Up to you whether you want to limit your answer to software that is possible/realistic
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.
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).
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.
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!
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.
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.
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?
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
It outputs ABC notation, not midi. MIDI isn’t really the right format for sheet music.
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.
Should be doable with current AI
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.
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.
And if you need a quest, go and find my frying pan!
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.
…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.
But outside, nearly nobody gets what they deserve.
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.
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.
It obviously isn’t exactly what you’ve described but you should check out Erenshor
Just off the top of my head:
- More domain-specific languages for doing traditionally-mouse-driven kind of workflows. (OpenSCAD is one of the better examples of such a DSL that does exist, but there aren’t very many. I’m being the change I wish to see in the world on this one.)
- A vi/vim-like text editor that has the features I want (
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. - An actively-maintained no-slop fork of the Linux kernel.
Nice try, Microsoft. Not letting you vibe code my ideas
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.
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.
I love stremio and jellyfin but browsability is dire
Set up ErsatzTV, you can plug it into jellyfin as a live broadcast and it’ll show a TV guide too.
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!
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.
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.
rm -rf ultrarich, *corporation
That’s probably incorrectly formatted, but you get the gist.
May I fork your repo? If yes, then:
# fork of @maeve@kbin.earth 's groundbreaking code. Give them a like! # / is equal to KNOWNUNIVERSE find / -iname "ultrarich" -and -iname "*corporation" -exec rm {} \;👏👏👏👏😄
Delightful! Thank you!
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.
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.
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.
