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Over the last few months, I've been using OpenBSD as my secondary system. I have been trying various BSD systems over the years, like FreeBSD and GhostBSD, and OpenBSD was a system I really want to try. After some testing on a virtual machine, I decided to remove the hackintosh installation I had on my secondary partition and to install OpenBSD in its position. And I love it, despite being…
Hello everyone! I decided to write about a few stuff that's been happening. Some important(-ish), some not as much, but I decided to write about those nonetheless. First, I'm well and alive. I have been a bit busy with personal stuff. I'm working on finishing Catto Garden , the website where the services I host will be moved at. It's already an improvement from my previous stuff, but it's still…
I have been a user of the dwm window manager, as well as other suckless software, like st and dmenu for the last 4 or 5 years. Somewhere in 2019, I decided to give a try on a tiling window manager, using desktop environments before that. At first I tried i3, but I didn't like it and it had an annoying issue I didn't bother to deal with. But dwm felt just right to me. So I decided to try it,…
Something I have recently worked on are a bunch of 88x31 buttons for the 512kb club . They aren't entirely my creation, but rather a collaborative work, which everyone involved seems to have enjoyed. I personally enjoy making web buttons as well. It's interesting what can be made in such a limited space. It's like a form of pixel art if you think about it. A few days ago, I collaborated with…
Another year is at its end, and as usual, I decided to write a small retrospective for this year. While I feel like having a bunch of things to write about, I'll keep it short. So, this year has been a good one for many reasons. My personal life has been improved since last year, as well as the website has grown to something much better. As I wrote above, my personal life has been improving. Since…
These days I have been messing with text based web browsers. At first it was just curiosity and something to mess with while I have to listen to the theoretical stuff in class (I've recently started attending classes in a trade school). But I decided to give them a try to read whatever I'm interested in. I already used text-based browsers to test my website. I consider being able to read a website…
For quite some time I have developed an interest towards Wayland, the protocol that is going to eventually replace the decades-old X server. I have been testing different compositors for the last few months, and so far I'm not fully satisfied by any of these that are currently available, at least on my distribution's repositories. I have been a user of dwm since early 2020 and since 2021 I've…
Something I have realized during the last month is that I missed how I enjoyed some stuff a few years ago. From the way I designed my website to the music I was listening. It's a kind of nostalgia that you think that life was somewhat better a few years ago than now, despite not being changed significantly. That's how I would describe it. So, in the last few days I decided to work on the CSS style…
During last year, I started publishing my posts and rewrote my website with Org mode . For those who aren't familiar with it, it's a way to write and publish text. Org mode is a basic feature on Emacs, but you can use it on other text editors by installing a plugin. In the past, I have been experimenting with sblg , which is a simple tool for blogs. It's not bad, but I wasn't satisfied with it, as…
Happy new year, everyone! Like last year, here's another retrospective to talk about some stuff that I have done during last year and to make some announcements. It gives me a good reason to post about small stuff that I do over the year that do not make it in a post by themselves, or I only mention them on the Fediverse. I'll start with some things I haven't done, as they are fewer. In the last…
Εδώ και μερικές μέρες αποφάσισα μετά από πολύ καιρό να μεταφράσω ένα μεγάλο κομμάτι της ιστοσελίδας μου στα ελληνικά. Είναι κάτι που το σχεδίαζα εδώ και αρκετό καιρό, αλλά για πολλούς λόγους δεν το υλοποίησα, μέχρι σήμερα. Και με αυτό ως αφορμή, γράφω αυτό το σύντομο post. Σχεδίαζα να μεταφράσω την ιστοσελίδα μου στα ελληνικά αρκετό καιρό πριν, και πιο συγκεκριμένα ξεκίνησα τον Ιούλιο του 2020,…
After my usual short absence from posting here, I decided to blogpost again. Things have been changing for some time now, and I want to share with you some of the changes I have been working on. First, you might have already noticed that the website's appearance has been changed. For a few months, I have been experimenting with the CSS stylesheet of the website in order to make it look a bit…
This is the English version of the guide I posted in the Linux User forum. This version also fixes some errors I made in the original version. Introduction In this guide I'll show you how to set up a fully compliant XMPP server step by step, from scratch. In contrast with other guides that explain the basics for the setup of a minimal server, this one aims to help new sysadmins to set up an XMPP…
Introduction Despite being a bit late, I hope 2022 has started well for you. I decided to write a quick retrospective for 2021, because for me, 2021 was an interesting year, both for this website, as well as for me personally. I will also share with you some thoughts I have about the future, like plans I might work on and some predictions about the future in general. In my opinion, 2021 was more…
A couple days ago, I decided to try compiling Web Browser on my computer. For those who don't know about this browser (yes, I know it has the most generic name possible), it's a fork of Pale Moon that fixes some of the issues Pale Moon has . I have tried compiling it a couple times in the past, but it failed because of various issues. After thinking about it, I decided to check the git, clone the…
A few days ago, I happened to have a discussion about some issues with the greek keyboard layout, more specifically, the way that the stressed vowel of a word is typed, slows down typing speed significantly. After some discussion in the IRC channel of kill -9 , I decided to write that rant about the greek language on computers. This text, like every other text on that website is a work in…
Introduction In this post, I'm writing about one of my favorite projects out there, the CLI Assistant. As the name implies, it's a personal assistant that works in a terminal emulator window. It's inspired from the assistants made from corporations like Apple and Google, and it's an attempt to make a simple, free and open source assistant that functions in a similar manner, without the unwanted…
Hello, people! I hope you are fine these days. As you may notice, I decided to upload a post to my website, after 3 months of silence here. If you may thought that something bad happened to me (or not, who cares?), you might haven't have checked my posts on Mastodon yet. Well, I have been busy with various things over the last few months. I was occupied with online exams that I hate, as well as…
Introduction A few days ago, I decided to try installing Void Linux after being persuaded to try it by a friend. Before the actual installation on my computer, I spent some time testing it on a virtual machine. At first, I didn't really like it, but as I was getting used to the way it works, I started to like it more. I decided to just nuke my Arch system because I was bored and curious to try…
I decided to make that quick blog post when I saw this post in my Mastodon feed: from lrvick@mastodon.social: "We have filed a separate Sensitive Data takedown request of this file: /widevine-l3-decryptor as it contains the secret Widevine RSA private key, which was extracted from the Widevine CDM and can be used in other circumvention technologies." Here's the DMCA request on GitHub. Fuck…
Introduction One of my favorite things to do on my computer is to try different operating systems. It's fun to see how every OS looks and feels, either on a virtual machine, or on real hardware. I was writing this post for quite some time, and there were lots of changes to it. Because of personal reasons, I won't have much time to work on a longer post, but I decided to break it in 3 parts, for…
Introduction Most of the things I write here, were written as personal notes since 2018, in order to create a script to install osu! on Linux. The last time I installed osu! with that way was in November 2019, when I installed Arch Linux on my laptop, and I never had an issue with the procedure I'll share with you in this post. As of today there aren't any major changes and it will probably work…