What software does not exist but you wish it did?
Up to you whether you want to limit your answer to software that is possible/realistic
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Nice try, open source developers who want to make the world a better place.
I was thinking more along the lines of someone who wants to be an open source developer but doesn't know how to do it so will just use AI to vibe code litterally the entire thing.
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.
Nurse here. The software we chart with (that I've used at least - plenty out there I haven't touched) ranges from meh to absolute shit. Some of the features on my wishlist would be elimination of redundant charting (like, if put the date down in one section, don't fuckin ask in 3 others!), a way to save templates without patient-specific data, so when I do the same procedure on 5 different people, I can just click the template and fill in any holes instead of starting from scratch each time. Some actual standardization so different programs can actually talk to eachother. Like, ER, scheduling, preop, surgery, anesthesia, recovery, med surg, and sterile processing are all departments that might be involved in a single patient visit (checked into ER, sent for emergency surgery, then kept overnight for observation before discharge)... there'll be some overlap, but scheduling, anesthesia, and sterile processing are usually each rocking their own unique software. The others are usually decently linked up nowadays, but still with the odd exception... like trying to get surgical updates from ICU so you know when to have a bed ready; but the chart is just dead and now a PACU nurse is calling report cuz the surgery finished 40 fuckin minutes ago, all because some some jackass in the ER left the patient's chart open which locked everyone else out of signing their notes. Surprise!
...most of the issues with our charting software boils down to dumb shit like that - proprietary systems that are incapable of communicating, or just good ol' fashioned garbage design. And it'll stay that way, cuz oligopoly.
As someone who's worked with data from the backend of these systems I feel your pain. Why does someone need 10 different DoB's over the course of 3 visits and why did those 3 day visits occur on 8 different days?
As a frequent patient I understand why everyone is always asking me my DOB excessively, to make sure they've got the right person and that I'm 'with it' enough to call the shots about my health, I assume? I guess that translates to paperwork too.
Thats why they ask you yes.
They them have to fill out forms on the visit and are asked there multiple times.
This is everywhere. I deleted a more thought out response when I realized that someone probably handed over ALL of the backend databases of patient data to an LLM (it's HIPAA compliant so don't worry *wink*) so that it can spew out MORE bullshit that doesn't work, but a lot of money was paid for it so we're going to use it.
HIPAA is the opposite of privacy anyway - it's specifically about enabling sharing of data 🤦🏼.
And it was sold as a privacy tool. Lying cocksuckers.
HIPAA is a framework for CONTROLLED sharing of data.
Privacy = controlled sharing of data
HIPAA has a lot of problems. But it's not some trick.
This is such a weird take. Your healthcare professionals need to be able to share your data with specialists safely and securely. That's what HIPAA is about from my perspective, and everyone I work with. If you want effective care, you need to be able to share your medical data without fear of it leaking. The fact that people abuse the system is a separate problem
:-(
So yet another way a normal person just trying to live life is a product for an ever increasing set of companies.
As a physical therapist, one thing that bugs me (and I know it’s not a software limitation but spending choices) is having to wedge my notes into a format designed for a physician or something else.
I got a small taste of that back in nursing school. Our care plans followed a very strict template for our clinical patients, and they were 100% geared toward med surg. My day in the OR made for an especially hard time trying to check all the boxes... I remember a whole lot of "yeah I didn't assess for that, cuz pt was getting surgery... but, uh, here's what I'd be looking for if I did! ...uh, nope, no interventions, due to the patient still getting surgery, but here's a few things I could have done if they weren't being actively cut open"
Fortunately the profs were well aware of that dillemma, so they graded pretty soft on OR days lol. So, you've definitely got my empathy on this one - dealing with that garbage every day sounds like a nightmare!
...this is probably the core issue of why so many different departments end up using a completely different software package.
Oi,I feel you so hard on this, as a software developer who works on medical devices and software used in medical contexts, holy shit the pickings are so bad.
Why can't someone just conjure up solutions to all of this (which is totally doable technically)? Because FDA regulation forces us to follow Byzantine release processes and meet very exacting requirements for the software end product.
I could probably knock together at least two or three of your wishlist items in a week, and it would take 1-3 years for it to make it to the first customer. Even patches and fixes I build for existing products take 3-6 months to make it out the door after they're done.
All of that to say, these make friction points that make it difficult for developers to coordinate and standardize without introducing mountains of extra bullshit that didn't need to actually be in the product or software in the first place
It’s always been a fool’s errand to attempt software in the education or medical space. The requirements are too onerous and haphazard to be anywhere near worth it.
