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SSL Certificate Error With Gwibber And identi.ca on Ubuntu

By Michael Fötsch, on January 2nd, 2011

UPDATE: The problem has been fixed on identi.ca’s side. Maybe the workaround will be useful to others in some other context at some other time. I will also remove the certificate mentioned below from my system. It won’t be needed any longer, and who knows what nasty side effects it might have going forward…

I ran into this problem today where Gwibber (the micro-blogging client) on Ubuntu would not work with identi.ca anymore. The bug report referred to the log file ~/.xsession-errors, which contained this message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/microblog/network.py”, line 53, in __init__
self.curl.perform()
error: (60, ‘server certificate verification failed. CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt CRLfile: none’)

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FSCONS 2010 Notes

By Michael Fötsch, on November 14th, 2010

FSCONS 2010 poster

This year I was at FSCONS, the Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit in Göteborg. First and foremost, this was an opportunity for me to meet some of the GNU hackers I had met earlier this year at GUADEC. The conference itself covered a wide variety of topics. Unlike GUADEC, which is basically all about a single (albeit large) piece of software, FSCONS brings together technology, creative minds, social sciences, philosophy—I never heard people discussing Marshall McLuhan over a beer at 3 a.m. anywhere else.

These are my notes from the GNU Get-Together and from the FSCONS conference. There was a lot more going on there that I won’t mention. . . . → Read More