cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/41026064

Good day, or good evening privacy people! So as many lots of people may know there's 3 ways to build a world for yourself. Start your own business, go into the trades and apprenticeships or go to collage. There is no wrong choice because it is for you to make, i mean its your life after all! But any way today i wanna talk about number three on our roster, i have a very close friend who has chosen to go to collage . He is a pretty smart person as well has immense empathy and sympathy and has decided to follow his intuition to go seek further education. To become a substance abuse therapist, and recently he is getting closer to the end of his collage degree. However for some of the final exams they require a software called "Secure Browser" by Respondus. This is in fact not a Secure browser, wheres the TOR?? This browser is meant to kill all background apps and to eliminate the possibility of cheating, by you guested it SPYWARE!! Now one of the description from my friend is that you MUST use this software to take the quiz or kick rocks and get a bad grade. So we read the TOS which is about what you expect.

"Respondus collects data to operate effectively and to strive to provide you with the best experience with LockDown Browser. You provide some of this data directly, such as when you contact us for support. Some data is obtained by recording how you interact with LockDown Browser by, for example, receiving error reports or usage data from software running on your device. Some data is obtained by how you interact with the assessment delivery system, such as the amount of time spent answering a question. The data we collect within the Help Services depends on the features you use, and includes the following:

Webcam & Microphone Check. The webcam and microphone check streams video and audio from your webcam to the Respondus servers. The video and audio can then be played back by you to ensure the webcam and microphone are working properly. The video and audio recorded during the webcam and microphone check is stored in temporary cache on the Respondus server and is automatically deleted in about an hour. Persistent storage is not used for these recordings, and Respondus does not provide a way to electronically identify the recordings as being transmitted from a specific user. "

aswell on a separate webpage for a general TOS not for secure browser but in general for using any of there software

they collect Webcam & Microphone Check. and System Check. unique System Check ID. Basic personal data (first name, last name) Authentication data (user name) Contact information (may include postal or email address) Pseudonymous identifiers (student ID code assigned by LMS, if applicable) Device identification (IP address) We may disclose your personal data to partner companies where you have agreed to have that information shared

System Check. The System Check gathers certain information from your computing device, the networking environment, and the institution's Learning Management System.

So obviously like any sane person living in the year 2025, and not wanting a data company have, voice, video and as much data they can get out of there ~~Secure Browser~~ RootKit. We both decided and or was predetermined, that it doesnt ~~run~~ infect linux. Because its only for PaidBSD (MacOS) or Windows, So we thought about running a virtual machine of windows 10, but the idea was quickly thrown out because odds are it probably checks for hypervisors. So we decided to take out "old reliable" the 14 pound billet of a computer from circa 2008 aka my lenovo T440p with libreboot and a de-soldered webcam and microphone. Some of you may think im paranoid at this point, but i havent trusted windows since windows 11 came out. Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo anyhow

We installed windows 10 and installed "secure browser", we ran a test for the software to make sure it would function without a webcam or mic. And it did!

So end of story right? malware and scummy business solved by FOSS software and soldering iron?

Well for my friend it is solved but for those who are not tech savvy or paranoid they still got con'd. So enough about the past lets talk about the future, My friend has decided to complain to the teacher whom runs the class and requires them to run this software. That there should be alternatives, we have constructed a email which as of writing has been sent. This is paraphrased but the points are all made the same,

" I disliked having to use Lockdown Browser. Since I run Linux it was hard for me to get it to work. I ended up having to get an old laptop and install windows 10 to get it to work. Lockdown Browser does not support Linux. I also disliked the TOS because they are able to use your microphone and camera and that "we may disclose your personal data to partner companies..." I feel as if this is an invasion of privacy as a student. I think colleges are becoming so focused on academic integrity that they overlook what students' information is given towards the company (in this case Lockdown). Like I said before this is forcing students to take video and audio recording of themselves or else they cannot take the test. They also say in the TOS that for the microphone and video the test run is deleted, but they never say what happens to the quiz video and audio. If I would have known this class was going to use Lockdown for its test-taking I would have had second thoughts. https://web.respondus.com/tou-ldb/ "

