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    New FS Viewer...6.4.13...Looks Like BLEEEEEEEP!

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    2 hours ago, Qie Niangao said:

    Oh, the "Bandwidth: 500kbit/s" part? That's the "Maximum bandwidth" in "Setup" preferences, which I understand to only throttle some UDP communications which should be pretty limited at this point. It's been years since I've noticed that setting having any effect, but maybe I just don't know how to look for it. (The network itself is pretty okay for DSL—50 Mbps down, 10 up—good enough I haven't yet upgraded to fiber-to-the-premises.)

    You may want to try bumping that up to 1000 for DSL. 

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    Recommendation

    Based on our experience, we strongly recommend the following maximum settings for bandwidth - unless the calculations above suggest lower values:

    • Any type of wireless connection, including home wireless: 500
    • Hardwired DSL: 1000
    • Hardwired cable or better: 1500.

    https://wiki.firestormviewer.org/fs_speedtest

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    COVID rants /shares 2.0 thread

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    11 hours ago, Arielle Popstar said:

     The document was authored "on October 4, 2020, this declaration was authored and signed in Great Barrington, United States," and is according to the FAQ about the lockdowns causing more harm then good. It is not about vaccines or facemasks.

    Believe what you want. It is MY life, NOT YOURS. I will not give you or any one else who believes such utter ignorance a chance to murder me.  You'll be in hell first.

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    COVID rants /shares 2.0 thread

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    Posted · Edited by Selene Gregoire

    Nope. Not signing that bs. Not even whoever or whatever the heck Great Barrington is supposed to be is going to tell me how to live what is left of my life. You either wear a mask in my presence, vaccinated or not (since more than one vaccine does exist and that ridiculous declaration is claiming there isn't even one yet), or you do not come anywhere near me. Full stop. No ands, ifs or buts about it. If you don't have any respect for your fellow human beings you don't need to be anywhere around me.

    12 minutes ago, Arielle Popstar said:

    The Great Barrington Declaration

    The Great Barrington Declaration – As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection. 

    Coming from both the left and right, and around the world, we have devoted our careers to protecting people. Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health. The results (to name a few) include lower childhood vaccination rates, worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer screenings and deteriorating mental health – leading to greater excess mortality in years to come, with the working class and younger members of society carrying the heaviest burden. Keeping students out of school is a grave injustice. 

    Keeping these measures in place until a vaccine is available will cause irreparable damage, with the underprivileged disproportionately harmed.

    Fortunately, our understanding of the virus is growing. We know that vulnerability to death from COVID-19 is more than a thousand-fold higher in the old and infirm than the young. Indeed, for children, COVID-19 is less dangerous than many other harms, including influenza. 

    As immunity builds in the population, the risk of infection to all – including the vulnerable – falls. We know that all populations will eventually reach herd immunity – i.e.  the point at which the rate of new infections is stable – and that this can be assisted by (but is not dependent upon) a vaccine. Our goal should therefore be to minimize mortality and social harm until we reach herd immunity. 

    The most compassionate approach that balances the risks and benefits of reaching herd immunity, is to allow those who are at minimal risk of death to live their lives normally to build up immunity to the virus through natural infection, while better protecting those who are at highest risk. We call this Focused Protection. 

    Adopting measures to protect the vulnerable should be the central aim of public health responses to COVID-19. By way of example, nursing homes should use staff with acquired immunity and perform frequent testing of other staff and all visitors. Staff rotation should be minimized. Retired people living at home should have groceries and other essentials delivered to their home. When possible, they should meet family members outside rather than inside. A comprehensive and detailed list of measures, including approaches to multi-generational households, can be implemented, and is well within the scope and capability of public health professionals. 

    Those who are not vulnerable should immediately be allowed to resume life as normal. Simple hygiene measures, such as hand washing and staying home when sick should be practiced by everyone to reduce the herd immunity threshold. Schools and universities should be open for in-person teaching. Extracurricular activities, such as sports, should be resumed. Young low-risk adults should work normally, rather than from home. Restaurants and other businesses should open. Arts, music, sport and other cultural activities should resume. People who are more at risk may participate if they wish, while society as a whole enjoys the protection conferred upon the vulnerable by those who have built up herd immunity.

