[HN Gopher] Boyfriend-alert - A light based alert system
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Boyfriend-alert - A light based alert system
Author : rgun
Score : 212 points
Date : 2022-01-31 09:04 UTC (13 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| lillesvin wrote:
| Remember the dude whose garage port opened and closed seemingly
| at random because his /toggle endpoint ended up in his browser's
| "most visited" list:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16964907 ?
|
| I have a feeling the same thing could happen here.
| dokem wrote:
| That's why you have to use a POST request. GET should be read-
| only and a browser will not re-issue a POST for things like
| most-visited, tab restore, pre-fetch, etc.
| lillesvin wrote:
| Yeah, that's what the guy in the linked post is talking
| about. Various services (Skype/Teams, Slack, Twitter, etc.)
| will also send a GET if the URL is shared there. I once saw
| an accidental hotel booking triggered by Skype because the
| booking was performed through a GET request with a brazillion
| parameters.
| jstanley wrote:
| Interestingly the TLDR is longer than the rest of the README.
| Someone1234 wrote:
| Apple Watches have a cool Walkie-Talkie concept that could have
| worked well for this scenario.
|
| 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.
| mikestew wrote:
| It's a feature used once and then disabled. It seemed cool back
| when we got our Watch 4s, but as pointed out, it seemed like
| someone's side project that somehow made it into production.
| Turns out, you could have just called in less time.
| britches11 wrote:
| It's also a major battery drain -- probably thanks to the
| issues you mentioned.
| [deleted]
| berkes wrote:
| Brings back memories! I've had several such hacky things for my
| GF (now wife) and vice-versa.
|
| `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.
| charcircuit wrote:
| This seems to be worse than just having your girlfriend send you
| a DM on Discord. Discord will make a noise and show you a
| notification. Discord will also show you that you have an unread
| message where with this it's easy to miss (what's probably a LED)
| flash 6 times in 5.7 seconds.
|
| Being able to attach a message also lets you get some context on
| what she may need. It might not be that urgent.
| hsbauauvhabzb wrote:
| Building something to show her you care: priceless
| hackandtrip wrote:
| +1.
|
| 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
| hsbauauvhabzb wrote:
| I plan on giving my mother a prison tattoo gun for
| Christmas this year as a joke gift (she's really not happy
| I got a tattoo, despite living 3000km away). Does that
| count?
| ncarroll wrote:
| My boyfriend once presented me with a 3-doors game for my
| birthday. I was to click one door for my present. I
| wandered around all day trying to decide which one to
| choose and when I did, the other two doors disappeared and
| my warm and snugly new bathrobe was revealed. I married
| that guy about as fast as I could and twenty-six years
| later he's still good for a digital surprise. :-)
| jacquesm wrote:
| What a lovely story!
| pikzel wrote:
| Yeah, forcing her to use Discord just to get his attention.
| charcircuit wrote:
| Pretty much everyone uses Discord now. It's not about forcing
| her, it's about using a chat program you use already. If you
| two happen to not use Discord to talk to each other surely
| there is some other app which you use to communicate with
| each other.
| cxr wrote:
| > Pretty much everyone uses Discord now
|
| This statement is indicative of living in a bubble but
| being unaware that it exists.
| charcircuit wrote:
| It's likely that someone's girlfriend is in the same
| bubble as themself.
| jacquesm wrote:
| This is yet another generalization that doesn't hold true
| for the vast majority of the couples that I am aware of.
|
| (scope = me) != (scope = the world)
|
| Your bubble is unique to you, even if it seems like
| that's the whole world because you haven't seen much
| outside of your bubble (almost by definition) that does
| not mean that you are going to be able to generalize
| outside of your bubble from data collected inside of it
| except for the most obvious of cases.
| jacquesm wrote:
| > Pretty much everyone uses Discord now.
|
| Errm. No. Not everyone uses Discord now. When making
| general statements like that it always helps to keep a bit
| of perspective: am I or am I not involved in a crowd that
| on average is more likely than other such crowds to be
| using piece of software 'x'?