I'm edging around some of it in Ibis and Rufous, but yeah, I'm trying to avoid anything that needs direct FDA approvals which severely limits what I can build
I work for a division of a health tech company and I can say that we hear you and value this kind of feedback. There are folks I work with who have dedicated themselves (including myself) to seek solutions to problems like these, and as a former integrations engineer, some companies are better at interoperability than others, despite the efforts of the HITECH Act in the US. My frustration is time and getting the attention of those who greenlight projects to work on things like these. On one hand, I feel OSS could help solve these problems sooner, but on the other hand, healthcare has some very opinionated people and things could get messy.
tell me you work with clinicians without telling me.
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I have a random suggestion that might be a little more useful/unique than my bitching above, (which you've probably heard a few thousand times already...)
One area that's lacking in EVERY program I've used for charting is education. We get nursing students pretty regularly, as have the previous hospitals I've worked at (guessing this is pretty universal - where there are nursing positions, there are nursing schools fighting over clinical slots). When I was in school, we were given access to real patient's charts during clinicals, and we spent a lot of time doing things like sitting at the nursing station and staring at a computer monitor at lists of lab values/meds/vitals trends/etc and whipping a pen out and transposing that shit onto paper so we could take it home and write a care plan from it. Patient data could be printed, but doing so was forbidden by the school program, because HIPAA - and understandably so, given the legal ramifications for fucking that up. Even copying the data into a word doc and manually omitting names and such was still hard no for the same reason - we might miss something and accidentally violate HIPAA.
So, the idea this is all leading up to: in the 'View' tab or something, make an option for "student view" that pulls up a plain text summary of the patient -- but without any PHI. Anything entered into a patient's name field will output as "PATIENT"; staff entered will just be "DOCTOR, DOCTOR2, NURSE, TECH" etc. Patient's age? Round to the nearest 5. Dates? Fudge all of them by a random number of days (RNG on generating a report) , but by a consistent amount for all dates in that report, ie real admission date of Dec 3 2025 and discharge date of Dec 5 2025 --> RNG applies -42 days --> Student View summary reports Admission at Oct 22 2025, and discharge at Oct 24 2025. Labs? Fudge it by RNG with +/- 1% of real value.
You get the gist.
Give me a report that's useless as fuck for the real patient - no PHI at all. BUT, you've essentially just generated a completely fake patient with useful data for a case study. In the student's mind, there's no difference - "PATIENT, 75, MALE, hospitalized for 2 days" is effectively the same case study as "Leeroy Jenkins, 73, Male, hospitalized on these specific dates, 2 days apart". Slightly tweaked labs? who gives a shit, all they care about is if they're out of range by a clinically significant margin.
And here's a golden bit: PRINT THAT SUMBICH!! Or fuck it, email the .txt to your student email so you can copy and paste it. There's no HIPAA, so it doesn't matter. What matters is the student isn't wasting their clinical hours fucking around on a computer - get their ass into a patient room where they can do some nursing, cuz they'll learn more there than the entire rest of the degree program. They can crunch the data for a care plan at home.
...that ended up being really wordy. Sorry about the wall of text. On the off chance anything comes of it, let me know!
So there's no software to do what literally every insurance swears they don't break the law doing en masse?
There's none that I'm aware of that basically anonymizes patient data for use outside of healthcare.
Billing and insurance all falls under HIPAA - those facets and every other aren't disallowed (legally) from things like printing sensitive info - basically if it's being used as part of your care, it's fine.
And students are no exception - when they're on a clinical rotation, they're on that patient's healthcare team and can legally access and print etc that info. The problem is that students still need that data for use outside of that care, and HIPAA doesn't give a fuck about their homework, so any papers that have PHI on it become a violation when they start being accessed for those things. And schools don't trust students not to fuck that up, so they'll come up with overkill-by-design policies like disallowing students from printing PHI, even if it's for use on that clinical and meant to be shredded before leaving. So, the school wants to play things extra safe.
...this isn't to say that insurance companies aren't abusing your data, but can legally handle it within the scope of your billing.
Anonymization software does exist, but probably not in that area you want it. When I was an integrations engineer working with EHR data, there were multiple tools out there that would anonymize the data so we could use it for testing. I'm sure some EHRs allow you to run reports, and those reports might allow transforms where the things you're asking for might be possible. But the key is having the Clinical IT team build that stuff so students could use it. The difficulty will be those areas where the patient had a pretty unique set of things about them in the notes or other areas. Anonymizing stuff like that is difficult because it usually plays into other care plan aspects. The other things that would need to be carefully anonymized is age since I have had issues where specific labs are ordered based on age - that would need to be smart to avoid some points if you add too many days and maybe go in the opposite direction.
An immortal worm that drains wealth from billionaires, launders it, and redistributes it as some kind of deus ex machina bonus to everyone else or to charities.
A software version of taxes!
