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muti commented on Fix HDMI-CEC weirdness with a Raspberry Pi and a $7 cable johnlian.net/posts/hdmi-c... · Posted by u/jlian

recursive · 11 days ago

I'm not home at the moment, but I'm pretty sure they don't have an HDMI input. I haven't seen speakers that do, except sound bars. I don't like the general premise of sound bars. You either need a subwoofer, or you're limited to too-many too-small drivers.

muti · 10 days ago

Active bookshelf speakers with HDMI Arc input are getting more common. Kanto Ren, Kef LSX II, Klipsch The Fives, Elac Debut ConneX

There's also the compact, simple alternatives to bulky receivers that are becoming available: Wiim amp, Sonos amp, Eversolo play, and the cheaper chinese makers like SMSL and Fosi. Each of those brands has a small device the size of an apple tv that will take an HDMI Arc input, and output an amplified signal to power some passive bookshelf speakers.

muti commented on The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need bwplotka.dev/2025/lazygit... · Posted by u/linhns

dizzant · 2 months ago

Thank you for the many tool links! You seems to know this space well. I have come to pick your brain for more.

I have been searching for a while for good tools to split/regroup diffs in a patch series. hunk.nvim looks interesting. Do you know of similar/competing tools?

I frequently hit a problem where removing a spurious hunk from an old commit causes cascading conflicts in all subsequent commits. Are there tools to propagate hunk removal into the future without the manual conflict-resolution pain?

Thanks again!

muti · 2 months ago

Are you looking for solutions within git or jj?

In my experience with jj when resolving a conflict, as long as I do it in the earliest change, I will only have to do it once.

Git has the rerere setting [0] which reduces the need to resolve the same conflict over and over

0: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Rerere

muti commented on What's New in C# 14: Null-Conditional Assignments blog.ivankahl.com/csharp-... · Posted by u/ivankahl

esafak · 3 months ago

    if (This) {
        if (is) {
            if (much) {
                if (better) {
                    println("I get paid by the brace")
                }
            }
        }
    }

muti · 3 months ago

  if (!same) {
    return;
  }

  if (!number) {
    return;
  }

  if (!of_braces) {
    return;
  }

  println("but easier to read")

muti commented on CAPTCHAs are over (in ticketing) behind.pretix.eu/2025/05/... · Posted by u/pabs3

thatguy0900 · 7 months ago

I could see an issue with that since most people are going to be going to events in a group, and won't want to go unless everyone gets their ticket. If I wanted to go with three people, do you lottery us as a group or individually? If I want to go with 5 people and there's a lottery, the best thing to do would be have multiple people buy 5 tickets each, multiply that by every group and you have a lot of people buying tickets who don't actully want them and people who only put one order in get shafted

muti · 7 months ago

Require the intent to include ticket holder names/id and check it on entry to the venue, multiple intents for the same group can be deduplicated

muti commented on Hong Kong's Famous Bamboo Scaffolding Hangs on (For Now) nytimes.com/2025/05/24/wo... · Posted by u/perihelions

aaron695 · 7 months ago

> mostly a couple quick wraps and overhand knots.

"The toughest part of the job, though, is tying a proper knot to secure bamboo poles, which can take years to master"

Cool sketches of the knots - https://multimedia.scmp.com/infographics/culture/article/318...

I'm sure the years to master includes where and which way to do the knots.

> some flat nylon ribbon

Over 0.5 kN per strip, blah blah boring specs for the scaffolding which at 25 pages would be... 100 times shorter than the EU?

Any who, my bamboo wilted after cutting, you have to treat it it seems... so not even close to the knot stage, but did find the spec'ed lashes, then remembered I hate knots, like just the basic reef knot ones... screw years. Zip ties FTW

muti · 7 months ago

Knots and construction with poles and rope lashing was always my favourite part of scouts. The sketches of the knot looks cool on the surface but don't tell me much about how they are tied or what other lashings they are similar to. Not much detail and the second image has three running ends?

muti commented on 23andMe files for bankruptcy to sell itself reuters.com/business/heal... · Posted by u/healsdata

Quekid5 · 9 months ago

If your (backup-via-redundancy) keys are mutable, you do not have a backup. What happens in the case of a ransomware attack, for example?

You've also added (possibly substantial) latency to every single operation that operates on user data.

muti · 9 months ago

The specifics of how the keys are backed against different failure modes/attacks is orthogonal to the splitting of data/key.

Yes you would need to carefully design the system that allows deletion of keys while minimizing chances of data loss, but it can be done, and it's going to be cheaper and less complex to do so on a tiny subset of the data.

Latency considerations are also down to design, it's not a given that there will be significant overhead imposed.

muti commented on 23andMe files for bankruptcy to sell itself reuters.com/business/heal... · Posted by u/healsdata

Quekid5 · 9 months ago

You still have to backup those keys somewhere... and if you don't do it the same way as for the data then your backups are effectively worthless.

muti · 9 months ago

Much less data to back up so it can be stored in a way that is replicated for redundancy but still mutable. Separating the key and data is what allows for sending data to tape backup etc

muti commented on Quadlet: Running Podman containers under systemd mo8it.com/blog/quadlet/... · Posted by u/gjvc

muti · 9 months ago

I wanted to try something different when I reset my self host set up several years ago, and went with openSUSE MicroOS. Ultimately it has led to podman containers running under systemd/quadlet and I'm quite happy with the current set up.

Containers auto update with built in podman tooling, getting at logs and monitoring is through the usual systemd tools. When I need to change something, it's easy to work out where the config files are if I have forgotten and they are easy to read and change. Rootless and daemonless is nice too.

I tried a few things along the way, podman compose felt clunky so I'm glad it is deprecated and it's clear quadlets are the way to go.

There was a learning curve and there's less information out there than with docker, so keep that in mind. I would still lean towards docker and docker compose for local dev to bring a stack of services up and down.

muti commented on Show HN: Feels Like Paper lukasmoro.com/paper... · Posted by u/MoroL

jitl · a year ago

I love the lens effect at the bottom of the viewport and design of the site overall, really cool. Do you have a post about that effect - or is the best way to learn about it in the developer tools?

muti · a year ago

Too bad it makes the whole thing laggy enough that I didn't get past the first few paragraphs on my phone, and there's no obvious way to disable it

muti commented on A cycling desk / Zwifting with a split keyboard ohrg.org/cycling-typing... · Posted by u/breezykermo

muti · a year ago

A split kb with integrated trackball would help alleviate the awkward mousing situations, e.g. the charybdis [1]. I'm in a similar position having gone down the ergo split keyboard rabbit hole and vim everywhere, now building a charybdis myself

1. https://github.com/Bastardkb/Charybdis