|
| At any one point in time 'everybody uses IRC', 'everbody
| uses ICQ', 'everybody uses Messenger' and so on would have
| all been equally false.
|
| Almost everybody who is not a child in the developed world
| has a mobile phone. But not all of those are smartphones
| and there are still large numbers of people in the world
| who don't have any of this, nor do they have internet
| access (about 40% of the people, some because they are too
| young, some too old and some for other reasons), which is a
| pre-requisite for using something like discord.
|
| By the time you're done with taking all this into account
| you end up with a paltry 140M MAU, a far cry from 'pretty
| much everyone'.
| charcircuit wrote:
| friends: all my friends use discord
|
| school: there were various discord groups most people
| joined
|
| work: Most of my communication with coworkers is over
| discord
|
| fun: all online communities I'm a part of have a discord
| server
|
| >But not all of those are smartphones and there are still
| large numbers of people in the world who don't have any
| of this, nor do they have internet access
|
| Everyone I know IRL has access to the internet and except
| for some kids everyone has a cellphone.
|
| By everyone I didn't mean literally everyone. I meant
| that if I want to chat to someone or about something 99%
| of the time discord is the place where that happens
| because that person uses discord or a discord server
| exists for that topic.
| bbarnett wrote:
| This is just your social circle.
|
| For work it is IRC, zoom, slack. Never been asked, or
| know a single person using discord.
| jacquesm wrote:
| And here it's email first, phone second, sms if I can't
| be reached immediately. And I guess there are as many
| variations on that as there are people, with the number
| of comms options comfortably exceeding 33.
| jacquesm wrote:
| > By everyone I didn't mean literally everyone.
|
| ok
|
| > I meant that if I want to chat to someone or about
| something 99% of the time discord is the place where that
| happens because that person uses discord or a discord
| server exists for that topic.
|
| But that's a completely different thing than what you
| originally said ("Pretty much everyone uses Discord
| now.").
|
| _I_ is the operative part here. Personally I 've never
| used discord, and I don't know anybody IRL that has to
| the point that they have asked me to join and if they did
| I would probably refuse. I have enough comms channels as
| it is.
|
| It is important to realize that when you speak in
| generalized terms you are usually just speaking for
| yourself, so better to phrase things that way.
| roel_v wrote:
| LOL.
|
| 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!"
| Bad_CRC wrote:
| There is a software for running a house [1] in which you can
| do meal plan, etc.. (which is nice) but it has also repeating
| tasks like clean the windows, do the dishes and it was too
| Work-like for my liking.
|
| [1] https://grocy.info/
| posedge wrote:
| Fortunately, having discord running in the background will
| interrupt you another 1927329 times that day for equally
| important things
| charcircuit wrote:
| He said he was a gamer, so there is a very good chance he
| already has Discord open.
| syshum wrote:
| TIL that people that prefer single player games are no
| longer considered gamers...
|
| I hate multiplayer gaming, and believe that is the single
| biggest problem in gaming today
|
| //I dont use Discord either
| charcircuit wrote:
| The first discord server I ever joined was for a solo
| hobby of mine. Discord servers aren't just for
| multiplayer things.
| dual_dingo wrote:
| Not everyone plays online.
| k8sToGo wrote:
| Discord isn't about online playing only. It is also about
| just being part of some community.
| Cthulhu_ wrote:
| You're already assuming that A: they use Discord, B: that while
| he's focused on whatever it is he's doing, he'll pay attention
| to Discord pings, and C: that someone asked for you to come up
| with alternative solutions.
| AussieWog93 wrote:
| The point of this project isn't necessarily to make a useful
| tool but for the author to demonstrate to his girlfriend that
| he cares about her and is willing to stop what he's doing to
| listen.
| bbarnett wrote:
| Which is important overall, but not important when engrossed
| at work unless suitable urgert.
|
| 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.
| AussieWog93 wrote:
| > A GF may abuse this.
|
| Then he's dodged a bullet by discovering this before he
| marries her. Either way, it's a no-lose situation.