    On October 4, 2020, this declaration was authored and signed in Great Barrington, United States, by:

    Sign the Declaration

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    https://gbdeclaration.org/

     

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    New FS Viewer...6.4.13...Looks Like BLEEEEEEEP!

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    Posted · Edited by Selene Gregoire

    53 minutes ago, FairreLilette said:

    I wasn't planning on it, no.   And, my state is not fully open until June 15th as far as I know right now.  

     

    Yeah, it's a Graphics problem but it seems to occur on certain AMD chips on FS while not so on LL viewer with materials off.  My graphics are fine on LL viewer without materials but with materials not so good; however, on FS - none works at this time.   So, it's puzzling. 

    The only other possible thing is it's something Chic said in that I didn't back up my settings possibly.  I don't know how to restore the settings.  I have tried what Lyssa did with the debugging for the AMD - it worked for her but not for me.

    I'm on my laptop because my graphics card (NVidia) in my desktop took more than a year to get to the point where I can no  longer use the pc. I have been troubleshooting the issues that long trying to find the problem. And I'm still only 99% certain it's the GPU and not the harddrive dying or the OS being corrupted. They do get that way over time and mine has never been restored in the 5 or 6 years since I bought the pc new. That is something I have rarely needed to do in the more than 20 years I've been online. That isn't counting all the years I used a computer before ever going online.

    It's called process of elimination and that is how you have to troubleshoot pc issues. Once you eliminate a possibility you don't keep going back to it and trying to see if that is what is wrong. 

    I would recommend trying to up the antialiasing a tad more but keep in mind the higher the number, the slower your viewer will run. You just have to keep changing the setting(s) until you find the one that works best with your computer. Which is what you need to do with any software. Once you have your settings set then you can make the backup and use it to restore your settings the next time you need to install or reinstall the viewer. It won't  backup all settings but it backs up the most used ones.

    I just realized something about my sense of humor.

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    6 hours ago, Amina Sopwith said:

    Tom and Jerry is just pure sadism but it's aimed at kids.

    Sorry, no. Cartoons were never intended for children 

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    "The Warner cartoons were aimed strictly for adults--they were never meant for children," McKimson said.

    Warner cartoons and other animated short subjects (Disney characters, Popeye, Tom and Jerry and so on) were screened for audiences of all ages at movie houses before the feature presentation. But when television began packing Saturday mornings and after-school hours with those classics during the `60s, many were trimmed of excessive violence, sexual innuendo and drug and alcohol references.

    Or, as McKimson puts it: "They chopped the hell out of them."

    And that hasn't changed, even in the 'toons that air today, he added.

    "Generally speaking, you're seeing cartoons that are edited," McKimson said.

    https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2002-11-03-0211030434-story.html

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    Oh my Gawd! - Totally unOfficial Pet Peeve Thread.

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    43 minutes ago, Solar Legion said:

    Might as well either have them shut off or simply not have the feature at all in that case.

    Much like the About Me section.

    I must be an exception but then I read pretty much everything I see except billboards and ads... and fan fiction. I came from the old school of sigs being a reflection of a facet of the poster. Much like yours does only with pictures.

    Your sig does work. At least, it has worked once. On me. lol No, it wasn't a case of I was going to IM you to continue an argument but you might have taken my question as such so I just respected your wishes and let it go.

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    New FS Viewer...6.4.13...Looks Like BLEEEEEEEP!

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    Posted · Edited by Selene Gregoire

    1 hour ago, Coffee Pancake said:

    Nvidia - update constantly. Use geforce now and the studio drivers if you'd rather do this as infrequently as possible (same drivers, slower release cycle).

    GeForce Experience is better imo.

    https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/geforce-experience/

    But for those who insist on the cloud https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce-now/

     

    ETA: I also have never used midday for building. Nam's Optimal Skin and Prim is the best one for building. That advice comes from 17 years of building in SL.

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    Picks in Profiles.

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    9 hours ago, Phil Deakins said:

    First you wrongly suggested that I was calling you a liar, and now you wrongly suggest that I might have forgotten something about you. I don't know you from Eve. Your name is not one that I am familiar with, and I had no idea about your involvement with the Emerald, etc. setup, so I can hardly have forgotten it. But it does indicate why you are so defensive about the Emerald etc. viewers.