I am proud of my friend, as he also wants to fight for digital sovereignty, privacy and a better digital world. we discussed this email back and forth onto what it should say. He asked me what i would add, and i flat out gave my rather blunt opinion on the matter. "There should be another option, i understand the microphone and camera requirement because they don't want you to cheat. But it never says whats done with that data on there website, it says what happens to the demo data but not the quiz data! they leave an open ended "we may share your data" which im 99% definitively means there selling it to partners. That end of the day you should say what you think about this software, respectfully and precisely. Its your collage degree, its your collage, its your money. Let them know that you are displeased with this choice."

he then added the part about if he knew this software was going to be used in this class he would have reconsidered taking it. which i think is very fair and to the point of the matter.

To close off this very lengthy post, i want to thank my friend for sharing his experiences with me. And to let other people know about the evil that infects collage software, like Pearson. Which is another topic for another day.

Cheers Steamy

Public Key 405B46E81DCCDB2B310DEF0DA5F0B998E8AC3752

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/40679506

So for Friday night, myself and my friends got rather board. And as the resident "Things collector" i got 2 Maxtor touch sense 2 external hardrives. However those who were alive in 2000's know Maxtor went bankrupt and haven't made hardrives for a very long time. One of these drive i got BRAND NEW, in box at a flea market. sadly time got to the platters first, i spent a few hours trying to reformat or partition them and all i got was write errors. I tried different utility's with no avail and decided to cut my losses, so i asked the boys what we should do with them? Immediately my friend had an idea, to bring out his 9mm and see how a hardrive would fair! We all took turns and they were pretty hard to hit (we made the mistake of drink soda before hand). We eventually landed some shots on the center of the drives and MAN it actually stopped 2 bullets!!! going into this we all expected the disk to be unreadable after the fact, but didnt think the hardrives would stop a 9mm bullet!!

We then took the hdd's apart after are volley of bullets, and alot of the chips were damaged and all the platters were bent. But when we took off the top case, it looked so freakin cool i had to keep it

So those who know me IRL or cyber stock me. Know that in my free time i do have a very small laser cutting business, i started off with a really crap diode laser and eventually made enough to purchase a full size C02 Laser. Now one of the most important thing that machining has thought me. Is that WORK HOLDING IS BASED. Why indicate a shitty piece of bar stock each time when you can just make a jig/fixture and run thousands with minimal work. So i very much took this to heart and instead of spending 20 minutes to frame a coaster in my laser cutter to make sure it is 100% straight. I took a ratty piece of sheet metal (that i paid WAAAAY to much for $90USD) and made my "ghetto bed". now it was handcrafted the same way a child makes a macaroni picture. Very imprecise, and not flat at all i tried my best at making it flat but well, im a machinist not a metal worker. which truly shows my 1/1 piccaso's masterpiece. So i hear you WHERE IS THIS GOING!! this "ghetto bed" worked very well for small stuff, when family and friends would order something i would quickly throw in my jig load up my file and BAM its ready to go. This bed was purely a proof of concept, from the post i saw on light-burns forum of a guy doing something similar with sheet metal. So fast foward 3 years later and i bought plate 3/4 plate stock (which i paid out the ass for) order it to size and draw up a CAD model. a few thing i learned from the original "ghetto bed" was that the exhaust is underneath the bed and needed some way to quickly slurp up the smoke, for this i have a snorkel i am 3d printing and running downward (still work in progress as we speak) and secondly and most importantly! I wanted threading, i originally drilled 7/16 holes to which i just vaguely threaded bolts and nuts through. But now i have 1/4-20 spaces 1.30 inches across the bed, which will make setting up fixtures more solid and repeatable unlike the original bed. i did go with 1/4-20 for a few reasons, first off its standardized and very cheap for bolts, second and most importantly its a small hole. Which then allows me to drill and re-tap if i strip a thread and it also gives me alot of mounting holes. However having tons of holes were also a nightmare to hand tap and debur the backside.

The keen eyed among you may notice slots on the edges of the bed, i decided to go with slots purely because the original mounting holes are not concentric or symmetrical. So F it slots!

im very happy with the bed, i plan to paint it black to make it not reflective and have played around with the idea of open sourcing/selling bed like this, if people are intreasted of course!