| whalesalad wrote:
| I need to teach my German Shepherd how to use curl so she can
| also use this method.
| hokumguru wrote:
| GSD owner here, but her and all of our dogs in the past we've
| taught to ring a bell hanging from the back door whenever they
| need to go outside. Great alternative if you don't need/want a
| dog door.
| joshschreuder wrote:
| It's super easy to teach too!
|
| 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 :)
| glenneroo wrote:
| The run.py script indicates this is running on a Raspberry Pi
| to read GPIO pins i.e. you could literally just hook up a
| button to a GPIO pin and train your dog to stomp on the button.
| whalesalad wrote:
| It was meant purely as a joke. Even if I built the most
| elaborate notification system in the world - she basically
| runs the show. I did a doggy version of 23andme, she is 30%
| Siberian Husky and 6% Belgian Malinois so the line is blurred
| between sweet loving companion and psychotic girlfriend.
| avh02 wrote:
| Any chance you could share the name of the doggy 23andme
| service? I looked and there are quite a few, but wouldn't
| know where to start.
|
| We've been meaning to find out what one of our dogs
| actually is since we've been asked so many times and we
| have no idea.
| whalesalad wrote:
| Wisdom is the name of the service that I used.
| samatman wrote:
| Was this meant to be cute, or are you actually just telling
| the world you have a large, therefore dangerous, sled dog,
| and you haven't trained her? She "runs the show"?
|
| The "psychotic girlfriend" side of untrained large dogs has
| been known to maul children.
| whalesalad wrote:
| That is quite a conclusion you've leapt to. Meant to be
| cute here. Obviously I run the show, I'm the one who pays
| the bills and feeds her. But she's surely not afraid to
| let you know when she wants something, and doesn't
| particularly care if you're busy with something else.
|
| For the record, most sled dogs are not very large and not
| particularly aggressive.
| crtasm wrote:
| I dislike seeing this trope about women being brought
| into, of all things, a discussion about a dog.
| glenneroo wrote:
| Don't worry, I didn't take you too seriously. But seeing as
| this is HackerNews, IMO half the fun is coming up with
| solutions to 1st world "problems" ;)
| jraph wrote:
| Someone just moving by 1 centimeter in the corridor next to me or
| coughing in any bedroom (if I don't wear my headset) will do.
|
| 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)
| bryanrasmussen wrote:
| I have the same thing, I can easily break out of code and get
| right back in to where I was, I can even pretty much do it with
| hours break, unless things are going very badly with the code
| in which case I cannot handle being interrupted.
|
| 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.
| imnoscar wrote:
| Ryan invented WUPFH because Kelly couldn't reach him. [1]
|
| [1] https://theoffice.fandom.com/wiki/WUPHF.com_(Website)
| eric4smith wrote:
| Cthulhu_ wrote:
| Bruh, this is a four year old repository with a pretty basic
| script and you're giving unsolicited relationship advice to
| someone you don't even know.
| [deleted]
| chasd00 wrote:
| Haha yeah because one thing a gf (or wife) really appreciates
| is being ignored ;)
| xwdv wrote:
| This seems like a nightmare. If I'm focused on something I don't
| really want anyone distracting me, especially not a girlfriend.
| oh_sigh wrote:
| This code looks like it was written in 2004. Why aren't you using
| react and nodejs?
| iqanq wrote:
| conqueso wrote:
| One can never be completely sure through text alone, hence
| such things as the closing sarcasm tag: </s>
| sundarurfriend wrote:
| There could be other reasons that it's downvoted, even if
| it's not taken "seriously". The fact that it's a low effort
| comment that has barely anything to do with the OP, that it's
| a rehashing of the same old "unpopular opinion" that's not
| really unpopular here, the fact that it takes a nice little
| post of a small utility and shifts the tone to something
| negative just because they have an axe to grind - all of
| these are other possible options people might downvote this
| oh-so-ironic comment.
| Cthulhu_ wrote:
| Because, as this thread demonstrates, there's a lot of people
| with Opinions who will unironically push $language on any
| post that is not about $language, <_<.
