Youtube app for smartphones sometimes have URLs in the comments that are not linkified, probably for good safety reason. To get around this, one can use some sort of screenshot-to-OCR based approach to select and open the URL. However, OCR-ing ASCII runs into the problem where oh, zero, ell, ai, one can get mixed up (i.e. O, 0, l, I, 1). To disambiguate, subtle grayscale pixels are introduced to the glyphs that are hard to notice for humans but OCR would have no problem seeing to help decode the image. Alternatively, the glyphs could be different enough to be noticeable to humans but not enough to be aesthetically distracting. That way humans and software alike can tell the difference.

While we're at tweaking glyphs, make one and zero take up the same width so digital clocks don't do the disctracting width shifting with passage of time.

Hey everyone! I'm working on an iOS mobile application designed to help users digitally preserve their physical belongings. The concept is simple: we all tend to hold onto certain items—whether it’s that favorite jacket from freshman year or a pair of sneakers we used to love but can’t quite part with. Over time, though, these things can pile up—think about the sophomore year jacket or that sixth pair of Jordans! Eventually, we’re all limited by the space we have.

Instead of just storing images, what if we could save 3D scans of these items in a "digital chest"? It could be a great way to keep those memories without the clutter! Of course, this isn’t about saying goodbye to all sentimental items; some things will always be special. But this could be a helpful way to manage the rest.

I’d love to hear your thoughts, and thank you for reading!

I recently took up cycling again and it gave me a weird idea.

What if you mount NERF guns on mountain bikes, and then chase another mountain bike while trying to align yourself and position the shot?

Seems like a fun thing to do on a trail with lots of a jumps and turns! Might also be worth it to attach cords to the bullets so that it can latch onto the other bike and you can prove that the shot landed on them.

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Soo I got an idea for a book for young children to teach them against hate submliminally and instill good values in them. (So they dont grow up to be /pol/ users)

Basically the children's book would revolve around a little bear living in the forest in a village of bears, and a fox (or foxes) the fox would be basically blamed for everything under the rainbow including theft, they would warn the bears not to deal with people like him, etc. I'd be illustrated in a way to make the children actually believe they're evil. then the MC, a bear would get lost, and all the bears would accuse the fox of kidnapping the young bear and wanting to eat the bear, and even prepare a fireplace to burn him at a stake, and vandalize a shop owned by a fox, etc.

then it'd turn out the bear was actually lost. not kidnaped. AND the fox guy would be the one to save the bear, (who would be confused and shocked) and it'd also turn out that everything the fox was accused of was because of misunderstandings and because people did not see

now not making it too mature, the endings would either be

1. the bear would run away with the fox somewhere else where they can be safe OR
2. the fox would return to the village and they'd all rejouice celebrate yada yada

Basically a cryptocurrency where the proof of work is a human viewing a website instead of finding the right number of zeros. The main difficulty would be confirming the viewer is indeed human but I think this can be done with something like Sam Altman's project world or better alternative. It would also be imo like when dollars were backed by gold a view is worth money because an ad could have been shown.

But really this is not my field so tell me please O knowledgeable people of reddit can this work? can the internet be ad free for free?

Not my idea but really fascinated me.
Saw this post in the ChatGPT subreddit. https://np.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1gjozpo/comment/lvf4fij/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
and OP is mentioning besides other things like NoteBookLM an app called Hivemind that let's you turn anything into a AI-reddit. Found that so crazy I thought would fit here: https://gethivemind.app/

I haven't seen the idea floated around much, but what if instead of having weird 7 day weeks that don't coincide with months or years, we instead had a 364 day year comprised of 13 months of 28 days each and one special day at the end of the year for new year's day.

Or perhaps we could have a 360 day year, composed of 12 months, five six-day weeks and five holidays spread between months?

This would also solve the issue of leap days, since we could essential just bunch them at the end with the one/five extra days.

Thoughts? Are there reasons why this would be a bad idea?

