gadzooks
Dark Matter
[keratinize my mild-tasting blossoming]
Well, I technically did write a "notifications" script... of sorts...
It detected any new post (checking on like an every second or every 5 seconds kind of cycle), and automatically responded with "THE ABOVE POSTER IS A CERTIFIED FAGGOT".
Instead of just calling everybody a faggot, I could have modified like one single line of code and had it send push notifications to email, SMS, or even Android/iOS directly (a little bit more involved, but definitely feasible).
So basically, I could have notifications if I wanted them...
gadzooks
Dark Matter
[keratinize my mild-tasting blossoming]
Wait, wut? Is there such a thing?
I thought of writing my own but it's a lot of work to do from scratch.
I wonder how hard it would be to add some HTTP web hooks somehow...
I mean, a crude event-loop based post monitor could be written in a handful of lines of code, but it could also become computationally expensive (especially in terms of bandwidth/traffic if lots of people are using the same thing).
gadzooks
Dark Matter
[keratinize my mild-tasting blossoming]
I flew a small two-person cessna when I was in air cadets many years ago.
It had dual controls, though, so the trainer pilot gave me control for like 30 seconds before I started doing a nose dive and he had to take control back.
And that was after weeks of ground school... I still fucked it up. :(
But flying a plane isn't like driving a car. There's so many other factors that have to be dealt with and exponentially more things that can go wrong or otherwise throw you off balance.
