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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 egypturnash »

qdot76367 wrote: post #99
egypturnash wrote: post #97

I started watching the video of hooking the Trance Vibrator up to Rez Infinite but I got distracted by the intense wave of, well, pretty much ASMR that ran up my spine once I saw level 1 on the screen along with its music and now I guess I am spending a while playing that instead. I shall not say what I am doing with my second controller or hint a ways I may be enhancing the reach of its vibrations. 100% analyzation,…

It's such a wonderful game, isn't it? I got my first copy back on the Dreamcast and PS2 and played the hell out of it. I wrote my first USB drivers for the Trancevibrator around 2005, also. When Infinite came out I still played it quite a bit (outside of the context of making that video heh), and it was like riding a bicycle. A couple of minutes of getting used to it again and I was back to near 100% on everything. :…

seriously, I have it sitting on my PS4 at like 95-100% in everything after one playthrough when I first got it, except Area 5 because I really cannot be bothered to run it like 5x in a row to remember all its little tricks. I'll probably buy it again when I replace this PS4 and there's a re-remake.

If you haven't played Polybius or Sayonara Wild Hearts, I can highly recommend them - they are both games that stroke their fingers gently across the same places that Rez tickles.

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

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Post by vorpalhex »

justusthane wrote: post #35
cgb223 wrote: post #16

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> The only inhabitants are US and British military personnel and associated contractors So wait, all .io domains map to a US/UK military base in the Indian Ocean? How does that affect privacy...?

In day-to-day usage, it doesn't, at all. Who owns a domain doesn't have anything to do with where the traffic flows. If I owned buttplug.io (which I don't, unfortunately), and someone sent traffic to me (by visiting the website), DNS would look up and return the IP address of my server, and that's where the traffic would go. In theory, since the owner of the TLD controls the root DNS servers, I guess they could hijac…

Actually tlds may have restrictions and can enforce them. This isn't very common, and most of the past issues with IO has been their very slow time processing registration requests as opposed to content takedowns, but some tlds require ssl and others do restrict adult content. Some restrict things to a given topic (which they get to be the judge of) and others require legal hoops to register such as proving you're a non-profit.

With the explosion of tlds and those tlds being privately owned, there's a good chance we'll see more of these problems in the future though right now it just seems like the owning orgs are just looking for easy money.

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

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Post by qdot76367 »

tristor wrote: post #139
qdot76367 wrote: post #73

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Thanks! So right now, on the Buttplug side, we're more FreePIE or Osculator. The library is made mostly for local side communication with hardware, think of it like an HID manager for VERY SPECIFIC types of human interface devices. :) We'll be getting to online services though! I just did a big 4 part tutorial called "Teledildonics 101" on my youtube channel that covers some of this: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?…

I saw that there weren't mobile apps and a backing service as part of this yet, but I am rooting for you to get to that point. It'd be great to see a community-driven open-source response to Lovense and the other companies like that which dominate the industry currently.

Plan for mobile apps is to build those on top of the Rust core, using methods similar to the FullStory posts here over the past couple of weeks. We had a Xamarin thing working at one point, but it was... Xamarin. We can also work through WebBluetooth on android devices (and there's a WebBLE iOS browser in the store), so that's a crappy-but-workable option.

Standing up services is something I really want to get to, with the plan being to run a containerizable system with optional hosting similar to Discourse/Matomo/etc models, but first I gotta stop rewriting the damn core library. The problems of making your back yard shed hobby project a business, right?

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

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Post by qdot76367 »

jafingi wrote: post #126
qdot76367 wrote: post #40

Hi! Buttplug Project Lead here! AMA!

How does your CI work?

We're currently using Azure Pipelines, but trying to move down to Github Actions as we don't really need the whole Azure ecosystem quite yet.

As for the hardware part, well, let's just say I can never, ever, ever have a zoom meeting where anyone can see my desk.

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Post by foobarian »

Imnimo wrote: post #89
qdot76367 wrote: post #77

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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!

Is there anything more beautiful than seeing two old friends reconnect over memories of a motorized sex machine?

Not just motorized but with custom built linear motors. Impressive!

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

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Post by qdot76367 »

maneesh wrote: post #116
qdot76367 wrote: post #104

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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 :)

HN comment threads are just the best sometimes.

Your device is, probably not surprisingly, popular with a subset of our users. Especially your wristband form factor, though the fact that you've made it modular has ended up with some interesting 3d printed mounting solutions too. :D

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

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Post by qdot76367 »

dpongimo wrote: post #64
qdot76367 wrote: post #40

Hi! Buttplug Project Lead here! AMA!

Any leads on a lightweight C++ client for bp's protocols? I'm thinking about creating a plugin for Skyrim/Fallout 4.

We'll be doing FFI to C ABI calls from our rust library very soon, which should make this doable. I've talked to LoversLab project people before about Skyrim, but nothing much has come of it.

Rumble rerouting support for Fallout 4 works with the GHR I think? https://intiface.com/ghr

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Post by neurostimulant »

dogma1138 wrote: post #134
yabatopia wrote: post #38

I'm a bit surprised how many hardware are supported: https://iostindex.com/?filter0Availability=Available,DIY . It's like a whole new world of names: estim machine, rabbit, bra vibrator, twerking butt deluxe, night howler, kinikat ... Even the Microsoft Xbox controller made the list.

There used to be a “purring kitty” app for the old Symbian Nokia phones that was very popular, there were even special cases made for those phones I wonder if there is one for an Xbox controller.

Man I used to download that app not knowing what it was intended for. I thought it was just an app to test your phone's vibrator.
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