What they failed to realise is teachers can have a unique ability to make kids hate a subject.

If you force them to do it, they can do it really badly without it being obvious.

I can imagine reading the Bible word for for in monotone from day 1 won't be a good experience.

In the UK, we call it a minnie for girls. Willy for boys.

India was considered part of the BRIC rapidly developing economies long before modi. Feels weird to give him credit for what was inevitable.

Good luck finding doctors bold enough to admit they have no idea and need help...

VoxeLibre has intended to not be Minecraft clone for a long time now. There has been burgers in the base game for 17 months now. Unfortunately, every time someone tries to do something different, they get a hostile reception. The name is a liability, and not representative of what the project plans to be. The name change is about where the game plans to be, not where it was in the past. MineClone2 is a dreadful name. It's like calling it rubbish MC rip-off 2.

Very aware about Gitea, and unfortunately when we tried to migrate to Forgejo on Codeberg, the migration script got stuck in a repeating loop. Apparently it's a known issue and we got very little help with this so unless we abandon all our issues including 850+ open ones, we're in a bit of a pickle.

The new name followed those rules.It's voxel and libre, sharing an L. Only debate is about how people pronounce Libre, and we ain't that precious.

I would love everyone to use Matrix. I created the space and maintained it. We are now up to around 45 users ish. Discord has over 500. In gaming, it just operates at a different scale.

I'm as much of a FOSS enthusiast as you, but when you run big projects, you have to represent more than just your own personal view. You represent your players and contributors. Now and in the future. If you want new FOSS users, you have to reach them where they are. Best way to further FOSS software is to get new people using it. With over 350k downloads. I think we're doing a pretty neat job.

It's tempting to think your views are right and everyone else is wrong, but it's no basis to be functional and collaborative. Are you running any large FOSS communities? Want to share info on how you've done these things and how effective it was?

You seem to not like the name or the things we do. Maybe tell us more about what you like...

We had the poll on Matrix also which is FOSS, and our issue tracker built on Gitea. The minetest forums are notoriously sluggish and many there don't play VoxeLibre. We reached out to players in all areas. The fact remains that 80%+ of our players choose discord and ignoring them is not a helpful. A lot of people do not check the forum frequently, and that policy would be exclusionary and unjustifiably dogmatic.

We make extra efforts to reach out to our members in FOSS communities and do more than most to keep away from non-free software like Github and keep our channels bridged to matrix.

I can assure you the effort is non trivial and takes away from actually writing open source software. Very recently it lost all the data and we had to manually bridge 15+ channels again when I had waay too much other stuff going on. Many projects abandon these bridges because they are unreliable.

It was done by a poll on Discord, Matrix, and our issue tracker. I think over 120 votes were cast. It was a polling majority...

Pretty much. Yes.

The game has always had differences and sometimes the contributors can get a little firm on folk for differing because it's called MineClone2. Well now it isn't. The term inspired by rather than clone has been used for a while now.

He's the first member... Of the DK crew!

I've said goodbye to the MineCraft I once knew, if we want something better, we make it, improve it and share it! :)

I think the other response was quite accurate. Different language and architecture makes it harder. There are mods made for minetest that can work with MineClone2, so there may be some stuff you'll enjoy, but usually they have to specify it's available for MineClone2. Here is a page if you want to have a look: https://content.minetest.net/packages/Wuzzy/mineclone2/hub/

Minetest modding is actually quite nice to do from what I've heard.

Only downloaded over 300k times: https://content.minetest.net/packages/Wuzzy/mineclone2/

Multiplayer servers have between 20-40 on it most days. So usually can find people to play with. Quite a number enjoy the game. Obviously not on the level of MC. They're a lot bigger with far more resources, but it's a pretty solid game. It's always special when people give up their free time to make the world better rather than tear things down ;).

I'm not trying to convince folk at all. I'm stating a fact that many prefer it because of it being FOSS. I don't think anyone could ever persuade you of anything. Btw, Karma doesn't exist here. That and your toxic attitude are better found on reddit.

You're on Lemmy here. There is many people who actually care about privacy and telemetry doesn't sit well with them. Many have been put off by the recent direction.

Not necessarily, there is MineClone2... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aHym2jUB1M

Cool idea.

On the topic of FOSS, and promoting it, could we possibly get a MineClone2 server hosted, please?

We set up a community here and favour it over reddit: !mineclone2@lemmy.world (edited in proper URL)

If anyone is curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aHym2jUB1M

AncientMariner, MineClone2 Maintainer

Humans can judge information make decisions on it and adapt it. AI mostly just looks at what is statistically what is most likely based on training data. If 1 piece of data exists, it will copy, not paraphrase. Example was from I think copilot where it just printed out the code and comments from an old game verbatim. I think Quake2. It isn't intelligence, it is statistical copying.

