Post B3G2yPgdedquwc2PZI by foone@digipres.club
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 (DIR) Post #B3G2jagWTuhqi7uqIa by foone@digipres.club
       2026-02-12T21:34:52Z
       
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       The details are a bit unclear, but from what I can tell Microsoft/Mojang introduced a bug in old versions of Minecraft: They no longer show player skins. And why it happened is kinda silly: They changed the TLS cert for the skins server sometime last year, and it's based on a new root cert that isn't in any official version of Java for Windows.
       
 (DIR) Post #B3G2nZKPT2mTf4TAci by foone@digipres.club
       2026-02-12T21:35:36Z
       
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       so the official solution to fixing skins if you're running an older version of minecraft on windows is to upgrade to a Azul Zulu distro, which is a binary distribution of OpenJDK. That will include the right cert.
       
 (DIR) Post #B3G2rIF4w0lxpQkfsu by foone@digipres.club
       2026-02-12T21:35:53Z
       
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       OTHERWISE everyone shows up as the default skin, since your client can't talk to the skins server
       
 (DIR) Post #B3G2uhcR2bpPOyIo5I by foone@digipres.club
       2026-02-12T21:36:54Z
       
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       and from what I understand, this only affects old versions because they changed how the skins are stored, but their compat fix for the old clients has the TLS cert issue
       
 (DIR) Post #B3G2yOS4FKbR78DGDY by grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place
       2026-02-12T21:36:33Z
       
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       @foone It's a fucking game, why does it need a root cert!!!
       
 (DIR) Post #B3G2yPgdedquwc2PZI by foone@digipres.club
       2026-02-12T21:37:19Z
       
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       @grumpygamer EVERYTHING HAS TO HAVE CERTS THESE DAYS its quite silly