- fd: an improved find
Depends on what you need to do, at least without constructing a pipeline like it's 1990 (modern..), probably on your age, and how much you suck at typing. I have it installed as well, but most of the time still use find and not just in scripts which hopefully is a no-brainer. Some rather weird decisions went into that iteration, or call it taste if you prefer. Even the name is a joke honestly. But what in and out of Rust isn't. Re-inventing the wheel, ok. But then why not, err, also improve on it?
- hexyl: a better xxd
Like what?!
- ripgrep: a cornerstone of my workflow, an improved grep
No, it's a by default recursive grep which grep emphatically isn't, wasn't and never aimed to be. It has many, many more features, is bigger, newer, shinier and (yes) a bit slower. But that's ok, I use it too where it makes sense, as usual. An improved silversearcher, maybe that!
I'm barely using anything of the mentioned. But then I hate colors, and when I want to see nice pictures I'm off to the movies. At least your definition of modern is actually funny.
While I still believe it's mainly about attention seeking and remaining the topic of discussions on the part of the EU, which is not an easy task yet as such mildly effective as we see again, one could get the feeling there's somehow more to it. Like a collusion, however tacit or pragmatic, that would in general work both ways but in this case so as to provide national governments an opportunity to make a few extra points from time to time, (mainly) on domestic ground, and to look prudent or generous, at least to certain groups of voters. In this case a benefaction to the unlikely German "critics" in particular. Its ruling coalition certainly is desperate for it. For anything really. I already had this feeling years ago when we were wearing ourselves out on the darned question of so-called "upload-filters" amid the entire EU copyright law issue. What even became of it? Well, due to ultimately national implementation and copious room for legal interpretation, at least in Germany not much. A kind of nothingburger in fact, certainly relative to to the racket that went before, or shall we say, was supposed to go before. Back at the time it made (then) Merkel's big-coalition government suddenly look a little sunnier. To be blunt, it feels rather artificial to me and I don't expect anything like it being supposed to actually transpire no matter what. That is even without considering how unclear matters of technical realization remain, even if you've seen all the polito-pseudotechnical BS bingo there is to see at the moment. Like, how to even enforce client-side scanning when applications (or OS) are free software? It's just rubbish, and supposedly can be as no one never seriously planned for anything like it. But why not just talk the big talk about it? Maybe it helps. A few very optimistic quarters may even hope for some sort of (shallow) deterrence effect. For a bit of ruffling and scaring up the evil agents. Good luck as for that one.
At least in Debian there's already the inevitable discussion about a supposed opportunity for "finally" moving to zstd. Which to me, frankly, feels a bit like getting out of the frying pan and into the fire, or what I think Arch (yuck) did years ago. That's not because I'm so much into xz. It's kind of funny there's a possible Debian connection, of all things, considering that quite a lot authorities and services in areas like China, Russia or Iran are recently migrating, for obvious reasons, from Windows/Mac to more or less home-made (~styled) Linux distributions, that just often happen to be based on Debian. I don't think this is too popular in English speaking countries in particular, but then I really didn't want to chime in on the speculations. ;P
Yes, the concluding paragraph is the most succinct (and fitting) here, there are better explanations as for the technical aspects. I know it's not related, but for the Germans around, this is just great: https://inka.de/angebot/
A community ISP. Last changed 02.05.2001, in case you missed it. ;) Millennium blues. I wasn't aware about the possibilities back then, but it's just before my time.
- hexyl: a better xxd Like what?!
- ripgrep: a cornerstone of my workflow, an improved grep No, it's a by default recursive grep which grep emphatically isn't, wasn't and never aimed to be. It has many, many more features, is bigger, newer, shinier and (yes) a bit slower. But that's ok, I use it too where it makes sense, as usual. An improved silversearcher, maybe that!
I'm barely using anything of the mentioned. But then I hate colors, and when I want to see nice pictures I'm off to the movies. At least your definition of modern is actually funny.