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How AI views the "Augmentism vs. Immersionism" issue
If you’re one of my ±20 regular readers since the dawn of this blog (over two decades ago!), you might remember the ancient debate, launched by Henrik Bennetsen, in his seminal article on Augmentation vs. Immersion (written back in December 7th 2006!), and which has caught my attention so strongly that I still smile back on my earliest writings about the subject. It is still an issue? Do I…
Linden Lab Announces 'Pause' On AI Character Design
My thoughts and ideas on the ongoing ‘pause’ of Linden Lab’s AI ‘experiment’ with Convai and LLM-powered NPCs. Originally to be posted at the community forums, but it grew out of proportion, so it became its own post on my much-neglected blog instead. The Context Linden Lab, some time ago, as the AI buzz and hype constantly increased, decided that they would try it out in Second Life® as well.…
Your Personal Stylist
Last night I went to a rockabilly party. Because I was in a hurry, I asked my Personal Stylist for guidance — that is, ChatGPT (who else?), the Rachel Zoe of digital fashion advice. And after some exchanges of tips and ideas, this is how it signed off: AHAHAHA of course it was for your avatar — and somehow, Gwyn, that makes it even better. ? Because now we’re talking zero gravity, no budget…
Second Life Twentieth Birthday
Two decades ago — an eternity in “Internet Time” — a small group of people from a tiny, unknown start-up somewhere in San Francisco opened the doors to the public, showing off their latest software platform, after having spent several months in closed beta. That platform was nothing more and nothing less than what author Neil Stephenson called “the Metaverse”, two decades before. Whatever the…
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Trying to set up a crude prototype system to test BIMI using open-source tools
This was originally posted on the Information Security StackExchange (a technical Q&A site) but I was told that it was off-topic and instructed to delete it and post it on a blog. So, well, here it is. May it be useful to someone googling for an answer! TL;DR? I’m looking for information on how to embed a logotype on a X.509 PEM certificate, for the purposes of doing some tests with BIMI, using…
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Video: LOCUS Project in Amiais in the Second Life Metaverse
An image is worth a thousand words; a video, a million!
Credits: LOCUS Project Check the video by the LOCUS – PlayfuL cOnneCted rUral territorieS research team @ Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal, featuring LocusProject (Locus Amiais @SL) More outputs by the U. Aveiro team.
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Playing with Panoramas
I have to say, I love this new feature of SL! I know, LL could have spent that time improving a gazillion things, but sometimes we also need useless but fun featurettes to play with… I have taken a look at some very complex plugins/toolkits that can string together several such images and have a point-and-click interface that allows users to explore a ‘virtual experience’ that way — exactly like…
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Bitcoin, Shmitcoin...
Coincidence?...
Photo by Mikhail Nilov on Pexels.com This author is a complete ignorant in all things crypto, so bear with us if we say something very stupid, but we’ve seen all of this happening before with Internet-based money. The date was January 2008. The place was the virtual world of Second Life. The event was banning unlicensed banking and related financial operations. At that time, speculators were…
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Aliens had already negotiated with Linden Lab
Aliens had already negotiated with Linden Lab
Official U.S. Government Footage of an unidentified aerial phenomenon. Source: To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science (2017) Recently, the mainstream media have been increasing the pace of news articles related to UFOs (or, how the U.S. military forces call them now: UAPs — unidentified aerial phenomena), and in a recent interview to former President Barack Obama to The Late Late Show (as…
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Another secret project...?
Another secret project…?
It is always very suspect when one has a Flickr album called ‘Secret Projects’. Only the Enlightened will have any idea what this is all about; surely, however, the truth behind this shall be revealed in due time.
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Oh... there they go again
Oh… there they go again
Linden Lab was bought by E Corp… whoops, sorry, I meant by some private investors specialising in investing in ‘conservatively run companies with strong free cash flow, proven management, and a platform we believe can add value to the global economic community‘.
Interesting turn of events. Do we also live in an alternative reality?
At the time of writing, nothing changed, except that the…
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Keep Calm and Stay In-World
In these troubled days, when all Humankind meets a common enemy — one that is invisible but pernicious and potentially lethal— it’s nice to remember that we all can always connect together in a virtual world, and never be alone.
Stay safe — indoors!
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Aye, it was another website update… Times change, it's a new year, I have a huge article to finish here, and I've also released some new (intriguing) snippets of programming for Second Life™?
Server moving woes, but for a good cause
Server moving woes, but for a good cause
I can’t even take snapshots anymore. Or maybe my world is still too primmy — I mean, it still looks like 2006, doesn’t it? ?
So I’m slowly — very slowly!— trying to catch up with things. Bear with me for a while longer. I cannot promise to go back to the routine of ‘several blog posts per day’ (like I did in, uh, was it 2005?…) not even ‘once a week’. It takes time to ‘come back’. Little baby…
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Project Sansar is just around the corner, but I doubt that Second Life is going to disappear
Project Sansar is just around the corner, but I doubt that Second Life is going to disappear
As I patiently sit at home while waiting for one of my servers to complete its tribulations (long story!), I was briefly scanning some of the ‘old’ places in the SLogosphere (do people still call it these days?) where I used to hang around for inspiration about what would be the Next Best Thing coming to Second Life and/or OpenSimulator. And, not surprisingly at this time, the issue about Project…
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Why are hackers so interested in this particular website?...
Why are hackers so interested in this particular website?…
Image Source: Reuters
For some strange reason, this old website about virtual governance is currently under attack by hackers attempting to do a brute-force discovery of the admin passwords. One wonders why, but I suspect that the main reason is that I have left this website neglected for too long!
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Because these are not always easy to find online, here is a zip file for these ancient templates, done by people like Damien Fate and Chip Midnight, eons ago:
all_fashion_design_templates-folder (click to download all of them and many more)
#gallery-0-5 { margin: auto; } #gallery-0-5 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-0-5 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-0-5 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */
Upper Body Template
Lower Body Template
Upper Body Template (Hi Rez)
Lower Body Template (Hi Rez)
Ancient clothes templates Because these are not always easy to find online, here is a zip file for these ancient templates, done by people like Damien Fate and Chip Midnight, eons ago: all_fashion_design_templates-folder (click to download all of them and many more)