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Preliminary Ideas

These ideas need more thought, but have strong potential.


Partially Formed Ideas

Abstract container system recipe

  • High layer defines dependencies recipe
  • Abstraction layer allows declaring recipes in guix, ansible, docker, jails
  • Environment layer targets PC/Laptops, single board chips, hosted or "cloud"
  • Minimum: Implement at least two environments
  • High layer could conform to an existing recipe language, such as guix

awesome-dormant

  • Create a list of dormant or stale projects. eg, blag
  • Add some constraints to make this less vague and less subjective.

Citation generator

  • Minimum: MLA, APA citation generator
  • Style variations, such as Sociology APA.
  • Chicago style.
  • GUI, so probably a web form

Related projects

Other projects use combinations of mulitple languages, have mulitple library dependencies, or remain partially implemented. Some projects can scrape websites.

Desktop Environment and General System Camouflages

  • DE or system camouflages in general
  • on-the-fly camo swap
  • Secondary benefit would make it so users could have a familiar UX from the cloned UI.

Target themes

  • OSX/Aqua theme
  • Windows NT theme
  • Windows cmd theme for terminal

Existing Projects

OSX/Aqua

Encryption black box for Android

  • Required encryption options: ECC, Symmetric-key
  • Reusable; other applications can call it via Android Intent
  • Has a recipe to build it via the command line
  • Uses a non-copyleft, free license. Dual license okay.

fediverse fe

  • Implement a general front end for use with an existing fediverse instance.
  • Must work with a vanilla gnusocial installation.
  • A sysadmin could install it to a subdomain on their web server to provide an alternate client UI.
  • pleroma-fe exists, but it requires qvitter for gnusocial.
  • This could also have a thin client such as twidere for android, but for use on a desktop browser.

Massive sprite art generator

  • Software generates 16-bit video game graphics from input photo or illustration
  • Parodies, clones, video game art
  • Could use AI to create instances that grow different stylistic versions from the same inputs

Social media layer for Archive.org

  • Develop an android app or website interface for archive.org that makes the UX as easy as browsing or sharing on youtube
  • Upload media: Movies, photos/pictures, music
  • Specify attribution and license

Social media scraper

  • Write a bash script that scrapes proprietary social media to generate some reusable output.
  • The facebook use case: As a blogger I don't know anything about programming, I want to update my website with posts from other people's facebook pages without the need to use a facebook account or the facebook API.
  • Input a user/organization page link
  • Isolate the pattern/algorithm so if it changes, easy to know where to update the script
  • Output options, at least as json blob
  • Include another standalone script (either js or sh on a cron) to boilerplate generation of a webpage

Video game achievements

  • Write a program to share score/feet/achievements for games
  • Possibility: Some condition in the game triggers a screenshot and posts the image to some blog
  • Libre version of Steam or RetroAchievements, particularly free of region restrictions
  • Target: Works with any game or emulator
  • Minimum: Triggers for at least one game.
  • Nice to haves: integration with mumble, video stream, or chat

vpncats, a VPN via steganography

  • put everything (the encrypted traffic) in silly cat photos as stegs that we "download" or "upload" to sites. So then everything looks like it's an unencrypted request/response.
  • credit goes to loop for the name https://freepo.st/post/oaqc823pan#comment-di2xfsdrnz
  • work in progress by painy shttps://notabug.org/painy/vpncats

Lesser Formed Ideas

One of the original discussions happened on freepo.st.

  1. Find module of snowdrift to help the libre payment program
  2. Use a graph db. Perhaps store libre music playlists.
  3. Libre stickers, for example instead of emoji messages. https://freepo.st/post/iambk9eh5x#comment-pbc5tpi6o7
  4. Contribute to cyclone: https://github.com/justinethier/cyclone/