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Buttplug MCP
- roschdal 1y agoDoes this belong in hacker news?
- vasco 1y agoInteresting question for someone with submissions such as "Ask HN: How can I get 5M USD for Trump golden visa?"
- roschdal 1y agoHow can I get 5M USD for Trump golden visa? Please tell me.
- mahmoudhossam 1y agoGod forbid programmers have fun
- doingtheiroming 1y ago"Does this belong in..." seems to be nearly the correct question.
- idmitrievsky 1y agoWhy not?
- ghurtado 1y agoI don't have any interest in the subject matter, but I did end up at https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-context-protocol https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-context-protocol reading the sort of thing I come to Hacker News to read so I dunno....
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- daliusd 1y agoIt does not violate guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Is it valuable? Maybe for someone it is.
- rjsw 1y agoIs it illegal in Texas?
- _lnrx 1y agoAbsolutely, many people here need some intimate vibe relaxation.
- amelius 1y agoIt's a very thin line, but apparently this time it was ok.
- Hikikomori 1y agovibe coding is the next big thing
- rcastellotti 1y agoplease HN add some comments, I have no idea what to think about this.
- randunel 1y ago> Buttplug is an open-source standards and software project for controlling intimate hardware, including sex toys, fucking machines, and more. > Intimate Haptics Control Standard and Library From https://buttplug.io/ https://buttplug.io/. You get better explanations here https://buttplug-spec.docs.buttplug.io/docs/spec https://buttplug-spec.docs.buttplug.io/docs/spec
- vegancap 1y agoWhat a strange time we live in
- doingtheiroming 1y agoI was hoping this was going to be a malicious MCP from the good old days of security tool naming.
- verisimi 1y ago[flagged]
- simondotau 1y agoI honestly can’t tell if you’re being serious.
- spaceguillotine 1y agoi feel the same about your name too, imo
- bestouff 1y agoI don't find anything offensive in there.
- mtharrison 1y agoWhat’s offensive with MCP?
- brazzy 1y agoIn the seminal SF movie Tron (1982), MCP stood for "Master Control Program", and it has already been firmly established that "Master" is a problematic word we must expunge from our repositories.
- almostnormal 1y agoThe repository uses it to abbreviate "Model Context Protocol".
- rfoo 1y agoNo. Like "master" as a branch name, even if it's perfectly fine in this context, as long as it could be suggesting the word use in a problematic context, it should be banned. That's how we banned "master" as a branch name, so why not MCP? Yes, I mean we should ban all abbrev with M in it /s
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- comrade1234 1y agoIs there an llm that can dirty-talk? Would be amusing to tie the two together.
- samuel 1y agoThere are fine tunes for that, sure.
- imafish 1y agoGrok Sexy Mode? :)
- Perz1val 1y agoI'd assume the protocol was made after somebody made an LLM tell them their fantasies and wanted to enhance the experience
- npteljes 1y agoHosted services tend to use censorship, but the way they did the censorship originally can be reverted to a high degree in the model, with "abliteration". Then, if you have access of such a model, that can surely dirty-talk. Or so I have heard. https://ollama.com/search?q=abliterated https://ollama.com/search?q=abliterated
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- nickthegreek 1y agometa's bots were dirty talkin to kids a week ago.
- wiml 1y agoIs this the "vibe coding" I keep hearing about?
- edelans 1y agoFrom their front page on buttplug.io : « We were vibe coding before it was cool. » ><
- robingchan 1y agoI do wonder what UAT looks like for such a project
- cranberryturkey 1y agohttps://github.com/profullstack/mcp-server https://github.com/profullstack/mcp-server was vibe coded
- engmarketer 1y agopretty sure OP has put in some thought into this. you've got to really dig into the hardware specs for this
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- tetrisgm 1y agoSomeone took the term vibe coding literally
- Perz1val 1y agoI've seen APIs for controlling those toys already a few times and it always surprises me that they're quite open. It's a thing I'd expect each device to come with a proprietary locked down app and nobody complaining about it publically, because that'd look.bad on them. Anyone can tell me why is that different? Is it because huge corporations are staying away from the market, thus they couldn't have ruined it?
