Posts by wild1145

    do not distribute anything we've made. This means don't:

    give copies of our games to anyone else;
    make commercial use of anything we've made (including our Names, Brands, and Assets);
    try to make money from anything we've made (including our Names, Brands, and Assets); or
    let other people get access to anything we've made in a way that is unfair or unreasonable;

    unless we specifically agree to it or allow it.

    None of the NFT's are Mojang's assets, they are my assets. If I was selling copies of Minecraft of their files then it might be an issue. Schematics aren't native to Minecraft (3rd party plugin) and as a result aren't impacted by the EULA even if I thought Microsoft stood any fucking chance of enforcing it.

    What the fuck is this?

    The only chance we have of being able to continue to run this server long term.



    Why the fuck are we making donations practically mandatory?

    We aren't, we're not enabling donations at all. We're enabling people to exchange a virtual item for real life currency. Something that's been done elsewhere time and time again.



    What's next, are we going to paywall WorldEdit and Essentials commands?

    I hope it doesn't come to that, but the reality is we need to cover our server costs and we don't right now.


    Are we seriously going to make the server (which has been running for nearly 12 years without donations) into yet another fucking pay to win garbage server with subscription services and mandatory NFT payments?

    It's not pay to win, there is no winning in TotalFreedom, likewise NFT purchase isn't mandatory to play and build.



    Also, why the fuck are we selling other people's builds? That's a slap in the face to anyone who put a huge amount of effort into their builds on the server. I swear, I feel like this violates some section of the Mojang EULA, probably isn't fully legal, and goes against the very foundation of this server.

    Having undertaken legal consultation they're building on my companies own assets, and as a result we own all artwork completed on the server. It's my content to sell as and how I wish. If I want to auction it to the highest bidder that's my right to do so. If people don't like it, they can pay for their own server.

    This is a really fucking stupid concept in every single way imaginable, and I don't even know how you thought this was a good idea.

    I think my post clearly explains why it's a good idea. The tech behind NFTs are awesome and give us a lot of flexibility to create a long term revenue stream from these items. A lot of people love using them because they were a fad for a while, it's a win win win win for us!

    The following post was published on April 1st 2023 as an April fools prank to the community. This announcement is not legitimate beyond being an April fools joke.


    Hi Folks, it's been a little while since I've had the time to give you an all an update on the huge amount of work the team and I are doing behind the scenes here, and I'm really proud to be able to announce today the launch of a new line of NFTs dedicated to TF and the TF Network as a whole.


    As many of you will already be aware, I'm a huge supporter of the potential that NFTs have both for communities like ours, as well as a huge variety of creative lines, and it's why this announcement is so significant for us, and puts us a step forward to being able to have TF be self sufficient from a funding perspective.


    I've been working with select members of the executive team for the last year or so on bringing this to life, and am pleased to announce the two main areas we are focusing all of our future effort into going forward.


    TF Created NFTs

    We will be growing our creative team (Currently primarily master builders) to bring in artists and creatives that will enable us to create TF original NFTs which we can then sell back into the community. These NFTs will start at £15 once we launch in July of 2023. These NFTs will vary in their theme throughout the year starting with our summer vacation theme which will land with our first wave. In addition to the theme variation, we intent to launch various limited edition items including content variations of our logo, as well as month specific NFTs for special events (December for example would have a Christmas themed NFT that is also exclusive for December 2023)


    Schematics

    With immediate effect we are hereby suspending all current development efforts indefinitely and will continue to rely on ViaVersion to enable us to work on a brand new concept never before seen in a Minecraft community.


    We will be converting all existing Schematics as well as any newly created schematics into restricted assets as NFTs, once this change is complete you will only be able to select and paste a schematic if your Minecraft profile (Linked to your forum profile linked to one of our approved NFT Marketplaces) verifies you hold current ownership of the NFT. We will also be fully blocking the ability to delete or otherwise share these schematics in other ways including removing them from the HTTPD endpoint shortly.


    We will also with this change be enforcing a minimum number of schematics per month from all past and present master builders, which will require 15 quality schematics per month. Failure to meet this target will result in an indefinite ban.


    We will be selling these NFTs for £12.50 each with the ability for users to then sell these on if they so choose. There will be no upper limit for the asking price of such items.


    Our developers will be working hard over the coming weeks to make this a reality and I'm so excited for this to launch.


    Why?

    As many of you will be aware, TF has never accepted donations and costs a significant amount of money to operate. Our launch of NFT technology both brings us into the present day of tech as well as enabling us to be provided with a source of income which doesn't require pay to play or advertisements in game.


    I hope you will join me in welcoming these changes, and I'm so very excited to see this launch!


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    Does anybody remember the days of like MSN where you could freely theme your client, use custom emojis, play shit like tic-tac-toe, save your conversations, and more without needing to pay for some subscription service?

    You always pay with something... If it's not money it's usually your data. There is very little in life that is truly free, especially when it's a big corporation running it.

    no it isn’t. ryan said it was indefinite because at that point long term bans weren’t a thing. unless he says any different it should be regarded as a long term ban in line with literally everyone else (including granite castle until very recently who also had ‘indefinite ban notification’ threads)

    The long term bans only apply in the case of the Freedom server bans, where a ban is issues as a network wide ban the policy is not extended there. I'm not sure on if this ban was network wide or specific to the freedom server but if the former this ban has no fixed duration.

    I continue to maintain that CyberChef ( https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/ ) is one of the best free, open source and in-browser tools out there for so much. Want to encrypt a file in browser, go for it. Want to find and replace something, easy. Want to find and replace something, strip HTML tags out, convert it from CSV to JSON, minify it and then encrypt it, easy.

    It's not uncommon to strive to use more inclusive terms, if for no other reason a lot of words don't translate obviously into other languages. White list and Black List were examples that make little sense when translated, compared to allow list and deny list which translates more clearly and is more obvious in its meaning.


    I will also say in some cases it can make a difference, being mindful of the terms you use when interacting with others and how others may take those words is something a lot of us fail to do, or assume folks will take it the same way we mean it (This thread being a prime example in a lot of replies).


    There's nothing wrong with striving to be inclusive while at the same time using words / wording that more accurately articulates the point you're trying to make.

    I've looked at Foreman a few times but outside of rhel / rhel esk os's it seems to be a bit shit.


    Monitoring I've been using Zabbix and can recommend it, it works really nicely.


    I have yet to see any other really good tools that aren't super expensive enterprise tools unfortunately.

    Making it an experience you'd ever want to do again is the challenge.

    I promise you running Linux Mint with one of their recommended DEs ans downloading stuff from the Software Center is good enough for newbies. My parents have used it for years after Windows Vista broke down because of faulty motherboard and they didn't want to buy a new pc.

    Yeah that's fair, I've only ever used Linux for development environments and usually in regulated industries where we're limited to what we can run / how we can run it. But yeah agree there can be decent distro's out there for a desktop experience.

    in my defense, the telnet client was under the same executable as minecraft. blame obs and the devs who decide to make their clients in java (send me the clip again at somepoint tho i swear you have it)

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    Well I regret not turning my laptop volume down first.

    I've never understood why people get so excited to post stuff from Linux. Getting a Linux desktop to run and launch a browser is pretty easy. Making it an experience you'd ever want to do again is the challenge.