The bible.

Sodom and Gomorrah and the story of Jacob are basically an iq test.

Not only do the stories sound highly unreal, even if they are real the only rational conclusion is that god is evil and petty.

That said, the philosophies of Jesus are pretty cool and often still relevant today.

Trees

The official Minecraft website has an article about a public, private server run by reporters without borders.

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/uncensored-library

https://www.uncensoredlibrary.com/en

For obvious reasons many copies of this server And predecessors that existed/may operate within oppressive areas do not advertise their existence online.

Wiki entry of minecraft china edition.

https://minecraft.wiki/w/China_Edition

The argument about minecraft chat being inherently insecure is a straw-man at best. A private server, whitelisted for my own household that runs on hardware that i own is just as secure as any other speech that happens in my living room.

There is no reason for microsoft to have the ability to steal logs to moderate it. And this is why almost every respectable server i know uses plugins to block that shit.

The one where any random player can report another for any reason and have a portion of the chatlog (without consent of any others) send to Microsoft.

For reference i have some members on my adult server who like to joke sell sugar as cocaine. There is no info on what actually counts to ban-able, it might just be ai that decides at this point.

Also there used to be secret library Minecraft servers in china with banned books and thats why there is a separate chinese Minecraft edition now with social media features and all players are identified with all chats monitored.

“Just don’t type anything private” is not an argument i expect seeing on a privacy community either. Sounds a lot like “if you have nothing to hide”

In that case, it seems i am guilty of piracy already, guess i might as well start indulging.

Minecraft has chat control enabled by default where any player can report another, have the chat send to Microsoft after which they (or an ai) can decide to ban you from accessing any servers at all.

Private servers are the only way to block that and create a chat that is safe to use (ironically)

This is absolutely about privacy.

No no , thats just standard operation. As long as the “owner” and shareholders ends up with more money than they started they do not give a fuck.

If Ronald wanted they could sell their nuggets and fries in the freezer section of a supermarket. Then everone could enjoy the product of all their taste science at home.

Its capitalism that ruins it.

Duckduckgo -> selfhosted searxng… startpage has also not yet been involved in any controversy for a non selfhosted option.

Copy paste of why duck duck go is a problem:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/duckduckgo-browser-allows-microsoft-trackers-due-to-search-agreement/

Now I little after this came out they do claim they removed them (odd how that suddenly changes after it was no longer secret) But then much more recent as listed on wikipedia, verifying they still have some long term deals with microsoft in **2025**… microsoft is not going to make a deal with a perceived competitor for nothing in return.

By August 2025, Bing planned to cut off access to its search APIs in a push to sell more AI-related APIs, though **DuckDuckGo believed that larger companies like it with long-term deals would not be affected** 62 Bing had dramatically raised rates for its search API in 2022 after ChatGPT debuted. 62

There is also more general proof that while duck may technically use other sources also. It really is mostly bing:

During a Bing API outage in 2024, DuckDuckGo stopped showing results, indicating that Bing provided a substantial portion of DuckDuckGo’s results.69 70

I literally do not understand how they managed to take such foothold in real privacy communities. I used to love brave till the i was repeatedly pointed to the scandals that many people are aware of and informing others about… but considering ddg i rarely see anyone pointing this out. It actually smells like a huge successful marketing adventure to sell bing to privacy enthusiasts, but for that i obvio do not have proof. I often imagine this meme with bing instead of google and a cute duck go as mr incognito

What if you don’t have a webcam?

“For users with accessibility needs who cannot use hand gestures to complete the challenge, reCAPTCHA continues to provide visual and audio challenges, and develop more accessible and secure alternatives,”

Security is as good as the weakest link, either bots will exploit the accessibility feature making the webcam step for humans unnecessary… or its just as secure… making the webcam step unnecessary.

Blatent attempt to extract data from you and nothing more if you ask me.

I have no knowledge of this drama or hard feelings for your instance in either direction.

But was that ever a thing? I joined a month after you and there where options plenty.

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They do usually “grow” “up” but i agree, even encourage this dynamic.

Part of (what i would call “real”) maturity is recognising when it’s ok to stop acting mature and just have fun.

Maturity is realising there is no such thing as an adult but still behaving like one at specific times because you understand that that is the better way to get things done in that setting.

Everyone grows up, many people can behave in an adult way (including children), but actually maturity often still feels rare.

Or like the other comment mentioned, could now for the first communicate with His daughter and family.

This is a common stereotype but there is a reasonably sized group of Linux enthusiasts who work on macs.

Macos is a real unix based OS. (As opposed to unix compatible GNU “Gnu is Not Unix”) and they claim the performance (apples own chips), even in a vm is amazing.

I had at least one coworker who did this, i also remember Emily Young (Who some remember as Anthony from Ltt) also had quite a few apple products in her house.

I read this back in april,

The entire research were very nervous about doing this cause they essentially post misinformation. So they filled it to the brim with clear signs that its fake, tons of pop culture references and nonsensical wording.

That would be ok if it wasn’t a lie.

Which for duck it definitely was for years, and considering they still have a long term deal with microsoft, still is.

I have another reply in this thread somewhere that lists my sources.

But here is another I hadn’t listed. (Source used by Wikipedia)

“One of the bigger customers that is unaffected for now is the search engine DuckDuckGo, company spokesperson Kamyl Bazbaz confirmed to WIRED. “They’re retiring the self-serve version,” Bazbaz says. Brown says Brave’s understanding is that companies that have inked private and long-term deals with Microsoft will maintain access to the APIs.”

Just ask yourself, what does Microsoft get out of it? If for the first decade at least it contractually includes free passage from bing and linkedin trackers.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/duckduckgo-browser-allows-microsoft-trackers-due-to-search-agreement/

Now I little after this came out they do claim they removed them (odd how that suddenly changes after it was no longer secret)

But then much more recent as listed on wikipedia, verifying they still have some long term deals with microsoft in 2025… microsoft is not going to make a deal with a perceived competitor for nothing in return.

By August 2025, Bing planned to cut off access to its search APIs in a push to sell more AI-related APIs, though DuckDuckGo believed that larger companies like it with long-term deals would not be affected.[62] Bing had dramatically raised rates for its search API in 2022 after ChatGPT debuted.[62]

There is also more general proof that while duck may technically use other sources also. It really is mostly bing:

During a Bing API outage in 2024, DuckDuckGo stopped showing results, indicating that Bing provided a substantial portion of DuckDuckGo’s results.[69][70]

I literally do not understand how they managed to take such foothold in real privacy communities. I used to love brave till the i was repeatedly pointed to the scandals that many people are aware of and informing others about… but considering ddg i rarely see anyone pointing this out. It actually smells like a huge successful marketing adventure to sell bing to privacy enthusiasts, but for that i obvio do not have proof.

I often imagine this meme with bing instead of google and a cute duck go as mr incognito

Lol, it’s littered with predatory ads.

I appreciate the attempt but self hosting searxng is free, has no ads and

You can include presearch results as part of your searxng results, its already listed by default