Prokofy Neva

Unity? Unity?! The devs I know in Unity are without jobs now.

Isn't it a serious matter not to have a VP of Engineering? Or is that a ceremonial post? I didn't get that impression at all from Oz Linden who was very hands-on, in-world, with visible office hours, etc. Yet they left his position open for months on end, and somehow the underlings soldiered on. I realize there is this view that SL is held together with a wing, a prayer, and 72 miles of duck tape and bent staples. But...really? They moved to AWS servers where there are plenty of grown-ups, no? The old Lindens used to say that trying to fix SL's mess and technical debt was like "trying to swap a plane engine out while it is flying". I just don't know. In some ways it does run better than it does in the early days when they would even send reimbursements to customers, the outages lasted so long -- for days. It more or less works, no? I mean I'm easy to please, I don't need any of this stuff they've added like PBR.

Dave Grohl's play was one of the things that got me through the first bad years of COVID. It's not quite as long as a Dead "drums 'n space" but it's better -- and he's playing all the instruments. Dave Grohl is my hero! Of course, now that I've met Alazarin Mobius in SL who plays original material live, Dave's luster is somewhat dimmed but still...

I'm really sad about Mojo because he had this vision -- there it is! -- in the gleaming distance -- on the yawning heights! -- of a Mainland where a preview would roll out in front of you as you drove along seamless roads. Of course, some people pointed out that you actually don't WANT to see that much Mainland up close or in a preview or at all lol. Still, it was a vision of a contiguous world which was really great to see after 20 years of it dying in stages.

The targets are more likely rear-end targets, Qie.

So Raj Date was originally described as joining the Linden Lab board by Daniel Voyager, citing an old Linden Lab "about" page and also by Crunchbase. He's listed on Tilia's "about" page as a board member. On his Linked In, he mentions he is a board member "to present" at Tilia, but doesn't mention Linden Lab. Make of it what you will.

If was most definitely not at the very beginning in 2004-2005. They began developing it later -- I believe by 2006 when they began to feel the pressure of all those businesses and people who hate to type -- and yes, like all things, it didn't work so well at the beginning. It was a third party which they may have bought out, not sure. There was a very bright highschool boy named Jesse who worked on the beta testing of it, who sadly was killed in a RL car accident. And Joe Linden, who I used to call the only adult in the room as he was an older man, supervised Voice but he died in RL of a natural causes.

"Bellicosia" is among her best gems. She really should go on tour! This is why I keep urging people who keep defending the system and those ostensibly serving it simply to go there -- and go there multiple times, on different days of the week, in different time zones and just see what you see. The good news is that they are accepting new applications but yeah, nobody has head of this if they don't read the forums (most people) so I have been going around telling various groups like Mieville. I had a report of a small black cat high up on what was described as a "stanchion," which is a word I had to look up, observing the scene.

The Honorary Consulate in Titania is based off Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream If you talk to the chatGPT character Bottom, he will answer in Shakespearean iambic pentameter. Inside is another character, Changeling, who speaks only in limericks. The sim is in Bellisseria in M. There is are two BBB stamps (including a special one for Valentine's Day that ends this week!) and various freebies (including special love potions that end this week).

I have a free, open-source rental script with configuration cards which you can get for $0L at my shop in Ross It was originally scripted by Hank Ramos who later released it on all perms but in the last 10 years it has gone through many other iterations to add the following features: o refund with small cancellation fee o if there is a refund error, owner gets a message "You failed to pay [avatar] [x] amount." o grace period of 2 days with texture for different state o fixed to ensure that if new owner picks it up it will force a re-set when rezzed out o sends regular notices to pay, then expiration notice It is not attached to the web but that reduces the elements of it that can be "down" or break. If it is returned from a sim, you can put it out again and it still shows the paid status and the avatar who paid it. The one problem I see with it occasionally is that if someone pays way ahead many months, and the Lindens reset a sim in time even slightly during a restart, it will not refund correctly, although you have "My Accounts" as a back up. You'll need to add your own texture for the outside with your brand which is the rentthisspace texture inside the box.

