Urban and rural living mindsets
Specialised shopping
Devices and Computing
Microphones (https://coutant.org/contents.html )
SOCs (Raspberry Pi’s, O-Droids)
Video gaming (maybe yes, maybe no)
USB-C monitors
Key-grabbers, FlipperZero
Inspection, snake cameras, and FLIR
Laser keyboards
Framework Laptops (https://frame.work/ca/en )
LED strips
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Home-brew routers
Hand-held translators
Sting Ray cellular interceptors, KingFish and dirtboxes: https://theintercept.com/2020/07/31/protests-surveillance-stingrays-dirtboxes-phone-tracking/
Darknet
Topology and creation by US Navy
Onion services
Indexes
Legitimate usage
Pocket Chip: Linux-powered with GPIO pinout, etc. (https://shop.pocketchip.co/ )
Destruct data eraser (USB)
SRTYH listen device; listen through walls, measure wood and find leakages
GPS trackers (Magnet, has SIM card, can be tracked Model GF-07)
Night-vision googles; community safety
Home-brew security systems
Degoogled phone such as Pinephone or WiPhone (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2103809433/wiphone-a-phone-for-hackers-and-makers ) Old kickstarter campaign. Quite useless these days but interesting none the less
Networking and telecommunications
Programming
IDEs
C-Family Languages: C, C++, C#, Go
Python
F#
Databases
Health
Web development and design
Typography
3D
Regular HTML/CSS templates to save time
WordPress
Software reviews
Password managers
Recipe management software
Research of creative tools by Adobe and competitors
Academic reference software: Zotero, Mendeley, Endnote, Refworks by Proquest
Drones
By brand: DJI, Skydio, Autel (Dragonfish, plane VTOL drone)
Smaller copies of real planes
Enterprise versus prosumer
FPS and roll your own
3D Printing
Various filaments and setups
Usage (form versus function)
Printing cement houses
Business
Marketing
Business cards
NFC
QR Code
Design (materials, shapes, colours)
Web
Merchandise (Merch)
Laser cut and engraving
Shirts
Other weird crap
Supply Chain Management (SCM)
Gardening
Vertical gardening in buildings
Running trials on batches to find optimal wavelength of light for optimal plant growth
Monitoring and Automation
Winter gardening (Niki Jabbour from Nova Scotia)
Travel and culture
Countries
Ireland
Wales
Scotland
China
India
Cambodia
Vietnam
Indonesia
Philippines
Belize
Food
Spicy / Not-spicy
Gelato and ice-cream
Smokers and BBQ
Mocktails
B52 and variants
Honey
Shopping
Alibaba/AliExpress
Wish
Temu
Amazon
StackSocial
Random stuff I come across
Canned or bottled air (eg: sold from Canada to China)
Stand-in service for traffic jams (service in Wuhan)
Rental fake significant others (Companionship and conversation)
China copying towns, villages, and cities of other countries. Layout of buildings/materials
Unpopular numbers, 13, 4 in China (sounds like death)
Creating beautiful rings from garbage
Home-brew submarines
Actual filming locations
DIY
Housing
Buying property overseas
Tiny house
Van life
Looking at Zillow at expensive in Canada versus cheap in USA (Niagara Falls)
Living near large water bodies
Locksmithing and Lockpicking
Recycling and environmental
Creating houses out of bottles
Earth homes
Archery
Compound, traditional, crossbows
Collapsible
Cats
Canoeing and Kayaking
Camping
Places
While travelling to save money on lodgings
Ham radio
Rabble rousing/Controversial topics
WikiLeaks: https://wikileaks.org/
Weather modification
High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP)
HAARP’s successor
Teaching/Instruction/Pedagogy
Information Science
Information and Records Management
Digital gardening
Notion (Let’s user data float). More focused on planning and organising
Obsidian + Plugins. Quartz 4
Dynalist and Logseq: dynalist.io/invite/K8hssA
Library Science
AI in academic research
Data Science
Interdisciplinary field using: communications, statistics, mathematics, programming, computing, and business
Data mining
Data visualisation
Data analysis
Artificial Intelligence
Academic Tools
Research Rabbit FREE! Graphical interface and show connections. Similar to Connected Papers service
Connected Papers https://www.connectedpapers.com/
Scholarcy: Summarisation/synopsis tool for academics
Paper Digest: Summarisation tool: https://www.paper-digest.com )
Writefull: Write paraphrase tool using AI
Paperpal: Language suggestions and paraphrase
Biorender: Generate academic scientific images
Manchester University Academic Phrasebank: Words, phrases, terminology, etc., ways to write in more academic way: https://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk/
ChatPDF
Litmaps
Scite
Scispace
GraphMaker
General Tools
OpenAI ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot
Google Gemini
Midjourney
Canva
AI Categories (https://approachableai.com/branches-of-ai/ )
Machine learning
Supervised learning
Regression
Classification
Unsupervised learning
Clustering
Anomaly detection
Reinforcement learning
Deep Learning
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
Transfer Learning
Deep reinforcement learning
Computer vision
Image classification
Image Processing (Medical imaging, satellite imagery, security systems)
Object detection
Image segmentation
Facial recognition
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Text classification
Sentiment analysis
Named entity recognition (NER)
Part-of-Speech Tagging (POS)
Robotics
Autonomous robots
Humanoid robots
Neural Networks
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)
Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs)
Evolutionary Computation
Genetic algorithms and genetic programming
Fuzzy logic
Expert Systems
Speech Recognition
Decision Science (AI + Decision theory)
Affective Computing (emotion detection and personalized user experiences)
Business Intelligence
Interdisciplinary: data analysis, and management of business information
Reporting, online analytical processing, analytics, dashboards, data mining, process mining, complex event processing, business performance management, benchmarking, text mining, predictive and prescriptive analytics
Geographic Information Science
Geocomputation
Geoinformatics
Geographic Information Systems
Geomatics
Geovisualisation
Geographic Data Science
Human Dynamics in Hybrid Physical-Virtual Worlds
Quantum GIScience
Urban planning
Social and Environmental Impacts of Technological Innovations