Up to you whether you want to limit your answer to software that is possible/realistic

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 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.

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.

Optical character recognition/digitisation thingy but for sheet music.

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.

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.

Nice try, Microsoft. Not letting you vibe code my ideas

Org mode my dude or dudette.

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.

How do I quick save? I hit F5, shot a dude in the face, hit F9, and nothing happened...

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.

Fuck yes! I love jellyfin but I'd kill for a live broadcast to break the stream nonsense.

Do you mean like linearr? Sorry if I'm misunderstanding you

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.

A program that continuously poisons all corporate AI data sets.

It obviously isn't exactly what you've described but you should check out Erenshor

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.

I’ll have to give that a go. Thanks.

rm -rf ultrarich, *corporation

That's probably incorrectly formatted, but you get the gist.

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.

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.

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.

If i understand your needs correctly, you're in luck, it exists.

https://youtu.be/mMmeXUnyFZ0

Should be doable with current AI

But outside, nearly nobody gets what they deserve.

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!

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.

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.

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.

Something that would remove clickbait articles, AI slop, propaganda, commercials and probably more that are poisoning our lives.

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.

Please take my money. I would pay thousands for this

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.

Set up ErsatzTV, you can plug it into jellyfin as a live broadcast and it'll show a TV guide too.

I wonder if an AI can do that? It's obsoleted LeafSnap.

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.

Maybe suggest it to the fb-purity authors?

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.

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.

Let me quickly throw the task at the LLM of my choice and start a campaign to promote it. /s

And if you need a quest, go and find my frying pan!

I mean, he's not wrong, but it involves learning emacs and elisp, which is kind of a substantial bar.

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.

Does that mean it's a service that looks at what other users have read to build recommendations? Otherwise what is a source/recommender?

...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.

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?

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.