Up to you whether you want to limit your answer to software that is possible/realistic
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.
I want to be able to click a download link and it automatically starts the download in jdownloader instead of the browser downloader
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 Tue merchants to remember the okayer and treat them according to how they were treated.
It obviously isn’t exactly what you’ve described but you should check out Erenshor
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
If i understand your needs correctly, you’re in luck, it exists.
Oh, this is exactly what I was looking for! QuasiTV and Native 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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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/
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.
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.
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.
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
At least for YouTube clickbait there is crowdsourced DeArrow, from the same developer as SponsorBlock. And you can use it in FreeTube!
There goes 90% of the internet …
Sounds wonderful!
Sturgeon’s law. Ninety percent of anything is crap.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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
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 are 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.
