In case you decide to look for alternatives, I would probably go with elastic/filebeat/grafana, a fairly standard log monitoring suite. Not saying it’s better or worse than Victoria Logs, which i have no experience with.

I think it depends a lot on what kind of application you’re thinking of. Here are some examples of tools that I particularly remember for having nice CLI interfaces, but they are all slightly different in terms of the number of operations/entities they support.

Single operation, a lot of different types of data: httpie

httpie is a CLI HTTP client. It allows to generate fairly complex requests, choose which diagnostic information you want to see, etc.

Examples:

$ https httpie.io/hello
$ http PUT pie.dev/put X-API-Token:123 name=John
$ http -v pie.dev/get

Several operations, a lot of parameters: Bazel

Bazel is a build system. There are only a handful of operations you typically perform (build, run, test, query), but they all follow the same pattern.

Examples:

$ bazel build //app
$ bazel --quiet build //app -c opt
$ bazel --quiet run //app -c opt -- --port=1234

Multiple entites, multiple operations: LVM

I really liked the interface of Linux Volume Manager tools. They consist of multiple commands that follow the same pattern, and use the same flags for options.

Examples:

# vgcreate -n vg_name
# vgs
# pvcreate /dev/sda
# vgextend vg_name /dev/sda
# lvcreate vg_name -n lv_name -L5G
# lvresize vg_name/lv_name -L+1G
# lvs

Wanted to mention jj too. It follows a fairly standard pattern of ‘<command> <noun> <verb>’, e.g. ‘jj bookmark create’, allows to abbreviate unambiguous commands (e.g. ‘jj b c’), has a lot of QoL features (such as highlighting unique prefixes of change IDs in the output). Really a lot of thought went into CLI design specifically it seems.

Go to Preferences -> Audio -> Replay Gain mode and set it to “Album” (if you’re listening to whole albums) or “Track” (if you’re mixing it up). This will let VLC read the ReplayGain[1] tags in your files and adjust playback volume accordingly. Chances are high that a lot of your collection already has these tags, and you won’t have to do anything else. If some of your files don’t have these tags, just run a tool (https://github.com/complexlogic/rsgain for example) to generate them.

Nice! I used to do something like this, which avoids xargs altogether:

cat urls.txt | while read url; do echo download $url; done

What features do you need? Just render a string with a given font and that’s it? Or something more advanced?

One is probably link local the other is global, that’s pretty normal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_address#Address_Scopes

Ah okay, it’s a user unit then. Try the following:

$ systemctl --user enable ydotoold
$ systemctl --user start ydotoold

Sadly very typical for science journalists.

It looks like you’re missing the ydotool.service unit file in the package. Can you check by running dpkg -L ydotool-custom (the name of the package you chose in step 3.4)?

Unit files are how services are defined in most Linux-based desktop systems, similar to services in Windows.

I just press M-.

This may be true, however a simpler explanation is that a lot of people are in relationships, so the prior probability of liking someone who’s not in a relationship is already low. Also it could be that attractive people are more likely to be in a relationship, further reducing this probability.

fzf is great for quickly finding files e.g. in large code repositories.

tcpdump can help diagnose network issues.

tmux is based

Also if you make a typo you can quickly fix it with ^, e.g.

ls /var/logs/apache

^logs^log

Number one will forever and ever be strace

The design is very human.

Yeah, you’re not wrong. What I meant was that polkit is conceptually equivalent to UAC (at least it is supposed to solve the same problem). However it’s not really a fair comparison, as “polkit on Linux” isn’t one concrete thing you can analyse, it’s more of a pile of Lego blocks, which you could assemble any which way. In theory, with Wayland you could build a secure polkit agent that would not allow the malware to interact with it.

In reality this is a moot point, as most privilege elevation is still done via sudo anyway.

UAC on Linux would require an almost fundamental architecture change, in a way contrary to most of how Linux is used now.

I would say the challenge is not in the architecture, but in the general fragmentation of the ecosystem. PolicyKit is basically an equivalent to UAC, but it’s not used universally by everything that needs elevated access.

I think the basic premise of this question, that Windows and Linux somehow have a different foundational security model that is or isn’t based on passwords, is not really true. Passwords play more or less the same role for any modern operating system – be it Linux, MacOS, Android, iOS, etc.

The only major difference is that instead of UAC, Linux has a variety of options (sudo, policykit, run0), which are implemented differently across different distributions. If your privileged user doesn’t have a password, in some cases this could lead to any program being able to elevate their privilege quietly, unlike UAC.

However, in many distributions you can set up a user with a password and enable passwordless local login, which would be almost equivalent to windows with no password.

Answering your question directly, the major threat to most consumer users is physical compromise or theft of device. Your statement that “physical access is game over” is not entirely accurate: disk encryption with a password is a very strong protection against unauthorized data access, but you need to use a password (doesn’t matter if it’s Linux or Windows).