Summer is here and with that comes garage sales! I went looking around and found this beauty, for $10!!! When i went to go purchase it, the very nice 60ish year old man, Boldly said and proclaimed "it doesnt run windows, well it cant because it only has 2gb of ram. but its still a usable machine" So he then said the phrase that every nerd begs to hear, "do you know what linux is?" Me and this man talked for almost and hour about linux and the enshitfaction of windows. He did install antix a lightweight debian based distribution GNU/Linux/SystemDeeznuts distribution on it. and said he ran Antix on his main computer for daily use, I sadly did not ask what his main computer is :(. But i just thought it was so cool and sureal to meet a linux user at a garage sale, like you go to foss conventions and you expect to see some the the nerdiest people that have roamed this planet. But this guy was just so cool, i beckon all the time about windows is a inflated rotting corpse. although i still need it for fusion 360 sadly :(, it was really fun to talk another person so passionate about linux IRL.

  but anyway enough blabbering about this totally rad Linux user,

he had a user account setup to auto login and user named antix which was also the sudo password. I have personally never used Antix but it has alot to offer for lower end computers, some light weight web browsing and some text editing. Obviously there were some thing you could not do or the computer struggled. Playing youtube was the quite the benchmark for this billet of a computer.

But i got quickly board with debian/Antix and i knew from the moment i saw this computer there was 1/2 things i wanted to do with it! the first thing was install FreeBSD. I have always been intrigued by it, a UNIX like OS that was by design meant to replace UNIX and if were not for Linux may have been the windows alternative OS that linux is today. So i grabbed by CD burner and started burn'n! the install went pretty smooth, minus a few small hiccups. first off when it boots, it loads then goes to a blackscreen and stops displaying, i found another person with this computer and wanting to install FreeBSD on it on the FreeBSD forum. I had to punch in a few commands that made it TTY only, i then followed the Handbook and install intel's video drivers. After that i have a fully functioning FreeBSD install!!!! Now for the Fun part installing the window manager! and programs, after installing sway and enabling some system settings. everything clicked together and i had to see how much the CPU struggled with playing video from youtube to compare BSD vs linux . The CPU works very hard for them frames!

All in all, its actually pretty usable. granted not for the average user, i often read hackaday and browse the web via links web browser. and i part of me likes it a little more than my 2020 E14 thinkpad, not spec wise but design wise. this computer is built thiccccccc and has a latch for the screen and inductive buttons for wifi and other functions. and believe it or not the battery life is 4 hours. its a genuine HP with a lithium cell battery, its only a 10watt cpu but to me thats crazy for a 2007 computer!.

And the weirdest thing about this computer, which me and my friend were torn whither if the original owner swapped the HDD for an SSD, because it is relatively quite, however after i opened the bottom covers. It made me very surprised

Its a friggin ipod classic style mini drive!!!!

I recently have been playing around with GPG (its pretty fun!) And decided to make a hat with my public key on it!

Its a fun conversation starter at walmart, when somebody asks what it is? It activates my tism, and i get to talk about computer science! Its also important to teach others the importants of encryption especially as of one day ago the EFF made a post talking about yet another bill trying to go after encryption.

The keen eyed among you see i have blocked out certain parts of my key, this is because i have a key for this hat exclusively and would like to see if anybody i talk to about encryption in real life bothers to email me. I know its not much but i enjoy it!

I laser etched the leather, and hand stitched it to the hat.

I know this is more kinda clothing stuff, but it just didnt feel right posting a hat with a gpg key on a fasion/clothing community.

Hope you enjoy My little project >:) hehe

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/32918427

Hello,

Recently, I've been interested in self-hosting various services after coming across Futo's "How to Self Host Your Life Guide" on their Wiki. They recommend using OpenVPN, but I opted for WireGuard instead as I wanted to learn more about it. After investing many hours into setting up my WireGuard configuration in my Nix config, I planned to replace Tailscale with WireGuard and make the setup declarative.

For context, this computer is located at my residence, and I want to be able to VPN into my home network and access my services. Initially, it was quite straightforward; I forwarded a UDP port on my router to my computer, which responded correctly when using the correct WireGuard keys and established a VPN connection. Everywhere online suggests forwarding only UDP as WireGuard doesn't respond unless the correct key is used.