A constant criticism I hear about American politics is of the lack of choice, which is almost universally attributed to the two-party system. We are in an alarmingly polarizing time, one that I believe has allowed mainstream political opinion to cover what feels like an ever-growing domain. It is clear to me that the breadth of intra-party political opinion has far outgrown the capabilities of any one party to encompass it all. That said, it has done so in a remarkably symmetric way, and I believe it possible that either a two-way (progressives and far-right both split from their major parties) or three-way (centrists from both parties also split and form a coalition party) fracturing of the current two parties could lead to an outcome that has the potential to forego the frequent (and valid) criticism leveled against third parties of being political spoilers in highly consequential elections. Ideally, such a move would be paired with the adoption of a ranked choice general election.

As a side note, if this were to ever come to pass, I would also like to replace the Senate with a new body of 100 legislators, which are distributed proportionally according to a party-affiliation vote (basically: What party do you most closely align with?). For example, if 2.2% of Americans support the Green party platform on election day, then the Green party would get 2 representatives in this new legislative body (out of 100). Political parties could choose their slate of representatives through whatever means they deem appropriate.

Hey everyone! My name is Spring, and I'm running a project called Agreed Upon Solutions. We're sort of unusual: our goal is to run a kind of freelance democracy, find out what people would support if given a much more expressive voting system, then convert the results back to actual legislation in bulk. The ultimate goal is to design and build voting software capable of deciding on really complex and nuanced decisions, with a roadmap that goes all the way to writing fully fleshed out laws. We've wrapped the core in a very playful game (in order to make it friendly for users), and the first release is available now.

This release focuses on the first steps: collecting opinions and demonstrating that broad consensus can be found in a scalable way across every issue, using a discussion we call Every Thing.

Here's a broad overview of how it works:

• We've constructed a ballot containing literally every thing, over 157,000 items extracted from Wikidata. If Wikipedia knows about it, it's on this list. We've removed all the slogans and marketing, and are left with only a neutral list of fundamental concepts.
• Users are able to rank every thing in order of importance to discuss. This is one of the most gamelike things to do on the site, the raw list of randomly selected things is mind-expanding. We also have a ranking mode that only focuses on the top ~2% most important things found so far. The concept of "most important thing" is too nebulous to really be pinned down, but we show constructively that you can do a reasonable job on it by voting.
• We hold a discussion on every topic (for technical reasons right now the top 1%), using what we call a twothirds discussion. A twothirds discussion uses a voting algorithm tuned to find supermajority consensus, and outputs a score called "agreeability" that represents how likely we think it is that the onsite consensus translated into a real world majority.
• We take these votes and generate visualizations (similar to a traditional left-right political compass) to give users a sense of how everyone else's opinions are distributed. This is going to be our next visible area of focus, we want to add more modern visualizations (for example UMAP) once we feel we understand our data well enough to deploy them.

We'll be using this data going forward for visualizations, experiments with automated summaries, cluster finding, everything you can imagine. If you've ever thought to yourself "man, wouldn't it be great if we had a democracy where we did (something crazy and ambitious)", we're probably interested in doing it, and you have a chance to contribute to that project now!

OK, this is a new concept that I was thinking about. OK, here's how it works. At online glasses stores, they make software with paper models and measurements of their glasses, which in turn people can print on paper to see the real size of the glasses. And maybe compare it to a pair of glasses; they can see how much bigger or smaller it is for when they want to buy them. And it could be done on a normal printer.

N.B I know there are some companies that offer a virtual view of the glasses on a person's face to see how they look. Like uploading your photo and seeing the glasses on your face to see how they look. 

Or stand in front of a camera, and the glasses will appear on your face. Like Snapchat but for eyeglasses. 

But I thought this idea might be cool. 

Every command is written and there are optional command line arguments. For example phone call is "call 123456" and multiple numbers mean group call. There is always a directory / folder to be in. "show thispicture.jpg" displays image from that folder.

