Anyone hiring buttplug developers yet?
So there's actually a startup behind Buttplug! Mostly consulting focused at the moment. I hope one day to be able to add job postings. :D
Buttplug: An open-source software suite for teledildonics
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#112Might be patent issues with this: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151007/11394132469/kicks...
The patent described in that article (US6368268B1) appears to have expired in 2018.
Yup, patent expired in August 2018 (I did a lot of research and consulting work on that, it's a huge story in and of itself). Of course, these days the landscape is death by a million tinier patents.
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I have one more line of questions. I have, um, observed that "cam" sex workers use teledildonics as a kind of "proof of life". The idea is that paying customers send signals to a sex toy in use by the performer, whose reaction reassures the customer that he is paying for a live show. It affords a way of (apparently) "doing stuff" to the performer in spite of the virtualized nature of the show. Two part question: 1. A…
1. This is a topic that actually, seriously comes up often on cam model forums, and verification of authenticity is, to me, something that is just completely fucked in terms of even being an idea. Do these same customers get angry when they find out the movie they just paid to see was fiction? 2. Are you familiar with findom? Cause that's like, just straight up what findom is. Literally unbalanced trade of capital as…
> Literally unbalanced trade of capital as fetish.
Chapter 1 in a nutshell, so to speak.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm...
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Women are not showing demand for male sex bots. It is far easier for a woman who desires sex to have it quickly with something higher quality than a sexbot (think tinder) than it is for men. As a result, men want to buy sexbots. Woman who want male bots likely make up less than 5% of the sexbot market and that's generous as hell of an estimate. I'm willing to bet that this is not all social construction, and a world…
Women do purchase more conventional sex toys than men do, however. This suggests that women, even when they can get sex, are not as satisfied. If we go with the idea that dildos/fleshlights are not necessarily objectifying, it still leads to the conclusion that both men and women are dissatisfied, but they deal with it in different ways, with some men buying sex robots. An alternative hypothesis is that women on the…
So while this is off on a downvoted thread, I'm gonna leave the Buttplug Mission Statement here, which wraps up our core philosophies in relation to objectification and usage of our technologies:
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Buttplug is committed to the safety, autonomy, and human rights of people using it as a sex technology standard, and stands in solidarity with the many intersectional rights of all individuals to be sex positive. As such, Buttplug encourages individual empowerment through self-directed education, and responsible behaviors which are also respectful of the needs and the choices available to everyone.
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Note that sex robots is a... linked field to what I do but still kind of its own thing. I interact with a lot of the researchers there but it's really had to figure out whether the theory stops and any actual, real productization begins.
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Any chance of pavlok support? It doesn't exactly vibrate but ... (and if the answer is "patches welcome" I can always make another attempt to convince my rpi to talk to the bloody thing myself)
Yup, I've got a Pavlok 2, and there's multiple libraries on github for supporting it already. Feel free to hmu in the email I'm about to put in my bio if you'd like to talk more about this offline. I get a TON of requests about estim support, it's just difficult to figure out how ethics/liability works around all of that.
I'm the founder of Pavlok 2. Awesome that you use it :)
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Does the project need an adorable mascot? https://www3.citizenm.com/news/europe/rotterdam/the-rotterda...
I HAVE VISITED THIS! I did a sex tech workshop like, 3 blocks away from it, and Paul McCarthy is a major influence on my work! :D
Oh great, now I feel like the enthusiastic programmer who wanted to tell Peter Norvig how awesome the Clojure language is. ;)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23036893
https://medium.com/@peternorvig/ive-consed-every-pair-54ef5d...
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#118Well thats a lot of code to anal-ise
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Qdot did I ever show you, like 8 years ago after some Arse Elektronica, my thrusting brushless linear motor based sex machine? I designed and built brushless linear motors from scratch as well as the drive electronics. Anyway I never made it in to a business and lately think I will open source it all. I was going to ask for your email but I just discovered metafetish, so I can post something there. I'll do so in a fe…
TAYLOR DUDE WHERE THE HELL YOU BEEN Yeah you brought it to Jupiter when we met there way back when! I've been talking about it again lately because more people are building machines and I was all "Man I wonder what that dude is up to and if he's still working on that machine" I'll throw you email at your address in your bio!
Hah yessss email me!
In 2013 I switched from sex toys to Flutter Wireless (based on the wireless remote from the sex toy) and my kickstarter for Flutter met its funding goal. Six years of continuous burnout ensued. [1]
Now I’m largely recovered and working half time to allow for open source development like my off road robot. [2]
Hope you’ve been well and looking forward to catching up more. :)
[1] https://youtu.be/huOzokY_fME [2] https://reboot.love/t/new-cameras-on-rover/
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Qdot did I ever show you, like 8 years ago after some Arse Elektronica, my thrusting brushless linear motor based sex machine? I designed and built brushless linear motors from scratch as well as the drive electronics. Anyway I never made it in to a business and lately think I will open source it all. I was going to ask for your email but I just discovered metafetish, so I can post something there. I'll do so in a fe…
Screw the sex machine part (heh!), I want to hear about designing your own brushless linear motors!
Heh yeah I am going to put some stuff on github and I suppose make a YouTube video about it.
You can read the patent I filed though. I don’t think patents are cool anymore but at the time I was a lifelong goal: