An Art Hive is a community art studio that welcomes everyone as an artist. From an art pop-up in a local library to a community studio or gallery, at its heart, an Art Hive is about inclusion, respect and learning. It's a welcoming place to talk, make art and build communities. Responding in creative ways to things that matter.

Come and contribute to our Virtual Hive and find out more about the history of the project here: https://arthives.org

Rakis Heron

Your contact person for grid (no drama)
and hometown sim advisor.
Owner of grid. 8 domains, 6 servers, 5 works,
hardware, software, business internet and
all bills every month. $ 300 / month.
PayPal donations are always welcome.

Welcome to The Portal - the hypergrid gateway where you can browse and discover destinations.

Advertise your Store, Club or Service at The Portal - where visitors are teleported directly to your destination with a single click.

Find out how at
hop://hg.neverworldgrid.com:8002/ThePortal/128/128/21

Making AI images is fun, but at what cost?

We’ve all seen the funny, beautiful, and creative pictures generated by AI. But have you ever stopped to think about the environmental cost of creating them? I see them on this website daily! I have made hundreds of Ai images!

But, did you know? Every AI-generated image requires computing power. That means electricity, water to help cool data centers, and powerful computer equipment that requires mining and manufacturing.

And every time we ask AI to create a picture, fix a mistake, or generate another version, we use even more resources.

One image may not seem like much, but multiply that by millions of people generating millions of images every day.

More energy consumption. More water demand. More carbon emissions. More electronic waste.

We talk about protecting our planet, reducing waste, and conserving natural resources. Yet we're embracing a technology without always considering its environmental footprint.

I'm not saying AI doesn't have valuable uses. It absolutely does. But do we really need to generate endless pictures just because we can?

Making AI images is fun. But is the environmental cost worth it?

Something to think about before clicking "generate" again.

Liebe Lagerfeuertänzer und Musikzuhörer,
morgen, 20. Oktober ab 20:00 Uhr (11:00 SLT) gibt es eine herbstliche Musikalische Rumpelkiste, eher mit sanftem Inhalt. Schon ab 19:30 gibts Vormusik - kommet zuhauf - wir freuen uns drauf.
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Dear campfire dancers and music lovers,
tomorrow, October 20th, starting at 8:00 PM (11:00 AM SLT), we'll be having an autumnal musical smorgasbord, with a rather gentle selection of tunes. There will be pre-show music starting at 7:30 PM - come one, come all - we're looking forward to it!

making progress, have opensim building on dotnet10 (EOL for v8 is Nov 10 2026) and replaced all the System.Drawing/libgdi+ code with skia

opensim@dx:/opt/opensim10$ PID=$(pgrep -n -x OpenSim)
opensim@dx:/opt/opensim10$ grep -Ei 'libgdiplus|libSkiaSharp' /proc/$PID/maps
7efef7a00000-7efef7bfd000 r--p 00000000 fe:01 1072841 /opt/opensim10/bin/libSkiaSharp.so
7efef7bfd000-7efef8333000 r-xp 001fc000 fe:01 1072841 /opt/opensim10/bin/libSkiaSharp.so
7efef8333000-7efef835b000 r--p 00931000 fe:01 1072841 /opt/opensim10/bin/libSkiaSharp.so
7efef835b000-7efef835e000 rw-p 00958000 fe:01 1072841 /opt/opensim10/bin/libSkiaSharp.so
opensim@dx:/opt/opensim10$
adding a config option for fall-back font in case someone running windows wants to use it in the future.
maybe will have new version running on holoneon grid by monday, will have to see.
(i know ngc uses v10 but my server tacks upstream core and going to ngc would likely be a major paradigm shift here hehe)
photo of os dynamic text testing

⚡🔥 TOMORROW, THE VORTEX OPENS! 🔥⚡

The countdown is almost over! Join me, Star Ravenhurst, as I welcome you to Electric Vortex on the Tenth Dimension Grid for our OSFest2026 event!

🎧 DJ Drew Blood makes his debut! Expect trance, deep house, electronic beats, and a few surprises you won't see coming.

🌌 THE VORTEX AWAITS. JOURNEY TO ANOTHER DIMENSION.

📅 Sunday, October 18
🕔 5–7 PM Grid Time

Bring your friends, bring your date, and come ready to dance! The energy is building, the portal is waiting, and we can't wait to share this experience with you!
Join Us: grid.tenthdimension.org:26002:Electric Vortex
💜 Electric Vortex. Be there when it comes alive! ⚡