Rook provides a secret service a-la secret-tool, keyring, or pass/gopass, except backed by a Keepass v2 kdbx file.

The problem Rook solves is mainly in script automation, where you have aerc, offlineimap, isync, vdirsyncer, msmtp, restic, or any other cron jobs that need passwords and which are often configured to fetch these passwords from a secret service with a CLI tool. Unlike existing solutions, Rook is headless, and does not have a bespoke secrets database full of passwords that must be manually synchronized with Keepass; instead, it uses a Keepass db directly.

Rook is in the AUR; binaries are available from the project page.

From the changelog, since the last Lemmy release announcement (v0.0.9):

[v0.1.3] Mon May 20 17:12:25 2024 -0500

Added

• status command, a more lightweight way of testing if a DB is open. Using this instead of info in e.g. statusbar scripts greatly reduces CPU load.
• case-insensitive search.

Changed

• removing some nil panics that could occur when DB is closed while a client call is being processed.

Fixed

• a hidden bug in the OTP pin code.
• some errors being ignored (and therefore not logged)
• TOTP attributes getting missed by otp generator check

[v0.1.2] Fri Apr 26 15:13:55 2024 -0500

Added

• one-time pin soft locking
• installation instructions for distributions that have rook in a repository
• more of the special autotype {} commands are supported (backspace, space, esc)

Changed

• getAttr adds a little delay before typing, allowing initiator tools (like rofi) to close windows before text is output
• cleans up code per golint/gochk

Fixed

• an autotype bug in outputting literals

[v0.1.1] Sun Mar 17 13:44:54 2024 -0500

Added

• the original source rook.svg
• ability to start the rook server passing in the password via stdin pipe.

Changed

• assets moved to directory
• documentation referenced Keepass v4; there's no such thing, it's v2.
• license, was missing (c) from original
• stop trying to remove the version number from build assets
• documentation to clarify when the master password exists as plain text, in response to questions from @[email protected]

[v0.1.0] Fri Mar 15 14:03:25 2024 -0500

Added

• nfpm file
• logo

Changed

• clears out the password so it's not being held in plain text by the flags library.
• some of the documentation, and fixes the duplicated v0.0.9 entry in the changelog.
• CI build targets are more limited, but also include some distro packages
• better README documentation

Removed

• the monitor attribute was taken out, as rook no longer busy-polls the DB

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/15162087

so, about a month ago i stumbled upon the duckduckgo ai chat feature and wrote an article about how private their APIs are, and a few weeks after, a CLI client.

the thing is in a pretty mature stage now (its not like there is a lot of work to be done there tbh)

its not super private, but it is "private enough". the only thing duckduckgo has is your IP, which is usually not much unless you are on a residential connection with a dedicated IP

I use this tool instead of dig and kdig.

A blog post shows an example usage of hyperfine CLI tool to measure and plot time of startup and shutdown of several code interpreters.

https://gitlab.com/christosangel/tui-battleship

This is a tui implementation of the popular classic naval battle game, written in Bash.

The objective of the game is to destroy the computer's fleet, before the computer achieves the same against you.

You take turns with the computer, hitting squares in each other's grids.

You have to guess the position of the enemy ships on the computer's 10x10 grid, in order to win.

You lose if the computer achieves sinking your ships first.

I just noticed that eza can now display total disk space used by directories!

I think this is pretty cool. I wanted it for a long time.

There are other ways to get the information of course. But having it integrated with all the other options for listing directories is fab. eza has features like --git-awareness, --tree display, clickable --hyperlink, filetype --icons and other display, permissions, dates, ownerships, and other stuff. being able to mash everything together in any arbitrary way which is useful is handy. And of course you can --sort=size

docs:

  --total-size               show the size of a directory as the size of all
                             files and directories inside (unix only)

It also (optionally) color codes the information. Values measures in kb, mb, and gb are clear. Here is a screenshot to show that:

eza --long -h --total-size --sort=oldest --no-permissions --no-user

Of course it take a little while to load large directories so you will not want to use by default.