The Networking Complexity

At first, this setup would be for personal use only, but I soon realized that I had created a Docker stack for me and my friends to play on a Minecraft server running on my LAN using Tailscale as the network host. This allowed them to VPN in and join the server seamlessly. However, I grew tired of having to log in to various accounts (e.g., GitHub, Microsoft, Apple) and dealing with frequent sign-outs due to timeouts or playing around with container stacks.

To manage access to my services, I set up ACLs using Tailscale, allowing only specific IP addresses on my network (192.168.8.170) to access HigherGround, nothing else. Recently, I implemented WireGuard and learned two key things: Firstly, when friends VPN into the server, they have full access to everything, which isn't ideal by no means. not that i dont trust my friends but, i would like to fix that :P. I then tried to set allowed IPs in the WireGuard config to 192.168.8.170, but realized that this means they can only access 192.168.8.170 explicitly, not being able to browse the internet or communicate via Signal until I added their specific IP addresses (10.0.0.2 and 10.0.0.3) to their WireGuard configs.

However, I still face a significant issue: every search they perform goes through my IP address instead of theirs.

The Research

I've researched this problem extensively and believe that split tunneling is the solution: I need to configure the setup so that only 192.168.8.170 gets routed through the VPN, while all other traffic is handled by their local router instead of mine. Ideally, my device should be able to access everything on the LAN and automatically route certain traffic through a VPS (like accessing HigherGround), but when performing general internet tasks (e.g., searching for "how to make a sandwich"), it gets routed from my router to ProtonVPN.

I've managed to get ProtonVPN working, but still struggle with integrating WireGuard on my phone to work with ProtonVPN on the server. From what I've read, using iptables and creating specific rules might be necessary to allow only certain devices to access 192.168.8.170 (HigherGround) while keeping their local internet traffic separate.

My long-term goal is to configure this setup so that my friends' local traffic remains on their network, but for HigherGround services, it routes through the VPN tunnel or ProtonVPN if necessary.

My nix Config for wiregaurd (please let me know if im being stoopid with somthing networking is HARRRD)

#WIREGAURD connect to higher ground networking.wg-quick.interfaces = { # "wg0" is the network interface name. You can name the interface arbitrarily. caveout0 = { #Goes to ProtonVPN address = [ "10.2.0.2/32" ]; dns = [ "10.2.0.1" ]; privateKeyFile = "/root/wiregaurd/privatekey"; peers = [ { #From HigherGround to Proton publicKey = "magic numbers and letters"; allowedIPs = [ "0.0.0.0/0" "::/0" ]; endpoint = "79.135.104.37:51820"; persistentKeepalive = 25; } ]; };

cavein0 = { # Determines the IP/IPv6 address and subnet of the client's end of the tunnel interface address = [ "10.0.0.1/24" ]; dns = [ "192.168.8.1" "9.9.9.9" ]; # The port that WireGuard listens to - recommended that this be changed from default listenPort = 51820; # Path to the server's private key privateKeyFile = "magic numbers and letters";

  # This allows the wireguard server to route your traffic to the internet and hence be like a VPN
  postUp = ''
    ${pkgs.iptables}/bin/iptables -A FORWARD -i cavein0 -j ACCEPT
    ${pkgs.iptables}/bin/iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o enp5s0 -j MASQUERADE
  '';

  # Undo the above
  preDown = ''
    ${pkgs.iptables}/bin/iptables -D FORWARD -i cavein0 -j ACCEPT
    ${pkgs.iptables}/bin/iptables -t nat -D POSTROUTING -o enp5s0 -j MASQUERADE
  '';

  peers = [
    { #friend1 
     publicKey = "magic numbers and letters";
     allowedIPs = [ "10.0.0.3/32" "192.168.8.170/24" ];
     endpoint = "magic numbers and letters";
     presharedKey = "magic numbers and letters";
     persistentKeepalive = 25;
    }
    { # My phone
      publicKey = "magic numbers and letters";
      allowedIPs = [ "10.0.0.2/32" ];
      endpoint = "magic numbers and letters";
      presharedKey = "magic numbers and letters";
      persistentKeepalive = 25;
    }
    {# friend 2
      publicKey = "magic numbers and letters";
      allowedIPs = [ "10.0.0.4/32" "192.168.8.170/24" ];
      endpoint = "magic numbers and letters";
      presharedKey = "magic numbers and letters";
      persistentKeepalive = 25;
    }
    {# friend 3
     publicKey = "magic numbers and letters";
     allowedIPs = [ "10.0.0.5/32" ];
     endpoint = "magic numbers and letters";
     presharedKey = "magic numbers and letters";
     persistentKeepalive = 25;
    }
    
