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  • The oldest Minecraft server, MinecraftOnline, is being shut down by Microsoft

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  • shady and it sounds extremely easy to circumvent: just replace the file with an empty/blank one...

    do forge servers also download the blacklist? cause it can't remember ever seeing one, and I've set up a lot of servers...though i never went looking for the list either...

    re: server list; you can search for servers though, right? cause i seem to remember that mojang used to provide a service to have servers searchable without the IP address, kinda like a DNS service in-game.

    am i misremembering?

    I could be misremembering, because i haven't played anything other than heavily modded MC for like 10 years... and always on self hosted servers, where you always need the IP anyways...sooo... that's one part of Minecraft I've never really interacted with...

  • The oldest Minecraft server, MinecraftOnline, is being shut down by Microsoft

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  • you can still use the whitelist, technically, but I'm pretty sure anyone could just spoof an account id in that case.

    so if your server is on the open web, that's a bad idea.

    if you're running on a private network via VPN or something similar it doesn't matter, since authentication is handled by joining the network instead of the server.

    we just use zero tier for our servers; nice and hassle-free, private connection, no mojang servers necessary! ¯(ツ)/¯

    (technically the server doesn't even need an internet connection, just the VPN interface)

  • The oldest Minecraft server, MinecraftOnline, is being shut down by Microsoft

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  • good question!

    i think it might have to do with Intellectual Property law:

    since the discord server, presumably, uses the name "MinecraftOnline", that means they are using Mojang's trademarked name.

    which means Mojang can probably take legal action, if they feel like the conduct surrounding either the discord or the Minecraft server is damaging their reputation.

    and i think that's not even necessary, since i doubt Minecraft Online has an agreement in place to even use the name "Minecraft", so I'm pretty sure they can be nuked via cease and desist at basically any point by Mojang for any reason...

    something else I've realized since the previous comment:

    i read in a different comment that apparently Minecraft servers authenticate against Mojang's server at login/join to a server....that seemed really weird to me, since i know for a fact all of my servers run just fine without any internet at all!

    ...then i remembered that i exclusively play heavily modded (neo-)forge packs, and forge comes with it's own server binaries, so i guess that's why I don't have to worry about authentication much!

    (the user profile/MS account is cached in the launcher, so i do have an official account, it just doesn't need to authenticate at every login and certainly not when joining a server. don't know if that ever runs into a timeout though...maybe it does need a connection to mojangs servers every X days or something? dunno...)

  • The oldest Minecraft server, MinecraftOnline, is being shut down by Microsoft

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  • it's probably 2 ways:

    first: every public server (and really every server) needs to include an acknowledgement of the EULA that comes with the server files, or the server won't even start. so this is something that the server host has already agreed to. if they are in violation of the EULA, then they can probably be forced to comply with a cease and desist or similar legal action by a court order.

    second: if the server is discoverable in-game via mojang hosted services, i.e.: if you can just search "Minecraft online" on the multiplayer menu in-game and find the server, then they can kick them off that service. pretty sure that's the IP ban they are talking about, but could be something else too (don't know enough about how big Minecraft instances are managed, i just play with friends on self-hosted servers where all of this is irrelevant, since they are private anyways)

    apart from that i guess general lawsuit shenanigans against the hoster, which could mean either the Minecraft online team, or, if they are using a hosting service to run the servers, the hosting service itself.

    so there's quite a few ways, all except the second would effectively kill the server.

    all that said... I'm very suspicious about the entire exchange:

    the words "libertarian" and "free speech" are almost always code for bigotry.

    and the mojang email is super weird too; why is there zero concrete examples of what the problematic content actually is? it's absurdly vague and impossible to comply with.

    which would also make sense if the first assumption is true, that it's a server full of bigotry, then mojang might feel that there is no need for examples, since they assume the hoster knows exactly what they're talking about...

    anyways....very, VERY weird situation.

    one of the two is definitely dishonest, but i can't say for sure which one... although I'm leaning towards the server hosters for now...seems suspicious...

  • Yes, i started playing the Autism funny game. 1 Week in, 16 hours only

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  • i mean...not anymore!

    space age added tons of content after the rocket launch!

    in space age the goal is to travel to the edge of the solar system ;)

  • Computer Update

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  • this is exactly it!

    linux does have some issues, but it's almost always a simple fix, and damn near never the OS' fault.

    so much better!

    at least i only get mad at myself, which is much easier to deal with...

