Gynopisces nympha, known as the tropical mermaid, is a sapient marine primate found in tropical coastal waters. Part of the Hominidae family, they have a unique anatomy adapted for aquatic life. The species faces critical endangerment due to environmental changes and has deep cultural ties with human societies, influencing folklore and conservation efforts.
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 […]
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.
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 […]
Congratulations, Second Life®, for achieving two decades of continuous existence!
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 OpenSSL to generate a CSR. I have assembled all bits and pieces I need, except figuring out how to ‘convert’ the ASN.1 definition of the logotype-embedding extension into a so-called ‘configuration file’ that the OpenSSL CLI will accept.
This is a simple experiment which I did while trying to learn how to programme in Google AppScript, which allows data from a Google Sheet to be imported from the ‘outside world’, placed & properly formatted in a spreadsheet, and lastly presented as a nice graph. Like everything that Google […]
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 […]
Philip Rosedale is back at Linden Lab — but what exactly does that mean?
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!
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™<=> External Server integration, which I hope to write a bit about as well. But in the mean time, I’ve refreshed the look of the […]
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 […]
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)