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gadelaton My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable

Do you have a script which bypasses login screen and switches input on TV too? I don't think so. Anyways my problem is that it takes a programmer to solve this even partially.

gadelaton My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable

These setups suck for following reasons:

1. Can't wake up your PC with controller. Workarounds with custom scripts and WoL are ridiculous. They also don't solve having to log in afterwards and starting a game.

2. Because of missing HDMI-CEC, you have to switch to PC output manually on TV

3. Same issue in opposite side. PC stupidly uses TV output even if TV is off. If you want to use the PC without TV, you gotta disable TV output. What's that, you can't see display menu so you can do this? Yeah because that menu showed up on your TV that is off, since it's set as primary display, which is needed for games to launch on that screen.

For first issue, you gotta walk to your PC to turn it on, login and launch game. For 2) and 3), it's easiest to plug in cable in TV when you need to and plug it out when you are done.

I don't know why there isn't a consumer product yet solving this without hassle.

gadelaton Poland’s PM says previous government illegally used Pegasus spyware

Is Pegasus still working, or OS manufacturers patched the vulnerabilities it was using?

gadelaton An Internet of PHP

composer 1 was slow, composer 2 (released 3 years ago) is fast

gadelaton Dragonfly – Performant in-memory data store

Redis Cluster has lot of limitations though. It's unusable for multi-key operations, no scan, no transactions, single database only, client has to support it, the way it works makes it unusable when connecting to it outside the network (see https://redis.io/docs/management/scaling/) etc. At that point RedisCluster is not Redis anymore and it's disingenuous to call it that. I would rather have slightly lower performance and not have to deal with those limitations AND not have tot deal with orchestration.

gadelaton Show HN: Script-httpd – Turn command line scripts into web services

That's what I said, right?

gadelaton Show HN: Script-httpd – Turn command line scripts into web services

Hmm looks similar to stdinho https://github.com/ostrolucky/stdinho. Difference is that script-httpd accepts incoming http data and pipes it to process, returning result. Stdinho does not accept incoming http data, it just takes whatever stdout process returns right as process starts. This allows it to not wait for http connection and start buffering before that.

gadelaton Websocketd

I've built similar tool, but for HTTP at https://github.com/ostrolucky/stdinho