#stealthisidea — Public Fediverse posts

I think a lot of people could save a lot of money with a browser extension that just gives you a little bit of time to think between you put something in the cart of an online store and before you're able to click trough to purchase it.

Say you click Add to cart, and the Checkout button is locked by a 30 min countdown. Wouldn't that be enough for some compulsive shoppers to forget or realize this was a bad idea?

The world needs every bit of less overconsumption it can get.

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Crazy idea for a browser extension: Every mention of a street name is detected and linked to that place in your map tool of choice. "street name x street name" gets detected and is linked to that intersection.

Would be gold for politicians and other people working on urbanization and regulations. And just engaged citizens reading news articles with no freaking map for some effing reason!

#tool #BrowserExtension #StealThisIdea #map #OpenStreetMap

As we all know, and as @hankgreen says in his latest vlogbrothers video: It's often easier to help others than to help ourselves.

Two questions:

What does this say about human nature?

Could there be a market for some kind of platform that let's you get in touch with a neighbor for both of you to visit each other and help each other tidy up and clean in your apartments, garages, etc..? Could this help people get things done and be a bit less lonely?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=041xVAJyMk0

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Anybody else ever kind of want to explain certain neurodivergent and/or spoonie concepts in D&D 5E terms to people who don't quite understand?

For example:

Neurospicy rage

You get a variant of Rage, customised to the player character after a discussion with the DM.

Unlike the standard Rage that Barbarians have, you don't choose whether to enter it during combat. Instead, you have to roll a saving throw when certain events happen... both in and out of combat.

If you fail, you enter your specific variant of rage.

DM: "Okay. You've entered AuDHD rage."

You will get some temporary boosts, but there may be damaging conditions afterwards, such as:

• Taking a point of Exhaution.
• Losing the ability to speak (Verbal Shutdown) for D4/D6/D8 etc. hours.
• Experiencing a near-total inability to do anything (Meltdown) for D4/D6/D8 etc. hours.
  • This may look similar to the short-term effects under the optional madness mechanic in 5E.

Spoons

You have a number of Spoons each day, customised to the player character.

Taking certain actions will require you to spend Spoons, like the Ki points that Monks have.

Player: "I'll spend 1 Spoon to take a Short Rest."

If you run out of Spoons, you may choose to take certain actions, but there will be negative consequences, such as:

• Taking a point of Exhaustion.
  • This could be reflavoured as Knives, since spoonies draw on these when out of Spoons.
• Starting the next day with fewer Spoons.
• Mental and physical injuries.
  • For each consecutive day where you continue to take actions after running out of Spoons, there will be increasing risks to your character.

Neurospicy Recall and Infodump

Neurospicy Recall would be a variant of the Keen Mind feat.

You pick a Special Interest during character creation, and get to add additional ones as you level up.

You can recall random facts almost perfectly, but only if they occurred greater than a month ago.

If you wish to remember something clearly within the last month, or a very-specific fact or word, you will need to roll a Memory check. The more-recently something occurred and the more you wish to remember it, the more difficult the DC will be.

If a fact or word relates to a Special Interest, you do not need to roll, as you automatically succeed. However, you will then proceed to Infodump about it.

If you're trying to recall a being's name, unless they are directly linked to a Special Interest, your immediate family, or a best friend, you have disadvantage on the roll.

#neurodivergent #neurospicy #DnD #DnD5E #spoonie #SpoonTheory #disability #StealThisIdea

Is there any app that lets you use the separate BT earpieces (like AirPods etc) to communicate directly from one to the other?

You connect them to one phone, as normal, but then two people have each one in one ear and can talk to each other?

I was with a friend to a climbing hall, and even though it was a "quiet" time, it was still hard to talk when one person is far up on the wall and the other was securing you on the floor. Thought this could be a perfect solution.

#StealThisIdea #climbing

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Hyperfocus, but it can be engaged or disengaged at will like an impulse or warp drive in Star Trek.

Also, the speed is adjustable and max speed varies individually per the ship (person / system).

#MorningThoughts #StealThisIdea

/RSVP pages – an indie idea

You’ve heard of /now pages and maybe even /me pages. I’d like to present to you another idea – /RSVP pages (or /rsvp if lower casing matters to you).

RSVP is short for the French phrase “Répondez s’il vous plaît”, meaning “please respond” (literally “respond if it pleases you”). RSVP is most common on invitations where the host wants to know numbers. But I think it applies here too.