| zinekeller wrote:
| I don't know, it seems that most here have been burnt-out of
| humour. To be fair to them, the burn-out is mainly caused by
| ignorant managers hearing "Node! React!" and forcing on the
| developers whether it makes sense or not.
| pjc50 wrote:
| Poe's law: there's nothing so ironic or sarcastic that
| someone hasn't actually argued for real somewhere. You just
| can't tell any more.
|
| Besides being in text, HN has an international audience. It's
| _really_ hard to make jokes land, and you usually need to
| include an explanation to avoid being downvoted.
| LilBytes wrote:
| SarCasM CaSE AnD EmoJis HaVE thEre PlACE.
| Zababa wrote:
| Poe's law, ironic content can be hard to differentiate from
| non-ironic content, and a proliferation of ironic content
| will bring the quality of HN down.
| Cthulhu_ wrote:
| NodeJS is last decade; Deno is the one to go for now. But why
| JS based? Rust is the future, accept no substitutes. It is the
| perfect language for everything, forever.
| ricardobayes wrote:
| Simple is beautiful. Some people don't use frameworks for
| simple stuff. I sometimes create low-tech websites just using
| html+css with a minimal jquery. The speed is insane compared to
| usual web 2.0 sites.
| fabioborellini wrote:
| I could make it simpler by using 1 scripting language instead
| of 2. There are almost as many languages as LoC there.
| nkozyra wrote:
| I think that's my only point of contention.
|
| It's clearly a for fun project but you've already got
| python there to run the raspi gpio pins why not move the
| server stuff in there? I'm assuming they learned bare
| minimum python to get the pi stuff going but that's enough
| python to run a web server too.
| louissan wrote:
| not sure this is a joke or not ... :-) 30MB of dependencies vs
| a few tens of lines of code? :-)
| politelemon wrote:
| It's a joke, they're just referencing modern trends in web
| development and a dose of /r/programmerhumor
| LilBytes wrote:
| Shame no one picked up on the sarcasm.
| louissan wrote:
| well phew! relieved. I'll try and instantly pick up on
| those in the future.. :-)
| noobermin wrote:
| I'm happy to see something (anything) in python that doesn't
| encapsulate everything in a class when it doesn't need to be,
| even this basic thing.
| laurent123456 wrote:
| It somehow bothers me that the TLDR is much longer than the
| actual text, but nice little tool anyway.
| 300bps wrote:
| Not only is the TLDR longer than the actual text, it repeats it
| almost verbatim before adding additional information.
| baxtr wrote:
| I am glad we found something to complain about on this post.
| Good job!
| fareesh wrote:
| On Android I just star the contact and turn on DND mode. Works
| flawlessly with one exception - WhatsApp calls.
| itronitron wrote:
| The no-code implementation of this is to plug your workstation
| into an outlet that is controlled by a wall switch.
| jcims wrote:
| Those little / _ducks_ / Amazon iot buttons are fun for this. I
| wired one up to their connect service to make a voice call. I
| would let my kids troll me with it or take it to work to
| clandestinely make calls to myself when it was advantageous to
| receive one.
| Jaruzel wrote:
| I would love to see open source copies of those. Apparently
| they use NO power unless you press their buttons which means
| they can last for years.
| jcims wrote:
| 100%. Plus they could be way cheaper (i think).
| twicetwice wrote:
| I got some Aqara buttons and switches from cloudfree.shop,
| they're closed-source but local network (Zigbee) only--
| combined with Home Assistant, which is open source, I think
| this is what you want!
| jgrahamc wrote:
| Advanced version: https://blog.jgc.org/2018/12/turning-cheap-
| police-light-into...
| teekert wrote:
| I use a wife alert: She Never picks up her phone, that is until I
| use Home Assistant to flash the lights and have the Sonos say
| (via HA's tts): "Pick up the Phone!". Very handy.
|
| 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).
