IDEAS.md

   1 Idea grab bag
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   3
   4 - track devices:
   5     - alert when never before seen device is plugged-in
   6     - report history and trends on when and how-often each
   7       device/category is plugged-in, how-long it stays plaugged-in, etc.
   8 - daemonize `khatus`, so we don't have to re-launch `X11` to re-launch `khatus`
   9 - interoperate with other khatus nodes
  10     - prefix machine ID to each data source
  11       (What should that ID be? Hostname? Pub key?)
  12     - fetch remote data and process locally
  13     - what transport to use?
  14         - ssh + rsync + cache dumps per some interval?
  15     - `A` can setup self penetration testing, by setting up probe of `A` on `B`
  16       and fetching results from `B` to `A`
  17 - offline mode - quick disable all network-using subsystems (sensors, monitors, etc)
  18 - classify each sensor as either "local" or "remote" (what about `iwconfig`, et al?)
  19 - store data with rrdtool
  20 - some kind of personal calendar thing integration
  21 - monitor tracking numbers (17track should be easiest to get started with)
  22 - monitor password digests against known leaked password databases
  23 - monitor stock prices
  24 - monitor some item price(s) at some store(s) (Amazon, etc.)
  25     - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSECommerceService/latest/DG/EX_RetrievingPriceInformation.html
  26     - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSECommerceService/latest/DG/ReturningPrices.html
  27     - https://developer.amazonservices.com/
  28 - monitor Amazon order status
  29     - https://developer.amazonservices.com/gp/mws/api.html?group=orders&section=orders
  30 - monitor eBay order status
  31     - http://developer.ebay.com/DevZone/XML/docs/Reference/eBay/GetOrders.html
  32 - monitor eBay auctions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_API)
  33 - monitor PayPal (https://www.programmableweb.com/api/paypal)
  34 - monitor bank account balance and transactions
  35     - https://communities.usaa.com/t5/Banking/Banking-via-API-Root/m-p/180789/highlight/true#M50758
  36     - https://plaid.com/
  37     - https://plaid.com/docs/api/
  38     - https://plaid.com/docs/api/#institution-overview
  39     - https://github.com/plaid
  40     - https://www.bignerdranch.com/blog/online-banking-apis/
  41 - monitor/log road/traffic conditions
  42     - travel times for some route over a course of time
  43     - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh441725
  44     - https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/
  45     - https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/routes/
  46     - https://developer.mapquest.com/documentation/traffic-api/
  47     - https://developer.here.com/api-explorer/rest/traffic/traffic-flow-bounding-box
  48 - monitor news sources for patterns/substrings
  49     - http://developer.nytimes.com/
  50     - https://news.ycombinator.com/
  51     - https://lobste.rs/
  52     - https://www.undeadly.org/
  53     - http://openbsdnow.org/
  54     - https://lwn.net/
  55 - monitor a git repository
  56     - General
  57         - total branches
  58         - age of last change per branch
  59         - change set sizes
  60     - GitHub
  61         - pull requests
  62         - issues
  63 - monitor CI
  64     - Travis
  65     - Jenkins
  66 - pull/push data from/to other monitoring systems (Nagios, Graphite, etc.)
  67 - monitor file/directory age (can be used for email and other messaging systems)
  68 - monitor mailboxes for particular patterns/substrings
  69 - monitor IRC server(s)/channel(s) for particular patterns/substrings (use `ii`)
  70 - monitor iptables log
  71     - auto-(un)block upon some threshold of violations
  72 - monitor changes in an arbitrary web resource
  73     - deletions
  74     - insertions
  75     - delta = insertions - deletions
  76 - monitor/log LAN/WAN configurations (address, router, subnet)
  77 - monitor/log geolocation based on WAN IP address
  78 - correlate iptables violations with network/geolocation
  79 - monitor vulnerability databases
  80     - https://nvd.nist.gov/
  81     - https://vuldb.com/
  82     - http://cve.mitre.org/
  83 - vacation planning optimization
  84     - I want to visit a set of places within some time period. Given the
  85       current set of prices, a set of constraints (I need to stay some amount
  86       of days at each, I must be in X at Y date, etc), which visiting dates for
  87       each are cheapest?
  88 - browse https://www.programmableweb.com/ for some more ideas
  89 - GC trick: instead of actually doing GC, do a dummy run of building a status
  90   bar at `BEGIN`, to fill-in the atimes for keys we need, then use the atimes
  91   keys to build a regular expression to accept messages only from keys we
  92   actually use
  93
  94 Many of the above will undoubtedly need non-standard-system dependencies
  95 (languages, libraries, etc.), in which case - would they be better off as
  96 separate projects/repos?
  97
  98 With all these ideas, it is starting to sound very noisy, but no worries - to
  99 quickly and temporarily shut everything up - just kill `dunst` and or toggle
 100 the status bar (`Alt` + `B` in `dwm`). For a permanent change - just don't
 101 turn-on the unwanted monitors/sensors.