I'm on Tildes, and it's a good site for discussion without the constant memes and accusations of everyone being a communist / not communist / slightly communist / whatever else seems to get thrown around on Lemmy.
Not real sure why RIF dude chose that site to write an app for though. The site itself is basically exactly the same as the app. Very clean, very simple, no wasted space. It's even better than old.reddit at prioritising content over pretty pictures.
Lemmy would benefit much more from a RIF app, even if Voyager and the like do a pretty good job as it stands.
Heres an idea... I made it in PHP and bash, cause I'm terrible at programming. But it works well and would be a neat school project I reckon.
Our VOIP provider provides webhooks. I have one setup so when someone rings, the webhook calls a script on my web server that looks up a phone book and then uses a Discord webhook to push what is essentially a more advanced caller ID to a private discord channel - their number, their name, company they represent, and some notes like "has a son Chris who plays football, married to Jill" or whatever.
The "phonebook" lookup first tries a remote shared phonebook (which is given in a Yealink format), and after parsing that data it saves a copy of that remote phonebook before moving on to the rest of the script. If it cant call the remote phonebook for whatever reason, it falls back on using the last saved copy locally.
The benefit of all this is that on my desktop I always know who's calling and a bit of a blurb about them before I pick up the phone, and if I'm out of the office I know who's trying to ring. Since I have VOIP on my phone as an extension I can technically have someone transfer the office to my mobile too so having the discord notification is handy when a transfer appears.
The members of the private discord channel determines who sees the notifications, and having a single phonebook to update for everyone in the office means it's always (... usually) kept up to date.
I synced by Trakt watchlist with my HTPC and now it has a ~3TB download queue. Doing my best to get roused at by my ISP of late that's for sure.
Speaking of Trakt, just noticed that their VIP has doubled(!!) from $30USD/year to $60USD/year. That's insane pricing for a service that offers so little. It's a glorified playlist manager that copies all its content from other sources. I've cancelled altogether because I actually don't even know what their VIP feature was that I needed anyway. I was just paying cause it was a handy service I didn't mind supporting.
Subscription services be crazy to think doubling the price in one is reasonable at all, let alone when your service is doing so little.
If its not, then why is it so popular there?
Everyone's so keen to be 12% Irish so they can claim they enjoy beer because of their proud Irish heritage, or have 0.5% native american so they can claim a tribe and get tattoos that are deeply spiritual (now), or that 8% Italian which explains why they love pizza. For a country that's so publicly proud - what with the flags and all - everyone's certainly keen to find any excuse to pretend to be from somewhere else.
I know literally one Australian who's done it, and they only did it after living in the US for a couple of years.
I'm not mad, I'm disappointed 😞
It was actually a balmy 4C at our place last night. That's practically tropical!