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This phpBB forum software is automatically converting unicode U+1F633 to 😳, which is loaded from (sub)domain twemoji.maxcdn.com as such:

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<img alt="😳" class="emoji smilies" draggable="false" src="//twemoji.maxcdn.com/2/svg/1f633.svg">
This subdomain appears to be used by Twitter; the domain (CDN) owned by StackPath.
This means these parties know which IPs visit which phpBB forums.
Citing https://www.stackpath.com/maxcdn/ "Leverage detailed data points about content delivery and traffic, with advanced reporting capabilities and analytics."
Citing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_d ... nd_privacy "these services are being pointed out as potential privacy intrusion for the purpose of behavioral targeting"

Looks like WordPress may also be adding the Twitter emoji.
And Facebook is calling these Twitter devs "our friends".

Called the "peak of human engineering" by someone.
But, similar to Google Fonts that everyone is embedding via CDNs, this is (also) yet another privacy invasion.
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Kinda funny.
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The root certificate "AddTrust External CA Root" expired today.
If you've seen an SSL certificate warning (e.g. when checking email) during the last couple of hours, it's likely caused by that expiration.
Some related tweets: https://twitter.com/__agwa/timelines/12 ... 8811322368
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Norbert wrote: May 30th, 2020, 11:06 pm The root certificate "AddTrust External CA Root" expired today [...]
Why not use CloudFlare? It has free HTTPS feature which you can use to get SSL for free. It also protects from DDoS protection. Maybe also consider using it for this forum. I use it all the time on all websites.
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My foe, Ferdian Paleka, out from jail. Maybe I will meet him in Bandung (my city in Indonesia)
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Can you please to forgive my foe? Just now, I forgive him ;)
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Norbert wrote: May 10th, 2019, 5:45 am Dr DisRespect is very good with a sniper rifle.
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He's been banned from Twitch, possibly permanently.
Reason currently unknown, IGN reports, among many other media.
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Today I learned that, apparently, 'hard disks' nowadays can take strikingly small and flat shapes. My plan was to remove one of two disks from a simple HP 290 desktop computer. I knew one disk was an HDD and the other an SSD. So, I opened it up and... was very surprised to find only 1 disk, the HDD. I knew SSDs can be quite flat, but I still expected to find some rectangle-shaped black or iron colored box somewhere. In the end, I was taking large parts of the machine apart just to find the SSD. Actually, I was almost at a point where I was thinking, I may never get this all back together and throw away a lot of money by destroying this machine, but I am going to find the SSD no matter what. I was thinking that maybe it was hidden below the processor section or something. But, yeah, as you can see in the attached screenshot collage, which shows both sides, nowadays (what many people still call) 'hard disks' can be very flat strips attached (parallel) to the motherboard...
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About idea suppression, starting 9:13.
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What programmers can do with 140 characters of JavaScript and a canvas:
https://www.dwitter.net/top/all
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Unfortunately, various application of mine semi-broke (certain text doesn't display) when libsdl2-ttf-dev moved from 2.0.14 to 2.0.15.
This primarily affects Linux users when they recompile, for instance if the package-provided executable doesn't work for them.
A fix of SDL_ttf was made today, but will take a while to enter release packages and roll out to the various distros.
The issue with 2.0.15 is that using 0 as the final (4th) parameter in TTF_RenderText_Blended_Wrapped() results in a surface with literally width 0.
Affected software: lemsop, lemdop, savof, pophale, popyorn, leapop, and legbop.
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I just realized that 1000^2 is (depending on the context) both megabit (Mb) and megabyte (MB), and that megabyte (MB) can (again, depending on the context) also be 1024^2. Humans - that includes me - are so stupid.
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I now have a Windows 98 'retro' setup. :)
It runs various old games well that I had trouble running before (including Prince of Persia 3D). And I am now running Prince of Persia 1 and 2 in pure DOS for the first time in my life.
I have also installed IDA 5.0 (using KernelEx) and Visual C++ 6.0 on it.
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Falcury wrote: August 29th, 2020, 10:23 pm I now have a Windows 98 'retro' setup. :)
It runs various old games well that I had trouble running before (including Prince of Persia 3D). And I am now running Prince of Persia 1 and 2 in pure DOS for the first time in my life.
I have also installed IDA 5.0 (using KernelEx) and Visual C++ 6.0 on it.
Good👍👍
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