Looks like it was first implemented Oct 2023 with some fixes since then. (Changelog). PR #533 - feat: added recursive directory parser with `--total-size` flag by Xemptuous

https://gitlab.com/christosangel/tui-mines

tui mines is evidently a text-based user interface implimentation of the classic mine sweeping puzzle game.

The user has to clear a board, square by square, flagging the squares suspected to hide mines on the way.

If the user opens a mine square, things go KABOOM! and the game is lost.

The user uses hints from the numbered squares. This numbers how many bombs are touching that square in every direction ( 8 in total).

Through logic, and a bit of luck, the player ends up clearing all the squares, while flagging all the mines.

https://github.com/dislux-hapfyl/pynksh

Writing functional shell snake code to improve my sanity.

Howdy Lemmy,

I'm announcing Rook v0.0.9, software that provides a secret service a-la secret-tool, keyring, or pass/gopass, except backed by a Keepass 4.x kdbx file.

The problem Rook solves is mainly in script automation, where you have aerc, offlineimap, isync, vdirsyncer, msmtp, restic, or any other cron jobs that need passwords and which are often configured to fetch these passwords from a secret service with a CLI tool. Unlike existing solutions, Rook is headless and does not have a bespoke secrets database, full of passwords that must be manually synchronized with Keepass; instead, it uses a Keepass db directly.

While the readme goes into more detail, I will say the motivation for Rook evolved from a desire to use a Keepass db in a GUI-less environment and finding no existing solutions. KeepassXC provides a secret service, but is not headless; it also provides a CLI tool, but this requires the db credentials on every call. kpmenu exists, but is designed specifically to require human interaction and is unsuitable for cron environment scripting. Every other solution maintains its own DB back end, incompatible with Keepass.

Rook also benefits from minimal external dependencies, and at 1kloc is auditable by developers - I believe even by ones who do not know Go (the language of implementation). Being able to verify for yourself that there's no malicious code is a critical trait for a tool with which you're trusting secrets.

Rook is fit for purpose, and signed binaries are provided as well as build-from-source instructions (for auditors).

The project contains work in progress: credentials are limited to simple password-locked kdbx, and so doesn't yet support key files. Bash scripts that provide autotyping and attribute/secret selection via rofi, fzf, and xdotool are provided, for GUI environments; these have known bugs. Rook has not been tested on BSD, Darwin, or any other system than Linux, but may well work; the main sticking point is the use of a local file socket for client/server communication, so POSIX systems should be fine, but still, YMMV.

As a final caveat: up until v0.0.9 I've been compressing with brotli, which is very nice yet somewhat obscure. With the next release, everything will be gzipped. Also included in the next release will be packages for various distributions.

Hello Lemmy,

invidtui is a TUI-based Invidious client, which can:

• Search for and browse videos, playlists and channels
• Play audio or video from any instance
• View, open, edit and save m3u8 playlists
• Download video/audio in any format
• Authenticate with the preferred instance, and show user feed, playlists and subscriptions

This release contains the following new features/fixes:

Embedded Recommendations tab

Recommendations for the video that is currently being played is now shown in a separate tab within the queue.

A demo and instructions are posted here

YouTube timestamps

Timestamps found within Youtube URIs are now seeked to on playback.

A demo and instructions are posted here

Custom seeking

A separate modal is shown to modify the playback position. Positions can be seeked to relatively/absolutely.

A demo and instructions are posted here

I hope you enjoy this release, and any feedback is appreciated.

After an unexpected need to reset my work machine 😓, and needing to set up my development environment again by hand 🛠️, I decided to create a solution to quickly restore my local git repositories (and associated folder structure) 🔄.

I took this opportunity to write two bash scripts that clone and update all repositories on GitHub belonging to either a user or an organization 📦.

This means that, for example, with a single command ⌨️, you can clone hundreds or thousands of repositories, with high levels of concurrency (50 clones in parallel is doable 💨).

The scripts allow for a configurable clone depth, a limit for the number of repositories cloned, and a level of concurrency that decides how many clones are run in parallel 📈.