Keeps log of commands and program outputs, which can be viewed by scroll-lock or other ways. Can have multiple tabs of consoles. Up and down buttons put past commands.

This kind of command line is widely used, but minority, in desktops and laptops alongside and as parts of graphical user interfaces of Linux and Windows. For servers this can be the only interface for many if not most. Has some upsides and obvious downsides compared to GUIs. Saves computing resources. Hard to explain the differences.

Sometines the first comment has a low upvote, but the thread it spawns has comments that are highly upvoted.

Make a sort method to sort by total value of up votes in the entire comment thread.

Forgive if not a new idea.

We speak at lengths about advancements in technology. We see IT startups pop up like candy bars day after day and yet it seems like all of humanity is just looking over basic hygiene. Selling newer versions of iphones and new automobiles are all advancements I see around and what's worse, they aren't even real updates. The world NEEDS advancements in cleaning appliances, hygiene products, sewage systems, and most of all an actual proper way for HAIR DISPOSAL. Everytime we shower there's hair falling onto the drain that has to be either manually picked up or gets stuck and forms a clog in the drain, both of which are absolutely disgusting. Like look at the toilet system, it's definitely not the best but the only time you might have to deal with your faeces actually is when you turn to flush and with that one flush it's all gone, simple. Efficient. Mechanical and sorted. Why don't we have something like that for bathroom hair? Wet hair is a menace that is ruining the whole drainage system. It's an everyday thing too and nobody seems to ever come up with an advancement with deal with proper less disgusting method of hair disposal. Even the bathroom drain is designed without actual consideration and thinking about the hair. I don't understand why it comes in bowls either. Even more of an inconvenience and disgust setup for hair to get clogged up in all the phlegm and what not disposed of during shower. It's imperative somebody does something about this. We can't continue to live more or less in the drain everyday shower after after shower. It takes away the whole point of a shower even. Bloody hair even gets stuck in the brushes that we use to clean toilets, floor and sinks. SEND HELP PLS.

(P.S this is a severe phobia of someone suffering from OCD.)

Whenever you type a comment, I think it would be nice if it automatically searched for similar comments in the same thread, so you can just upvote that instead of having the same thing written 10 different ways in 100 comments.

use a horde of robot gnats to project movies in midair.

Imagine slipping from the real world and into your imagination. You can go to new places and do things you didn't imagine you could do. This is cognitive immersion. 

It's a state where you get so emerged into an idea. Where you become so deep into it that it disconnects you from reality. 

Example: Imagine winning the lottery. You begin by dreaming what you are going to do with all this money to the degree where you get so engrossed in the idea. You don't know for how much time you have been dreaming. It's like state flow. But with dreams. 

Or a simpler example: you invite a girl that you have liked for years on a date, and you begin imagining what your date will be like. You get so immersed to the degree where you lose attachment to time. 

You get attached to the degree where you lose perspective of time and what's happening. Time could go faster or slower. 

You get so attached to the degree that you get detached. 

Many of the forests there were originally swamp and small dams can reverse that.

Shower head 🚿 is horrible at distributing water over my body. This is not only annoying because you need to constantly rotate or move it around your body, but also wastes a lot of water. My shower head has around 50 spray nozzles, and I often imagine them being distributed in a spiral around me.

So, the idea of the shower coat is as simple as a raincoat, but with an attached hose on the inner side with spray nozzles arranged along the hose.

Advantages:

• Nice water distribution
• Nice isolation: all the water will stay inside the shower coat
• No need for shower curtain
• Long hairs will stay dry

I have been coming up with something I call the 2030 Plan. I believe Canada, the United States, Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela should all be united under the flag of the United States.

Why is this? It is because I believe one day, all people of Earth will be united as one to push our civilization beyond our planet, and I believe a union of the Western Hemesphere is the first step to this grand plan. It will eliminate the southern border crisis and the border altogether, which will bring our attention back to the issue of expanding our civilization into space, creating space colonies and colonies on other celestial bodies. I believe this is the key to not just making Amerca great, but I believe it will make America invincible.