I was going to add that if the government(s) do it we could call it "taxes"... but decided that brevity was more important :-)
gotta rely on ex-wives of billionaires instead i guess
Public service announcement that, once split up, this would be a significant but not life-changing amount of money. At least in the West.
Masturbator/Dildo software that integrates with an EEG to scan your brain, know when you're about to cum, and then edge you over and over again.
Too difficult. Just gonna build a machine that gently zaps your brain's cum center continuously.
You know we have invented drugs more powerful that that? However they kill you sooner or later.
No thanks, satan. My body is a temple. /s
I think it is fair to assume all drugs that give you feelings compared to orgasm are addictive as hell which makes them very easy to overdose :)
Mankind would be doomed if such a drug existed. Well maybe not doomed but like you’d notice a severe drop in birth rates.
Have you heard of https://maustec.io/pages/edge-o-matic
I would like an app to summon the vultures when there is a dead animal in my yard. Click for vultures.
An easy one I would do myself if I had more time. A calorie tracker that does not try to get you into a cult.
If you run Android, check out "Energize" on fdroid.
Got it installed. I'll try it tomorrow.
If all you need is calories couldn't you just use any counter app for that? At that point you're just adding numbers in.
The key is that I don't want it connecting to a remote site every dang time I try to make an entry. Once a day for db updates should be all it needs.
Waistline kind of works like that.
And I think there are a few self-hostable solutions out there.
A multimedia centre like Kodi or Jellyfin with the ability to schedule shows like it was a regular TV channel. With shows playing on their time slots, a random movie starting every day at ten.
There are times that I just want to turn on the TV and watch whatever is on without having to scroll through the entire library for something I could be in the mood for.
have you looked at ersatztv?
Seconding this. ErsatzTV is what you want.
No, I guess I will spend the next few hours looking into it.
FYI, the dev has abandoned this software. It shouldn’t matter too much, because you should NOT put it on the internet as it has not auth at all. So it shouldn’t matter too much. But just fyi
when was it abandoned? The git repo seems to be reasonably active
Oh. Maybe the dev came back to it. Last I heard (about maybe a year ago) the dev had stepped back from it. Good to know that it’s back being updated though!
edit: ah nice. it's being developed again. just checked out the github repo. cool!
Thanks for the heads up.
I always get nervous with these warnings because I never use anything remotely so I don't really know what it means to put it on the internet. Can it be put accidentally or it requires a series of steps for it to be accessed?
Depends on your setup. Is it at home behind NAT? You’ll be fine. If it is on a vps, you’ll need to block the port on your server.
Jellyfin has this awesome option "sort library randomly". I use that for music and it is great for discovery of music or to find music I haven't listened to in years. So maybe try this for movies and watch the first one?
Multiple things exist to do this.
I use kodi on a pretty basic level for about 15 years now. I'm almost sure that somethi g like this should exist, no?
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.
Okay so you know how Ad Naseum is a thing? It's like uBlock but it clicks on ads to fuck with advertisers?
I wish we had something like that for youtuber sponsors built on top of SponsorBlock. Like imagine it finds the affiliate link, signs up for this shit using a burner email, and then the bot doing this deletes itself.
It makes the youtuber look bad, it makes the brand look bad, and you feel like a gigachad for doing it.
Is it possible? Maybe, but realistically I believe this is a form of fraud, so I imagine no one would do this, BUT I WISH IT DID EXIST!
You had me in the first half, but very quickly I realized we went opposite directions with that idea.
Like, I would absolutely love a program that automatically followed affiliate links for whitelisted channels that I watch. Obviously I wouldn't want it to buy things, but it would allow me to show a little bit more support.
Just replied to a comment above but yeh I’d love something like this. Something that punishes or profits (in my favour) from pushy advertising.
This should not be fraud. It’s simple resistance.
An actual, healthy, good online social ecosystem. A place with deep quality conversation without bots, trolls, rage bait, misinformation, etc. Somewhere that felt like actual community.
Sadly that's a human problem that technology is hard-pressed to solve (if not impossible).
I hear Lemmy is pretty good but I've never used it.
I am afraid that would only be possible if it's faked, with everyone else except you being a LLM
Or/and if almost every real user is shadow banned to other real users except bots
Real talk I'm surprised some tech bro hasn't made that yet. Like not hiding it, just fully branding it as an AI-first replacement for Reddit/Twitter.
The user could describe the type of content they want to see or "world event" they want their "community" to experience. Like a medival twitter, and have a political plot develop between two kingdoms and the human user's engagement on the thread can help sway public opinion on the subject leading to different narrative events.
With a world of 8 billion people, there are enough out there that would enjoy it...
Something that would remove clickbait articles, AI slop, propaganda, commercials and probably more that are poisoning our lives.
