[self-interest] Try Self online!

Stephen De Gabrielle spdegabrielle at gmail.com
Sun Aug 4 12:56:09 UTC 2019


Wow! This is really nice. Worked first time (macOS / Safari).

Stephen

On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 3:50 AM Russell Allen mail at russell-allen.com
[self-interest] <self-interest at yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> Hi again,
>
> So in the last month I’ve made a few background changes to the code for
> trying Self online to improve robustness. Hopefully it is more likely to
> work if you try it!
>
> I’ve also added a new feature, which is allowing multiple users to access
> the running Self world.
>
> This functionality was already in the standard Self image (though buried
> in the MacOS version), I’ve just made it more visible and integrated it
> with the OurSelf.io stack.
>
> To try it out, start a trial Self world, and open the desktop for it in
> your browser.
>
> Then do the following:
>
>   (users userNamed: ‘Guest’) password: ’secret’..     “ <- must be 8 chars
> or less “
>
> Then from the main menu, choose ‘Give user access…’, choose ‘Guest’ from
> the users list.
>
> You should get a URL, which you can put into a separate browser window.
>
> There should now be two views onto your Self world.  Each view can move
> around, and has full access to everything.
>
> I’ve now been developing this through the browser window for a bit (rather
> than doing it locally and uploading the snapshots). It isn’t as fast as a
> local Self, especially in terms of latency, but it is quite usable and the
> ability to just stop what I’m doing, close the browser window and then
> restart my work just by going to a webpage on other computer is quite nice.
>
> Anyway, I’m keeping on working on this so if any of you manage to get it
> working and give feedback that would be cool
>
> Cheers! Russell
>
>
> On 29 Jun 2019, at 11:39 am, Russell Allen mail at russell-allen.com
> [self-interest] <self-interest at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> I’ve being playing with setting up a online sandbox to play with Self in.
> I have a *very* early demo up at:
>
> https://ourself.io
>
> If you go there, you can click the button and wait. If you’re lucky, you
> will get to a page which gives you a link to a running morphic desktop and
> a Self console. It should last about 20 minutes or so, and won’t save any
> changes.
>
> This is held together with blutack and gaffer tape so will probably break
> :)
>
> Also there are only a few slots for running Self worlds on the small
> DigitalOcean account this is running on, so capacity will be reached
> quickly.
>
> The technology stack is: A FreeBSD host on ZFS, running Nginx as a proxy.
> Each Self is in a FreeBSD jail, with its own X libs. The Self desktop is
> sent to your browser as follows: Self->X11->Xvnc->Websocket->NoVNC->Browser.
>
> There’s very little of my own code in this. Everything is nicely boring.
>
> Anyway, if you do get it running I’d love to get any feedback.
>
> :) Russell
>
>
> 
>
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