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This is actually an amazing project. I see they have an extensive list of devices already supported. People freely discuss on HN all the time about the securi
by tristor 7y ago
This is actually an amazing project. I see they have an extensive list of devices already supported. People freely discuss on HN all the time about the security of private messaging between different people online and how corporations track and use this data against us as consumers, but it seems people are incapable of recognizing and discussing this maturely when in fact the same issues are present with teledildonics.
There's a number of very popular remote control devices on the market, and the security and privacy of users is paramount, especially when proprietary apps integrate audio and video and these things could be used for all sorts of reputational damage against consensual users, exactly for the same societal reasons people aren't taking this seriously.
Having free and open libraries and APIs for handling this stuff and free universal applications which take user security and privacy seriously is critical to the advancement of teledildonics in a way which is safe for the public and doesn't take advantage of consumers.
In VC pitch lingo, Buttplug is "Signal for remote control vibrators".
- qdot76367 7y agoThanks! 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?list=PLDZBOOe-bdwNAjm018ql9KDzu5SEV_XwX https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDZBOOe-bdwNAjm018ql9...
- tristor 7y agoI 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.
- qdot76367 7y agoPlan 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?
- phkahler 7y agoAs cliche as it sounds, maybe sex will be what brings privacy to the internet.
- qdot76367 7y agoThere's been some really neat work around teledildonics and anonymity. I highly recommend Sarah Jamie Lewis's Oniondildonics work: https://mascherari.press/oniondildonics/ https://mascherari.press/oniondildonics/
- benburleson 7y agoNot surprising at all; people always say sex/porn has brought most of the advances of Internet technology (at least in the earlier days).
- pstuart 7y agoAnd the VCR (RIP).
- s1mon 7y agoYep. One of the more memorable NYTimes article titles, from 1994: "Porn, the Low-Slung Engine of Progress" https://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/09/arts/porn-the-low-slung-engine-of-progress.html https://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/09/arts/porn-the-low-slung-e...
- yaktubi 7y agoGotta love the headline
- Animats 7y agoNah. Remember the Grindr leak?[1] Nothing changed. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/04/grindr-gay-men-hiv-status-leak-app https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/04/grindr...
- surajs 7y agoMaybe Privacy will bring sex to the internet