Please take my money. I would pay thousands for this
Let me quickly throw the task at the LLM of my choice and start a campaign to promote it. /s
There goes 90% of the internet ...
Sounds wonderful!
Sturgeon's law. Ninety percent of anything is crap.
Honestly, existing alternatives and frontends get surprisingly close.
I want a MMORPG where there are 100,000 unique NPCs all run by AI with a custom backstory that keep track of the world events and respond accordingly.
I want them to have player/party specific memories and information. I want the merchants to remember the player and treat them according to how they were treated.
Just go outside, man.
How do I quick save? I hit F5, shot a dude in the face, hit F9, and nothing happened...
You have to have two traits for your character from the start: white skin and incredibly wealthy. If you don't have both of those you'll have to become a police officer which is easy enough, but easier if you're char is white and rich.
But outside, nearly nobody gets what they deserve.
And if you need a quest, go and find my frying pan!
...which in the end you'll discover a group of robber that associated with a syndicate that involve scam center, money laundering, sex trafficking, and also kidnapping. Go forth, my hero, for my heirloom frying pan needs your help.
I need ten frying pan handles, so you must keep hunting frying pans down in the Skillet Sepulchre until you've got ten handles. Frying pans only have a 10% chance of dropping handles as loot. Frying pans have a five minute respawn timer. There will be a dozen other players trying to complete this quest.
Khajit has wares, if you have coin.
Side quest: go grind from 9:00 to 6:00 pm, 5 days a week (minimum), till you get enough coins.
Yes, that is something that modern AI could have some value in a game. Not AI-generated assets (graphics and music), not even AI filling in for lazy writters, but AI providing emergent story and gameplay. Like Dwarf Fortress, but LLMs instead of some "simple" hardcoded rules. This should be a genre of its own, not something pushed to every game, though.
It's a great idea in theory, but the reality is that LLMs just aren't actually very good at that kind of thing.
Depending on the temperature of the model their writing is either painfully bland and repetitive, or it's the kind of "creative" that's driven by randomness, so you'll get completely out of pocket replies that just don't fit the situation at all.
The answer to what this person is looking for is simple; find a good group to play tabletop RPGs with. Software is never going to give you that experience.
I think it depends on the harness.
Like the LLMs are not good at keeping narrative structure intact, but with a harness that could create a playbook of known information for each AI character that the current LLM that you are interacting with can reference, then it could contribute to emergent gameplay and help build a relatively vibrant world.
The real downside is that it would require an entire data center as a bare minimum to run all of the LLMs, like the technology is still too raw and new for it to make financial sense unless people were willing to pay $500 or $600 a month to play this game.
It obviously isn't exactly what you've described but you should check out Erenshor
That already exists, it is called social media bot farm.
A peer-to-peer prediction market where instead of betting on forest fires, we bet on datacenter fires and mansion fires.
Who would bet against those fires in a platformike that?
You'd bet against the fires if you wanted a payoff when the fire doesn't happen. You pay when the fire does happen. So anybody who benefits from the fire world have an incentive to bet against it.
I don't think many people that don't want a fire would use the platform...
Let's say you don't want a fire, like it's your data center. You'll want to get paid if the fire does happen. So you bet on fire, like you're buying insurance against it.
Two interesting differences from existing fire insurance.
That's the real point of this software. It would allow crowdfunded defense against people who are destroying the world and own the legal system. Most participants would just be minimizing costs or gambling, not ideologically motivated.
My point is that people would have an incentive to bet for the fire and then cause the fire, so once a bet is published chances are that the fire will happen.
There would need to be sufficient market depth to pay someone to act. So we couldn't just publish $0.01 bets on everything and watch the town burn. "Coasian" solutions like this are limited by transaction costs.
In practice, the owner of the datacenter would need to either eliminate the externality or watch it burn. If the datacenter is worth more than its external cost, then they can reimburse their victims or pay for cleanup. If the revenue from the datacenter is less than its external costs, then it's a net loss for society and ought to be shut down.
If such a platform existed so many people would bet for "fire" that there wouldn't be depth, but if you take a look around lemmy you can see some people hate AI so much they would do it anyways.
Optical character recognition/digitisation thingy but for sheet music.
This apparently does exist and is called OMR(Optical Music Recognition) software
It exists, but every bit of software I've tried has incredibly poor performance on anything except the absolute cleanest typset printed pieces.
I wonder if an AI can do that? It's obsoleted LeafSnap.
just tried with the free version of claude. It works a lot better than anything else I've tried but it's not perfect, averaging ~2 mistakes per 10 bars for a relatively simple score.
Seems strange that it's so hard to get right. I guess it's a bit like reading handwriting - subtle tiny differences?
