Posts by videogamesm12

  • new high end phone -

    I'm still using my budget Android phone from 2017 and it has worked perfectly fine since then. Why use something that's going to break in a few months when you could use something cheap, reliable, and usable for years?

  • Kanst v. Fionn

    Why is an admin who has been suspended for logging in as other admins and linking to horrid websites trying to sue a brand new admin who hasn't even been suspended yet?

  • Post edit history

    @Miwojedk#10141 Flarum's modular nature means that many extensions we rely on could at any given moment stop being updated. If this were to occur, we'd have to either stay on the last known good version where the extension worked or we'd have to find alternatives. The more extensions we add, the more likely we'll run into a scenario like this in the future.


    Of course, for the sanity of this community and the folks running sysop, we could just dodge these hoops entirely and use ProBoards or WoltLab instead but oh well.

  • Improper ban expiration timestamp processing breaks the ban expiration check

    Intended title: Ban system incorrectly saves and loads expiration timestamps, causing it to always think the ban is expired


    Just for the record, this is the bug that is causing bans to not load in properly. I've already informed the developers and Ryan himself about my findings and I'm hoping this gets fixed quickly.

    When the TotalFreedomMod saves a ban to the SQL database, it does not include the milliseconds value when it saves the expiration timestamp. When it tries to load this entry later on, it divides the expiration timestamp by 1,000 under the assumption that it contains the milliseconds value when in fact, it does not.


    This behavior can be observed if you modify the plugin to spew messages when the relevant functions are called, as shown here (this was from a reload):

    After the plugin loads the ban with the incorrectly-divided expiration timestamp, it then checks to see if the expiration timestamp is less than the current time. As the expiration timestamp has already been butchered, it ends up returning true every time. As a result, it removes the entry. This should be fixed as soon as possible as it is a major bug in an important part of the plugin.

    TL;DR - A bug in the banning system caused ban expiration timestamps to be 0.001% of the actual timestamp when loaded in, causing bans to be incorrectly marked as expired.

  • Ban players from using pornographic HD heads

    If the spirit of this suggestion is to block pornographic HD heads entirely, then I object. We shouldn't be regulating the HD head ecosystem beyond the bare minimum (e.g. dealing with laggy, game-crashing, or crash chunk creating heads) as it would be difficult to enforce and has the potential to create a black market.


    However, if the spirit is to prevent these heads from being placed near spawn, there's a similar rule set into place already regarding pornographic builds:

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    3g. Pornographic builds if in a 250 block radius of spawn.

    I believe that this would apply to HD heads better than the rules about posting pornographic links as they are quite literally pornographic builds.

  • BigSmokesOrder is Araki_Hirohiko

    @hammelhopfan#9937 There used to be a rule on the forum that if you were indefinitely banned from the server, you could only use the forum to appeal until you were unbanned. If you used it for anything other than appeals, you could have been sanctioned for it. Not entirely sure what happened to that.

  • [Download] Miscellaneous server files from varying dates

    This is a bunch of small collections of miscellaneous files pulled from the main directory of the Minecraft server. I've separated them by date.

    July 27, 2019

    One of the files contain some incoming messages from a channel on the old Discord.
    https://videogamesm12.me/99PDIilwir5r.png


    You can download it here.
    https://archive.org/details/to…iscserverdata-jul-27-2019

    March 19, 2020

    One of the files contain a very colorful choice of words for a password.
    https://videogamesm12.me/xbQbF8Q1pTGQ.png


    You can download it here:
    https://archive.org/details/to…iscserverdata-mar-19-2020

  • [Download] SkinsRestorer Database from October 17, 2019

    SkinsRestorer was a plugin we used to have on the server back when we were still a cracked server. It was originally added in June 2015 and was removed in 2020 after the decision was made to stop being a cracked server.


    This is the SkinsRestorer database circa October 17, 2019. It has 3,771 files.
    https://videogamesm12.me/mCco9J27C2tj.png


    These files consist of the following information:

    • Base64-encoded JSON about the player, including a link to the skin texture for players with valid accounts
    • (presumably) A signature of the skin
    • Unix timestamp

    You can download it here:
    https://archive.org/details/to…insrestorerdb-oct-17-2019