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Unofficial Guide to Programming Minecraft with Websockets. My daughter got me hooked on Minecraft. (If you see me staring intently at you during a Zoom call, I’m probably fighting a mob.) As it turns out, Minecraft is pretty programmable. You can send it messages using websockets that can place blocks, create mobs, get information, and more. None of this is officially documented, though. So I spent a few weeks reverse-engineering this and put together a guide to programming Minecraft. ...

You know those songs on Raaga, MusicIndiaOnline, etc? The ones you can listen to but can’t download? Well, you can download them. It’s always been possible to download these files. After all, that’s how you get to listen to them in the first place. What stopped you is security by obscurity. You didn’t know the location where the song was stored, but if you did, you could download them. So how do you figure out the URL to download the file from? ...

Hacking Google Print