11th anniversary of Dereos
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Utopia Skye Grid will close (most?) Hypergrid access
Utopia Skye Grid will close (most?) Hypergrid access - sh.itjust.works
The commercial, for-profit Utopia Skye Grid [https://www.utopiaskye.com/utopia-skye-grid] has always been mostly “closed”, i.e. only a small handful of sims are accessible to Hypergridders. With the turn of the year, Utopia Skye Grid will “block Hypergrid travels” altogether. Not only won’t Hypergridders be able to enter the grid at all anymore, but Utopia Skye residents won’t be able to go Hypergridding themselves either. Notice, however, that Utopia Skye did not announce that it will turn off Hypergrid access completely and turn into a fully closed grid like TAG Grid or (long-defunct) Inworldz. This most likely means that the Utopia Skye admins are exempt from this block. This will seriously top even infamous Avatar Life which has completely blocked inbound Hypergrid travel while allowing all its residents to go Hypergridding as they please, and which keeps advertising its sims on OpenSimWorld regardless to lure people into creating avatars in Avatar Life. It even used to have a big self-advertising parcel at OpenSimFest up until last year. Also, interestingly, no official Utopia Skye representatives have announced the blocks on OSW. There is no announcement on the official website either. I’ve learned this from a user.
RIP Luna Lunaria
It is. The current grid URL is login.greatcanadiancabin.ca:8002
The Great Canadian Grid is back. Yet again. Not. Or is it?
The Great Canadian Grid is back. Yet again. Not. Or is it? - sh.itjust.works
Three weeks ago, Roddie Macchi re-relisted the welcome sim of the Great Canadian Grid on OSW [https://opensimworld.com/hop/94599] again. After the whole grid was shut down again several months ago, mind you. OSW recognises the sim as online. But the grid website is down, and the hop address is broken now. Maybe I’ll go check whether the grid is actually online, including the port it’s running on now. Maybe not.
Firestorm 7.2.2 is out
Firestorm 7.2.2 is out - sh.itjust.works
A new version of the Firestorm viewer has just been released. However, it doesn’t look like the critical bug of Firestorm first freezing for minutes and then often also crashing if you’ve got more than just a few outfits [https://jira.firestormviewer.org/browse/FIRE-35936] has not been tackled yet. Looks like none of the devs who have taken a look at it even have 100 outfits.
OSgrid will fully empty everyone's inventories in March
OSgrid will fully empty everyone's inventories in March - sh.itjust.works
How fscked up is OSgrid’s asset server? This fscked up. OSgrid will shut down on March 21st. It’ll stay offline for a week (haha, OSgrid and schedules). And when it comes back online, the inventories of all avatars will be empty. Wiped clean. With nothing in them anymore. Seems to be the only feasible way for them to fix their asset server. It’s dragging around too much old and broken content. Now they want to do an “asset reset” and basically delete all assets that aren’t rezzed in-world. This includes everything in everyone’s inventories. Some are frantically trying to create IARs and OARs now. But first of all, big inventories take a long time to be exported to an IAR. Besides, links of any kind cannot be archived. Your outfits that consist of links cannot be rescued. Lastly, these IARs themselves will probably chock-full of broken assets themselves, many of which broke during the last at least two attempts at fixing the asset server. Wherever you’ll upload such an IAR, you’re likely to pump broken assets onto that place’s asset server. At the same time, many OSgrid users are already escaping from the grid. Of course, they’ll need alts on other grids for as long as they can’t use their OSgrid avatars. But I guess they don’t put much faith in OSgrid actually managing to fix the asset server issues, so these new alts will become their mains, and they may abandon their OSgrid avatars altogether. I think it’s fair to mention that the wiping of everyone’s inventories kicked off the final demise of the Metropolis Metaversum in 2019.
Will Linden Lab go after OpenSim copybotters now?
