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[–] 121 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Cool idea but also really impractical? Stuff like Anna's archive seems more useful.

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  • [–] 40 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    Anna's Archive is also a very easy target for government censorship because of its practicality.

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  • [–] 17 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Distributed, self-repairing storage would seem to be the way to go. Anna's Archive is huge so practically it might be necessary to prioritize the most threatened books. And someone would need to pay for the storage, whether it's in data centres or in people's homes. I remember many years ago experimenting with Freenet and Tahoe-LAFS, but I don't know if anyone's using systems like this for books, or if they have the adoption they'd need to be really robust.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 days ago

    Freenet looks cool. I think the closest we get to that right now that people actually use is soulseek i guess. Plenty of people on that with stuff.

    God damn it freenet does the mortal sin of its official installation instructions telling you to curl straight into sh. No Friend I Do Not Trust You Like That.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago*

    Anna’s Archive is also available as a torrent.

    I have all the hardware needed for a cluster of BitTorrent servers for the 1.1+Pb archive torrent, what I am lacking are the 80×24Tb drives (4 as hot spares) that will allow me to run it.

    So if there is any wealthy “data needs to be free” people in this community, I’d be willing to sign a service contract that limits the use of those donated drives to purely Anna’s Archive torrents. Like, I’ll pay for everything else, I just want storage for it.

    Note: SSDs go up to 256Tb, I’m just sure that prices are equally nosebleed. Would love to play with that tech, I’m just doubting a donor would punt for that over spinning rust.

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  • [–] 55 points 5 days ago

    Giving people a way out of truble by saying

    I read banned books ... in Minecraft.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    There’s gotta be an easier way

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  • [–] 38 points 5 days ago (5 children)

    Wouldn't it be easier to put the books in a torrent?

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  • [–] 18 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    Easier, yes. Less obvious, no.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    All it takes is 1 bad person to speak out on this Minecraft library and the whole thing comes crashing down. Not very resilient, or am I missing something

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  • [–] 11 points 5 days ago*

    It's years old now and there's like a factor of 1000 more banned books. The book banning, while real, was always virtue signaling. So they were likely not thorough because they didn't have to be. It's far more efficient and effective to spread your seeds far and wide, scream about it, and then continue to light everything on fire and change laws and promote people and fire people and support companies, and harass doctors, etc. It's political idealism culture cold war carpet bombing, and is extremely effective.

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  • [–] 30 points 5 days ago (7 children)

    All is fun until microsoft, like the bootlickers they are, add malicious code in their next version specifically deleting this world - possibly using hashes.

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  • [–] 19 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    Minecraft already has a way to block servers, the community has already made a mod to bypass it

    You can literally read the source code for minecraft (excluding comments)

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    Sure, but this doesnt change the fact there's a corporation behind it.

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  • [–] 24 points 5 days ago

    This is why things like EU kids act are targeting videogames

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  • [–] 33 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    Reading using books in Minecraft seems terrible. There's like 20 words a page. All the flipping you need to do to be able to read 10 pages of a normal book

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  • [–] 21 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (9 children)

    Fun but pointless. A server is a server and can be blocked like any other. It would have been more user friendly and efficient to put the books on a webserver running on a non standard port. It could even be port 25565 (Minecraft's default).

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  • [–] 57 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    It’s not pointless, it’s marketing, to bring attention to the efforts to preserve and distribute banned books. I wish more people understood this and used intelligent craft to fight against tyrannical oppressors. You bring attention in fun novel ways and that gets people who are interested in say Minecraft, a younger leaning demographic, to the fight.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Owned and managed by Microsoft, one of the biggest tyrannical oppressors.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Non standard ports have been incredibly ineffective as a security measure for a long time.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago (1 child)

    It's not security. It's a website with books. The landing page can be whatever so that it is inconspicuous.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago

    That's my point. This is known as security by obscurity and it's not effective. We can scan ports on IPs quickly and easily and determine the service running on said port along with that. HTTPS would be easily identified.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 days ago

    It's painful to see how good humanity can be in the face of how evil some of them are

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  • [–] 8 points 4 days ago (4 children)

    I'm way more interested in finding out how they calculated where which book should go to avoid chunk-banning. Or maybe the server has a plugin running to allow more metadata than usual?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    It isn't a server, it is a map you download and is hosted on google drive lol

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    It's also available as a server

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago (1 child)

    Any minecraft map can be run as a server, but there isn't one linked in the projects page https://uncensoredlibrary.com/en. To get around internet censorship the the project is designed for "sneaker-net" delivery so the main way to access it is the downloaded file.

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  • Cool idea, but now all they have to do is get Minecraft, a nondistributed and nondecentralized product, to delete one thing. They're Swedish, so good luck with that, but the threat is still there.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 days ago

    All my homies hate governments

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago

    Wow can you read Normal People by Salley Rooney there?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Didn't þis happen a couple of years ago?

    Jesus, 6 years ago.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

    It absolutely did. However, the fact that many people clearly haven't heard of it until now, and that many are being reminded of its existence and raison d'être, is sufficient justification to make this a worthwhile post.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago

    This is beautiful.

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