By running the following command:

git-clone-all --owner f3rno64 --limit 200 --jobs 40 --dir ./f3rno64

I was able to clone all 174 personal repositories 📚, with full commit histories and all tags & branches, in 58 seconds ⏱️.

I wrote a blog post describing this in more detail here 📝, check it out for a breakdown of the arguments and examples of usage.

The GitHub repository is f3rno64/mass-git-scripts and the README also includes examples and general usage instructions 🗂️.

Please check it out and let me know what you think! 💬

I hope you find it useful, and any feedback or suggestions for improvement would be greatly appreciated! 🙏

Hello! This is not my project, I just found it today.

Making verbose things more concise and readable makes a big difference to me, and this could be excellent for me when dealing with HTML/XML. Just piping those formats through xmq yields a beautiful and clear rendering of the data.

And as a NestedText enthusiast, I can now (using additional existing tooling):

• transform HTML -> JSON -> NestedText
• edit NestedText
• transform NestedText -> JSON -> HTML

I have a list containing a set of tags, and would like to exclude one tag, unless another tag exists in the line.

Say I have the following list, and want to exclude B, unless A is present.

[A,B]
[A,C]
[B,C]
[A]
[B]

I can reverse grep for B:

> grep --invert-match "B"
[A,C]
[A]

How can I find the previous list, but also the item containing [A,B]?

Smassh is a TUI based typing test application inspired by MonkeyType -- A very popular online web-based typing application

Smassh tries to be a full fledged typing test experience but not missing out on looks and feel! There is a lot of room for improvements/additions and I am open to contributions and suggestions!

Github: https://github.com/kraanzu/smassh

Thank you! <3

kdotool uses KWin's scripting API to control windows. In each invocation, it generates a KWin script on-the-fly, loads it into KWin, runs it, and then deletes it, using KWin's DBus interface.

This program should work with both KDE 5 and the upcoming KDE 6.

Hello Lemmy,

invidtui is a TUI-based Invidious client, which can:

• Search for and browse videos, playlists and channels
• Play audio or video from any instance
• View, open, edit and save m3u8 playlists
• Download video/audio in any format
• Authenticate with the preferred instance, and show user feed, playlists and subscriptions

This release contains the following new features/fixes:

Dynamic theming

Themes can now be applied from theme files dynamically within the application as well as from command-line and configuration options.

A demo and instructions are posted here

Channel 'Releases' tab

A new 'releases' tab is added to the channel page, to show new content from channel authors.

Enhanced configuration handling

Configuration handling is now done in the most cross-platform way as possible.

I hope you enjoy this release, and any feedback is appreciated.

I created a very simple script that shows the history usage of your shell. Should work with bash and fish shells.

This basically goes through the history and counts the command names. So all of git push, git pull, etc will count as just git.

Example output:

    847 pacman
    296 cd
    206 git
    203 time
    180 vim
    172 awk
    166 aur
    142 strace
    141 cat
    125 ls
Total commands:  7008
Unique commands: 753

Terminal Trove showcases the best of the terminal, Discover a collection of CLI, TUI, and more developer tools at Terminal Trove.

Hello Lemmy,

invidtui is a TUI-based Invidious client, which can:

• Search for and browse videos, playlists and channels
• Play audio or video from any instance
• View, open, edit and save m3u8 playlists
• Download video/audio in any format
• Authenticate with the preferred instance, and show user feed, playlists and subscriptions

This release contains the following new features/fixes:

• Playlists are downloadable as well, with progress display in the "Downloads" page. Deleted/private videos are stored separately from the public ones.

  To use this feature:

  • Select a playlist with the i key, wait for the playlist to load
  • Press Ctrl+S to initialize the download
  • To view the progress of the download, press Y

• Optimizations to the playlist file loading and queue rendering (reduced CPU usage)
  • Updating the queue only for new/updated items
  • Rate limiting the calls to MPV
  • Cancellable loading of playlist entries
    • Open the queue and press x to cancel loading the playlist entries.

• An "Initializing" indicator is shown when the player is hidden and about to start playing a file

I hope you enjoy this release, and any feedback is appreciated.