    I can accept that what you quoted was true in 2012. Things have changed since 9 years ago. I also think that unscrupulous things, such as what happened with Emerald, can still happen with any 3rd party viewer. It's not just that I think it. It's that I know it. We all know it. So it's up to each person to decide for themselves whether or not they want to trust unknown people running programmes in their computers, where all sorts of private stuff is, including usernames and passwords, and often where their online banking is done. "Unknown people" because they are known only by their avatar names. In the real world, where unscrupulous things can happen, they are totally anonymous.

     

    One person makes a claim about something. Another person doesn't accept that the claim is correct. If the first person wants the claim to be believed, it is up to him/her to show it, and not up to the second person to research it for him/herself. So I don't want you to do any research for me. I am perfectly happy not knowing one way or the other. It's up to the one(s) who made the claim to prove what they claimed is actually true.

     

    No. I never suggested anything. I asked a question. If you misconstrued that, it's not on me. Since you are obviously trying to turn it all  back on me and blame me for any misunderstanding on your part, I'm done. I don't need to prove anything. It's already been proven.

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    1 hour ago, Qie Niangao said:

    How is such research done? I understood that as of some years ago viewers were no longer permitted to reveal this information except directly to the servers, but I guess the Lab may publish it—but where?

     

    3 hours ago, Selene Gregoire said:

    And in case you forgot, I was on the EM/PH/FS support team for more than 5 years so I did have access to information regular residents aren't privy to. All I had to do was ask.

     

    Hopefully Phil will realize I was not being serious with the "pay me $100USD" bit.

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    Posted · Edited by Selene Gregoire

    2 hours ago, Phil Deakins said:

    No I am not calling you a liar. I haven't said that anyone is wrong. I've said that I don't accept the claims that have been made. That's all. I don't know if you are right or wrong. I am pretty sure that you are not in a position to know, though, and that you are just repeating what you've heard. So I simply don't accept what is claimed.

     

    I'm not punishing anyone. How can I? What Emerald showed was that not everyone is trustworthy, and that some are positively unscrupulous. It is no different today. When we run a private person's software on our computers, we take a risk. What happened with Emerald, the forerunner of Firestorm, demonstrated it every clearly. It is not surprising that some people feel they can trust a company more than private individuals who they don't know.

    When I say "a private person's software", none of the full 3rd party viewers fall into that category, because they are ALL LL viewers with some modifications. They didn't create the viewers. But those private individuals have had access to all of the LL code, so the risk is just the same.

    Different people have different views on things :)

     

    Understood.

    Forgot I had this in my old bookmarks. It's from 2012 but it backs up what I was saying about FS being the most popular for many years.

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    Third party viewer developer Tonya Souther recently pointed out a very important March interview on Treet TV with Linden Lab's Open Development director Scott "Oz Linden" Lawrence, which includes a crucial passage I initially missed. It's so important, it needs to be highlighted here. At about 33 minutes into the conversation, Lawrence says this in relationship to the official Second Life viewer as compred with Phoenix and Firestorm, which are third party SL viewers made by The Phoenix Viewer Project team, a large consortium of SL users (none of whom are well known by their real names):

    "Our own viewer users are a minority. A significant minority -- we're the number three viewer behind, behind the two... Phoenix is far and away the number one viewer, although it's quite steadily losing market share these days, has been for some months now. And Firestorm is the newer technology viewer from your project, is the number two, and it's gaining market share... And our viewer is number three behind Firestorm."

    This admission came in March, as I said, so I checked with Linden Lab if it remained true:

    "The 'market shares' of various Viewers isn't a data point we're currently sharing," spokesman Peter Gray told me. Still, it's unlikely the shares have changed drastically in two months, and based on what Oz says, along with what some SL insiders have suggested elsewhere, I think the following is a very plausible estimate:

     

     

    Up to 65-75% of SLers are now using Phoenix or Firestorm, and 65-85% of total SL user minutes are on those viewers.

     

    https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2012/05/second-life-viewer-usage-dominated-third-party-.html

    FS has since far surpassed EM and PH in number of users since 2012. If you don't believe that, do the research yourself or pay me $100USD per hour to do it for you.

    And in case you forgot, I was on the EM/PH/FS support team for more than 5 years so I did have access to information regular residents aren't privy to. All I had to do was ask.

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