Does it give you a midi file from a scanned musical piece?
It outputs ABC notation, not midi. MIDI isn't really the right format for sheet music.
Wikipedia has a section on how it works and at least to some degree also why it's hard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_music_recognition#Approaches_to_OMR
If I was to build something like this, could you beta test? Sounds like a fun weekend project for me 😄
yeah, I'd be happy to test it.
Shoot me a DM and send me some sheets to work with, I'll post a repo link with a proof of concept and we can refine it from there
This is essentially what I was about to say. I want to be able to scan my sheet music and end up with a perfectly clean, crisp, beautiful copy of it on my tablet.
Should be doable with current AI
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.
Accurate search engine that strips ai generated articles from search results.
Accurate product search engine, that finds what I am looking for instead of ads, and includes searching by what the product is made of, it's shape etc. Last time I was trying to find no glue no glass non-welded no plastic tea infuser it took me far too long.
I've used https://kagi.com/ for the past year or so. It's much improved search compared to current Google.
Literally just got pissed off enough to give up for a bit searching for a hard drive enclosure. Fucking pages and pages of docks. I typed in the god damn parameters of what I am looking for, stop showing me shit that isn't that. The assholes miscategorizing their shit so it comes up in more searches should be executed.
Working on the second: https://menagerie.circuitforge.tech/snipe
Still early days but the filters and trust scoring work really well
This goes into the presently unrealistic, but I want a HUD that can display quests, tasks, inventory and health stats.
No, it's plausible
The unrealistic part is expecting the company (who has access to whatever information you use for your HUD stats) not to take greedy advantage of every tiny detail of your life to fill your HUD with ads and probably other nefarious shit
And for the HUD to not be AI-powered, since they'd also be too lazy to put real programming into it
I'd love an online-free version of that though. Huge one-time purchase, software runs entirely within hardware. That's the dream
Ya that's why I think it's presently unrealistic, because corporate greed would absolutely make it ad riddled garbage.
But AR and machine learning, so it can take my personal and work tasks/goals, things I purchase or otherwise acquire (like gifts, other free stuff, things bought outside a digitized marketplace), on hardware and heavily secured but otherwise able to access the Internet.
I essentially want a video game style HUD IRL. It would help so damn much with object impermanence and low functioning short term memory. Oh yeah, I forgot I had this thing or this side quest waiting, without having to manually track it.
Tried using a productivity suite for personal stuff a couple times and just swept it aside. Granted it would probably end up adding to notification fatigue anyways.
Some wizard tool I can download that will swap out Windows for a stable Linux distro, like Fedora or Debian.
Is that not what a live USB is?
I dunno about today but this existed for years and was called something like Goodbye Windows IIRC
Make it a silent CLI and I'll bundle it with the windows builds of my tools.
Community driven search engine. Where everyone can upvote/downvote/tag or even comment on page or service, to filter out garbage services and help increase visibility of valuable sites.
That would probably require being logged in and verified as a real, unique person, otherwise bots would make it garbage really fast.
I used to work for a startup back in 2009 that used semantic tagging and your social graph to improve results on the big three search engines. It was a pretty cool idea with the semantic tagging (type "apple" and you would get a drop down to select apple the fruit, Apple the tech brand, Apple the record label, etc.) and then your search results were filtered to what you were looking for. They pivoted and added your Facebook network so others using the system that you knew would prioritize results with the assumption that if you were searching for something that someone you knew had already searched for, it was likely that their findings were relevant. Yes, a ball of privacy issues to be sure. Always anonymous, and you could opt out of sensitive searches being included, etc. But, it did provide some means of social proof in your search results. Short lived job for me as funding ended and I moved on to create my own company.
Half of it exists. https://yacy.net/
Problem is, index too small. Be the change you want to see in the world, I guess.
In a way, I think the early AOL had this idea.
Nice try, Microsoft. Not letting you vibe code my ideas
I just want something that'll chop the sponsored segment out of my podcasts. Can't be that hard. Every sponsor segment starts and ends with a standard jingle, so just have the software look for that opening and closing jingle and cut out whatever's in between, right?
Honestly considering vibe coding it because ads are the reason I don't listen to my podcasts anymore
One of my favorite uses for a a VPN is hearing podcast ads in a language I don't understand.
There is sponsorblock for YouTube and https://github.com/ericmedina024/podcast-sponsor-block - so if your podcasts are on YouTube, that might work for you
There's this that removes laughter tracks: https://github.com/jeffg-dev/laughr You can train it on other audio though, so it should probably work for the jingles as well.
I’ve thought about that too. Then I feel guilty cutting out their revenue source. Then I realize that doesn’t matter. Then I realize that it’ll require also wrapping it in a whole-ass podcast app. But there could probably be a way to download episodes, run them through the ad filter, then host an rss feed of that list of files… that’s it, I’ll do it.