Will Linden Lab go after OpenSim copybotters now? - sh.itjust.works
Brad Oberwager and Philip Rosedale of Second Life have announced to take much, much mor drastic measures against content piracy within as well as originating in Second Life. Some sources: * Wagner James “Hamlet” Au’s New World Notes [https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2025/01/linden-lab-sl-ip-rights-protection.html] * Ava Delaney’s Chronicles [https://avadelaney.co.uk/musings/a-message-to-sl-content-thieves/] * Tjay Wicken on SLNotes [https://slnotes.com/linden-lab-takes-strong-new-stance-against-content-theft/] Linden Lab may soon act when: * you have stolen content in Second Life * you have uploaded stolen Second Life content somewhere * you offer stolen Second Life content somewhere * you host stolen Second Life content somewhere * you tell others how to steal Second Life content And “act” means: * they’ll terminate your Second Life account * they’ll purge any and all creations from this account from Second Life, including in-world and from other avatars’ inventories * they’ll terminate every last one of your alt accounts * they’ll purge any and all creations from your alt accounts from Second Life, including in-world and from other avatars’ inventories * they’ll file a DMCA notice against you * they’ll file a Cease & Desist against whatever you’ve done and wherever you’ve done it * they might even start a criminal lawsuit against you, drag you to court and have you convicted Now, most talk concerning these measures is in Second Life and/or only concerning Second Life. But OpenSimulator, especially grids connected to the Hypergrid, have been flooded with stolen Second Life content for many years already. My estimation is that over 95% of all sim decoration and at least 99% of all avatar accessories were stolen from Second Life. Granted, no-one makes any money with this content. And we’re talking about over 3,000, maybe over 4,000 individual grids, the vast majority of which are connected to the Hypergrid. But the availability of even premium Second Life content as freebies in OpenSim makes OpenSim more attractive to non-creators than Second Life and gives it an unfair and illegal advantage in the competition between virtual worlds. If Linden Lab went all the way against OpenSim, the effects would be devastating. Grid by grid would be shut down, either by their admins or by the authorities, and their admins might end up behind bars with a permanent criminal record, just because there’s illegal Second Life content on them, maybe even available in freebie stores. This would not only affect the small grids that are based around young and extremely popular freebie stores that are constantly being supplied with a stream of freshly copybotted content. OSgrid [https://osgrid.org], the first public grid, the oldest still existing grid, one of the two largest grids with a bigger landmass than Second Life itself and the main testbed for OpenSim’s development, would meet its end, and its entire eight-piece grid staff would be convicted for what’s on externally attached sims like Agora or Nutella or, in fact, any sim that isn’t 100% squeaky clean. In fact, I dare say it’s hardly possible for a grid to be so aseptic that it couldn’t possible be a target of such actions. One local avatar with a Second Life body, and a grid could be toast. Better yet: The Lindens won’t even have to go look for illegal content in OpenSim themselves. A new category for Second Life support tickets will be created to report cases of stolen Second Life content. If you think this won’t be used with malicious intent, I have a bridge to sell you. Philip Rosedale said that Linden Lab will take care that this won’t be weaponised within Second Life. But neither he nor Brad Oberwager nor anyone else at Linden Lab would even notice if it’s being used as a weapon in wars between grids, communities or single users in OpenSim. In OpenSim, this report feature could be used as a salted thermonuclear weapon that can not only permanently destroy grids of any size, but all their staff in real life along with them, even those who have never had Second Life avatars. And believe me when I say that, especially in the German-speaking OpenSim scene, there are enough open conflicts and enough complete nutbars who would “push the button” with glee to get rid of grids and users whom they have a problem with. I think there’s only one German grid that couldn’t possibly be destroyed this way, and that grid is almost unknown and has spent over a decade under a rock. Our only salvation is how slow the German legal system is, and how digital legislation has yet to arrive in the 21st century. I’ve recently posted a lengthy comment on this [https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/item/b54d3030-9d0d-40c4-9a68-d685815e0a4d].