Posts by wild1145

A short thread, I'd like people to confirm if there is actually any real interest in the Anarchy themed SMP Type event that I announced last week. I personally think it's a good idea, a few people now aren't so keen.

If there is no real demand for it, or it's missed the mark I'm happy to cut my losses on the idea now and bin it off before I waste any more time and effort bringing it to be a real thing.

Original thread for reference - https://forum.totalfreedom.me/d/3678-announcing-anarchy/

Note: This thread is not for suggesting how to change it, it's to vote on the poll. Please don't spend time suggesting ways to change / enhance it, as they will be ignored on this thread. If we find this concept of interest and players enjoy it (And it's not a flop if it goes ahead) we will look to gather specific feedback after the conclusion of the current event series.

Also please note launch date has had to be pushed back due to the last week of forum issues.

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↩  resident_user You seem to have written a two paragraph thread justifying why racism is acceptable because it's minecraft…

This isn't a permanent game-mode, it's designed to be a few weeks of something a bit different because everyone complains they want it. I won't sit here and create something that allows people to break the law or be racist dickbags to one another. That's not the experience I want here.

As I've said in the previous replies as well, there might well be better names for what this game-mode is, I wanted something a bit different, and in reality it probably is closer to hardcore survival than it is anarchy, it was intended to have a chaotic and anarchist twist on it and that's it.

We're not one of the other servers, and if you want pure anarchy, this wouldn't be the game-mode to do it on anyway, frankly I don't want "Pure Anarchy", because like you said, it's been done a hundred times before.

I'll also say, if the community as a whole genuinely doesn't want this, I'll bin it now and save myself the work and go focus on doing something else. I only created this because there has been pretty consistent demand for both a longer term SMP type server, and anarchy.

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↩  resident_user Anarchy but “don’t offend anyone or you’ll be sanctioned.”

No, it's anarchy but "Don't be a fucking racist". It's not hard.

↩  Flobbier On the grounds that there were two different exploits used… I'm not convinced they didn't actually abuse an in game exploit like they were banned.

The only reason they are unbanned is because a way has been discovered that they could have been framed, not because they are innocent.

Just to update, videogamesm12 and root have since confirmed the data leak was in fact a reduced set of data that was previously leaked last year when one of the developers at the time had either their accounts compromised for the server, or shared their accesses (We don't know which, it's claimed to be a compromise). Access has since changed, The following thread has the full disclosure information - https://forum.totalfreedom.me/…lfreedom-developer-server

The data redacted would appear to be that of those who were involved in the attack, we're still investigating because it seems really stupid to have done that, but we have confirmed the data doesn't match what is currently on the live server, we are putting some additional steps in place to add additional layers of security into the existing infrastructure as part of routine security enhancements we have been considering.

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The NM Issue has been identified as being executed by a separate party to the other two attacks, and we believe the issue stems from a security vulnerability in the web panel software, this is a different security issue to the one a few months ago, but both have the same result. We have put steps in place to disable the web panel and as a result should no longer have this issue. We will be re-launching the web panel on a different infrastructure model in the future behind additional layers of security as we do not want to and can not properly maintain our own web panel instance in the first place.

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The forums continue to be the target of very aggressive cyber attacks, for context on a "Busy" Day the entire totalfreedom.me estate receives around 30K requests that Cloudflare has visibility over, yesterday we saw around 6 Million unique requests to our infrastructure, and that is only what Cloudflare picked up. The attackers appear to have identified some ways around the cloudflare proxy's and as such the attacks from the last few hours won't be included in the metrics we will start to see tomorrow.

We continue to work to mitigate and stabilize the forums against these attacks, and apologise for the disruption.

I've locked this as the suggest itself has been implemented. Happy as always to pick up further suggestions to enhance the process that doesn't involve duplicating / shadowing data. There was going to be some work ongoing to streamline the process, but this will achieve the same end result with far less work.

I have with immediate effect reverted the previously approved suggestion where indef ban requests would be public. They are now restricted to Freedom game-mode admins only.

