Tried to support the industry by buying a movie a watch a lot. Well, no more. If I need a pihole just to watch a movie I own, that’s ridiculous.

  • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.com
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    Oh man. I have an open minecraft server for my kids and their friends. Every few weeks I have someone show up to the server leaving notes or interacting with us trying to educate me on whitelisting.

    I get more “educators” than i do bots. It’s actually quite annoying. I dont know what accounts these kids login with, you’re not educating me. The server is literally for 6-8 year olds. It’s been wiped 100s of times. I don’t care. Stop. The server is grief resistant anyway. And my ban list is long (and getting at least one longer). /little rant

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      12 days ago

      I mean, it would take seconds for someone to log in and paste bad links in chat/send weird messages so yeah, a server for a 6-8 yr olds is absolutely one I would turn whitelist on for.

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        11 days ago

        I have never had any of my MC servers run without a whitelist, even the one I had publicly listed on planet minecraft back in the day. You should know who has access to your machines on some level.

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          I used to run servers a decade ago and open was fine. Never had a random join. Crazy to think bots are trying random IPs now, probably would whitelist in that case

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        11 days ago

        You assume that those links would work. Kids machines have DNS whitelists.

        I’m not worried.