/profit mix that has been part of SL for so long.

Honestly, as much as I love Linden Lab and Second Life, I see this as a horrible, horrible thing, and personally feel that the "This is good news!" from LL is PR to keep residents happy in the meantime (I wouldn't blame them). Excuse me for being very super skeptical about this, but almost every acquisition I have seen as turned out horrible, and it boils down to the following: They don't know anything about the community and end up royally messing it up. They will find a way to severely upset the community by introducing all sorts of things the community didn't ask for and does not want. Stuff begins getting censored and bleached because parent brand protection(in this case, Waterfield Investments) or because "widening our audience". (I.E. No more adult rated content, less freedom of expression, forcing LL to get ban crazy, etc) They close down what they perceive as not profitable. (I.E. Buying LL for Tilia, closing down Second Life) The end result: Second Life gets closed because people not involved with the community at all don't know what they are doing and have profits first, community second. I've seen it before with Tumblr, Nest, Neopets, Geocities, YouTube, etc. Personally, I think the best thing to do is have these "investors" show they care about the community. Not just "say" they "understand the concerns", but show they mean it. Because right now, I fear for Second Life. Second Life is really all I have to do because of autism and the mysophobia that came with it that keeps be locked inside all day for months on end. It has given be the ability to live life to an extent and have fun with others in a way that no other online platform would give me. I have invested hundreds of dollars and years of my life into Second Life, I don't want to see that taken away because of people who don't understand the community. I have already had endless things taken from me, I don't want another thing gone as well.

Alright so this is a mix things. Firstly, when you say they have a scanning hud, that sounds like a lie they used to make it sound less devious. What they are likely using are what is known as a copybot viewer. Copybot viewers are prohibited as stated in the Terms of Service. Secondly, the whole ripping of the skin you are using is a mixed bag. Yes, what they did was theft. They stole from the creator, and in a sense, you as well. When I say they stole from you, I mean in the sense like: You payed for the privilege to have a fancy expensive painting and they went to your house and scanned it, and they didn't even bother to ask you(not that asking you would make it any difference, it is still stealing from the creator). While I understand some may be upset that others see a item someone is using and they want that item, there isn't really anything wrong with that as long as they buy it like everyone else. It doesn't belong to the wearer(unless said wearer made it), so they really do not have a say in who does and does not get to use it. I personally like sharing information on what I am wearing as I like to support people who made the stuff I use, as it allows them to make more cool stuff in the future. If it is someone's entire look(i.e. not just a dress/hair/skin/etc, but instead the everything combined, provided it isn't very basic or stock), I would see it differently and rude. However sometimes that is done unintentionally. Finally, as for if there is anything that can be done, you have the following options: You can file an abuse report. This will inform Linden Lab, especially if you quote the specific lines where they said they were going to rip content. However Linden Lab will not be able to take action immediately, as they will definitely have to investigate. Every issue is investigated, contrary to what some people say. The friend will not be informed about being reported, all reports are kept confidential. You can confront them. However I advise against this if you really like this friend. People who copybot stuff tend to be quite... peculiar. As in, they feel it is their divine right to copybot stuff, and will get aggressive when you confront them about it being wrong. By aggressive, I don't mean physically, but verbally. This will likely result in the ending of your friendship. You can do nothing. While I recommend against this, karma will eventually catch up, they'll get too greedy, copybot something right in front of a Linden's main account or get reported by someone else, and get banned.

¡Hola! He localizado el mapa en cuestión, y la ruta que hiciste no está incluida en el mapa en ninguna parte. De hecho, tiene rutas en el Mar de Blake, no en Nautilus, por lo que la ruta que hiciste ni siquiera se cruza con la ruta que hicieron. El mapa se realizó en algún momento anterior a 2009 debido a la falta de metadatos en la transmisión J2C, por lo que no es nuevo. Solo puedo presumir que piensas que la idea de una ruta es tuya, que no lo es. Las rutas han sido parte de las comunidades de conducción, navegación y vuelo de Second Life desde que las personas pudieron crear un vehículo en Second Life. Además, todas las imágenes del mapa son propiedad de Linden Lab, ya que son el generador de la imagen del mapa. No puede reclamar los derechos de autor de algo si incluye cosas que no hizo. Finalmente, las rutas no son algo que califique como copyright. Si hiciera una imagen superpuesta con la ruta, la imagen sería con derechos de autor, pero no hay nada que impida que alguien cree una ruta similar o derive una ruta diseñada después de la suya. Hello! I have located the map in question, and the route you made isn't included in the map anywhere. It in fact has routes over in Blake Sea, not Nautilus, so the route you made doesn't even intersect with the route they made. The map was made sometime pre-2009 due to the lack of metadata in the J2C stream, so it isn't new. I can only presume you think that the idea of a route is yours, which it isn't. Routes have been part of the Second Life driving, sailing, and flying communities ever since people were able to create a vehicle in Second Life. Additionally, all map images are copyright to Linden Lab, as they are the generator of the map image. You cannot claim copyright of something if it includes stuff you didn't make. Finally, routes are not something that qualifies as copyrightable. If you made a overlay image with the path, the image would be copyrightable, but there isn't anything stopping someone from creating a similar route or deriving a route designed after yours.