    # More peers can be added here.
  ];
};

};

#Enable NAT networking.nat = { enable = true; enableIPv6 = false; externalInterface = "enp5s0"; internalInterfaces = [ "cavein0" ]; };

services.dnsmasq.settings = { enable = true; extraConfig = '' interface=cavein0 ''; };

Any help would be appreciated thanks

References: Futo Wiki: https://wiki.futo.org/index.php/Introduction_to_a_Self_Managed_Life:_a_13_hour_%26_28_minute_presentation_by_FUTO_software

NixOS Wireguard: https://wiki.nixos.org/w/index.php?title=WireGuard&mobileaction=toggle_view_desktop

Just a FYI, the main portion of the paragraph was put into llama3.1 with the prompt "take the following prompt and fix the grammer, spelling and spacing to make it more readable" Because im bad at english and didnt want to pain people with my choppy sentences and poor grammer

So for the last month-ish Ive been working at my new job as an injection mold operator, which has been rather interesting. I first thought of injection molding as a basic concept of hot plastic gets shot into a mold and gets ejected. But there is so much more that goes into injection molding. There is back-pressure 5 heating zones a TCU which helps the plastic cool in the mold before it is ejected. Then the eject pins extension length and speed. There is probably a lot more as-well but that's just to name a few. There is so many variables into running a injection molding machine, luckily the company i currently work for is teaching me everything and im trying to learn as much as i can (which is slightly overwhelming).The only real annoyance is the plastic smells quite a bit and i read all the MSDS's i can. Something i learned that was a neat tidbit is that plastics like Acetal and TPV, and many other co-polymers is they have alot of nasty stuff in them, and the nasty stuff is only released if it gets above the recommended plastic temperature which is rather important to keep it with a safe range.

On a side note the last place i worked, i liked the people but hated the job and lots of people said the equivalent of "same shit different pot" aka the job you had is going to be alot of the same even if you move. And there mostly right, instead of carbide and kobalt its plastic. The only big diffrence is this place is full time and actually doesn't bully you for wearing PPE, as-well the people there are also rather nice just like the old place.

also any other injection molding operators in the community, and if so do you like the job? as-well as any experiences with it.

also huge thanks to everybody in the thread for helping out and getting me to this point!

its an enco and i cant find much info on it is most likely not more than 2 horse. i dont plan to do any crazy pocketing and REALLY WANT A MILL to match the sexy tractor lathe and use it for hobby projects.

whada u think machinists? i cant imagine it going for more than $500 as its not a knee mill

I've wondered for a while, there are lots of things that attract people to machining, and with that come areas. My previous instructor would say (in no offense) but in this class we are not doing wood working, we are doing precision machining ". he also dabbled in leather working in his free time. So it raises the question "do people that do machining mostly do purely metal working or other tasks including wood or leather just as much?"

https://strawpoll.com/1MnwO2Av5n7

[Browsers]

Browsh

old school looking terminal web browser with image support that runs on a modified version of Firefox https://www.brow.sh/

Lynx

Terminal web browser (can configure to use MPV or YouTube-dl for videos) https://lynx.browser.org/

Links

Terminal based web browser a lot like lynx http://links.twibright.com/

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

Links2

Links 2 the electric boogaloo, it is written in C with ncurses https://github.com/spartrekus/links2

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

[System Monitoring]

uptimed

System uptime record daemon that keeps track of your highest uptimes https://github.com/rpodgorny/uptimed/

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/Steamymoomilk

TTYload

color-coded graph of load averages over time http://zhar.net/projects/shell/terminal-colors

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/Steamymoomilk

Bottom

shows CPU cores, CPU usage, Memory usage, Disks, Disk usage, Processes, Network, Temperature. https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom

gdu

Pretty fast disk usage analyzer written in Go.

