

In this case Hanlon’s Razor might be more relevant ;D


In this case Hanlon’s Razor might be more relevant ;D


In the movie “A.I. Artificial Intelligence” there’s a scene where a robot kid’s face starts drooping, like sliding off the frame or something, and that really got me.


It always throws me off because in polish it’s “Sztuczna Inteligencja”, and has also been abbreviated like that long ago.
I do wonder if they even know SI units exist…
The episode is White Christmas, for reference, though there’s other episodes on the topic of consciousness in technology, one particularly notable episode is the black museum one, not sure what the name was.


Jet says the following
If you want https it’s gotta be a external DNS record anyway, might as well point to internal ips
My point is, the A record, the one pointing to an IP address, doesn’t need to be public/external, it’s not needed for the wildcard cert, so it can be kept internal.
I’m mentioning the other challenge trying to make it clear why the record matters for that, and not for a wildcard cert, sorry if that just made things more confusing.


The point is, the challenge doesn’t require a public DNS A record pointing to your IP, it’s not involved in issuing a wildcard certificate. It requires you to control DNS records for the domain to issue a temporary TXT or something record to prove it, one which you can remove afterwards. This was my point in the original comment.
It’s A and AAAA records that are used when you open a website in a browser to map the domain to an IP address, the ones I’m saying don’t need to be public.
The challenge dosent require your site to be public only the DNS to be public.
And just to be clear, that was describing a different kind of challenge, the simpler one which most people probably use, and which does actually involve A records.


I’m a bit confused by what you’re saying, because to my knowledge the DNS entry you’re mentioning won’t help with getting a certificate at all. Challenges will typically require either having the DNS entry point to a publicly reachable website (doesn’t get you wildcard) or proving the ability to modify records for the domain by adding something like a TXT record on the fly, which shouldn’t require A/AAAA records.
So you should be able to do the second type of challenge without a global A record to get a wildcard certificate, and use local DNS for the A record?


just removed a simple step to modding of not having to use their mappings anymore.
There’s an argument to be made that this step presumably required an update every version, one that was presumably offloaded to the modloader, which might also become more significant when you consider all the drama related to Forge being bloated with too much stuff packed into it.


If you want https it’s gotta be a external DNS record anyway
Not sure what you mean by that, but off the top of my head, you can get certificates via challenges that prove DNS control (rather than checking if the DNS points to your server), and you can get wildcard certificates so you don’t even have to expose the existence of subdomains.
And that’s ignoring the option of using your own CA, which only really works with your own devices, but for local access might be viable.
Is there a source or proof on that? Or is it just that you didn’t find it right now on their website?
The big drama was during their “2026 sale”, where they used GenAI promotional art for the event. They also seem to have refused to confirm using GenAI, and at the time made no promise/commitment to stop.