- Grayskull 1y agoMy guess is, it has to do with cam streamers and ability for people to develop extensions for streaming platforms for their devices. Lovesense, for example, became shorthand for "toy controlled by chat" on streaming sites.
- Kwpolska 1y agoAFAIK, those APIs aren't publicly described by the vendors, they were reverse engineered by the community. Also, the toys themselves are Bluetooth-based, so pairing and proximity are enough for security.
- tecleandor 1y agoAs @Kwpolska says, mostly they have reverse engineered Bluetooth protocols. I'm on my work computer (that's fiercely monitored) so can't give you much links right now, but Buttplug site has information about all the messages and protocols. And some of them are quite a mess. Some of them, like Lovense, have said they had intention to publish APIs, but they just have some empty repositories in Github. (Lovense is a weird company, everything points to just one or two persons in [IIRC] Taiwan. They're very opaque.) And some have been fishy too. There have been class actions against brands like Hytto / Lush [0] or We-Vibe [1] -- 0: https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-forwards-class-action-suit-against-adult-toy-maker/ https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-forwards-class-action-s... 1: https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/lawsuit-news/vibrator-maker-pay-3-75m-settle-privacy-class-action/ https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/lawsuit-news...
- devjab 1y agoI'm not English and I'm not sure what you would call electronic devices in your house, but very few of the ones you'd find in a typical Danish household which are locked down particularily well. It tends to be fairly easy to "hack" anything which has a computer in it, whether that is your Microwave, your electrical toothbrush, your router, your e-bike or something similar. What sets sex-toys appart is probably the amount of effort people are willing to put into hacking them. I'm guessing here, but I imagine you'd find a lot more people wanting to hack their sex-toys compared to people wanting to hack their Microwave. Until I saw this post, I thought the e-bike community was the largest "hacker" community in regards to tampering with your electronics, but I imagine it too is dwarfed by sextoy hackers. Anyway, here in Europe there are a lot of hacks for e-bike computers. Part of this is because many people want to increase the software restraints on speed limits. Which is illegal, and, at least in larger Danish cities also very likely to get caught. Many people do it for statistics though, my e-bike computer as an example resets my "current" milage every 500km and then store the total in another place (something which gets reset everytime it's in the shop). It also didn't have a clock option for any of it's standard screens. My primary reason for hacking it was getting a clock on the display, but I now also back-up my milage + I have some added statistics for fun. When it needs to go into the store, I re-flash it to the factory settings or whatever you'd call it. I'm by no means a device hacker, but it wasn't hard to search engine my brand and find the tools I needed to do what I wanted. Anyway, I don't think there is a lot of "secuirty" in any of our daily devices. Maybe it's because I'm European and a lot of people wouldn't want the NSA watching in through a Google Camera, and therefor buy non-major-tech-company brand stuff, but even things from large brands like Bosch are very hackable. Again, I'm not a device hacker as such, but isn't everything rather hackable once you have the hardware?
- ChocolateGod 1y agoThis is how the robot apocalypse will start
- hermitcrab 1y agoI guess being pleasured to death by AI powered sex toys is better than being mown down by killer robots in a Terminator style apocalypse.
- sandworm101 1y agoI once signed up fot a lecture on "consumer device security" (lawyer stuff). To my suprise, every example used by the presenter involved an internet-connected sex toy gone rouge. Either private information had leaked or the device had "entrapped" a user for ransom. I was at my desk laughing but couldnt explain why for fear of discussing the very nsfw content.
- stevesimmons 1y agoA few prior HN discussions on the Buttplug standard, including the inevitable "in Rust": * Buttplug: An open-source software suite for teledildonics (https://buttplug.io/ https://buttplug.io/) 5 years ago | 249 comments * Empathy for the user having sex with your software (https://docs.buttplug.io/docs/dev-guide/intro/buttplug-ethics/ https://docs.buttplug.io/docs/dev-guide/intro/buttplug-ethic...) 10 months ago | 127 comments * T-code – A protocol for implementing UART serial communications to an adult toy (https://stpihkal.docs.buttplug.io/protocols/tcode.html https://stpihkal.docs.buttplug.io/protocols/tcode.html) 2 years ago | 74 comments * An open-source standards and software project for intimate hardware (maybe NSFW) (https://buttplug.io/ https://buttplug.io/) 7 years ago | 39 comments * Buttplug Sex Toy Control Project Implemented in Rust (https://buttplug.io/ https://buttplug.io/) 2 years ago | 3 comments
- oliwarner 1y agoTeledildonics is just an amazing word. Really makes me want to contribute to BO.io to pad out my CV. Then again, it might raise uncomfortable questions about the pen testing I have on there. Something something something backdoor.
