Up to you whether you want to limit your answer to software that is possible/realistic
A phone app that automatically accepts calls from suspected scam numbers, robocalls and unknown numbers and immediately mutes the mic, keeping the call going until the machine on the other side of the line disconnects and marks my number as non-working.
This has been how I’ve gone down from multiple spam calls a week to just a few a year. I’d really like to automate that.
I had an idea, personally I just use the Google phone app it seems to do a pretty good job of blocking spam calls somehow. However I had a funny idea. I suspect that these robocallers May be able to recognize the we’re sorry your call cannot be completed as dialed tone and words which may signal to them that the number doesn’t work.
I’ve been doing it this way for a while too. Glad it’s working for others
Something (app whatever) that divines the “evil” in all the things I need to buy, for me, without me having to do research on who has sold out, who is supporting killing babies, who is killing the rainforests, who is using child slave labour to extract their products etc etc. It’s fucking exhausting and monotonous, you can’t just check once, you gotta click refresh every bloody day. It’s doing my head in. I just want to buy stuff that I can eat etc, that isn’t tainted in others blood. Fuck this timeline, I can’t wait till it corrects itself, shit gunna be glorious. I’ll be there with some ethically sourced popcorn and a Molotov.
https://www.suma.coop/latest-brands/
https://www.fairtrade.net/en/fairtrade-finder.html
https://greencitizen.com/blog/ethical-companies/
Just a couple I know of
Searching for ‘fairtrade company list’ or ‘ethical wholesale’ brings up a fair few (you’ll have to dodge the SEO botslop sites yourself, but if you search for pages publushed before 2021 there shouldn’t be as many)
Wait, this definitely exists, I just can’t remember the exact name of the app. I used it to detect Nestlé products (turns out way more things than I could imagine belong ti them). But basically you tell it things you support and things you are against. Then when you scan a barcode it tells you if it is aligned with your stance. Trying to find the app now, it was called Buycott, but it doesnt seem to show in the store,probably changed names
That is definitely a good idea and I’d be surprised if someone isn’t already doing it. If not, you should! At least a website (might exist already in some form) to plug in a business or company and see all of it’s affiliates and parent company/ies.
An open source, cross platform self paced learning app which gives you quizzes, text documents to read in a similar format to Wikipedia pages or Kinnu info slides, automatically revolving cards of text to glance at, a resizable and responsive UI that allows you to put it anywhere and still be useful, and an assistant to clarify information, chat with, and assist in creating documents to run in the app by using documents you feed it, which can be things like course work for uni or school, or informal self interests.
I have in fact wrote an app in python last year for a programming class that does the responsive UX design, the revolving text, and has a fair amount of settings (such as dark/light mode switching, text colour customisation, the ability for the window to be always on top and to remove the title bar when needed, and to import CSV files into the program to be part of the text reading database). I plan to continue adding features because I see it as a worthwhile endeavour since it assisted me in other highschool classes, and expanding it and making it available to anyone would be cool as hell.
Also everything will be locally ran because fuck the cloud, fuck SaaS and fuck tools that require internet to function.
Dood this sounds like such an amazing idea! Care to share (or collaborate)? This would fit right in with the other applications I’m developing and I would love to contribute
I’m currently pretty busy with university, so I won’t be able to be part of the development for some time, but I have the source code and files for my app so I’ll eventually upload it to either GitHub or gitlab. It’s also licensed under the GPLv3.
I don’t mind if you’d like to build your own one in the meantime, and even if neither of us end up contributing to each other’s projects, it’ll still mean there’s some more competition in locally ran FOSS education software, since features can be exchanged, improvements can be made based on comparison, and as a whole it improves the situation for people with alternative learning styles.
Also your projects seem pretty awesome, I like how they all have set use cases and don’t overly generalise.
I would like an app to summon the vultures when there is a dead animal in my yard. Click for vultures.
I want a program that will digitize my brain and give me control over all the inputs and weights.
Free me from this accursed prison of flesh!!
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine
Fully featured Open source drivers for all popular devices. RINA implementations for all major platforms and architectures.
Homescreen widget for my phone thats actually just a tamagotchi. Maybe it already exists and I just havent looked for it.
Having to open the app and shit is already too much hassle. But if its alive in the corner whenever I turn my phone on I’d love it.
Maybe? Connect it to the step-counter so it knows if its been a walk that day, or to earn food/medicine whatever? Already sounds overdeveloped.
Regular tamagotchi please.
open source drivers for all common graphics and networking cards. these currently need binary blobs in linux to work
Is there any tool that makes it easy to host videos on my website and emulate the YouTube watching experience?
Like, people go to my website, watch the video in a player, then when it ends they get a few tiles either of other videos I have up, or recent videos from others I’ve approved? Maybe it just pulls links and thumbnails from specific RSS feeds I list somewhere on the backend?
The player is easy enough, it’s the bandwidth of hosting video files that’ll kill you. That’s why YouTube took off in the first place, free third-party video hosting changed the entire game.
And it is not the bandwith, but copyright. If you’re taking videos from different sources and rehost them on your own site, you will get angry letters from lawyers demanding money
You could host your own peertube instance
a Social Network that uses usb flash drive
instead of the web it is that people physically exchange flash drives to share content
it just needs 1 thing: not having to manage configs or directory on the flash drive
and then everyone involved immediately gets every piece of malware that currently exists within the first day
Oh No But I May Just Make The Program Not Work If There Are EXE Or Executable Files On The Drive And Make An Error Or Whatever
I really like the idea of a Sneakernet where its operation is somewhat abstracted rather than entirely manual.
A way of disabling “AI overview” and llm “Shop assistants” that inject themselves into my view across every website that I visit.
I want to be able to click a download link and it automatically starts the download in jdownloader instead of the browser downloader
A Rockstar version of Starfield/Fallout/Elderscrolls
Bethesda has become so goddamned lazy in their game mechanic design. Its 2026…an NPC should be at least smart enough to know I’m still fucking there if I leave their field of view.
Or whether I’ve already joined and completed their mortal enemies quest line and behave accordingly towards me as a result…
Or even just realising that of your company just got hacked, even if you didn’t witness it, it might have something to do with the stranger that was fucking around in your server room…
Or at least react when I bump into them…
I dearly love Bethesda’s open worlds. I love the settings, the stories etc… There are no games I would rather “live in”, for lack of a better word. But those worlds deserve far far better NPC/faction mechanics
A car that fixes itself like Christine. Without the murderous part, of course.
Sorry, the murderous part is part of the package. Every fix on mine requires a blood sacrifice (usually my own but I’m sorely tempted to just chuck a squirrel in there one of these days).
A program that continuously poisons all corporate AI data sets.
I mean, that’s sort of already happening: Model Collapse. It’s just a matter of time now.
