Innula Zenovka

Thanks. For this particular project I have to use Google Cloud, but this will be very helpful in future.

Thanks. I was hoping to have the HUD automatically detach after receiving the confirmation message, but it's no big deal, and no great hardship for the user, instead to have the HUD display a confirmation message when it receives an acknowledgment from Discord, telling the user to remove their HUD (and to try again later if necessary).

I'm using, or trying to, shared media to deliver a web form hosted in a Google Cloud bucket. When the user fills out the form and clicks a submit button, the form sends the data to a discord webhook. The Discord endpoint sends a confirmation back to the form saying that the data has been received, or that there's been an error. When the form receives this confirmation/error message, I want to send a message back to the shared media object, so it can tell the person submitting the data that their message has been received or not. My plan is to call llRequestSecureURL and send the URL as a parameter of the Google url (it has to be llRequestSecureURL because it needs to be an HTTPS address, not an HTTP one). However, for this to work, I need to ensure that Google bucket recognises the LL Certificate Authority, and I don't know how to do this. The wiki says Can someone please expand on this? Or can someone suggest a workaround?

Yes, but by the time they come to handle our transactions with LL, they'll have taken over all Tilia's existing licences, and be bound by whatever data protection conditions attach to those. And, of course, they already hold EU and UK licences, which I assume must put data belonging to EU/UK residents under the jurisdiction of our local data protection laws and regulators, too.

I see that Thunes already holds I'd have thought that this means data belonging to SL residents based in the UK and the EU will be protected by the relevant UK/EU data protection legislation, just as US residents are protected (or not) by whatever federal and state laws apply to licenced electronic money transfer agents. I don't know, though. Maybe someone else can assist?

I took his remarks to mean that Tilia has high fixed costs, and recovering these solely from transaction charges paid by users was not possible because the small number of users would have made the charges insupportably high. Thunes brings far more customers and transactions to the table, thus greatly reducing the amount they need to charge on each transaction to cover these fixed costs.

From Inara Pey's summary The actual quote is around here -- "The Lindex is incredibly expensive to run".

Oberwolf spoke in the Lab Gab about the high cost of running and maintaining the Lindex. If you do not disbelieve him, how do you think those costs should be covered?

What's the likelihood of that happening? This isn't 2006-7 any more, when SL was on all the front pages as the next big thing. That's ancient history now, and SL is no longer news.

Maybe the fact LL is a minority shareholder in the new company formerly known as Tilia and has a five year contract with it will help? It's hardly likely that Brad Oberwager has signed anything without satisfying himself that he's not putting his name to something that might write off his investment in LL by putting it out of business.

2c. Brünnhilde mounts her horse and rides into the flames of Siegfried's funeral pyre, the Rhine floods its banks, Valhalla is engulfed in flames and it is the end of SL as we know it™. Until the next time.

Or to divest themselves of a specialist and highly regulated product that, while potentially lucrative, is expensive and arduous to maintain, so they can concentrate on their core business?

I don't think b) is the whole story, though. Originally we used to transfer US$ to our SL US$ accounts via PayPal or credit card and LL were responsible from the time it arrived with them, including all Lindex conversions, which LL were responsible for accounting and reporting to the relevant authorities. PayPal, Visa and Mastercard weren't involved after LL received the US$. The problem wasn't that payment processors were worried about adult content (how else do people pay for adult videos and sex toys they buy online? Not bitcoin all the time, surely?) but that they weren't interested in, or equipped to handle, Lindex transactions.

I can remember confident predictions that voice would kill SL.

Or they recorded Lab Gab knowing that the sale was in the pipeline, and intending to devote the first Community Round Table to it, assuming the deal didn't fall through in the meantime. Meanwhile that particular edition of Lab Gab concentrated on the various projects on which Grumpity and her engineers have been working, with Kiera coming in for the final section. No date was given, as I recall, for the first Round Table, so they weren't committed to anything other than holding one the next time a suitable opportunity presented itself and Oberwolf (who I assume is a pretty busy man) was available..