Yup. It's very slow to generate and quite buggy. It needs reworking. They platform from 1 node they start generating in and aren't too good at knowing when it hits ground or not. They generate with better platforms in deserts and foresty snowy biomes than they used to, but that's a short term solution.

That is true. Probably why there is a drop of blood hanging off the union jack. However, when someone is not only overwriting the British flag, but with the blue pixels and shape of the Scottish flag, it cannot be a coincidence.

Fair point. The ones ruining it are amongst that 45%, I would assume.

I think it's because the Australian flag has British flag in the top left corner. The blue part is Scotland, red vertical and horizontal flag is England. The red diagonal is Northern Ireland.

Basically, Scotland want independence from the UK, and probably don't want to be part of that flag, so that is likely why the blue is being placed over the red.

A bit of a delayed response, but I didn't want to ignore it. I do stand corrected on many of those points. I don't agree with the last sentence, but I appreciate the accuracy and will upvote.

For something to be a world series, I would hope there would be teams around the world that represents the sport and compete against each other. For example, in football (your soccer), you have a world cup which has countries from around the world competing, and you have competitions like the Europa Champions League (the best clubs in Europe competing). I think one individual from a country doesn't necessarily indicate country participation.

The US have a world series for American football/American rugby which only they compete in. America is... errrm interesting.

Device boot time could be used for a user that clears their cookies to track and match sessions. Using that, and matching it with other information could give very reliable ways to fingerprint users.

Great project, but those version numbers are killing me. Surely there isn't 16 hotfixes. They do realise they can go 2.100.0?

Maintainer. Was. These are volunteer open source projects.

Reddit seems to be creating a tipping process in which they take a cut... Delightful.

Former developer. They are no longer involved with the project.

The second part of your first post was answered in my original post. Auto apparently doesn't work.

Play store apps should still work sandboxed. Email, I'm not sure, but I'd assume so. It works out of the browser fine. I'm not familiar with Niagra launched so couldn't comment.

Out of curiosity, what do you use auto for?

Who said anything about less important?

We're all busy, and we use our time how we choose. They choose to use it in this way and I thanked them. Maybe consider how you spend your time. Arguing on the internet gives you very little.

Apologies if I came across as rude, but there has been several posters that are "interested" but couldn't live without Auto or payment. It's like of all the millions of features phones have, and the majority of dissenters here need the exact combination that GrapheneOS doesn't support. I find that really odd. If you are one of the few that needs that, point taken and maybe it isn't for you, but until today I hadn't heard of Auto's and now it's critical and something that cannot be lived without.

Fair point. Probably quite risky to only bring a phone on holiday though in case it gets stolen. I couldn't fathom that personally.

I've not rented a car abroad personally so don't know much about what that app provides.

I guess those that consider them deal breakers probably aren't ready to degoogle. That's fine, and it's a very personal choice for individuals. Maybe Android -> ios may work better for them if privacy is something on their appetite.

Yeah, I'd like the project to expand to others, but I think currently it relies on unlocking the bootloader, installing a new OS and relocking the bootloader and not many hardware manufacturers provide that right now.

I think without Pixel, there are a few things like Lineage (and I'm not sure about e/os) if the hardware isn't something you're going for. Other mobile linux isn't quite ready and needs time.

When I got a degoogled phone, I'd already decided I do not trust Google with my data and I want to be far away from them. With that decision came the decision that I don't consider them an authority I rely on, and don't want their opinion on what is good and what isn't. If people aren't ready to degoogle, that is fine, but to ask google if it's cool to degoogle is a an area where maybe folk aren't ready to degoogle.

Ah, maybe Voyager doesn't yet recognise those links and sees it as external. On Firefox, the link opens in same tab.

Yes, but with payments, it's high risk and complex. Payment providers want full control of their environment. Google aren't going to be comfortable rubber stamping degoogled phones. Saying, "hi google, can i get away from your spying, but can i have this spying" makes no sense to me. A bank card is ridiculously small and you can tap without pin or use pin if you prefer. You have a solution to the problem. Wanting it on your phone rather than via bank card isn't really providing anything extra to the solution. It's a massive non issue. Many phone cases carry cards. It's such a meh issue.

Ooof, where are you if you don't mind me asking? You cannot import or get second hand?

You are such a nerd...

... and so wonderful! Thanks for looking over source code so busy folk like me don't have to! :)