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Buttplug: An open-source software suite for teledildonics

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Re: Buttplug: An open-source software suite for teledildonics

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Post by artificial »

claudiawerner wrote: post #13
adwn wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I see it as an expressway for the continued objectification of women Why? And do you also see it as an expressway for the objectification of men? Of not, why not?

It probably is also an expressway for the objectification of men, but it seems to be used (currently) for women - arguably the objectification of women is much more widespread with modern porn and tech than it is for men. Look at the number of female sex robots on the market versus male sex bots (and no, dildos/fleshlights emulating a single body part such as a penis or vulva by any reasonable argument is not the sam…

Shoe on the other foot, there's way less stigma around females using toys, see the proliferation of devices reaching back to mail order catalogs and ancillary mediums like romance novels. The argument with content or lack there of sounds like there's a huge undertapped market that's waiting for someone to fill it? Otherwise wouldn't the argument be that the demand is met? In practice it appears that there are different interests (males being visual, women cerebral) and stigmas at play.

Re: Buttplug: An open-source software suite for teledildonics

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Post by matheist »

> Can support Bluetooth, USB, HID, Serial, and Audio controlled toys.

What is an example of an audio controlled toy?! Does that mean voice commands, or does that mean some sort of high-frequency (outside human-audible range) binary channel? I looked but did not see.

Re: Buttplug: An open-source software suite for teledildonics

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Post by DonHopkins »

qdot76367 wrote: post #106
DonHopkins wrote: post #53

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Emacs or VI?

Hi Don. :)

Hi Kyle: I did know the answer but I just had to ask! ;) Come drop in on the epic Emacs -vs- VI battle going on in the Bill Joy thread. VI can't hold a candle to Emacs when it comes to teledildonics. You testimony might be able to convince a few lost souls to cross over. Emacs is ALWAYS in insert mode.

The way you insightfully psychoanalyzed the personalities of programmers of different languages in your deldo demo suggests to me that you might enjoy W Watson's "The Pervert's Guide to Programming Languages":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22910702

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZyvIHYn2zk

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vulk-blog/ThePervertsGuid...

Re: Buttplug: An open-source software suite for teledildonics

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Post by the8472 »

matheist wrote: post #123

> Can support Bluetooth, USB, HID, Serial, and Audio controlled toys. What is an example of an audio controlled toy?! Does that mean voice commands, or does that mean some sort of high-frequency (outside human-audible range) binary channel? I looked but did not see.

perhaps the audio port (6.35mm) providing a data channel?

Re: Buttplug: An open-source software suite for teledildonics

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Post by DonHopkins »

qdot76367 wrote: post #83
Endlessly wrote: post #70

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Is there a public roadmap for the project? What aspects of the project currently have the most traction? Are there any plans to remove any existing parts of the project?

There have been a few (tried Trello and ZenHub), and they've all turned into a mess, so I recently hit the reset button again and am just trying a github project now: https://github.com/orgs/buttplugio/projects/1 tl;dr - Right now I'm trying to standardize our logic on Rust (I'm also the ex-device interfaces lead on firefox at Mozilla, so I love some rust :) ), then extend back out to other languages and platforms th…

You can't have thrust without rust.
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