It's not just tough, although not impossible, to automate with only like a chatGPT. It also doesn't scale if hand-tooled like this. Hence the entire thing we're reading here.

I would suggest the following for you: o Go to this particular Exhibition hub and spend perhaps 15-20 minutes in the morning -- come back again in the evening. o Go to some of the other Bellisseria and Mainland welcome areas, but focus on the ones with mentors, which are the newer ones o Do this about 10 times or even 20 Then come back here and see if you will still spout the same opinion. That's all. Go and visit these places, put in the time, observe, take notes, come back. That's what some of us here have done. Have you? If not, go and do so. The mentors are IN the new welcome hub so of course it's related.

I literally had to try for days on end to fill up my Med with prims!!! And this is even a venue open to the public with various freebies etc. I had to start putting in somewhat primmy landscasping like this Hayabusa tree with crystals because my God, how can you not use up the prims on a Linden home!!! I was even going to try to sneak in a third KittyCats... There's also a nice pond nearby and my 7Seas barrel reaches it! Yay! This is the Honorary Consulate of Titania, and Bottom (Cica Ghost's Donkey Boy) is at the door ready to answer your questions in perfect iambic pentameter.

I personally won't be using this ban system or any ban system and my lands are all open to the public always, except to select rare griefers who get put in the land ban list manually for cause, by me or a tenant. Question: does your system used shared ban lists? That's really the operative question with all these systems.

I usually have clear my cache several times on a typical day in SL. Maybe it's my 250,000+ inventory which is sorted quite a bit into folders -- too many likely, mostly induced by merchants who produce these folders when you click to move the contents into inventory from a HUD. But it has to be done or things won't rez for me at all. It's hugely frustrating. Meanwhile, I have one friend, to be sure with a better computer set-up than me, who never clears their cache. They fear clearing their cache and haven't in like 10 years for fear of losing content. This makes me wonder if I should just stop clearing my cache too, as I never have the same number of my loaded inventory on any given day, even if I haven't added or subtracted from it. Yet...I want to see the world. : (

Viola, I appreciate your statement here. It's not that our memories are long and go back even to 2004 in my case. It's that our memories are very fresh from this week, last month, late last year when these various Welcome Area type experiments and capers have been done, including this latest Exhibition one. And the same problems keep arising with Mentors that we all see with our own eyes and report if not on forums where it is discouraged, elsewhere inworld or on blogs. The same rake keeps getting stepped on. I'm quite happy to say that any of us only have anecdotal experience. Obviously server-side, you see a bigger picture. But our impressions are still valid. I could rehearse the list again but it won't make a difference. What's more operative here: I've been in all kinds of RL jobs and people often put the volunteers and interns on the intake of clients or the phone answering or the complaint answering or the orientation -- and it's a mistake in RL as in SL. You need full-time, paid, benefited, appreciated, compensated, monitored, in-depth staff on this job that keeps failing. Obviously you can't put such expensive resources in every WA or infohub. But you CAN have them circuit-ride. If you can't muster that, then take the 1099 employees, the Moles, who are at least paid something for their hard work although not what they are worth and take them OFF moderating the forums where their talents are wasted and put them on welcome areas and infohubs. Who are you moderating the forums for, Viola? The less than 5% of the user base (40,000 concurrency) that reads them and the less than 1% out of that 5% who post on them? Meanwhile, retention is less than one in ten, and that's where the company's efforts should be applied. And there is one simple, simple, simple thing you can do that I have mentioned her, in tickets, in Voice during the MonCierge meetings, but to no avail and that is... ...turn on the damn "SET HOME TO HERE" on every damn infohub. Your reasoning for not doing this is utterly obscure. To prevent griefing? Then why don't you turn it off everywhere? It's on some, and not others, both old and new. It was *deliberately* turned off in some infohubs/welcome areas for reasons that are entirely mysterious -- this is not a scripting or coding glitch. It was done deliberately. I thought at first you did this on the legacy Mainland because you want to drive people to your new shiny Belli hubs away from the old disliked Mainland? Except you didn't even turn it on at your brand new ones. Huh? When people click "set home to here" -- even on the old Mainland -- it gives the error message "You can't do this except on the Mainland"...where they are. At the very least, fix that silly error message. But better yet, turn on "Set Home to Here" on every Linden property, bar none. SET HOME TO HERE enables people to return, to find places they can't remember, to get back to orientation, to stick. One of the questions I answer MOST at the little infohubs I run is "How do I get out of here?" and then five minutes later "How do I get back there?" Just do it. It does not affect griefing one way or the other. Perhaps LL needs to get rid of their memories of 2007-2009 and the "wallsitters" and the "cagers" who don't even exist any more. There is a different kind of problem at every infohub and that's a certain kind of worker. It's like "broken windows" theory of policing. Set Home to Here does not encourage delinquents -- it helps the area become normalized and monitored and filled with other people besides trouble-makers.

No. No, it's not. Works great. Tell you what. A giant nuclear reactor turned on "10" glow works like a charm, too.

Yes, of course it's up to date. I work at this quite a bit, and occasionally have a bit of help. There are one or two cards that are impossible to keep up to date, recommendations of which stores or clubs to go to, but I do get to them fairly often. The International Bazaar with the country/language sims is a constant chore and never done but I work at batches at a time. It's not true that "many Muslim groups and sim" left SL due to October 7. In fact, they left long, long before that, and not because they were harassed necessarily, but because they are often from poor countries where people do not have the money to pay for SL in any way. Or they may be in rich countries but don't have the cash themselves. It's incredibly hard to keep up sims and communities, and it's not only Muslim sites but all kinds of sites which I could describe to you as having died out in recent years, to the point that entire countries which used to have thriving hangouts have now all gone under. If you want to have a real conversation about Muslims in SL, I can contribute to this knowledgeably, but the forums is not the place to have it successfully. I will say, every single day, people come to the Ross Mosque to pray. It is the only working mosque in SL to my knowledge. In fact out of all the Land Preserve sites, which a number of people have helped, the religious sites attract the most visitors and most support because spiritual practices and belief systems are important for many people in RL and they want them in virtuality as well, perhaps even more so. Every day, for many years, I have had some of the same people also leave small donations at the mosque. I had never studied the profiles of these people in the past, but did when all donations and visits ceased October 7 with a bang, I did. It turned out many were not even in the Middle East, but in South Asia. It's not that these people were killed -- it doesn't work that way, as very few if any people from the actual area of conflict come on SL. It's not that they were harassed in SL -- where is that happening? There would have to be a place for them to have this happen and I certainly don't allow that on my sims and have had zero reports of this. No, it's that at times like this, people's thoughts and actions are elsewhere than SL -- understandably. The small donations there are greater there than even some of our Christian or Buddhist sites, actually, but not enough to pay the tier even of the land it is on, let alone all the land related to this infohub, which is in an old program of Linden telehubs-turned-infohubs which are set to a group of residents willing to keep to provide orientation content. I decided what's more important now than my tier for that location is to have donations to go to Palestinian relief, so that's what I have now, and visitors have picked up again recently as have donations for relief, which I have sent myself in RL. Generally, I don't think raising money for charity in SL is warranted because of the cost of having to cash out the Lindens, then get it to the recipients. But some people have small amounts of Lindens from inworld jobs or sales or whatever and why not collect them, eventually over time it will add up to US $20 to send -- and while you've lost some of them trying to get it out of SL, you wouldn't have made it otherwise, neither would they.

There are a number of other ways. I will not reveal them, however.

Song About Freedom by DDT. In Memory of Navalny

This is why we created International Bazaar at the infohub in Ross, so that people can be directed to RL language/country sims where there are those who speak their language. The listserve for this is also put on one Linden welcome area and various people have put the terminal in their welcome areas. It's hardly a substitute for real-time translators, but the Google API for translation outside their Google Translate was deliberately retired and broke in SL long ago. People use other translators now that sometimes don't work. I tell people to go outside SL on to the, you know, World Wide Web, where you can still access Google Translate and translate at least a pargraph or so of stuff.