  • Computer Update

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  • it's a list, hence the comma separation.

    this is standard grammar.

    edit: also: modding games, mostly. plenty of tinkering around that needs a bunch of programs windows doesn't like for various reasons. simple things like windows automatically inheriting permissions onto a drive that shouldn't inherit any (and hasn't actually inherited any at root level, so where the fuck did it get even get those from??), randomly changing access for nebulous reasons... there's just sooo much nonsense to deal with under windows that i haven't encountered even once under linux.

    sure, I've had permissions issues, but at least those where my own fault! and fixing them was easy, transparent, and never reverted again for no reason.

    i honestly no longer care to find out why windows was misbehaving (wasn't malware, of that I'm sure. kept happening even on entirely new hardware), because I've just left that mess behind, and I'm never going back.

    way, way better this way!

  • Computer Update

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  • i spent waaaaaay more time fiddling around with drivers on windows than on linux.

    in fact, it's exactly infinitely more, because I've spent exactly ZERO seconds on any drivers on linux since switching to bazzite last year.

    the amount of driver bullshit, the bullshit permissions shenanigans for modding, and just all around bullshit i had to deal with under windows has just, poof!, evaporated under linux!

    shit actually just does exactly what you tell it to do!

    no weird black magic running in the background that nobody's entirely sure about how it works, no bullshit UAC child controls, no bullshit updates and anti-features you don't want and never agreed to, no bullshit up-sells, no ads!

    it's fucking magical compared to windows! <3

    P.S.:

    although, i do use an AMD gpu...

    ...BUT i did recently plug a 3080 i got for cheap into my weekend rig at my parents' place and that also just worked without any configuration required sooo...maybe bazzite is just better about Nvidia drivers than most distros? who knows, who cares, it just works!

  • Bands

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  • i mean there's also the fact that it's been probably playing in the background for all of people's childhoods and they eventually get nostalgic and drift towards that kind of music...

    even if people don't listen to it actively/all the time, it's still pleasant to people, because they're used to it ¯(ツ)/¯

  • Greta Thunberg arrested by Israeli forces after military boards aid flotilla headed for Gaza – Middle East crisis live

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  • welp: there's your problem! right here:

    Reading the Bible

  • How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog

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  • oh hey, that's great! thank you!

  • How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog

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  • our admins are regularly straight up fighting against this bs!

    "where the fuck has this fucked off to now?? it was right here last month?!"

    so glad I'm not doing MS administration...

  • How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog

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  • this is the part that's really frustrating:

    i sometimes feel forced to use chatGPT (duck.ai) to simply search for Microsoft things, because search engines only return SEO garbage with the exact same content spammed across like a million "tech tips for beginners" sites...and the docs, as established, are pretty useless...

    keep in mind: i fucking hats "AI".

    making me use it makes me not have anything to do with whatever you're selling.

    it's getting progressively more impossible to simply use MS products, because the information you need to use them is so hidden away!

    combine those two things and ta-da: that's why all my stuff at home is running linux now.

  • How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog

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  • Microsofts documentation is also increasingly just outright wrong:

    if you spend enough time looking up things about their newer products like M365, defender, or azure, especially when it comes to scripting related to those, there's a ton of simply outdated info on the official docs that makes it really difficult to figure out why your setup isn't doing what it's supposed to.

    from changed variable names, to missing functions, to unexplained buttons, etc., etc.

    the newer docs are straight up trash!

    you're better off searching around for forum posts or whatever, than using the official docs...

  • My detailed de-google journey: Why and what I replaced with

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  • the .ml filter says it is! ¯(ツ)/¯

  • Austrian military is moving to LibreOffice

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  • was heißt "fast"? wennst mit der Bürokratie zurechtkommst bist voll integriert! ;)

  • Austrian military is moving to LibreOffice

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  • annoying and persistent; it's the austrian way, lol!

  • Austrian military is moving to LibreOffice

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  • a friend of mine is getting their PhD in germany; the bureaucracy is nightmarish! and slow...sooooo slooooooow!

    they regularly have issues getting funds approved, even when applying months in advance, and regularly doesn't have confirmation that his position will be continued into the next semester, and on and on... it's seriously non-stop bullshit!

    makes me very glad that austrian bureaucracy, even though massively inefficient and excessive, at least works on human timelines!

    ...most of the time, at least...

  • Austrian military is moving to LibreOffice

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  • i have some good news on that front!

    when it comes to forms, the germans are even worse!

    🎶**besser ois die deitschn intensifies**🎶

    (that last part is an actual /s tho)