That was about 5 hours ago though, so the maintenance should be complete(maybe)? I presume whatever maintenance went on may be related to the lock up though.

Inb4 Patch Linden comes in with a life boat to save us all.

Yep, seeing a dip in online users: LL banned my domain thanks to the spammer guy, here is a tinyurl which should get around that until I can talk with LL about it: https://tinyurl.com/AgniStats

Is this a trick question? I don't think about it, and honestly it never really crossed my mind. SL is a place for people to be what they want, and that tends to typically be human. Personal opinion, while I absolutely love creature/anthro/monster avatars, I think how SL is now is great. Forced diversity = Toxic community, Natural diversity = strong community. Only problem I have is when people come onto SL (only) for you know what, and they become Beefy McLargeHuge or Thunderthighs McGee with over exaggerated proportions, and go "eyy bb wanna do it?".

Estate Manager / Land Fuzz here: Provided you own the land, you can always enable privacy settings: If you do not own the land, there are various reasons as to why camming is allowed: Land moderation, I use it for this a lot. It makes it easier to deal with griefers when you have basically 3 sandboxes in a entire region(multiple platforms). Building, it would be tedious if you had to move your avatar around and fly around to reposition stuff. Customization, I can't imagine how I would edit my avatar without the camera tools. And the list goes on. Additionally, the "Enable viewer look at targets" is a developer feature intended for developers to test how avatars respond to specific look at areas, and is not intended as a resident feature. While some viewers have unfortunately made it a feature, I recommend against using it, especially if it bothers you that people are looking at you. A majority of times when people are camming around, they are looking for someone to talk to or find out where people are socializing. When testing a feature to limit the range look at targets are transmitted, I saw quite a few look at targets land on me, then disappear. People are curious, it is a fact of life. Personally, I don't like to have look at targets enabled, they are ugly and distracting.

That is weird. The only people you are not permitted to ignore are those with Linden last names, those in the Administrators role, and those in the Moderators role. As to not promote naming/shaming, can you send me a IM of the person in-world so I can take a look? I'll only use this name to look further into the issue, whoever the actual user is or what they said/did is of no interest to me, only the bug is of interest to me. (I.E. I give you my word that I won't tell anyone who the user is)

Racism is defined as: prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior. You can't change the definition to say "oh, it is only when x happens" or "racism = power + privilege". Racism is racism, full stop. White fragility assumes that all white people never have to deal with racism. I see racism towards white people almost every day now and I'm sick of it. I can't speak up about it otherwise I am the one who gets called racist, have to deal with cancel culture, being out of a job opportunity when someone searches up my name, get put on a blocklist, appear on a witch-hunt blog, etc. White privilege assumes all white people have the ability to get a job, have the perfect family, have the perfect life, be rich, never have to worry about racism, and always get justice. When 9/11 happened, my dad lost his job, we were at the point to where we were maxed out on 6 credit cards, in a duplex, and having to loan money from my grandparents. My dad managed to dig us out of that hole. I have various disabilities which will prevent me from probably ever getting a job, or at least be able to hold one down. I had to deal with people making me feel guilty that I had gotten on SSDI because "privileged white male", when I can't do jack about my position or disability. So yes, I do get upset over terms like white fragility and white privilege, because those terms are racist, they generalize a entire race. I get upset over it because people use it to censor/dismiss my views, my issues, my opinions. Racism is not was not my problem, because I am not a racist person, to assume that I am racist because I am white is racist. (Edited before someone tries to take that out of context, when I say that, I don't mean that "oh racism, not my problem i'm gonna ignore it", I mean that "I'm not part of the problem, white people are not inherently racist". I actively have used my position as administration on stuff to tell people to stop being racist/etc, and resolve situations.) But it is now because I have to choose to sit and take people throwing racist stuff in my face while I am trying to help with the situation, or get called a racist for defending my race. I'm tired of it, and I'm not going to stay silent anymore.

Copybot does still exist, it still is used to an extent, but hardly anyone uses it. I'm talking like 0.01% of the active SL population. A major myth is that people believe setting no-mod will prevent copybot. Copybot doesn't care about permissions, if it is seen it can be copybotted. With freebie shops, the new trend is asset theft from games, however this is easy to spot. Just view the store, if their style is all over the place, they are either: Selling ripped assets Selling free assets taken off sketchfab, blendswap, or other sites.

The term "white fragility" is a racist term, along with "white privilege". People need to stop trying to fight racism with racism.