I would like to narrate a personal story from the late 80s. I grew up in a multi-family where my uncles own a lot of vehicles, including the left-handed drive Jeeps from the World War era (India uses Right-Hand Drive). Our siblings were raised by our grandmother. After she finishes cooking lunch, she always have the problem of gathering us around to eat. We would have all gone to the locality and the neighbors to play. She was always frustrated and furious about our lack of timing.
So, I repurposed a truck's horn so she can just press a switch and blow the horn loud enough for us to hear across the neighbors. I had it on the roof-top for quite a while, even after she passed away the next year. Thinking about it now, I know it was pretty reckless. It was so loud, that other families would remind their kids that -- that is the Food-Time-Horn.
If I assign a contact a custom ringtone, I expect all devices to know that, especially if they're going to do the insane Apple thing where every.single.device.I.own rings at the same time.
I swear Apple thinks any call which hasn't been pre-selected for voicemail has world changing importance.
For those looking, check this out https://www.igeeksblog.com/how-to-turn-on-emergency-bypass-o...
If it was dinner time and she needed us all, she'd blow 'Shave-and-a-haircut-two-bits'.
My parents had also the bell at the bottom of the stairs... and as a father of 3, I understand all the parents having one!
I had this exact problem until I scheduled my DND to automatically turn on during work hours and off afterwards. That has helped immensely
Your recommendation, depending on apps installed, could lower their quality of life. Proceed with caution, here.
Being able to attach a message also lets you get some context on what she may need. It might not be that urgent.
GF: "Hey, can you come have a look at this shirt I bought?"
Parent: "Yeah can you please file a JIRA ticket for that, and appropriately tag its priority? I'll get notifications through my regular workflow channels and this will enable me to respond to your requests in a more timely manner! Thanks!"
I think that was the point of joke/parent. A GF may abuse this.
I've seen couples break up, because significant others can't understand being present, doesn't mean available.
As software engineers I think we should explore more the part of our skills that can create things that are not useful per-se, but creative and funny, such as the best gifts (at least for me) are
while true; do echo ok | nc -l 8000; for i in 1 2 3 4; do printf '\a'; sleep 1; done; done
while true; do echo ok | nc -q 1 -l -p 8000; for i in 1 2 3 4; do printf '\a'; sleep 1; done; done
If your port 8000 is already occupied, I recommend port 41327 as an alternative for this alerting service. After all, 41327 reads "ALERT" in leetspeak.
By the way, visit http://susam.net:8000/ right now to send me some beeps! :)
while true; do curl -q --http0.9 http://susam.net:8000/; sleep $(( $RANDOM % 10 )); doneAm disappointed and my day is ruined
while true; do (echo ok | nc -q 1 -vlp 8000 2>&1; echo; date -u) | tee -a beeper.log; for i in 1 2 3 4; do printf '\a'; sleep 1; done & done
while true; do echo Coming! | nc -l 8000; for i in 1 2 3 4; do say "Lunch time!"; sleep 1; done; done
If you are on the client end of the equation and have ssh access to their mac: ssh user@host say "get your ** here right now"
Yes, I'm trying to be a little funny but the point is that (outside perhaps work?), you should probably be a bit more engaged with the people that mean something to you.
My girlfriend has autism and when I want her attention I need to ask for it like 5 times over a space of 20 seconds, if I don't ask multiple times she will literally forget I even asked in the first place. Sometimes it literally takes a minute. This isn't because she doesn't care about me, it's just how her brain works.
Maybe this is just a better form of communication for him while he's focused on work. Please don't assume ill-intent, it just seems unnecessarily rude.
If someone is neurotypical and fully functional... maybe? For someone who isn't, this is basically "try harder to be normal", with all of the guilt and judgement that implies.
For example: Telling a person with chronic clinical depression they have no reason to be depressed and are being ungrateful for having a successful career.
We also have voice recorder buttons they can use to ask for certain things like brushes, treats, play time etc. but those get much more annoying :)
I had considered making something for my girlfriend also, because she loves that I'm a nerd and I wanted to use my nerdiness to make her something special, even if it is just a button for her to press that lights up a light on my desk, just so she can tell me she's thinking of me.
What has taken me aback is how it regularly receives malicious traffic that I suspect is from bots scanning for vulnerable servers. The hostname is not shared anywhere public. The client app that knows the URL has only been shared to her as an APK. Made me realize there's no such thing as security through obscurity.
Is it running https? Trying to think of how they would have gotten that, eavesdropping would be one way.
Otoh if they are hitting your host by randomly probed IP address but don't know the obscure path, that is not surprising at all. There are tons of exposed http ports unknown to their operators, and it is makes total sense that bad actors are trying to discover them.
I'm not running https but I should, to protect myself from someone MITMing the requests and possibly pwning my Pi.
You already did the hard part ;-).
I have a feeling the same thing could happen here.
I call it a concept though because the app as-implemented is unreliable and gets stuck in "Checking availability," "Trying to reconnect" every time you launch it. If you lower your wrist while it is trying to reconnect the app gets suspended and starts again.
So imagine standing there for sometimes up to a minute with your wrist extended while the Walkie-Talkie app tries to reconnect, all to hypothetically save time. It isn't workable. Which is a real shame because great concept on paper.
OH, a bird at the window!!
I'm still able to concentrate. By the way, what was I doing already? (more seriously, I can progress and I am able to get things done and recover from interruptions quite easily, but almost never focused at a point I can't notice what is going on around me. Which suits me well actually)
I wonder if it's my ADHD that does it actually, I can handle quick changes of attention because after all that is what I do, but if things are a problem I need all effort to not switch attention and lose what I am doing.
He mumbled something about needing to close a bunch of tabs featuring pink pixels.
I know a family where the kitchen table lights turn green when their (temporarily) disabled son needs something and he is upstairs. My mom used to hit the radiator pipes with her wedding ring for that (in the opposite situation).
`eject` + a post-it on the CD-rom tray 'Hey, look behind you!'
`ssh my-machine.local espeak 'dinner is ready'` or `ssh her-machine.home espeak "please pick up the phone! important!"`.
With a simple button exposed via a .desktop file.
I've long since lost the script but I've seen a few similar ideas kicking around over the years. Really only applicable to homelabbers I imagine and probably easy enough to throw together again.
Or maybe the art motivated the real. I'd believe that.
# flowers?
function flowers() {
let "flowers = $RANDOM % 25";
echo -en "\nI should"; if [[ ${flowers} != 0 ]]; then echo -n " not";fi;echo -e " buy flowers today.\n\n"
}I made a similar thing with an rpi(sans the sound), when my girlfriend had mild covid and was isolating in the room next door.
It's was nice to have an electronic communication method bespoke for her (even if it doesn't communicate that much information).
good old times :)