This is a thread of the most ridiculously brilliant (or brilliantly ridiculous) #Free_and_Open_Source projects I encounter, in a semi-chronological order.
Feel free to submit contributions to this thread!
#1. Activate Linux: a port of the "activate windows" watermark to linux.
https://github.com/MrGlockenspiel/activate-linux
#2. Copy Dialog Lunar Lander: a game played on Windows' copy dialog.
https://github.com/Sanakan8472/copy-dialog-lunar-lander
#3. BookmarkFS (the one that made me start this thread): a free cloud storage system built on exploiting Chrome's bookmark syncing feature.
https://github.com/CoolElectronics/bookmarkfs
Not really ridiculous but is a good #FOSS project:
#4. DidYouMean - a CLI simple and easy spellchecker.
On the one hand I am a firm believer in disabling autocorrect and not caring about spelling, on the other hand, I can't deny the fact this is genuinely useful.
https://github.com/hisbaan/didyoumean
#5. Keyoxide blue! It's #keyoxide , but blue!
https://keyoxide.blue
#6. This immediately made me want to revive this thread.
Open and Shut - type by slamming your laptop shut in Morse code
7. PySkyWiFi - get free internet on planes by squeezing data through edits to your skymiles account.
absolutely genius, even greater than BookmarkFS in my opinion.
also, the article includes this incredible quote:
"The PySkyWiFi transport layer is somewhat similar to the TCP protocol that powers much of the internet, if you squint very hard and don’t know much about TCP."
what more can you ask for.
https://robertheaton.com/pyskywifi/
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Sam Levine