| jvanderbot wrote:
| I love that technology has become so accessible and powerful that
| everyone can become that crazy father/inventor of contraptions
| from 80s movies.
|
| Or maybe the art motivated the real. I'd believe that.
| sdfjkl wrote:
| Wife just sits opposite me and waves her arm.
| eb0la wrote:
| Sincerely, get an RPi or an Arduino and build a Batsignal with
| this.
|
| You already did the hard part ;-).
| nanna wrote:
| Batsignal?
| WelcomeShorty wrote:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat-Signal
| alias_neo wrote:
| Judging by the contents of run.py, it's already running on a
| Pi.
| susam wrote:
| Here is a rudimentary alerting system I could write quickly in
| shell and execute on my laptop: while true; do
| echo ok | nc -l 8000; for i in 1 2 3 4; do printf '\a'; sleep 1;
| done; done
|
| While the above command worked fine on macOS with the default
| /usr/bin/nc, on Debian 11.2, I had to modify the above command as
| follows to make it work: 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
|
| Now anytime someone connects to port 8000 of my system by _any
| means_ , I will hear 4 beeps! The other party can use _whatever
| client_ they have to connect to port 8000 of my system, e.g., a
| web browser, nc HOST 8000, curl HOST:8000, or even, ssh HOST -p
| 8000, irssi -c HOST -p 8000, etc.
|
| 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! :)
| nirse wrote:
| Thank you, sending you 4 beeps and seeing that 'ok' was the
| most web-based fun I had in a very long while!
| TonyTrapp wrote:
| It's essentially the Hacker News Hug of Deaf.
| CraneWorm wrote:
| neat! here's mine: while true; do curl -q
| --http0.9 http://susam.net:8000/; sleep $(( $RANDOM % 10 ));
| done
| ddalex wrote:
| > This site can't be reached - REDACTED refused to connect.
|
| Am disappointed and my day is ruined
| Wojakmeme wrote:
| In the written command you can see that nothing serves a
| HTTP server, so the peep works even though you dont get a
| response.
| ddalex wrote:
| The error is that it doesn't connect, not that it doesn't
| serve an HTTP response.
|
| But now it connects, correctly.
| wwwasdfthrone wrote:
| This sound like a great way to prank someone's laptop you have
| access to!
| Villodre wrote:
| I bet you're having a fun morning with the beeps :-)
| susam wrote:
| Indeed I am! HN readers are a fun group. I am receiving beeps
| almost every second, so I updated my previous shell script to
| keep a record of the connections netcat receives. Also,
| converted the beeping loop to a background job, so that the
| outer netcat loop does not have to wait for the inner beeping
| loop to complete before handling the next connection. Notice
| the '&' before the last 'done' in the improved alerting
| service below: 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
|
| Here is a log of the timestamps of the connections received
| so far: https://gist.github.com/susam/159c7d92659b3185eb0b0d6
| 83998a3...
| cl3misch wrote:
| Now I know you can programmatically push to Github gists,
| thanks!
| LilBytes wrote:
| DDoSaS.
|
| Distributed denial of service and sleep. Nice work.
| i2shar wrote:
| On macOS you can replace printf '\a' with something nicer like
| 'say Lunch time!', or accept a query param and 'say $msg'
|
| 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"
| samatman wrote:
| Almost anything is less nice than BEL for me, since I've had
| terminals set to flash-on-BEL for decades.
| viggity wrote:
| I gave my wife a flashlight and she shines it at my screen
| Brajeshwar wrote:
| This is sweet. Now, my wife uses Apple's Find My's "Play Sound"
| as I'm perpetually on Silent DND and I sometimes do not see her
| calls (she is in the whitelist and is allowed to use voice
| calls).
|
| 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.
| schleck8 wrote:
| > Now, my wife uses Apple's Find My's "Play Sound" as I'm
| perpetually on Silent DND and I sometimes do not see her calls
|
| I had this exact problem until I scheduled my DND to
| automatically turn on during work hours and off afterwards.
| That has helped immensely
| tata71 wrote:
| It does not sound like a problem for GP.