Gdu is intended primarily for SSD disks where it can fully utilize parallel processing. However HDDs work as well, but the performance gain is not so huge.

https://github.com/dundee/gdu

suggested by @[email protected]

neofetch

display your *NIX and system info with one command! https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch

nvtop

Shows Program usage, GPU usage, GPU memory, Clock speeds, Power, Temperature, https://github.com/Syllo/nvtop

Htop

generic terminal system monitor and is very basic Shows CPU core util, Memory, Swap, Uptime, Load avrage, Tasks https://htop.dev/

duf

Shows disks space, Mounted point, File system type, Size https://github.com/muesli/duf

Pydf

Check disk space usage with colored output https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/pydf-check-disk-space-usage-with-colored-output/

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

Glacees

A lot like Htop or top but looks different and is cross platform. https://github.com/nicolargo/glances

Btop

Btop is like Htop but with customizability cranked to 11, it shows by default, Memory load, Available Memory, Cached Memory, Free Memory, Network interface, Network Download, Network Upload, IP address, Running Programs, How much memory the Programs are using as well as CPU, CPU cores, CPU util, CPU Temperature, and the time. https://github.com/aristocratos/btop

Suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

[Text Editors and file location]

yq

a lightweight and portable command-line YAML, JSON and XML processor. https://github.com/mikefarah/yq suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

fd

Superfast file finder Via cmd line. https://github.com/sharkdp/fd

Autojump

autojump is a faster way to navigate your filesystem. It works by maintaining a database of the directories you use the most from the command line. https://github.com/wting/autojump

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

fzf

Fuzzy command line finder https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

mcfly

quickly look through your shell history, to find that one command you're too lazy to type again (I do it as well LMAO) https://github.com/cantino/mcfly

Atuin

Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database, and records additional context for your commands. Additionally, it provides optional and fully encrypted synchronisation of your history between machines, via an Atuin server. (its like mcfly but better objectively)

https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

TLDR

a community driven easy man page finder. (life saver) https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

Nano

The default text editor, not stupid complicated not. not very configurable but does the job https://www.nano-editor.org/

Micro

it's like Nano but is static and has no dependency as well as plugin support. https://micro-editor.github.io/

Suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

Helix

It's a post-modern text editor that is similar to VIM or Neovim the main difference is it runs on Rust meaning No JavaScript, Electron or Vim Script and is highly customizable!

https://helix-editor.com/ Suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

Emacs

Behold the Church of Emacs, its like nano and vim had a child. its configurable and somewhat simple https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

Kakoune

A modal terminal text editor based on Vi. Kakoune is based on selection before action and is committed to the unix Philosophy https://github.com/mawww/kakoune

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

Bim

Bim aims to be lightweight and featureful with no external* dependencies, providing a modern editing experience in a lightweight, extensible package and is based on VIM https://github.com/klange/bim

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

Vim

The master-race of text editors that has a learning curve but is very configurable as well as plugins, to the point so people argue why need anything other than VIM https://www.vim.org/

Neovim

it's like vim and Oh my ZSH had a child, its got a lot of configurability and is ment to be more user-friendly https://neovim.io/

[Command utilities]

Tmux

its a CLI window, manager with a lot of bits and bobs. its actually a terminal multiplexer which is a fancy word i don't understand :D Also the keybindings are hard to remember and would highly recommend https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-pain-control suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki

tmate

its a fork of tmux that lets your share your terminal over LAN or the internet https://tmate.io/ Suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/Steamymoomilk

Terminal colors

It automatically detects 8, 16, 88, 256 color capabilities (via ncurses)
and displays the appropriate color charts.

http://zhar.net/projects/shell/terminal-colors suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/Steamymoomilk

byobu

its alot like tmux with added features https://www.byobu.org/ suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

zellij

Alot like Tmux and has plugin support https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

jq

jq is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor akin to sed,awk,grep, and friends for JSON data. It's written in portable C and has zero runtime dependencies, allowing you to easily slice, filter, map, and transform structured data. https://github.com/jqlang/jq suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

zoxide

faster/easier cd lets you quickly jump to places in your filesystem. E.g. z pic will put you in ~/Pictures. https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

ncdu

shows how much disk space is used by each directory, can also explore subdirectories and delete files suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

neomutt

email via cli! https://neomutt.org/

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

tig

interactive terminal UI for git with lots of functionality https://github.com/jonas/tig

