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title: "Ideas"
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## Ideas
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### 1. Accessibility Ideas
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#### 1.1 BSD Accessibility
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An Open/FreeBSD driver to make bootup and shutdown (as well as any plain tty) accessible by visually impaired users.
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Speech and/or braille display.
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The console is the perfect interface for visually impaired users,
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as the console is required to be text based (damn you ncurses!).
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##### Inspiration: [Speakup](http://linux-speakup.org/)
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#### 1.2 BSD/Linux Braille Notetakers
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Use standard UNIX tools and command line interface instead of custom
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systems for each notetaker.
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Being able to use standard utilities not only helps with transferable skills,
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but it also opens up the world of Linux tools to visually impaired users.
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Enabling them to use any tool compatible with the command line,
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not just any tool installed on their system or written for their device.
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I have the suspicion that the fancier notetakers are using Windows at this point.
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But for low-cost braille notetakers, it certainly could be plausible.
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#### 1.3 Raspberry Pi-based notetaker
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This could potentially decreese the size and expense of notetakers,
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and if running a \*NIX
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system would also integrate well with idea 1.2
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Would need to:
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1. Find a manual for controlling a braille display.
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2. Implement a driver within the raspberry pi Raspbian OS using USB/gpio.
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3. Package it up.
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With the Linux Speakup project already written, would this mean I
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could just plug a RPi up to a braille display and be on my merry way?
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#### 1.4 Accessible Meme Description
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Using a image matching algorithm (no idea which one or how).
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Or, frankly, even a scaled down image with binary closeness algorithm.
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Either way, take the best matching picture and use that as the basis to describe the picture.
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Unsure how I would go about describing unlimited amount of new memes, but that is to be seen.
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### 2. *NIX Ideas
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#### 2.1 Fan/Sensor Driver for My Old Toshiba
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FreeBSD and Linux both have the right driver for sensing my CPU
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temp/spinning my fan properly.
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OpenBSD does not have this working, and it is annoying to run it this way.
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Full fans at all times on OpenBSD.
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#### 2.2 ZFS NAS
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I would really like to setup my own NAS with the ZFS file system.
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I'd want to chronicle the adventure of finding hardware,
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setting up OS, ZFS, frontend.
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#### 2.3 Mirror Important Open-Source Projects
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Setup a mirror for OpenBSD, Arch Linux, and other important projects
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I want to contribute to where I know my level of coding is not helpful.
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##### Also considering: [Tor Relay](https://community.torproject.org/relay/), [Void Linux](https://voidlinux.org/download/#mirrors)
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#### 2.4 Systemd Service Randomizer
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Systemd can start a VPN on startup with the following command:
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<pre class="terminal">
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# systemctl enable wg-quick@mullvad-ca1
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</pre>
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or
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<pre class="terminal">
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# systemctl enable openvpn-client@mullvad_ca
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</pre>
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These commands are nice, but why is there not a `openvpn-client@random` so that I can randomize out of the possible files?
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I am sure there would be a way to have a systemd service envoked like so:
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<pre class="terminal">
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# systemctl enable random@[wg-quick|openvpn-client]
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</pre>
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This would enable a randomization service for that interface, relinking
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the boot-time process by looking in the directory the VPN interface
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should be looking in, and chosing a random file.
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Very useful for VPN clients. I have no idea if this has currency anywhere else.
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### 3. Language Ideas
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#### 3.1 Add Zhuyin Support for [epub-with-pinyin](https://github.com/TTWNO/epub-with-pinyin)
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It currently only supports Pinyin.
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At the time, HTML `<ruby>` support was low,
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and so even when implemented properly the characters showed at the top.
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They should be shown on the left hand side.
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#### 3.1.2 Make [epub-with-pinyin](https://github.com/TTWNO/epub-with-pinyin) Easier To Use
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Currently it requires setting up Python and some libraries.
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Ideally it could be a web application, executing in Javascript.
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Storing .epub files on a webserver even temporarily (especially if they are copywrited) is
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a legal risk I am not willing to take.
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#### 3.2 Look Into [LinQ](https://www.lingq.com/en/)
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I have heard this system implements something very similar to an idea I had called "Minks".
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The general idea was that you could save words you knew,
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thus stopping their pronunciation to appear above them (Pinyin/Zhuyin).
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Given my interest in similar things, possibly apply to work for them,
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or encourage them to BSD some of their libraries.
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### 4. Other Crazy Ideas
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#### 4.1 Podcast: Not Sure What About
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I've always wanted to interview people.
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Seems liks fun.
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