Automating it would be rad, but if I could even just plug the episodes I have into such a software and de-sponsor them in batches I'd be happy. I was caught up with Hey Riddle Riddle right up until their ads stopped being a set length. Now I gotta skip forward and backward until I find the end of the ad, and I simply stopped listening.
I download the podcasts I want to listen to, then host my own RSS so I can manage it better long-term.
Fully featured Open source drivers for all popular devices. RINA implementations for all major platforms and architectures.
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
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
Content filtering that works cross-platform and is able to remove the all the noise from social media. Dunks, insults, one liners, posturing, grandstanding, outrage and so on. People who demand to be heard but have nothing to say.
What you're looking for is called "touching grass". Go outside and interact with real people.
Not sure about you, but recently, a lot more of those online behaviors have started appearing IRL.
That means that people already did these things, but, like alcohol, the Internet lowers the inhibitions to not behave like that. It's a pretty short leap to say that, if you spend a lot of time online, these behaviors will become a large part of who you are on and off the Internet.
Does it mean that people can't relearn how not to act like that? No, but it's gonna be hard.
I don't really see how that justifies Orwellian censorship online.
My interpretation on what you've said is just that you don't want to be confronted with the realities of socializing with people who aren't willing to lie to you about their opinions. It used to be normalized that dishonesty and inauthenticity were "politeness" and making yourself palatable to others was productive. But, as we can plainly see world-wide, putting up with assholes just encourages them to be bigger assholes.
Perhaps rather than thinking the rest of the world is wrong for reacting to you in a way you dislike, you might consider whether there's a common denominator here. Rather than trying to control everyone else, you might want to think about what you can control that's a little closer to home.
Maybe suggest it to the fb-purity authors?
A way of disabling "AI overview" and llm "Shop assistants" that inject themselves into my view across every website that I visit.
rm -rf ultrarich, *corporation
That's probably incorrectly formatted, but you get the gist.
May I fork your repo? If yes, then:
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Delightful! Thank you!
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.
I want to be able to click a download link and it automatically starts the download in jdownloader instead of the browser downloader
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
Penis_enlargement.exe
If I could make that, I'd be rich. And have a big penis.
Actual HUD for glasses/contacts without all the bloat and spyware. Would be pretty nice to have a map and notes always available in my peripheral when I want.
I had Google Glass when it came out. It was essentially this, but the tech at the time was still too bulky and voice and other things that would've made it better were not quite ready yet. A little too ahead of its time, but the idea was there. In fact, since then, I've seen attempts to do what you're asking, and we're getting closer. The problems now are the cameras & microphones and privacy, and bulkiness of the devices.
A program that uses modern language processing to let you play old or new text-based games without the annoyance of their clunky interface. Especially if it also worked with voice so you could play it as you do other menial tasks.
NOTE it would have to use minimal compute. No using Claude to do it all. Just focused AI in the language processing.
I've been messing around with decision models, I feel like they would be a pretty good fit for that because the only thing that would need to be done is choosing one of a finite set of commands and choosing its parameters also from a finite set of choices, which is what decision models are for, along with being very fast and having low system requirements.
I’m actually making it. Official 1.0 release is a few weeks out as I work on LLC/App Store approvals, but it’s pretty much there. BookPocket, a book tracker/reading log that treats sources/recommenders as actual entities and can learn whose tastes you share and prioritize your TBR based on those. I was annoyed the book tracker I used has been leaning heavily on AI recommendations, and none of the options out there offered this kind of functionality. I hope others find it useful, but at the very least, I’ve replaced the book tracker I was using with it and it’s helped me prioritize the books I actually want to read from my endless list.
Does that mean it's a service that looks at what other users have read to build recommendations? Otherwise what is a source/recommender?
No, all sources are ones you create and private to your account by default. So if a friend of mine recommends a book, I can add the book to my list along with adding a custom source for that friend/noting the reason they recommend it so I can remember to talk to them about it if I do read it.
If that friend ends up joining BookPocket and adding me as a friend, I can then connect them to the source I created and we can set privacy settings for what’s shared between us. But sources are inherently custom and could be a person, podcast, library, etc. I was already doing this with tags in my last book tracker, like #recommendation #recommendation-sarah would go on a book that Sarah recommended to me, so I could use those tags to surface books actual humans recommended to me. This just pushes that a step further and allows me to add notes both on the person and the recommendation about why they recommended it, and open up new vectors for prioritizing/yearly stats.
The core idea is to be able to prioritize my reading based on recommenders/sources I trust and tend to like their recommendations the most (and those I shouldn’t prioritize) rather than AI/algorithm based recommendations.
