Second Life Twentieth Birthday
Congratulations, Second Life®, for achieving two decades of continuous existence!
Gwyn's Home
Rantings on politics, psychology, technology, and economics of the Second Life® metaverse.
Latest posts
Trying to set up a crude prototype system to test BIMI using open-source tools
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.
Real-time statistics from Second Life
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 provides for free, it has [ ]
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 [ ]
Return of the (Linden) Jedi
Philip Rosedale is back at Linden Lab — but what exactly does that mean?
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!
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™ = 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 blog as well. Some commented [ ]
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 [ ]
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)
Robots and AIs replacing humans?
Once in a while, I like to pop over to the Singularity freaks at Singularity HUB; they are the sort of crazy that I often enjoy — trying to figure out where we re going, based on the trends of current technology advancement. They will get most things wrong, of course, but it s also great to see [ ]