I have this message in my Boinc Notices panel that says,
SETI@home: Friend request
The Virtue-L Computer has requested friendship with you. Please accept or decline.

There is no other information that I can find regarding this request. What are the implications of accepting? Declining?

I have searched for Virtue-L Friend Request but the message boards show nothing with these search terms.

Thanks

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The Virtual-L Computer is a user just like you

See here:

https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_user.php?userid=10365759

He/She or it has asked you to be a friend. Simple as that.

Implications are if you decline you don't want to be that users friend.

Ok, thanks... I've had requests before; I just never had one show up in the BOINC message panel. How does one do that, anyway ?

Knowing that it is a person making the request, I understand the implications, thanks so much. But since it looked like a request from the SETI hardware enclave ("The Virtue-L Computer"), it was entirely confusing and misleading.

Not sure I want a friend that refuses to eschew obfuscation.

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There are some REALLY weird user names out there!

And some folks just love to have hundreds of "friends" so spam everyone with friend requests - there must be dozens who have been disappointed to find I've rejected their request.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

There are some REALLY weird user names out there!

And some folks just love to have hundreds of "friends" so spam everyone with friend requests - there must be dozens who have been disappointed to find I've rejected their request.

. . That's funny I get almost none ... it must be my BO ... LOL

Stephen

:)

I have this message in my Boinc Notices panel that says,
SETI@home: Friend request
The Virtue-L Computer has requested friendship with you. Please accept or decline.

There is no other information that I can find regarding this request. What are the implications of accepting? Declining?

I have searched for Virtue-L Friend Request but the message boards show nothing with these search terms.

Thanks

Hi,

I am very sorry to learn that the name of our S@H user account may have caused some confusion.
Please, let me elaborate.

Basically, 'The Virtue-L Computer', aka 'ROSL-EN69629r', or TVLC for short is a FOSS virtual machine image
that can be imported into VirtualBox and KVM/QEMU. It's a hobby project.
Since TVLC can run the BOINC beta test version 7.6.33 for Windows, you can imagine that we had to put this to
the test... So far, both ReactOS-based TVLC and the new BOINC 7.6.33 look pretty good!
All credits listed for 'The Virtue-L Computer's SETI account have been computed by n+ instances of 'The Virtue-L Computer'.
There were never plans for adding any other computer system to this very SETI account. That way, it could double and demonstrate
some practical use of 'The Virtue-L Computer'. Hence the name choosen for this SETI account.

I hope this answer is providing the information you are looking for.

Happy crunching!

-Dirk, and L-Team


Credit: TVLC is derived/based on the ReactOS project!