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Linux Candy: cbonsai – generate bonsai trees

May 5, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software

cbonsai is a bonsai tree generator, written in C using ncurses. It intelligently creates, colors, and positions a bonsai tree.

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Tera – interactive music radio player

May 1, 2023 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Tera is an interactive music radio player. Play your favorite radio stations, CRUD your favorite lists, and explore new radio stations from your terminal.

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Machine Learning

Machine Learning in Linux: chatGPT-shell-cli – chatGPT and DALL-E tool

April 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Scientific, Software

chatGPT-shell-cli appears an interesting project to feature as it’s a simple script to use OpenAI’s chatGPT and DALL-E from the terminal without needing to install either Python or Node.js.

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Mind Mapping

h-m-m – create mind maps in the terminal

April 5, 2023 Eilidih Parris CLI, Productivity, Reviews, Software

h-m-m is billed as a simple, fast, keyboard-centric tool for working with mind maps.

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System Administration

Essential System Utilities: bottom – graphical process/system monitor for the terminal

April 3, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, System Software

bottom is billed as a customizable cross-platform graphical process/system monitor for the terminal.

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Artificial Intelligence

Machine Learning in Linux: CodeFormer – face restoration

March 29, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews, Software

CodeFormer is software which offers blind face restoration. This is freeware.

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Machine Learning in Linux: FBCNN – JPEG artifacts removal

March 27, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews, Software

FBCNN (flexible blind convolutional neural network) is software which seeks to remove artifacts from JPEGs while preserving the integrity of the images

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Machine Learning in Linux: scikit-learn – machine learning library for Python

March 13, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Scientific, Software

scikit-learn is one of the most commonly used packages when it comes to Machine Learning and Python.

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Machine Learning in Linux: Whisper – automatic speech recognition system

March 6, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Scientific, Software

Whisper is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual and multitask supervised data.

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tuc – drop-in replacement for cut

March 5, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

tuc is a similar tool to cut but offers additional functionality. It’s free and open source software written in Rust.

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Artificial intelligence

Machine Learning in Linux: Old Photo Restoration

March 3, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews, Scientific

Old Photo Restoration is an academic project that lets you restore old photos. This software uses PyTorch and is written in Python.

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Deep Learning

Machine Learning in Linux: Real-ESRGAN – image and video restoration software

February 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software

Real-ESRGAN is a project that aims to create practical algorithms for general image/video restoration. It’s free and open source software.

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Machine Learning in Linux: Demucs – music source separation

February 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Demucs is billed as “a state-of-the-art music source separation model”.

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Machine Learning in Linux

Machine Learning in Linux: GFPGAN – Face restoration software

February 15, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Scientific, Software

GFPGAN is deep learning software for real-world face restoration. This software can radically improve the quality of images.

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cTune – ncurses based internet radio player

February 8, 2023 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

cTune is an ncurses based internet radio player written in C. This is free and open source software.

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Revisited: PyRadio – curses based internet radio player

February 6, 2023 Luke Baker CLI, Internet, Multimedia, Reviews

PyRadio is a cross-platform curses based internet radio player written in Python. Let’s check out the current version.

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Humour

Linux Candy: pyjokes – one line jokes for programmers

January 27, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software

pyjokes is a terminal based program that tells one line jokes for programmers.

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System Administration

Essential System Utilities: WTF – terminal dashboard

January 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, System Software

WTF (also known as ‘wtfutil’) is billed as “the personal information dashboard for your terminal”.

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Excellent Utilities: Nushell – flexible cross-platform shell with a modern feel

January 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Nushell is billed as a new type of shell. The aim is to adopt the Unix philosophy of shells where pipes connect command together.

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Excellent Utilities: Oh My Zsh – framework to manage your Zsh configuration

January 4, 2023 Erik Karlsson CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Oh My Zsh is an open source, community-driven framework for managing your Zsh configuration.

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