The purpose of this page is to list articles, posts, or other content with a WebMention endpoint attached. They indicate pages that you are specifically inviting people to reply to.

This allows for the discovery of mentionable content that is, according to you, good for replying to. Open-ended questions come to mind.

I’ve used an RSVP tag for mine. I added a redirect so node.lordmatt.co.uk/RSVP also takes you there.

#French #RSVP #stealThisIdea #WebMention

Idea

CBT, but it stands for Cool Based Therians :TherianThetaDeltaSymbol: :NonHumanUnityFlag:

#IrreverentMusings #StealThisIdea #CBT #therian

Word concept:
bunnyification / lapinification

Meaning:
Make something more bunny

Example:
GNU would become BNU (Bunny's Not Unix)

Notes:
Couldn't use lapinisation / lapinization or lapinise / lapinize, as those are existing words with entirely different meanings 😅

#StealThisIdea #GNU #BNU #bunnyification #lapinification #bunny #MorningThoughts

A parody cover of "Good Luck, Babe!", where it's the Half-Life and Portal series (or characters therefrom) wishing the Valve devs good luck without them.

🎵 Good luck, Gabe!
Well, good luck, Gabe!
You'd have to stop the world to stop folks wanting third games 🎵

#StealThisIdea #Valve #Steam #HalfLife #Portal

Idea: A map where you plot in where you want to go to and from, and it draws up a line and tells you how far it is, and:

How much shorter it would have been if there was no street level parking between the two points.

#urbanism #city #WalkableCities #walkability #pedestrianization #StealThisIdea

Idea: A map where you plot in where you want to go to and from, and it draws up a line and tells you how far it is, and:

How much shorter it would have been if there was no street level parking between the two points.

#urbanism #city #WalkableCities #walkability #pedestrianization #StealThisIdea

Idea: A map where you plot in where you want to go to and from, and it draws up a line and tells you how far it is, and:

How much shorter it would have been if there was no street level parking between the two points.

#urbanism #city #WalkableCities #walkability #pedestrianization #StealThisIdea

Idea: A map where you plot in where you want to go to and from, and it draws up a line and tells you how far it is, and:

How much shorter it would have been if there was no street level parking between the two points.

#urbanism #city #WalkableCities #walkability #pedestrianization #StealThisIdea

Idea: A map where you plot in where you want to go to and from, and it draws up a line and tells you how far it is, and:

How much shorter it would have been if there was no street level parking between the two points.

#urbanism #city #WalkableCities #walkability #pedestrianization #StealThisIdea

"All That Jazz" from Chicago, but it's Jodie Whittaker's version of The Doctor ("Thirteen") singing about companion Yasmin ("Yaz") Khan in a total neurospicy disaster lesbian manner :SapphicHeart:

🎵 And all that Yaz 🎵

#MorningThoughts #Thasmin #DoctorWho #TheDoctor #JodieWhittaker #MandipGill #StealThisIdea

Apparently there's a market for an Asgard rhythm game.

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What if we created a social network with a max allowed user base of say, 20 people?

The first users have to be most careful about who they let in, as the hard cap is fast approaching. Inactive accounts self-delete unless the users vote to wait a bit longer. There are no “likes” but you can vote things as “helpful” or “kind”. Everyone knows the entire user base very well. All the content is secret. There are no adverts, but the cost of running the thing is tiny, as it can be hosted anywhere.

#socialNetwork #stealThisIdea

I’d love to start a scientific journal that is a bit of a trouble maker

If I won the lottery I don’t play, I might start a scientific journal that makes waves kinda on purpose.

Most of the content of the publication could be (peer-reviewed) papers that verify or debunk other papers. You know, repeat experiments and all that. As that’s kinda boring, There’d also be one or two editorial columns, an interview with someone interesting, a newspaper-like cartoon, some science humour, a science dad-joke, reporting on any controversial papers, debunking some bad science reporting by the mainstream, and (most importantly) the BSILT – the Bad Science Index League Tables. Or maybe, Bad Science League Index Table because that would spell B-SLIT.

This imaginary publication would poke gentle fun at the scientific world while also doing the important but boring work of testing papers by repeating experiments.

