Innula Zenovka

Self-Publicists Anonymous probably wouldn't work too well.

When I was undergoing chemo- and radiotherapy for throat cancer ten years ago I found the online help and support offered by the Macmillan Online Community invaluable. But that's run by the UK's leading cancer support charity, staffed and moderated by trained healthcare professionals. I also found invaluable the help and support offered by those close and trusted friends in SL with whom i chose to share my medical problems, but the two forms of help and support were very different. And I have to say that I often found my patience sorely tried by some of the pseudo-medical dietary and spiritual advice offered by some well-meaning friends in both First and Second Life. However, I could not really be too annoyed with them because I knew they were only trying to be helpful, so I suppressed the urge to tell them what to do with their crystals and nutritional supplements.

I'm of an age (and background, perhaps) to have been taught never to set anything down in writing that I wouldn't be prepared to see published on the front page of a newspaper or hear read out in court. I can't say I've always followed that advice but I certainly do, at least most of the time and always unless I completely trust the possible recipient, online, whether in SL or elsewhere. That is all.

Not today, but only recently did I learn that in Windows 10 and 11 holding down the Windows key + V opens up your clipboard history and allows you to paste items from it. Very useful.

I remembered there was some discussion in this forum at the time about the privacy implications of the sweepstake, and once I'd recalled that, it did't take long to find the thread and a link to the rules. For what it's worth, it seems to me that if the winner wanted to publicise their good fortune inside SL, they could easily have started a thread here about "Whoopee! I Won the Car!

I don't know why you're so sure the winner would not have opted for no publicity -- they might not have wanted to publicise their First Life details in SL (or vice versa). If you're that interested, their identity should be simple to discover, or perhaps would have been had you acted sooner. According the Sweepstake rules. to which all participants agreed Only one way to find out.

At least in the EU and the UK, it's not a question of what data you display. It's a question of what data you store, for what purpose, under what conditions, who has access to it, and what consents the person to whom the data relates has given. All I'm saying is that it's probably not an issue for LL but it might well be an issue for the relevant data protection authorities, whoever they might be, so it's something people should take up -- if they feel sufficiently strongly about it -- with their local data protection authority rather than with LL (or in these forums).

That's what I did with RedZone way back when -- long story short, the British data protection authorities told me they couldn't touch them because neither RedZone nor LL kept any of the relevant data in the EU. However, the law has now changed and, were RedZone still a thing, they'd have the data protection authorities of several countries coming for them.

"All the more unlikely to be acknowledged" by courts in which jurisdiction?

Please direct me to the relevant law in the jurisdiction you say Progeny's database is maintained and processed.

Yes, but my point is that whoever owns Progeny's database needs to worry not only about LL's Terms of Service but also about the relevant data protection law wherever they happen to be based, because failure to comply with that can result in the data regulator, not LL, issuing hefty fines. Since I don't know where Progeny's database is kept, what they store in it, or what there law is wherever they are, I have no idea if they need to worry about their local data protection law or not, but I do know they need to comply with that as well as LL's ToS.

I'm not so sure about this -- whoever maintains the database must comply not just with LL's Terms of Service but with the relevant data protection laws in the jurisdiction where that data is stored and where it's processed. While I don't think a UUID on its own is personally identifiable data, a friend of mine who is more familiar with EU protection law tham am I argues persuasively that it is, or could be, at least as far as EU data protection law is concerned. I'm not wholly convinced, but I can understand the argument, and she certainly knows more about the topic than do I. Presumably it would be a matter for the courts to decide, if it ever became an issue. And I have no idea what the law on data protection (if there is one) has to say about the matter in the case of Progeny, because I don't know in what jurisdiction they store their data, or what data they store -- if they store anything in addition to the simple UUID, that could certainly make a difference.. So while I share your doubts that LL would regard uuids as personal data, I'm not so sure what view data regulators in different jurisdictions would take, and they're the ones with the power to levy hefty fines.

As Rolig says, it's very much a matter of personal taste. For myself, I've never really see the attraction of Firestorm. I've got nothing against the viewer, though I was rather put off by the evangelical fervour of some of its more enthusiastic supporters back in the days of the "viewer wars," but it's always seemed to me to be a bit of a Swiss Army Knife, with a few features I find really useful on the odd occassion I need them, and dozens that I never use. That reflects what I look for in a viewer, of course, and probably also reflects the fact that I'm sufficiently old school that I became accustomed to using the debug menu to access various viewer settings well before Firestorm exposed them through the UI. I tend to use the Official Viewer most of the time, generally one of the release candidates, because I like to familiarise myself with all the latest features as soon as they become availalble, and Catznip, which has a very similar look and feel to the Official Viewer, when I want to do anything with RLVa. Firestorm I tend to use primarily to check that objects and scripts look and work the same way in that viewer as they do in the other two. Also, not so worried about condiments with chips as much as I'm concerned about how they're cooked -- heat lard or beef dripping (not vegetable oil) until it's starting to smoke, then deep fry them until they're just turning golden, remove them from the fat and drain them while reheating the fat until it's starting to smoke again, and then return to the fat until they're golden brown.