|
| Your recommendation, depending on apps installed, could lower
| their quality of life. Proceed with caution, here.
| uptown wrote:
| My parents had huge a train bell that they'd ring.
| 11thEarlOfMar wrote:
| My mom used a referee's whistle. There were 5 of us and the
| number of toots indicated which of the 5 she wanted (two toots
| for me). If we were outside playing in the neighborhood, we'd
| get alerted directly or indirectly from someone who was tired
| of hearing the whistle.
|
| If it was dinner time and she needed us all, she'd blow 'Shave-
| and-a-haircut-two-bits'.
| toss1 wrote:
| My mom used a cowbell... hadn't thought of that in years
| youngbullind wrote:
| My stepmum used to use a rape alarm to call us back from
| across the fields back in the 1980s
| metabagel wrote:
| My dad whistled between his teeth. He was a prodigious
| whistler. As I recall, it was two tones alternating. Too bad
| we never measured how far away we could hear him whistling,
| because now I'm wondering. I'd guess half a mile though.
| Steltek wrote:
| Was your Dad an Austrian naval captain by any chance?
| dylan604 wrote:
| We had a 6" bell hung next to the back door. The same type as
| in churches where a rope pulls to get the bongs. It could be
| heard from a looooong way off. If it rang and we couldn't
| hear it, we were too far away from what was allowed.
| wdb wrote:
| I got called by full name when my mother wanted me.
| yread wrote:
| We had a metal tube/pillar supporting the top floor of our
| self-made summer house and a piece of metal to strike it with.
| You could hear that for miles!
| scott_s wrote:
| This may be the same thing as what you call the whitelist, but
| in case it isn't: on iPhones, you can mark some contacts as
| "Emergency Bypass On." Even in silent mode, you will always
| hear calls and texts from them. You can also choose sounds
| unique to that person. I have the bypass on for my fiancee, and
| I chose a pleasant, unobtrusive sound for her texts. I have
| found this works quite well.
| Brajeshwar wrote:
| This is brilliant. I was today years old learning this trick.
| I will still maintain a whitelist for in-laws, business
| partners, and others (limit of 20). However, I will add this
| to the core family (wife, daughters, and home).
|
| For those looking, check this out
| https://www.igeeksblog.com/how-to-turn-on-emergency-
| bypass-o...
| dylan604 wrote:
| Great, now you've gone and ruined it for those looking for
| excuses! Sorry honey, my phone was on silent!
| fossuser wrote:
| iOS also has a contacts only whitelist, you can set
| "Silence Unknown Callers" to On.
|
| It's great - my only feature request would be to allow an
| API for app access so things like door dash, uber, amazon,
| etc. could be optionally allowed through.
| samatman wrote:
| Something I've found is that, in particular for calls, Apple
| isn't able to retain object permanence around contacts.
|
| 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.
| metabagel wrote:
| Great suggestion. Surprising Apple hasn't implemented that.
|
| It's alarming when both your phone and your computer start
| ringing. I freeze. I do the same thing when I'm on a call
| and the options pop up - "hold and accept", "decline", or
| "end and accept". My brain locks up.
| dmart wrote:
| The best is when you try to pause your music on the
| computer before picking up your phone. Nope, while
| ringing this either does nothing (for phone calls) or
| picks up the call on the computer (FaceTime).
| caioariede wrote:
| Oh my, this is a really great suggestion. I never heard about
| the emergency bypass before. I'll check it out. Thank you
| bigjimmyk3 wrote:
| My mother had a heart-shaped "triangle" (about a foot across,
| so much larger than an orchestral triangle) that she used to
| call us in when dinner was ready. As a kid who did not enjoy
| hauling wood, my hearing was exquisitely tuned to hear that
| bell.
| foxtrottbravo wrote:
| We to this day have a cowbell mounted below the stairs to call
| everyone when dinner is ready
| Isamu wrote:
| Yeah we used a cowbell- farm living.
| wrp wrote:
| My grandmother had a kind of wall-mounted metal xylophone at
| the foot of the stairs to call the family for meals.