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

pass

the standard Unix password manager https://www.passwordstore.org/ suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

Starship

The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell! (its lets you customize your shell) https://github.com/starship/starship suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

Lazygit

Terminal UI for git https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit Suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

K9S

Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style! https://k9scli.io/ suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

Lazydocker

Terminal ui for docker, Shows CPU and memory, and what's running and where its pulled from. https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker

Suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

RM-improved/RIP

Use RM but everything goes to /tmp folder https://github.com/nivekuil/rip

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

Trashy

fast and light weight RM that moves items to trash folder and has colorized outputs like FD. https://github.com/oberblastmeister/trashy

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

tealdear

tldr but in rust (tldr lets your easily find manpages/examples and usage for terminal command) https://github.com/dbrgn/tealdeer

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

Navi

navi allows you to browse through cheatsheets (that you may write yourself or download from maintainers) and execute commands. Suggested values for arguments are dynamically displayed in a list. https://github.com/denisidoro/navi

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

Cheat

this program allows you to create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line. https://github.com/cheat/cheat suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

gomi

its RM except has a trash can so you don't permitly delete something by accident
https://github.com/babarot/gomi suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

broot

a different than ranger/lf approach to navigating folders https://github.com/Canop/broot suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

mdr

a markdown viewer https://github.com/michaelmure/mdr suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

eza

modern ls, with cool features like file icons https://github.com/eza-community/eza suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

Rtorrent

a terminal based torrent client https://rakshasa.github.io/rtorrent/

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

ouch

It's a CLI tool for compressing and decompressing for various formats. such as .tar .zip 7z .gz .xz .lzma .bz .bz2 .lz4 .sz .zst .rar https://github.com/ouch-org/ouch

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

bat

modern cat, with features like syntax highlighting, line numbers, etc https://github.com/sharkdp/bat suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

thefuck

hey you!, yeah you I DIDNT TYPE THAT COMMAND WRONG! with thefuck it fixes when you type a prevoius command wrong https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

[Shells]

Nushell

it is a new type of shell that has some really cool features such as more detailed error messages and displays licenses via HTTP get, git or curl As well as a more clean UI for ls. https://www.nushell.sh/ suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

Bash

its the default and lots of programs use it, https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/

ble.sh

Bash Line Editor, bash Shell with a few tweaks https://github.com/akinomyoga/ble.sh suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

Mosh

Remote terminal application that allows roaming, supports intermittent connectivity, and provides intelligent local echo and line editing of user keystrokes. (sadly there is no pit) https://mosh.org/

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

DASH

a POSIX-compliant /bin/sh that is fast and simple http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/dash/

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

Fish

its like bash but has auto correct for typing https://fishshell.com/

Zsh

its like vim for a shell, it has lots of bells and whistles and is very customizable. https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/wiki/Installing-ZSH

[File Browsers]

Midnight Commander

Midnight commander is a file Browser that has 2 panes where you can do basic file manager stuff such as Copy, Pasting, moving files, and Deleting all Via Terminal!

https://midnight-commander.org/

Suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

Fm.awk

File manager written in awk https://github.com/huijunchen9260/fm.awk/ Suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/Steamymoomilk

lmf

st File Manager is a powerful file manager for the UNIX console. It has a curses interface and it's written in Python v3.4+. https://inigo.katxi.org/devel/lfm/

Rover

Rover is a small file browser that aims to be simple, fast and portable. https://lecram.github.io/p/rover/ suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/Steamymoomilk

LF

lf (as in "list files") is a terminal file manager written in Go with a heavy inspiration from ranger file manager. https://github.com/gokcehan/lf

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

Ranger

Alot like Midnight Commander but running on VIM, and just like VIM it is highly customizable
https://github.com/ranger/ranger

----added note ranger should be installed via git most distros have 4+ older versions and lots of bugs

Suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

nnn

nnn (n³) is a full-featured terminal file manager. It's tiny, nearly 0-config and incredibly fast. https://github.com/jarun/nnn suggest by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

[Fun/games]

lolcat

make your terminal rainbow https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

Cowsay

make a cow say something in Terminal! https://github.com/piuccio/cowsay

Suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

Bastet

Tetris clone via terminal https://github.com/fph/bastet/ suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

Cmatrix

make your terminal look like your mr.hacker man https://github.com/abishekvashok/cmatrix suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

spotify-tui

Spotify CLI frontend (Spotify via terminal) https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

cacademo

plays a bunch of neat ASCII animations https://linux.die.net/man/1/cacademo

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

figlet

ASCII text art. http://www.figlet.org/

toilet

turn text into ASCII art. http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/toilet

Yewtube

a cli youtube piped client, stream, download and play audio from YouTube piped. https://github.com/mps-youtube/yewtube

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/Steamymoomilk

Cmus

cmus is a small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems. https://cmus.github.io/

suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

cbonsai

Little ASCII art bonsai tree that can be animated with the -l flag https://gitlab.com/jallbrit/cbonsai suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

tty-clock

a digital clock via your terminal! https://github.com/xorg62/tty-clock

I would love to add more useful and cool programs to this list! Feel free to leave suggestions to add! I really want to make this post a really good place to find cool new programs

I would love to add more useful and cool programs to this list! Feel free to leave suggestions to add! I really want to make this post a really good place to find cool new programs

[messagers]

Irssi Irssi is completely themeable IRC client, aswell as easy to write protocol modules in C. https://irssi.org/ suggested by https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected]

links2

My teacher was super chill and let us use tasteful swear words to add emotion to our poems. Viewer decresstion advised, also im ass at writing english lol.

--edit I'm bad a t English and i was in high school

NEW FROM MICROSOFT -WINDOWS 11

To Microsoft

I love how windows has automatic driver support

I have used windows XP since I was 6

Every program that ends with .exe runs great

But you got some problems to fix

it started with automatic random windows updates

BUT FOR FUCKS SAKE

LET ME UNINSTALL MICROSOFT EDGE

ITS NOT GOOD

ITS DOG SHIT YOUR SO DESPRATE

YOU MAKE IT RUN ON X86

IT EATS ALL MY RAM LIKE AN OBEESE MAN AT MCDONALDS

IT SLOWS MY COMPUTER DOWN

AND ITS GIVIN ME BLUE SCREENS WITH THAT STUPID ASS FROWN

HERES AN ERROR CODE Screw you

GOOD LUCK FINDING IT ON GOOGLE IT DOESN’T EXIST

YOUR RANDOMLY UNINSTALL IMPORTANT THINGS

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO FIX MY PC WHEN IT UNINSTALLS THE DRIVER FOR MY DISPLAY

I WOULD RATHER USE MacOs Monterey

SCREW YOU, YOU UNIX WANNABE

YOUR WINDOWS 11 IS A STD.

YOU LEAVE A STUPID NOTEPAD OPEN WITH ONE COMMA

WHEN I CLICK SHUTDOWN YOU WONT CLOSE!

YOU ACT LIKE I INSTALLED WINDOWS

IT COMES PREINSTALLED, PRE DESTROYED, PRE BROKEN

AND YET YOU SAY YOUR OPIRATING SYSTEM IS THE BEST

75% OF GLOBAL MARKET SHARE IS A TRUE SHAME

YOUR OS IS REALLY LAME

YOU DON’T OWN YOUR COMPUTER

YOUR COMPUTER OWNS YOU

WINDOWS 3.1 1992

Your Os is as fun as a lobotomy

And is designed as well as a ford pinto

IT LOOKS LIKE A LOW BUDGE KDE DESKTOP

LINUX COULD MOP THE FLOOR WITH YOU

THE RISE OF LINUX DESKTOP 2022!

I LEAVE YOU IN YOUR SHAME

LYLING IN YOUR COFFIN BILL GATES TO BLAME

Linus Torvald was right

A computer is like air-conditioning

It becomes useless when you open windows

That is all

I leave you to dwell in your non open source

Propriety Hell