I asked ChatGPT: "Dream. Explore. Connect. Repeat." "Virtual World, Real Emotions." "Beyond Reality, Second Life." "Discover, Play, Create, Live." "Imagination's New Reality Playground." "Live Twice, Dream Again." "Create. Interact. Experience. Transform." "Second Life, First Choice." "Reality’s Parallel Virtual Universe." "Every Day, Another Life."

A friend once asked LL if she could apply for a remote-working job despite living just the wrong side of the border from where the job was based, in a non-remote working state, and if not, why not. LL explained to her that the tax laws in most US states mean that, if a business has even a single employee working from home there, the business becomes liable for that state's business taxes on all its operations everywhere, which is why they have to restrict the states from which they can recruit remote workers.

No, I remember Void very well, and very fondly. She was hugely helpful and patient when I was starting to learn how to script, as she was with many others. I think it would be fair to say that, at the time, she was one of the few SL scripters who really understood how to use quaternion rotations (which you need not just to open and close doors by script but to rez, position and move stuff, too), was ready to share her expertise with others, and was able to explain it all in terms that non-mathmaticians (like me) could understand. My point was simply that, had you been at all interested in finding out what Void's open letter was all about, it would have taken you no more than a couple of minutes with Google.

Nope. I simply used Google, clicked on the first hit, and scrolled down the thread a bit to find the two links I posted. Easy-peasy.

As Sherlock Holmes remarks to Dr Watson in A Scandal in Bohemia, https://community.secondlife.com/forums/topic/75599-an-open-letter-to-rod-humble-re-second-life-forums/#comment-1277295 https://community.secondlife.com/forums/topic/79319-finitys-end/page/2/#comment-1281015

That would complicate things more than I'd like, because I'd have to detect when someone's inside the house without being able to drop a script into it. I'm going, though, to log arrival and departure times, which I think will tell me pretty much the same thing (unless someone stays in the garden admiring the koi carp swimming round my fishpond).

As an experiment, I think I'll set up a vistor logger, leave it running in my house on Bellisseria for a month and see how many people actually enter the parcel while I'm not there. I'll post the results here.

Do residents of Bellisseria really find themselves constantly disturbed by hoards of unwanted visitors wandering onto their parcels? I don't think I've ever had to tell anyone they can or can't enter my parcel on Coin Toss, one of the regions near the Newbrooke community centre. Most of the time, I seem to be the only person on the region.

I'm sorry, Phil, but I just don't get it. If I'm on my parcel on Bellisseria with my security device turned on, and nevertheless someone keeps on trying to enter the parcel, despite being repeatedly thrown out, I can use the parcel tools to teleport them home and add them to the parcel ban list (neither of which, under the covenant, I can have a scripted object do for me). So can any of my friends I've added to the land group and given appropriate rights, I think. If I'm not on the parcel and I leave the device running, it'll keep on bouncing the intruder out of the parcel but, since I'm not there to worry about it, and won't even know about it, how is it a disservice to me that the security gadget can't ban them automatically?

I don't follow (probably because I don't know enough about BoM). As far as I know, the GLTF_* slots are completely separate from any other texture slots. Certainly in my experiments with simple prims, if I apply both GLTF render materials and regular Blinn-Phong ones (ie the non-GLTF textures and materials we currently use) to the same face of an object, my alt, who uses a non-PBR viewer, sees the Blinn-Phong ones, and I see the GLTF materials because I use the PRB viewer. If I apply the PBR materials to an untextured cube, my alt continues to see the base plywood. Changes to one set of material layers (colour/roughness/whatver) seem to have no effect on the other group.

I think we alreday have that, in the form of the new PRIM_RENDER_MATERIAL and the various PRIM_GLTF_* flags for the llSet/GetPrimitiveParams family. See also llSet/GetRenderMaterials (ETA Qie posted while I was writing).

There are two AOs, one for Blake and one for Jamie. Jamie has the female animations. Which one are you looking at? (I've not examined them in any detail, so I don't know if Blake has a hands behind your head pose).