| Loic wrote:
| In the French countryside where my father is coming from,
| every house had an external bell for the diner/lunch whatever
| important call. You quickly learnt to recognize the different
| tones and ways to ring the bell.
|
| 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!
| d0gsg0w00f wrote:
| When I don't answer my wife just calls me through the Alexa which
| is the creepiest ring ever. The sound is so foreign and my
| hackles rise whenever Alexa does anything on its own so it gets
| my attention instantly.
| erwincoumans wrote:
| Indeed, Alexa make an announcement: dinner is ready!
| bjord wrote:
| if you think THAT is creepy, you should tell her to try out the
| drop-in feature
| openknot wrote:
| For those curious about what the ring sounds like, it's
| captured in this video (2017, skipped to 1:07):
| https://youtu.be/h5wmJbhyhC4?t=67
| mcv wrote:
| My son always has his headphones on these days, which often makes
| it hard for us to reach him. I wouldn't mind being able to talk
| directly into his headphones.
| f1refly wrote:
| For headphones to work there has to be a communication
| platform. I reckon it wouldn't be too hard to pick up a
| computer yourself, join his channel and talk to him. Wildly
| depends on your sons age though, I guess I wouldn't have been
| too keen on my mum having access to my teamspeak when I was 15.
| mcv wrote:
| I don't need to hear who he's talking to. I just want an
| interrupt button to say it's dinnertime, or something like
| that.
| dom96 wrote:
| That does sound like a cool app idea.
| jraph wrote:
| The child might refuse to install it though.
| BurningPenguin wrote:
| I'd say it depends on the parents. If the relationship is
| somewhat healthy, there might be a chance. But those who
| require their kids to be on constant alert may have a
| problem.
|
| Source: I grew up with a parent who got multiple times
| diagnosed with HPD. I would have never installed something
| like that. Installing and showing how Discord works was
| already a major mistake.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histrionic_personality_disord
| e...
| invalidusernam3 wrote:
| Apple watch has a Walkie-Talkie feature
| BeefWellington wrote:
| Back in the mid-2000s or so before 2FA was really a thing, I
| built a small perl script to have my server do audio beeps using
| the PC speaker based on some activity in the system. The idea was
| I sat in my office near enough to my servers at home that I could
| hear audio beeps. I also had patterns of sounds so that each type
| of activity was a different noise, e.g.: SSH logins would produce
| one pattern, local login a different set, etc.
|
| 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.
| 00000000005 wrote:
| Batman made exactly the same thing for Commissioner Gordon to
| use... the Bat Signal.
| g5095 wrote:
| Are you saying Batman and Commissioner Gordon were a thing?
| mellavora wrote:
| Robin isn't going to like where this is going
| [deleted]
| [deleted]
| oefrha wrote:
| I have something like this for myself: a server listens for POSTs
| on LAN, plays a loud customizable sound on speaker, macOS pops up
| a persistent alert through a Shortcut, and all iOS devices
| receive an urgent push notification through Pushover. I can hook
| arbitrary high priority jobs and watchers to it since it only
| takes an HTTP request to activate.
| smoyer wrote:
| If it dings occasionally, it means your girlfriend is trying to
| reach you. If it dings continuously, it means she's breaking up
| with you.
|
| 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.
| kayodelycaon wrote:
| > you should probably be a bit more engaged with the people
| that mean something to you
|
| 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.
| teekert wrote:
| I'm very happy that the people I care about don't require me to
| engage with them constantly. Engaging with them in chats are
| not the right type of engagement if you ask me. Maybe I'm old.
| kayodelycaon wrote:
| Or... people who require constant engagement go elsewhere
| because you'd not giving them constant engagement. ;)
| teekert wrote:
| Fine with me. Is this an age thing (I'm 39)? Most of my
| friend always have their phones on DND, answering usually
| in a couple of seconds to minutes but sometimes hours,
| sometimes days... There is not real expectation to answer
| fast. If you call they do call back soon, usually, or they
| pick up. Somehow I also find chat apps to have low priority
| compared to a call. Still I can't imaging a call being high
| priority, never really been in that situation... At least,
| unless we are about to meet and didn't pick a date or exact
| time yet.
