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Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by trhtrsh »

guylhem wrote: post #9
zeteo wrote: post #5

I wonder if an article called "Hacking my Penis" would ever last long the HN front page.

This is a sexist remark. It all depend on the content of the article. Did you take time to read the article? It's just great - full of technical details, including the reasoning behind the creation of the hack. Many times I've seen dumb things in the front page - complex pointless hacks (I remember one about locales and printf which advocated a libc recompile while I suggested a perl oneliner). This is a genuinely in…

Fixing bugs in widely used Unix software, maintaining compatibility with the existing related components and promoting cross-platform portability, for the benefit of thousands of future users, and documenting the experience as an educational tidbit for others, is not dumb.

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by pi18n »

mistercow wrote: post #82
franticpedantic wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You have absolutely zero evidence or basis for your assumption. The truth is that nobody has any idea what people's motivations were for upvoting it, but it deserved to be upvoted. The only person who has made this conversation sexist is you and those who brought the topic up.

I have plenty of evidence and basis in experience, and anyone can see exactly what I mean by following what I mentioned above. >The only person who has made this conversation sexist is you and those who brought the topic up. Ah yes, the same thing that anyone steeped in unchecked privilege says when they've got nothing left to argue. Black people are racist for complaining about discrimination, feminists are sexist f…

The juxtaposition of

> unchecked privilege

and

> says when they've got nothing left to argue

so ironic.

The problem with your argument at the bottom is that black people actually are at a disadvantage because of discrimination. Whereas society treats men poorly in some areas and women poorly in others.

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by trhtrsh »

lalc wrote: post #43
swalsh wrote: post #11

I love the breadth of skill that went into this project. It shows good knowledge of software, hardware, reverse engineering, and its even tied together in a really neat package.

Seriously. I'm thinking of finally going and getting a 3D printer based on her blog. Lots of cool hacks and prints in there.

You don't need to buy one, there are lots of mail order printing services, and local services in big cities.

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by trhtrsh »

mememememememe wrote: post #20
lifeisstillgood wrote: post #12

She is inventing an industry for something every human on the planet does pretty much every day. Big market, disruptive technology. Yet somehow I don't see it on techcrunch. I am reminded of pg's discussion on finding the taboo's in society. We still have plenty.

"Ingenious remote control vibrator, We-Vibe 3, boosts sexual intimacy and bettersex. Definitely among top couples gifts ideas and romantic gifts." This is what I get when I search remote vibrator. She isn't inventing an industry. She's just bored and wanted to customize the vibrator.

And Larry Page was just bored and wanted to customize search results.

Re: Hacking my Vagina

#135

Post by fzzzy »

qdot76367 wrote: post #72
qdot76367 wrote: post #59

For anyone interested in more stuff like this, I run a site about sex and technology and track open source sex projects: http://www.slashdong.org

And while we're at it, fun fact: There's a toy called the vstroker, that's basically an endcap to the fleshlight for doing accelerometer readings. ( http://www.vstroker.com , NSFW). It also uses a CC25XX radio chip, and comes with a USB dongle that's basically the reference implementation. So, since these two talk on the same controls, you should be able to take the dongle from the vstroker and the lelo toy, and have…

qdot, you should write a script that automatically inserts (nsfw) after every link you paste.

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by trhtrsh »

mikeash wrote: post #107
victorhn wrote: post #84

This is not meant to be a troll post, but just sincere curiosity. From the site "My full name is Micah Elizabeth Scott, but I used to be Micah Dowty prior to Fall 2010. My friends call me Beth." How can a woman who used to be a man can have a vagina? is there some kind of surgery? do you keep your sensitivity to be able to use vibrators?

I don't understand why a name change that doesn't alter the person's first name would make you think that there had to be a sex change involved.

"My friends call me Beth."

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by trhtrsh »

victorhn wrote: post #84

This is not meant to be a troll post, but just sincere curiosity. From the site "My full name is Micah Elizabeth Scott, but I used to be Micah Dowty prior to Fall 2010. My friends call me Beth." How can a woman who used to be a man can have a vagina? is there some kind of surgery? do you keep your sensitivity to be able to use vibrators?

https://www.google.com/search?q=hedwig+and+the+angry+inch

Re: Hacking my Vagina

#139

Post by mikeash »

trhtrsh wrote: post #136
mikeash wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't understand why a name change that doesn't alter the person's first name would make you think that there had to be a sex change involved.

"My friends call me Beth."

It's her middle name. Not uncommon to go by one's middle name.

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by qdot76367 »

fzzzy wrote: post #135
qdot76367 wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And while we're at it, fun fact: There's a toy called the vstroker, that's basically an endcap to the fleshlight for doing accelerometer readings. ( http://www.vstroker.com , NSFW). It also uses a CC25XX radio chip, and comes with a USB dongle that's basically the reference implementation. So, since these two talk on the same controls, you should be able to take the dongle from the vstroker and the lelo toy, and have…

qdot, you should write a script that automatically inserts (nsfw) after every link you paste.

Dude, you should see what I'm doing with eventlet at the moment. :)
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