I want stand-alone spreadsheet tables. Like if I wanted a 3x6 grid that acts like a spreadsheet, without out all of the chrome of a spreadsheet program.
If not that, system wide spreadsheet functionality whenever a table is invoked.
Org mode my dude or dudette.
I’ll have to give that a go. Thanks.
I mean, he's not wrong, but it involves learning emacs and elisp, which is kind of a substantial bar.
Emacs isn't too bad, it has a menu
I think tables in Word can be made to do that, but I forget what the field definitions etc are, and it's probably too limited for your desires.
This is a fantastic idea. Could it already be done with Jupyter Notebooks? I've never used Jupyter before, but it seems like this would be close.
An ad blocker, but it doesn't just block the ad, it engages with it based on your defined parameters. You get a blacklist/whitelist setup, so you can list businesses and topics you want to support and businesses you don't. Now every aldi ad that I don't actually see gets a bot version of my engagement to convince advertisers that I'm into that, but every Nestlé ad gets reported for abuse with links to their many, many crimes. All the while, it looks like I'm engaging with the advertising like a good little consumer without ever having to waste my own time.
The environment is genuinely a give and take, and I wonder what part of the adpocolype is caused by garbage data due to ad blocking. Instead, we opt out. Instead of digging through our trash and spying in our movements we just give them an itemized list and tell them to fuck off.
Something similar exists, which just clicks all blocked ads: https://adnauseam.io/
That's close, but the goal is to black ball shitty businesses so that, with enough users, you can efficiently shift market data to hurt companies. It's going to cause a lot of red flags to go up if all of a sudden people are turning adblockers on specifically for nestle ads before engaging with all the others normally.
Thanks for this. Do you know Fauxx for Android?
Jusr installed that last week, can't say if it does anything but it has numbers on it.
I've looked at it on F-Droid before, but I don't actually use AdNauseam myself either, so haven't tried it. 😅
Or even better. An ad block that would cost them money and make me some.
Kinda like having an 0800 number that when someone spams me I make the difference.
Actually yeah, if advertisers had to pay viewers that would also solve the problem.
I seriously need editable TODO tasks and calendar running on the desktop wtih CalDAV support and reminders (Linux, wayland).
Maybe something like that exists, but I haven't found it yet. I will probably have to make it myself when I find the time.
Still a work in progress, but a friend of mine is building exactly that: https://git.circuitforge.tech/eva/focus-flow
Yeah or just a good and complete CalDAV support everywhere, life would be a lot easier
Just off the top of my head:
gu/gU,q<buffer>,v, etc) and not the ones I don't (syntax highlighting, auto-indent, a whole-ass language built in, GUI support, etc) and is in the Gentoo standard package repository.Bookkeeping software. You scan your receipts. You scan any other important documents it compiles everything needed so you can do your taxes. And get the best tax write offs.
Working on it soon: https://git.circuitforge.tech/Circuit-Forge/crossbill https://circuitforge.tech/software/crossbill
The shared core and application framework is solid, but I have been focusing on Peregrine mostly as I'm trying to help my partner find a job. If I had some more beta testers, I would be able to start on more of the apps I have planned:
https://circuitforge.tech/software
Something like duolingo but for voice training specifically.
It's what I am working on at the moment as personal project but I don't have experience with meither microphones nor signal analysis.
I think Yousician had a vocals program, but I haven't tried it.
A robust, comprehensive, granular, libre-content search-engine.
Search on keyword lists with standard shortcuts. eg. Search: "dnb"
Can set licence to only show: PD, CC-by, CC-by-nc-sa, AGPL, GPL3, etc. or multiples of these.
Can select filetype categories for results: text, images, audio, video, software, etc.
Has all the major repos of libre-content indexed, and can pick up licencing detail from other web/ftp files.
Can export the found URL lists to a text-file, eg. for making audio or video playlists, to feed into VLC etc.
Returns zero full-copyright content ever.
Extra bonus quality: Inbuilt player and jukebox mode.
* If something similar already exists, let me know.
Work in progress, but I'm building something like this: https://circuitforge.tech/software/pagepiper
The features you're describing would be fairly easy to add to what's already there
Zombo.com
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 first person scrolls like MMO sandbox, but each server has it's own lasting history. Like, instead of making all the legendary items, players doing fantastic things will get a prompt to turn part of their equipment into a legendary item. They can add a relevant modifier, request a unique name, and from that point on the item works by legend rules. It can't leave that server, if you die with it the item disappears and becomes a reward for a dungeon. The item tracks people who have owned it so you can literally see the history.
