syft

Creating a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) for container images is no longer an issue. The handy tool “syft” lets you easily generate an SBOM in your desired format. This process can also be fully automated. Installation is very simple, and running it is straightforward as well. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.

January 11, 2025 · 1 min · 64 words

nano 8.0

The command-line text editor nano has been updated to version 8.0. According to Releasenotes, this update includes significant changes to how it’s used. By default ^F is bound to starting a forward search, and ^B to starting a backward search, while M-F and M-B repeat the search in the corresponding direction. (See the documentation if you want the old bindings back.) Command-line option –modernbindings (-/) makes ^Q quit, ^X cut, ^C copy, ^V paste, ^Z undo, ^Y redo, ^O open a file, ^W write a file, ^R replace, ^G find again, ^D find again backwards, ^A set the mark, ^T jump to a line, ^P show the position, and ^E execute. Above modern bindings are activated also when the name of nano’s executable (or a symlink to it) starts with the letter “e”. To open a file at a certain line number, one can now use also nano filename:number, besides nano +number filename. <Alt+Home> and <Alt+End> put the cursor on the first and last row in the viewport, while retaining the horizontal position. When the three digits in an #RGB color code are all the same, the code is mapped to the xterm grey scale, giving access to fourteen levels of grey instead of just four. For easier access, M-" is bound to placing/removing an anchor, and M-’ to jumping to the next anchor. Whenever an error occurs, the keystroke buffer is cleared, thus stopping the execution of a macro or a string bind. The mousewheel scrolls the viewport instead of moving the cursor. ...

May 2, 2024 · 2 min · 303 words

Hyfetch

The tool neofetch‌ displays system information attractively on the command line. After development of Neofetch had stalled, the developer archived the repository on April 26, 2024, which means the tool is no longer being actively developed. A recommended alternative is hyfetch, a fork of Neofetch that is actively maintained. For more information, see Hyfetch. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense. ...

May 1, 2024 · 1 min · 71 words

Twitch-downloader

You might know youtube-dl, but I only recently discovered twitch-downloader. It works just as simply as youtube-dl or yt-dlp. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.

December 15, 2023 · 1 min · 36 words