Further reform may be an option, but right now the same people who have access to look IP's in the game-mode are the only ones now that can see threads.

The output of these threads also won't be shared publicly as I'm not happy with duplicate / shadow threads on the forums.

Apologies to those that are not admin and found it useful, and thank you to all the non-staff members that have historically contributed to the indef ban process. Going forward please report evidence / concerns to an admin who can collate and post it as part of their votes on ban requests.

Just to keep folks up to date, apologies this will be short but I was going to bed two hours ago and have to be up in only a few hours.

Earlier today an individual has decided to start leaking uuids and ip addresses that are associated with the total freedom community.

Before that we were made aware of a further potential security concern with an exploit in the network manager plugin.

And over the last 14 hours our forums have been being the target of some very aggressive denial of service attacks.

At the current time the team here on TF and in collaboration with the team at ATLAS are investigating the claims with this user list. We so far have confidence that shell access to the server has not been comprised, and initial investigations suggest this is likely to be data that was previously the subject of a cyber attack against our old development server. I will update you on this as we get more answers.

The nm issue will be investigated throughly after and we have enabled further enhancements to our network wide logging to trace the root cause.

The forums continue to be the target of a malicious and large scale cyber attack, however at the current time we have been able to keep service running with minimal disruption.

I would ask that speculation on these are kept to a minimum as it will only fuel the misinformation the troll(s) are targeting us with.

↩  zekurt The server isn't a nation state… Rights don't extent to private owned platforms…

Folks seem to assume they have actual legal rights on here which isn't the case. The post isn't to say we don't encourage and allow freedom of speech, but to clarify that isn't "a right"

↩ @'kanst' We've had the role for a little while, but originally Rylie was assigned as a Skyblock sys admin. Given she's already been doing a huge amount more than that, this felt like the next logical step

Just wanted to formally acknowledge the work root has been doing to get the new panel up and running, which has included a lot of painful data migration, server installs and stupid nonsense with both the panels we've tried so far.

Given the current direction of travel for the network, as well as all of the exceptional work she's been doing, I want to take this chance to formally thank and congratulate her on her new role as our network wide lead systems administrator.

In terms of what this means, nothing really will change, Rylie has already been doing this role for me for some time. It just means she gets formally recognised, able to gate-crash the executives. This is a senior role in the server, but is not going to be a typical "Executive role", very much like Nick and his Discord Manager role, it sits separate from the historic executive roles.

I know the actual job title is a bit naff, but I couldn't think of a better accurate one, apologise.

Once again, please join me in congratulating root on the new role

Lots of changes to try to bring this up to date.

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↩  elmon i think this one comes down to @Ryan as iirc yall had a disagreement before you were removed/resigned i don’t remember

I will clarify, while I did have more than a few disagreements with Telesphoreo, I'm more than content that any issues we did have have since been put behind us, and at this point the way the dev team and server is structured, I try not to have a great deal of day to day involvement with the server development, where I do it's via Steven or Paldiu anyway.

In short, I have no reason to object / get in the way of this, so as long as Paldiu believes you're competent and has the time, there is no reason for me to stop you being granted dev status.

↩  erin ahh that makes sense.

It'll be allowed but the guidance in the op stands. If you come on and that's the only thing you're doing, you may get smitten down for being annoying.

↩  toyota_snpra I don't actually understand the question…

↩  RedEastWood It will not be. Either use premium alts or don't die!

Unfortunately (and not for lack of trying) we have rules AMP ultimately unfit for purpose which is not ideal and a bit of a shame given the work that went into it.

After a long chat earlier with root we have stood up Ptero in a different pattern to how we had planed to run a panel. I'll explain more about this in a later post, but in short were moving to ptero going forward and retiring AMP.

Freedom-01 is still planned to be moved into a panel and will eventually form into Ptero in due course.

While we have made some useful steps forward functionality wise with ptero over amp, we've also lost quite a few which has been a frustration.

Again I'll cover all this off in a later post but just wanted to keep folks updated.

↩  MagAgentV3 FAQ Updated to address this question.