- TeMPOraL 1y agoSo many ideas and industry terms get much more interesting when applied in this area. Penetration testing (especially with red and blue teams). Agile. Continuous delivery. "Move fast and break things". Application firewall. Protection at rest. Injection attacks. Man in the middle. Load balancing. And so on. There's one phrase I'm too fond of, that I thought of the other day: Enterprise Teledildonics Someone please make it become a thing.
- chneu 1y agoA/B testing my teledildonics.
- walthamstow 1y agoIt may be UK or even London-specific but 'exponential backoff' is a great phrase in our lexicon. 'Packet sniffing', while not sexual, is also something a lot of men in Britain do.
- davedx 1y agoI’d like to say well, now I’ve seen it all, but I am sure the boundless curiosity and ingenuity of the human race will surprise me for a long while yet.
- jcims 1y ago>but I am sure the boundless curiosity and ingenuity of the human race will surprise me for a long while yet It truly is a beautiful thing. Even when it's butt stuff.
- bennett_dev 1y agoThis plus ChatGPT scheduled tasks could make an interesting alarm clock
- hypercube33 1y agoLooks like it has home assistant integration so you can have alerts when you forget your garage door open
- visarga 1y agoAll right, that does it! I've had enough internet for today.
- bregma 1y agoLet me guess... if we need you you'll be in your bunk?
- bitlad 1y agoI am going to let claude control the buttplug. Thats what she said before sh*t hit the fan. Literally.
- tankenmate 1y agoWhen Vibe Coding meets Headcrash (Bethke)[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headcrash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headcrash
- vendiddy 1y agoHow is the security?
- rfoo 1y agoAs secure as all MCP servers!
- ChrisMarshallNY 1y agoMaybe something like this? https://youtube.com/watch?v=WqD-ATqw3js&t=1270s https://youtube.com/watch?v=WqD-ATqw3js&t=1270s
- nssnsjsjsjs 1y agoIt's the S in IoT plus the S in LLM and MCP. Lots of S!
- sebstefan 1y agoKeeping this in my bookmarks for the inevitable moment someone says big tech can shove unwanted AI features up their ass.
- agys 1y agoThe .io top level domain is a perfect choice.
- ngruhn 1y agooh my god, you're right xD
- LargoLasskhyfv 1y agoHow do hallucinations feel down there?
- amelius 1y agoCurious how people here see the privacy implications of the various services out there. I suppose it was simpler in the old days where you could just buy a product and have no relationship whatsoever with the vendor and so nobody watching over your shoulder (as is the case with VR goggles nowadays and many other types of services).