|
| Anyway, if any of my friends would be offended by being
| ignored for some hours, they're going to have bad time in
| our group.
| azeirah wrote:
| I really wouldn't assume too much about his situation.
|
| 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.
| beefield wrote:
| Out of curiosity, how does your girlfriend react if you just
| start talking to her without asking attention? (Reason I ask,
| occasionally I think I might be on the spectrum, and my SO
| has a habit of just starting to talk to me. Most of the time
| I miss the beginning, which annoys to no end my SO...)
| azeirah wrote:
| It's just not processed whatsoever sometimes I catch her
| attention halfway through but I usually just have to start
| over again...
| [deleted]
| jacobmartin wrote:
| Different from the person you replied to, but my wife is
| also autistic, and she does the exact same thing (both
| needing for me to ask for her attention multiple times and
| not hearing anything for the first little bit if I don't
| get it). It used to annoy me but then I realized that was a
| silly thing to be annoyed about, and I just had to change
| my mode of talking to her.
| jraph wrote:
| I think it's a nice thing to do, in any occasion (except
| when it's urgent) (friends, coworkers, family,...), to
| call someone (by saying their name or with a gesture, or
| something), let them take time to focus on you (and
| possibly write some note so they can come back to
| whatever they were doing easily), and then speak.
|
| I know multiple people who need some time to switch to
| you when they are focused (either they can't listen
| before, or they can but would lose their track). And
| that's fine. And they are probably not autistic. They
| usually don't need to be called multiple times though,
| that would be a bit annoying but hey, what can one do.
| I'd probably get used to it.
|
| I don't usually need time to switch to someone
| interrupting me but certainly don't like it when the
| other one assumes I'm listening before I showed I'm
| listening.
| unexistential wrote:
| I built something similar for my girlfriend's birthday a few
| months ago. A buzzer and a lightbulb connected through a relay to
| an RPi, which hosts a basic HTTP server. The server is exposed to
| the Internet through a reverse ssh tunnel to a VPS in the cloud.
|
| 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.
| wiredfool wrote:
| Remember Growl?
| findalex wrote:
| I get the living day lights scared out of me at least twice a day
| (by my gf) while working with headphones on. Light is perfect.
| zriha wrote:
| This is amazing hahahaha :) you can also put an upgrade - Wife
| Alert for us older. :D
| diogenesjunior wrote:
| Are people seriously this tied in to their computers? I'd hate to
| see myself get to the point where I don't have time for women and
| need to be beeped in order to pay attention.
| whalesalad wrote:
| Are you familiar with the concept of deep work? Sometimes you
| need a solid block of completely uninterrupted time to keep
| your cache/working memory hot so that you can see the whole
| task through. My wife used to interrupt me _all the time_ -
| even in the middle of a wim hof breath hold. I 'm looking at
| her like, this is the 10,000th time I have done this, and we do
| it together sometimes, why do you think I can respond to you in
| this moment?
| diogenesjunior wrote:
| I work for a large tech company 10-12 hours a day + 2-4 hours
| at home and I could never see my girlfriend needing a SOS
| light to get my attention.
| okokwhatever wrote:
| agree
| BurningPenguin wrote:
| Doesn't mean he's completely tied to it. He may be only focused
| on his hobby. That can happen with anything. Woodworking,
| drawing, reading, whatever. Being on constant alert isn't
| healthy. Everyone needs some time for themselves to power down
| a bit.
| joshmanders wrote:
| Or maybe people just want to have something special for their
| loved ones to help THEM feel special to them.
|
| 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.
| cgufus wrote:
| Many many years ago I played a browser-based online game and I
| used curl and php for scripting the game. I eventually programmed
| an alert feature that woke me up (OS X: 'say "Warning you are
| under attack"') during the night when I was being attacked.
|
| good old times :)
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