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It does indeed still work that way! We even still support the old, in-house VM, known as LSO2: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LSO

We're hard at work adding Luau (https://luau.org) as a supported language for both in-world scripting as well as client/viewer-side scripting. As a handy byproduct of that, LSL will also gain the ability to be compiled to Luau bytecode, allowing us to eventually (someday, at least) shed any need for our custom-patched version of Mono 2.6. More juicy details here: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Lua_FAQ

Source: I work at Linden Lab. If these sorts of things excite anyone, we're hiring! https://lindenlab.com/careers

Nice. Sounds like the same rules apply to profile pictures as well. That feels like a step in the right direction, but it still means that by having family/coworkers/college buddies/etc in your contacts, they can see your profile picture and username. I know this can be a sticking point for some. It would be great if Signal introduced finer-grained privacy controls so it could appeal to an even wider audience.

There are subcultures that are not widely accepted where this is an issue. Take the furry subculture as an example. You might not want your family or college pals to see your furry profile picture and pseudonym, but you also might not be aware of the implications of using a messaging service where the primary ID is your phone number. Many people hand out their phone numbers permissively, as historically, they weren't very "personal" on their own - save for identifying your real name. For many people, having/juggling multiple phone numbers to maintain distinct identities is beyond their technical expertise and simply won't happen in most cases (especially on Telegram, where VOIP numbers are prohibited).

I don't know precisely how Signal does things, but I know this can be an issue on Telegram - and I assume they work similarly. I can see a lot of reasons folks might not be fans of phone-number-as-ID, especially when it alerts folks that you've joined, or gives folks who merely possess your phone number an easy way of viewing your profile details.

I think the first quality E2EE messaging service that provides users an alternative to phone-as-ID could give Telegram/Signal (not that the former is necessarily E2EE) a serious run for their money among privacy-conscious users and members of fringe communities.

Yeah, foobar2000 has worked well under Wine for me in the past. It doesn't work as well when playing music from my NAS via NFS, though..

Audacious is pretty slick (especially with this latest release), but lacks the features that foobar2000 has that I need (namely, a directory/folder view that can replace the active playlist when clicked).

If anyone is looking for a decent foobar2000 alternative, Foobnix (https://github.com/foobnix/foobnix) has worked really well for me. It has some rough edges and doesn't seem (that) actively maintained, but it gets the important stuff right. Haven't come across anything else quite like it for Linux yet, unfortunately.

If there was a foobar-like folder view plugin for Audacious, I'd switch to it in a heartbeat.