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.

Yeah but I might be .05% native american and then I can get a cool eagle tattoo

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.

One of my family members moved to the US and did it. Really pissed me off that they’d do that but I guess it’s the thing to do there?? They’ve since moved back to AU but got to leave a little bit of themselves (and by genetics, me) behind to be sold to the highest bidder <3

Thanks heaps for that.

Or as they call it in France, Le Porn

CB radios often had a “PA” switch that sent your microphone audio to a loudspeaker under the hood

We used to roll those back in the day. A friend gave my very drunk self a lift home one evening and I used it to give commentary to a group of revellers on the side of the road… who threw a beer bottle at us, and then chased the car which luckily didn’t get stopped at the traffic light nearby.

Good times.

Trump

Guns

Trump supporters with guns

Crashplan, currently around 4TB and several million files being backed up without issue.

Recently swapped from bare metal to docker without issue.

I deliberately avoided IT as a career because I didn’t want my hobby to be ruined by making it work.

Unfortunately now I’m so buggered after working my normal job that I lack the energy (and time) to code much anyway. And I earn less, probably.

Think I might have played myself.

“Shorts” and “Games” are like herpes. No matter how many times you try to get rid of them, they just keep appearing.

I do not want short form video, nor do I want to participate in “gaming” that is just poker machines reskinned as a “game” to take your money.

The “not interested” button, it does nothing!

In Australia, they are also called guide dogs, for the same reason. And for the same other reason too.

Exactly the same, in fact, since our Guide Dogs was started by a bloke from the OG English crew back in the 50s. Not sure what blind people did before that, just kinda wandered around and hit things with sticks I guess.

zzz… so desperate to make it a racist comment.

Or the fact people from Two Rivers are often identified by their physical look and way they speak, but the TV series starts out with every person from their tiny isolated village being ethnically diverse.

Give this a whirl:

https://youtu.be/myFCGun_c-8

I want an unpopular advice - where to you legally get these shows as seamlessly as torrenting?

You can’t, that’s why I pirate it all.

I hated it from the first episode.

They had amazing material to work with, all they had to do was adapt it to TV.

A group of amateurs made an awesome Wheel Of Time episode with a budget of about $5 and an afternoon of shooting. Amazon should have just given them the money to do it.

When I woke up to the news, my first thought was “oh great, that’s 24/7 news coverage for the next month at least. We’re not going to stop hearing about this for years”

Might have underestimated things a bit.

Definitely wasn’t expecting 25 years of what feels like constant coverage, infinite conspiracy theories, the invasion of multiple countries, and the death of literally tens (hundreds??) of thousands of people.

Also wasn’t expecting just how much of an impact it had on security - and not just at airports. We work at the airport and access is such a major pain in the butt now, but even going to ports or train stations has this constant fear that a bloke carting a bag of tools is there to do some terrorism instead of the far more reasonable expectation that maybe they’re here to do that job we requested. It’s been a quarter of a decade ffs.

“We can’t let the terrorists win” was the catch cry, but man they kicked our collective arses and are still doing so.

… Can I have some?

I dunno man, most of my negative assumptions about the actions of Americans in position of power have turned out to be true of late. If I’m wrong I’ll take the L but at the minute I’m on a pretty long streak.

*toot toot, I’m a pope*

His first action will be to announce tariffs on other religions (big deficit with the Sikh, they’ve been subsidising deity access for years) and that the Pope mobile will be a Cybertruck.