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The teleport between virtual world systems (that actually never happened)

 last edited: Sat, 14 Sep 2024 14:58:49 +0200
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How Linden Lab managed to fool almost everyone with a spectacular tech stunt in 2008
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AI superiority at describing images, not so alleged?

 last edited: Fri, 06 Sep 2024 22:43:09 +0200
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Could it be that AI can image-describe circles even around me? And that the only ones whom my image descriptions satisfy are Mastodon's alt-text police?
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Mike Macgirvin stopped maintaining the streams repository

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August 31st: Mike Macgirvin has resigned from maintaining the streams repository and let the community take over
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"Nothing About Us Without Us", only it still is without them most of the time

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When disabled Fediverse users demand participation in accessibility discussions, but there are no discussions in the first place, and they themselves don't even seem to be available to give accessibility feedback
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PBR and the shitstorm against the new Firestorm

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How the new version of the Firestorm viewer with support for Physically-Based Rendering enrages its users
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Things that'll happen at OpenSim parties

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If you're a frequent partygoer in OpenSim, you're likely to know at least some of these
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The Second Life ageplay scandal and its impact on OpenSim

 last edited: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 10:59:21 +0100
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How Second Life's ageplay scandal that isn't even so much about there being ageplay increases "underage" avatar paranoia in OpenSim
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The grid of hidden clubs

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How hard to find are our event locations? Yes.
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Things that metaverse designers and developers are bound to learn the hard way

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So you think you'll have your metaverse under control? Think again! (CW: nudity mentioned, sex mentioned, BDSM mentioned)
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Okay, so what is this OpenSim thing?

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The free, decentralised metaverse is older than you may think
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