It could have player ran factions. Not the, "everyone makes their clan of 1" like most games, you'd have to take x players or be an affiliate of a larger group. Then you could have a schism in the mages guild when a bunch of affiliated players break off due to a player made rule, or the revival of a dead guild as former players return and begin recruiting again.
All the while, the servers each run entirely independently with unique history. You could move between them as the same character if you leave your legendary items behind so you can participate in player made events or when trade goods between them, but Excaliber on server A literally doesn't exist in server B, and the kingdom of guy1 doesn't have the same standing here as it does there.
A proper file manager on Linux like Xyplorer or Directory Opus.
I've tried all the Debian based ones and none come even close
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 task / to do organizer that:
intelligently populates a "do today" list while handling dependancies and scheduling
is editable and viewable by multiple people, has individual tasks for each user, and also pulls from a list of shared tasks
keeps a record of when and by who previous tasks were completed
is capable of but does not require integration with calendar, fitness tracker, and messaging
Buddy of mine is working on something like this: https://git.circuitforge.tech/eva/focus-flow
A non-interactive scheduler to play my movies and TV shows at set times each week. It should remember with episode was last played so it keeps the sequence correct. I shouldn’t need to do anything except keep the app open.
If i understand your needs correctly, you're in luck, it exists.
https://youtu.be/mMmeXUnyFZ0
Oh, this is exactly what I was looking for! QuasiTV and Nostalgia TV for anyone wondering.
At least one of them seems to have a Google dependency, with rules me out. But I’ll look into them in more detail. Thanks again!
Edit: I'm going to go with Ersatz TV.
Fuck yes! I love jellyfin but I'd kill for a live broadcast to break the stream nonsense.
Set up ErsatzTV, you can plug it into jellyfin as a live broadcast and it'll show a TV guide too.
I love stremio and jellyfin but browsability is dire
Especially for music, I miss radio so much.
From another reply I got above, Quasi TV and Native TV are two options. Not sure which is easier to set up but when I find out I might try it.
Do you mean like linearr? Sorry if I'm misunderstanding you
That’s very close. If I understand what I’m reading it prepares the shoes for viewing just like I mentioned. But it doesn’t play them automatically. I’m looking for the old experience where the TV Show A plays every Tuesday at 7pm without my needing to press play.
Still, your suggestion is better than my current situation so I might try to get it running. Thanks!
Scenario: I am sitting on the sofa and I type, I want to go to the dentist / cinema / vacation; and fully automatically the entire exercise (ticket, appointment, billing, payment, seatreservations, return trip etc etc) is planned, all I need to do is wait for the calendar reminder. And all of that is naturally fully protected by sound data privacy.
I know it's a very unpopular opinion around here, but this was pretty much the dream and why agents were built. The problem is their inefficiency and training mechanics. However, I read about A2A as a way to achieve this through a demo, where your local machine talks with airlines and hotels to find out availability, asks you questions on preferences, and tries to find a solution. Some existing vacation planners already do this, but I know your ask is in general, and I think that was the plan for engineers. I'm sure they were steered in other directions though. Things like this could be done without AI, though, but standardization is required and to achieve that we have to deal with a very human problem: cooperative agreement. It's rare when people agree so completely on a standard, which is why some of the most basic things the Internet is based on takes forever before finally becoming a standard. Sometimes it takes just one method/format to become the standard based on popularity, but for tools to work together, it requires multiple parties to agree and then others to want to join in and adopt it. The unfortunate part is that as things expand, needs change and things get messy really quick.
There's already ways to accomplish it without software dedicated to it, but a robust FOSS Dead man's switch would be something I'd like to see.
Good open source multiplatform 360 video editing software that supports all the formats (insta360, DJI, GoPro, etc.)
A proper Enterprise lab tracking/management system
What kind of lab, and what kind of pieces of equipment would need to be tracked?
Why bother. The whole stack is fucked, from the hardware up.
In what way?
Linux might be a bit hacked together and monolithic, but I don't know about fucked. Some hardware is shitty and locked down, but probably still not the majority.
I say GUI metaphor should happen in hardware. Without the same old fixed frames-per-second, we don't use CRT anymore.
It's all but brittle sandcastles we build on hardware made for number-crunching in servers, same like a web-GUI is inferior because it runs on a Document Object Model. Just leads to more bugs and security issues. That we still need to decide between immediate and retained mode rendering, why is that a software question?
Or (GUI) icon painting, that should at least be a kernel call, not something you as a dev have to fiddle around with sizes and alignment on.
Yesyes, i know, backwards-compatibility and market share.
Commandline shell which isn't in a terminal emulator. A nice GUI, and easy discoverability of useful features. It can do everything your traditional commandline shell can do, but it doesn't live in the 70's.
I started developing a prototype of this a few years back, but I just don't have the self discipline to stick with it long enough.