Open source carsβ¦
They already do this with farming equipment.
They have blueprints to build your own tractor with DIY materials from the hardware store.
Although open source cars might lead to tons of safety issues...
Although open source cars might lead to tons of safety issues...
They said open source, not DIY.
An open source and private chat app that everybody wants to use
Signal works. The adoption is fairly slow, but I've had friends slowly begin to use it.
Signal gets some things right, but others wrong, such as phone numbers and centralized architecture. As such, it doesn't fit the "everybody wants to use" part.
I've been using Signal since like 2016 and have not seen any appreciable adoption rate whatsoever within my social network.
I used to actively try to get people to use it but I got enough ambivalent or negative responses that I just stopped asking.
We got reasonably close with signal, but I know what you mean. I've had friends think I was some sort of escaped convict just because I'd rather use Matrix to chat instead of FB.
NFC payments app.
Same. It sucks that most banks wouldn't jump on this train :(
I know it's an unobtainable dream, but a banking app for every bank on any platform.
Banks could simply come together and develop an open banking standard for customers. Would probably save them a lot of money too, since the development of their stupid apps presumably costs them a lot.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_banking
All banks in EU have APIs for this purpose (also see PSD2).
Software that burns down the server of any website that asks for data they don't actually need.
health smartwatch app, with sleep n all features in some opensource format that could use any other app data... utopia, i know
GadgetBridge (Android). You need one of the (many) supported smartwatches. Data is easily exported and processable with, eg, R.
Not sure if this already exists in some form, but I want something that always records where I've been. I am a very forgetful person and the Google maps timeline feature has been very helpful more than a handful of times. Unfortunately, it means that Google knows exactly where I've been also...
I just want to be able to check where I was the afternoon of a random Tuesday three years ago!
A browser addon that utterly floods advertisers and trackers with dummy data. A single person using it is easy to single out. A thousand start to eat into the profits. 100k should make them go offline (DDoS'ed) with an interesting frequency.
Do services count? Because in that case, ride-hailing. A replacement for services like Uber and Lyft.
A private ride hailing app sounds like a safety nightmare. It's one of those things you want blazingly documented and auditable
Something that produces a wealth of plausible web traffic on my connection and browser that woefully misleads anyone monitoring it as to what I actually am browsing. Rather than hiding my traffic or ensuring some hyper level of encryption I simply want to use maybe an LLM or something to create such a close facimilie to "normal" online traffic that my online fingerprint becomes useless as sub 5% of my traffic is actually real.
Essentially I want privacy through drowning out everything with noise. It seems like the harder the to unwind in the end if done in a clever way. That plus some basic security protections and I will feel fairly secure.
That's the premise behind AdNauseam, albeit only for ads and not general navigation: It clicks all the ads in the background, so the data won't ever target the real you.
Not sure if this counts, but a simple FOSS BIOS/UEFI option that could be installed on most desktops and laptops. The current options (Libreboot, coreboot) are very limited in compatible hardware.
A version of WhatsApp that doesn't require full access to all your contacts to work properly. I have about 10 people I need to Whatapp with - I just want to add those people. Meta doesn't need to know my Doctor's phone number.
Not sure if its useful to you but grapheneos has contact scopes that lets you choose which contacts an application has access to.
I would like a browser addon that drops poisoned data when surfing the web. Instead of trying to restrict how much of my data gets collected, spread useless data across their sites.
Adnauseum does this. I think it simulates clicks to ads and corrupts your advertising profile.
an anonymous front-end for viewing Facebook pages Γ‘ la Nitter or Invidious.
Yes please. Very frustrating encountering businesses and groups that only have a presence on facebook, no dedicated website or anything π
Wallet app that I can tap using NFC so I don't have to carry my wallet around and lose it again. I really miss Google Pay after switching to GrapheneOS
An open source app for those bag, key, and wallet trackers. Maybe I just haven't been able to find one
A local personal assistant that isn't just focused on media consumption or purchasing. I want to ask about my most efficient route or ideal presents for my partner or a medical condition without it being data mined.
I made a weather app for android because most of them wanted my data.
Not sure if this exists at all, privacy friendly or not, but it is something where privacy would be extremely important.
I would love to have some sort of application that allows the mapping of atomic (as in minimal) political statements and their logical relationships (e.g. if this is true then this other statement can't also be true) and evidence from media for their truth or falsehood. Probably also some sort of glossary of precise word definitions and which statement uses which of the definitions. This part should probably be done publicly and shared with other users apart from maybe a mechanism to obscure who added which information but this next part can not be public but lots of people would want the information. You should be able to mark each of those statements as something you agree with or not and then explore the implications of your opinions.
I feel something like that would be nice to replace the constant repetition of the same arguments on the same issues, especially if one could publicly link to individual statements from anywhere on the internet.
For Signal to actually show notifications, I don't understand how this bug still exists after years of it being known.
Good Todolist app like MS Todo, but better and privacy friendly and open source
Havent tried every app but If I had to think of some:
- an offline foss calendar that can import ics files (simple calendar is the only option soon fossify)
- an app that can display Checksums for files
- a dark privacy overlay for phones that can't use privacy screen protectors, like newer gen pixels
Edit: Second an offline fitness tracker where a person can manually input info. Been using an ods file for a couple of years but its a pain to use collabora on android
- A good Invidious player with locally stored datas.
- AntennaPod fork with improved local music management (tags).
- A dedicated good PeerTube app.
Search engine like yacy. Open scource and p2p.
A google Keep alternative where I can share certain notes with someone and have live collaboration on them.
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