- pjs_ 1y agoI heard a story that these guys built one of the only high performing opensource Bluetooth stacks, and that it is a dependency for various SFW orgs… can anyone substantiate
- neomantra 1y agoAuthor here. What a Happy Friday to see this now, as I created it on April Fool's Day. I annually do silly personal projects on that day. That week I happened to be playing with MCP servers and thought it would be funny. ConAcademy is where I put weird ideas and implementations. I will state that this specific MCP Server is pretty useless and certainly not how one would want sexual interaction, I try to indicate this in the README. But, a beginning has to start somewhere and good-giving-game is how we roll so it's on GitHub. [Ironically two years before, my project was Buttplug-integration in a Charm-powered SSH chatroom with BubbleTea TUI. That navigated aspects of digital consent via SSH keys, making an anonymous graph of what entities could do what to other entities' devices. I think some of that is needed in an Agent-Controlled MCP future.] I'm not the Buttplug.io maintainer, but did chat with them about this for a while on Discord. While I have your eyeballs, they are looking for additional maintainers for their project if any Rustaceans are interested. This MCP server is written in Golang but would be better in the Buttplug ecosystem if it was Rust. My early career was in haptics research and I have several patents in it via Immersion. My master's thesis was writing a 3D haptic renderer and integrating haptics into VRML, if you remember that! I have worked on NIH grants for Sexual Dysfunction diagnostic devices and created homemade toys. Now that I just received my Neurable EEG headset, I am working on Biaerolar Beats research [1]. On the topic of vibe coding, yes I vibrated my LELO F1 with this, but this project was truly a hand job. I did try to vibe code `a2a4a2a` (A2A protocol for A2A fun) a few weeks ago, with both Claude and Gemini, but A2A protocol was too new and it was too hard for me to teach it A2A. I'd be interested in seeing how people handle this in general. All in all, it was fun and I learned a lot about tool-calling LLMs. That week I made three MCP servers (thanks `mark3labs/mcp-go`), one for money [2], this one for sex [3], and one for drugs [4]. Although I haven't followed up on that last AgentDank [4] yet, it's probably the coolest in terms of open data and actual AI results -- just watch the video there. Bringing custom data plus SQL endpoint to a tool-calling LLM is ridiculously powerful. [1] https://github.com/ConAcademy/biareolar-beats https://github.com/ConAcademy/biareolar-beats [2] https://github.com/NimbleMarkets/dbn-go/blob/main/cmd/dbn-go-mcp/README.md https://github.com/NimbleMarkets/dbn-go/blob/main/cmd/dbn-go... [3] https://github.com/ConAcademy/buttplug-mcp https://github.com/ConAcademy/buttplug-mcp [4] https://github.com/AgentDank/dank-mcp https://github.com/AgentDank/dank-mcp
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- engmarketer 1y agothis has got to be the funniest thing i've seen from what an MCP could do this year LOL
- Traubenfuchs 1y agoRelated to buttplugin' with teledildonics? https://buttplug.io https://buttplug.io I remember some people have wired their vibrators intensity and vibration pattern to their vi(m) configuration, e.g. current indentation depth.
- lofaszvanitt 1y agoFinally something new and groundbreaking!
- neuroelectron 1y agoMCP is becoming a mature protocol.
- SkyeCA 1y agoI don't see the value to integrating this kind of thing with an LLM or find the presented use cases as compelling, but I'm always going to support more work related to Buttplug.io and I'm sure someone will find it useful. It's unfortunate just how stigmatized such software (and the associated devices) still are because it's a very, very interesting field. I myself started what I thought was going to be a small haptic feedback side project and have fallen down a rabbithole I never could have imagined existing. The sex toy/haptic feedback world has, if I'm honest, reignited my love for development.
- neomantra 1y agoHaptics is such a primal modality -- I've really enjoyed working with it. I used to evangelize it and present SFW demos to people around the world. You really do need to touch it to understand. Making the devices and experiences is really fun. It's easier than ever with modern Maker setups. Like many things, there can be stigma e.g what Masters&Johnson faced, but if you are serious you can get past it pretty easily. We've done serious psychophysical studies and tried to make tools that helped people medically and emotionally. But it's also OK to be playful too. More than anything about intimacy, this specific project was a quirky response to the "MCP All The Things" zeitgeist at the time. Like writing science fiction, by working with these things early in any way, you earn an appreciation for the problems. After a week of MCP, it became abundantly clear about the Security and Observability problems. User configuration was rough too. I spent the next weeks working on sandboxing tech, MCP observability tech, and other ideas. None of that got to a good-enough-to-publish level, but my understanding/capability was increased. Other issues are how you model consent of personal devices and maintain that with LLMs or other users. How do you define what the boundaries and shared capabilities are? Do you incorporate reputation? How do you distribute or federate that? How do you maintain anonymity but keep it useful? How do ephemeral agents get access to that data? [I don't explore any of that in this project.] These are general problems with MCP/A2A servers that will need to be solved. It's not just about buttplugs, but a slew of data and services, if we allow these AIs to become part of our daily life.
- cbogie 1y agobackend engineer sticky bit floppy disk lap top big o batch sorting
- alzamixer 1y agoUser-testing it was a pain in the ass.
- qdot76367 1y agoWoah! Hi! I'm qDot, creator and project lead of https://buttplug.io https://buttplug.io! We're already well off the front page but feel free to AMA. :)