Edit: I am not implying an American takeover. I'm meaning having the countries vote in favor of joining the Union

What if you took one of those dual piece keyboards (where the left half of the keyboard is separate from the right half), and mounted them on your belt so that it hangs down towards your thighs.

Then you can stand and type, without being constrained to a desk. Type like a rockstar at a concert.

Hello everyone. 

I introduce to you my concept idea called a 3D scan balloon. I want to get your opinion about it.

The idea is a new form of a 3D scanner. But instead of visual, it uses touch. 

The idea is that an object is placed inside a special balloon. And the balloon is then vacuumed until all the air is pulled out of the balloon, making the balloon take the shape of the object. 

All over the balloon are sensors—thin film pressure sensors that detect the shape of the object. 

I now it's not going to be the next big deal. But I wanted to share the concept with you.

Thank you very much. 

The r/apphookup subreddit usually has some pretty good freebies for iPhone... Sometimes they have some Android stuff and other platforms too. But I guess on the back end it would be nice if more developers would promote their stuff when it goes free for Android

I am looking to buy or build a similar experience to Apple's Macbook Magsafe connectors, but for anything that plugs to my wall outlets. I find constantly connecting and disconnecting devices that share outlets (in my bathroom alone I have an electric toothbrush, a hair blower, and an electric shaver) and I'd really wish it was as easy to disconnect and connect as my Macbook Air's Magsafe adapter. Now, I looked around and can't find a single product for this other than this one made by a product studio in Oregon which is out of stock (also can't find any reviews online so can't tell if it ever shipped).

The idea feels obvious so I'm surprised no one has done it. I don't think there are any laws of physics that would make this impossible? Is it a case of a patent or regulations blocking this?

I'm sure the Magsafe engineers at Apple have thought of this :)

So basically, detonator built to look like a gun, actor has blood packets under their clothes. Each time the "gun" fires it will cause a blood packet to explode.

Is it even possible? That may depend on what else is mixed with it and how much.

Google should give users the ability to select/ deselect (deactivate/reactivate) Google apps and services from Google accounts. For example, if we want a specific Google account to be *just* for Google Chat, Gemini, tasks, and nothing else, we should be able to go to our Google account webpage and deselect everything except for Google chat, Gemini, and tasks.

Then, when signing into that Google account on any Android or chromeOS device, the account would *only* appear in Google chat.

Would be a nice way to avoid cross-account data leakage via all of the other Google apps and services. They're great services, but I think we need the ability to deactivate specific services if we desire. and then of course we could always reactivate services if we desire.

Another way Google could achieve this is by letting multiple users access private space. Currently, private space is only available for the default user, and not for a second or third user profile. It would be nice if Google would allow setting up the private space functionality across multiple users, so that users with multiple Google accounts could access sensitive account in a sandbox (private space)

Yet another way Google could achieve this is by allowing “Login with Microsoft” or “continue with Microsoft”. Since Microsoft is not a Google property, it might be occasionally nice to have the ability to use Google apps and services with a nongoogle entity. This can help with the ability for a user to only sign up for specific services, so for example, if the user only wants to sign up for Google chat, and not the hundred other Google apps, “login with Microsoft” could sort of allow that.

Imagine a social app where you can say it all without text, photos, videos, audio... JUST draw, share and express yourself. ✏️💭

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it would be nice if google docs had a native option to lock content / lock specific doc tabs etc...

like, where it would require a person to do touchID or faceID or screen unlock on their iphone/android or similar on desktop web etc to access the content of said tab or something...

if you're sharing a doc with someone and it's kind of maybe sensitive, you could enable the feature so that they'd be prompted to faceID/touchID etc. or the ability to do it on individual document tabs, so the entire file itself doesn't have to be protected, but individual tabs could be. i think would be appreciated.