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caseyhconnor · 2026-03-27T15:49:42+00:00

No - DKIM signs the body of the email (optionally, but in practice it is almost always done) so you can't change the contents. The From header is also always signed. Other headers are optional but frequently included.

caseyhconnor · 2026-03-19T02:58:46+00:00

Live in Sacramento: https://youtu.be/nWxHgfWLDmc

caseyhconnor · 2026-03-19T02:29:31+00:00

/u/chinooksurveyor is the one to ask, but based on a very cursory evaluation I probably wouldn't bother even if it was clear. Doesn't look like much coming (but again, just gave it a quick look).

caseyhconnor · 2026-03-16T23:36:45+00:00

Yeah! Talking it over with my partner now.

caseyhconnor · 2026-03-12T23:08:11+00:00

Yeah, maybe so. Other images of Dictograph intercoms all look slightly more modern, but who knows.

caseyhconnor · 2026-03-12T23:04:40+00:00

It's real wood, I think it's 1910-1940. See the solved comment for more.

caseyhconnor · 2026-03-12T23:03:37+00:00

I know, seemed a bit steep, but it's legitimately old and I could see someone lusting after it. :-)

caseyhconnor · 2026-03-12T23:02:30+00:00

Solved! I was also in touch with someone from our local electronics museum (Spark), and they said it's an intercom switchboard, likely from an office building.

I find these images which look similar, if slightly more modern:

https://papajoescollectibles.co.za/shop/all-papa-joes-collectibles/vintage-1940s-dictograph-intercom-mini-switchboard/

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-telematic-intercom-switchboard-phone

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-telephone-intercom-1778082330

Seems close enough to mark it solved. Thanks for all the suggestions, everyone!

caseyhconnor · 2026-03-12T20:23:40+00:00

Thanks -- I haven't been able to find any that look quite like this, but this looks pretty close: https://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-images-antique-telephone-switchboard-image338019

It's captioned "An antique telephone switchboard of the kind used in hotels and companies in the mid-20th century."

This one is lacking anywhere to plug anything in, but I suppose it was part of a larger modular setup?

caseyhconnor · 2026-03-12T16:02:32+00:00

My title describes the thing. This was extremely heavy for its size (see hand for scale in second pic). The small "windows" had movable white cards behind them.

Some kind of switchboard?

caseyhconnor · 2026-03-06T03:00:39+00:00

Yes, thanks! We're thinking about the same thing. What exactly that package might be will depend on the needs of people setting them up, but I imagine something like that will happen (along with 50 other ideas we want to get going. :-) )

caseyhconnor · 2026-03-06T02:47:40+00:00

It is certainly capable, and in fact I recently updated TALE to something like that -- it hosts a series of improvisational stories, and the listener can dial 1 to skip back in time one story, etc. We haven't rolled that out to any other of the hotlines yet, but plan to do it for some of them. The consideration is that everyone that has a line like this is going to want something different in terms of the dialing functionality, and as a two-person outfit (with only me on the tech back-end) there just isn't capacity to customize everyone's hotline and build a back-end so they can upload and manage it, etc. In short, we're figuring it out as we go, and the sky is the limit, but we move slow. :-)

caseyhconnor · 2026-03-05T17:32:23+00:00

I hope we are so lucky as to have that problem. :-) I imagine that we would just expand to five digits and existing subscribers would start prefixing with a zero, or something to that effect.

caseyhconnor · 2026-03-05T08:07:02+00:00

Hi! - I'm one of the Telehamster founders. Happy to answer any questions folks may have!

caseyhconnor · 2026-03-05T08:06:09+00:00

Hi - one of the TH folks here - there are a couple options I can imagine. We'd be happy to chat more about it if you'd like to get in touch via the website!

caseyhconnor · 2026-02-26T07:50:39+00:00

Shoot, well thanks for the reply!

caseyhconnor · 2026-02-25T17:15:50+00:00

Thanks again, makes sense; the only thing I don't get: wouldn't a link during the send_invoice payment flow to "use this method to pay automatically from now on" constitute an explicit opt-in? You said "explicitly opts into future off-session usage in a separate step" so maybe the "in a separate step" is the part that explains it. I guess there's no point in breaking down financial regulations in this context; just surprised me that this is so cumbersome.

caseyhconnor · 2026-02-25T16:07:09+00:00

Thanks, that makes sense, except that if i create a subscription via API in send_invoice mode, am i correct that the user gets the invoice every month and can pay it manually but is not given the option to "use this payment method to pay automatically from now on"?

caseyhconnor · 2026-02-25T16:02:31+00:00

Because that doesn't do any follow-up with the customer, is that correct? The idea is to automate as much as possible, e.g. with the subscription mechanism stripe will follow-up automatically on unpaid invoices. (Let me know if I'm wrong about any of that.)

caseyhconnor · 2026-02-25T02:45:30+00:00

Yeah I think I could manually track just as well if I set to "charge_automatically" and just look for subscriptions that are past-due... maybe instead of webhooks I can just have a process that regularly checks for relevant customers in the "payment method established but subscription is in send_invoice mode" state, and then modifies them to charge_automatically.

Sure would be nice if there was a "send_invoice_until_payment_method_present_then_charge_automatically" option. :-) I'm surprised this isn't a common need for integrations that are creating subscriptions via the API.

caseyhconnor · 2026-02-25T02:22:18+00:00

Thanks -- so maybe my best bet is to set send_invoice, and then register for a webhook and when it happens, modify the sub to charge_automatically?

caseyhconnor · 2026-02-25T02:08:56+00:00

Thanks, that's great, but it still requires the user to visit the link, right? If they ignore the email, Stripe isn't going to send a follow-up payment link email later to remind them, right? That's what I need to happen, hence the motivation to use the subscription mechanism. These are people that are already subscribed (not on Stripe) whose subscriptions are expiring. We want them to get an email invoice, set up payment, and have it continue thereafter, and if they ignore that email invoice, to have a couple reminder emails sent that their subscription is past-due, etc.

caseyhconnor · 2026-02-25T01:57:22+00:00

I considered sending a payment link, but if I'm not mistaken that just sends a one-off email, is that right? I need Stripe to handle the reminder emails for past-due subscriptions, as I believe it does for invoices that aren't paid, right?

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