From the README:

fq is inspired by the well known jq tool and language that allows you to work with binary formats the same way you would using jq. In addition it can present data like a hex viewer, transform, slice and concatenate binary data. It also supports nested formats and has an interactive REPL with auto-completion.

It was originally designed to query, inspect and debug media codecs and containers like mp4, flac, mp3, jpeg. But since then it has been extended to support a variety of formats like executables, packet captures (with TCP reassembly) and serialization formats like JSON, YAML, XML, ASN1 BER, Avro, CBOR, protobuf. In addition it also has functions to work with URLs, convert to/from hex, number bases, search for things etc.

Like jq, it can parse JSON. But it can also parse YAML, like yq.

This is pretty damn cool.

The specs on this are absolutely insane:

It has 528 GPU tensor cores, supports up to 480GB of CPU RAM and 96GB of GPU RAM, and boasts a GPU memory bandwidth of up to 4TB per second.

Well, this is absolutely terrifying.

The good news (mentioned near the bottom of the article) is that memory encryption defeats this. That kind of encryption is already in common use.

But then the question becomes: how easy will it be to simply extract the encryption key from wherever it lives?

🤤

I wonder how much one of these bad boys will be.

gotem