Printed in every edition listing the top (let’s say ten) best and worst names in the B-SLIT. The index itself would track everyone who has published at least five papers in the last ten years (those numbers will be subject to tweaking based on what kind of data proves makes for good content). It would use this equation: (D+B^2-V)/N.

Any value under 10 in the index would be treated as a zero so as not to punish those doing legitimate science due to the rule of “no one is right all the time”. We should allow those who get better at doing science to have their earlier mistakes age out of the index.

On the top part, You have:

• D the number of papers thrown into doubt by a failure to repeat the results. This is a badge of honour.
• B is the number of papers where the author cheated, p-hacked too much, used sloppy testing procedures, made stuff up (using AI to write the paper counts as two because screw that), or was otherwise just a really bad paper. This is a badge of shame.
• V is the number of papers that have stood up to repeated testing.
• N is the number of papers written in that period.

The D and V values would also include a regular article where the staff and I try to follow the “recipe” in a paper and see if we get a similarly significant result. Our results would be published “as is” but we’d write a paper too and send that off for peer-review to make it official later.

The (B) Bad Science value is squared so that bad actors and fakers bubble to the top while people doing actual research and making an effort stay at the low and prestigious end of the league.

For fun, we’d have the same thing but for good and bad science reporting by the regular press. Where B is any time they just straight up misunderstand, misquote, or just say stuff because it sells paper even when it is wildly inaccurate.

I’d call the paper The Verifier or Varacity or something that means “We checked your homework”.

Sadly, as I do not play the lottery, this is just an idea. Also, even if I did play the lottery, my odds of winning are far too small to count as non-zero. In other words, please steal this idea.

#IfIWonTheLotteryIDoNotPlay #stealThisIdea

@havn @trygvekalland @worldwidewerner @jhamre @mats @JanErikG Ja, enig. Det er en umulig situasjon, egentlig.
Men jeg har tenkt på en annen mulig vinkling (som jeg er sikker på at noen allerede har prøvd seg på): datasuverenitet, og at vi er avhengig av servere i et land som har gått bananas, og som ikke er redd for å bruke pressmidler. Da er selve problemstillingen kanskje litt mindre teknisk. Protokoller og desentralisering bør være svaret på den trusselen.
Vær så god, noen, #StealThisIdea

Idea: a children's science show called "Replication Crisis", replicating experiments from across every branch of science. The show always begins with a theme song about why replicating scientific experiments is important, why it rarely happens due to capitalism etc., and how we can help.

In each episode, they choose an experiment that has never been formally replicated. They run the experiment, on camera as much as possible, then publish their results as open data for all.

#StealThisIdea

Would this be a good idea?

A writing application that uses the words you write to generate a beautiful visual … uh… something as you type?

Not AI/LLM representing the things you type! Just something nice that evolves as you type, as a sort of reward for you, to help you keep going if you don't really feel like writing, but want or have to.

Does this exist? Would it actually help anyone?

#StealThisIdea #writing

I'm not saying it would be easy to implement. And I don't really think anyone will actually do it.

I'm just saying that with the number of people playing games on Steam, and the number of hours they spend! And also the willingness to pay money. This could be a huge boost for mapping of unmapped areas of the world, and even maybe an income stream, or at least pay for itself.

Hey, just a thought!

#StealThisIdea #OpenStreetMap #gaming #GamingForGood #thread

The browser itself should intercept any photo you try to upload to the web and ask you if you want to remove the metadata before a single byte is transferred.

@mozillaofficial
#privacy #security #StealThisIdea

@openmentions.com Every country should create a tax of 1p a year. This should be invested into hedge funds and pensions and the profits should be used as a tax credit proportional to the number of times you have paid this tax. Extra payments are allowed. In time, an individual's tax would be a negative number.

#ChangeTheWorld #StealThisIdea

What if Catan, but CAT-tan or KIT-tan?

Rather than settlements, cities,, and roads, instead build litter trays and cat trees, connected by string (yarn).

The robber is replaced by a laser pointer, which can be used to distract a player.

Resources become sisal, biscuits, cardboard, posts, and toys.

#StealThisIdea #Catan #cat #cats #BoardGames

Spending the friday sharing #knowledge and interesting #hacks between #colleagues is time well spent. Think it as kind of a small hacking #conference, but happening monthly, and everyone gets to give a #flashtalk (or more complex presentation if allocated prior the event). #goodconcepts #stealthisidea