Automatic detection of keyboard layout

Aaron LI aly at aaronly.me
Thu Dec 25 04:11:21 PST 2025


On 12/25/25 7:45 PM, Kate wrote:
> 
> Thanks, good to know. However i tried going on IRC before sending an 
> email here and efnet gets me some weird x509 errors when i try to 
> connect like "certificate is not valid for any names, but wanted to 
> match irc.efnet.org" or "certificate relies on legacy Common Name field, 
> use SANs instead".
> 
> I've tried every servers listed on the webpage and they either have the 
> same problem, their certificate expired, or the server was down.
> The maintainer of the bouncer software i'm using seems to think that 
> efnet has an invalid certificate and i couldn't find a way to contact 
> the admin. I also tried to connect via the web chat but it just failed 
> to connect to the IRC server.

Hey Kate,

I saw the same problem and it seems EFNet servers just use some 
self-signed certificates; I think they're just being lazy and don't 
bother to buy or issue free certificates.

For me, I just ignore the certificate error and continue ;)

Cheers,
Aaron



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