https://www.liwjatan.org/ Recent content on Rise of the Leviathan Hugo -- gohugo.io Sat, 12 Nov 2022 19:20:00 +0100 https://www.liwjatan.org/blog/2022/11/plasma-translator/ Sat, 12 Nov 2022 19:20:00 +0100 https://www.liwjatan.org/blog/2022/11/plasma-translator/ In my work, but also for my hobbies, I quite often come into contact with texts in other languages. I speak some languages myself quite well, but sometimes having support from translation tools comes in quite handy. I’m sure a lot of people can sympathize 🙂 Google Translate has become quite ubiquitous as a support tool for translations. I use it a lot when checking translations, or when I need to translate texts from languages I don’t know. https://www.liwjatan.org/blog/2022/02/slackware-15.0/ Thu, 24 Feb 2022 17:12:00 +0100 https://www.liwjatan.org/blog/2022/02/slackware-15.0/ On February 2nd, 2022 Pat released Slackware 15.0. Now, with an unfortunately sizable delay, I branched off my package repository to properly support Slackware 15.0 as well. Why so late? Like I mentioned in my last past about the repo, I’m maintaining it in my free time and there just hasn’t been enough of that lately. Between work and an absolutely wonderful skiing trip with my family I had almost no time at all to look at Slackware. https://www.liwjatan.org/blog/2022/01/chromium-97-vaapi/ Sun, 16 Jan 2022 15:32:00 +0100 https://www.liwjatan.org/blog/2022/01/chromium-97-vaapi/ Enabling hardware video acceleration in browsers in 2022 is still a huge PITA. The fact that the steps you have to perform are constantly changing isn’t helping. So today, I sat down again trying to figure out what’s needed to get it to work with the latest version of AlienBOB’s chromium package. Hardware video acceleration isn’t enabled yet by default and can’t be simply enabled by ticking boxes in the UI (at least, I didn’t find any). https://www.liwjatan.org/blog/2022/01/amarok/ Mon, 10 Jan 2022 19:22:57 +0100 https://www.liwjatan.org/blog/2022/01/amarok/ For a long time amarok was my music player of choice. I understand that many people disagree on whether it was a good music player or not, but music in general is a very subjective field so why wouldn’t that extend to players as well? For me, organizing my music is very important. I use beets for that, which uses MusicBrainz in the background. One inevitability you realize when you start organizing your music that way, there’s almost no player that supports this. https://www.liwjatan.org/blog/2022/01/virtualbox/ Sun, 09 Jan 2022 15:18:00 +0100 https://www.liwjatan.org/blog/2022/01/virtualbox/ Intro In my last blog entry I already briefly mentioned that my slackware package repository contains various virtualbox related packages. Today I want to explain a bit more what packages there are and what they contain. For many years already I maintain the SlackBuilds for virtualbox over at SlackBuilds.org. The packages offered in my repo match those for the most part. The packages will, however, always be a bit more up-to-date, as I update my SlackBuilds on SlackBuilds. https://www.liwjatan.org/blog/2021/12/slackware-repo/ Sat, 25 Dec 2021 13:52:04 +0100 https://www.liwjatan.org/blog/2021/12/slackware-repo/ Some time ago I started making a slackware package repository for software I need in my systems not included in the core. I spent some time getting processes in place and getting used to them. By now, those are all fairly settled and I feel confident in letting other people know about them. First off, however, there’s some caveats. The repository is currently based on -current, and for x86_64 only. I have no interest in making a 32bit repo as the overhead would just be too big. https://www.liwjatan.org/blog/2021/12/blog-reloaded/ Sat, 25 Dec 2021 12:27:15 +0100 https://www.liwjatan.org/blog/2021/12/blog-reloaded/ My last foray into blogs was several years ago using Wordpress on a shared hosting environment. After some initial excitement, it became rather cumbersome rather quickly and writing blog entries became too much of a chore. Fast forward several years later, I now have a dedicated server where I can host the software stack I want, and elect a blogging system closer to my ideal workflow. After a lot of research I ended up with hugo. https://www.liwjatan.org/about/ Thu, 23 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.liwjatan.org/about/ I’m Heinz Wiesinger, or pprkut as I’m known in various online communities. I’m originally from Austria, but live in the Netherlands for more than 10 years already. In my day job I’m a Systems Engineer for a mobile app agency, responsible for both development of our PHP backend systems as well as maintenance of our AWS infrastructure. In my free time I enjoy working on a variety of things. My contributions to Slackware take the lion share of that, but I’m also part of the KDE community and primarily work on kdev-php there.