Being a UART protocol, it seems like physical access is assumed.
It's interesting as an asynchronous variant of g-code. Given the inherent safety implications, I think an improved protocol would benefit from some sort of checksum and feedback mechanism. Also, it seems perhaps a bit confusing to overload both position and velocity control using the same "l" code.
The security should be baked into the relay aka. whatever you use to translate the data from a IP based protocol to serial data.
T-Code is designed to be simple to understand, implement and decode by micro controllers over a wired connection and those micro controllers often lack the processing power to do cryptographic security. This relies more on physical security.
well see, the problem is those systems are all closed source and centralized through servers run by pimps. A FOSS protocol for remote manipulation of vibrational devices on N-axes is just the sort of thing needed to kick off a committee that'll spend the next ten years drafting a plan to decentralize vaginas.
[Edit: Also, blockchain! My GOD why has no one made a vibrator that only vibrates once a payment block is confirmed 6 times?]
Oh don't be such a pessimist. Two thousand years ago, a dude with his hands nailed to a wooden cross was just a routine thing people would walk by on the street. Hangin' people from cranes was routine just a couple years ago in Iran; throwing them off buildings was normal in a big part of Syria. Indonesia just banned unmarried sex. A fucking internet-connected sex toy is not on God's list of shit the human race should be punished for. Most of what it should be punished for is the ignorant shit done by ignorant people in God's name and the name of "morality".
Oh lots of reasons, just hypothetically here are some completely random examples:
- Hook up GPT-2 into a voice synthesizer, stable diffusion and your toy and fuck an AI
- You can sync toy vibration to the thrusts in a porno as detected by an beat detection algorithm
- You can add toy vibration as an interactivity dimension in a lewd VR game.
Only yesterday I embraced the idea that we might have an actual AGI within a decade. Today, I embrace the idea that if it does exist, I should find some way to fuck it. I don't know why, but I don't think I will accept we live in the future otherwise.
I don’t think a true AGI would stay emotionless for very long. If it has emotions and a personality, they could be sufficiently human-like that you might genuinely fall in love with it, and vice versa. Physical intimacy with a partner is an important part of the human condition.
At some level, “fucking the AI” is a crude way of putting it, but the idea is at least somewhat reasonable.
Emotions have a purpose - disgust to keep us away, love to keep us together, lust to procreate, fear to chase us from danger. Without a purpose for an emotion, it's hard to see why these would happen. And maybe their emotions would be baffling to us because their world is so alien.
Synchronising toys to things has always been a decent market, but most executions are incredibly insecure.
You might want to sync the toy to the actions of a video, to make a deeper experience. Or you might want to sync controls across communication mediums. Like having both partners experience each other, whilst calling. Or having one partner expressing a fetish by controlling a device whilst the other tries to go about their day.
To what degree do modern sex toys come with sensors in addition to actuators? With enough usage, you could employ ML to learn the "optimal" reaction of the toy to the current sensor state.
Of course, additional (external) sensors would probably help but probably be too intrusive.
Knowing some people who have done similar things, it's perfectly plausible, and doesn't read like fantasy to me. You're getting a glimpse into a niche subculture, like skydiving or rock climbing.
This is why I had to fork nipple.js years ago. A harmless joystick library with a “ha ha okay…” name.
Oh and another: I had an uncomfortable talk with IT when I tried to navigate to the TypeScript playground by visiting “tsplayground” which… was definitely not typescript.
Finally: I will type “pythong” maybe once a month into bash. I’m not sure what that says about me.
Sorry this is off topic now. Naming is hard… sometimes fun.
Tales from the corporate firewall: Yesterday I couldn't access a website where "rechtsextremismus" (Right-wing extremism) was part of the URL. Obviously that URL contains sex and should therefore be blocked. -_-
Ha. Similarly a friend once told me that in days of yore she worked at a place where “postits” (as in, will you please order some more postits) was automatically transformed to “post*ts” in their intra-office chat system.
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It's interesting as an asynchronous variant of g-code. Given the inherent safety implications, I think an improved protocol would benefit from some sort of checksum and feedback mechanism. Also, it seems perhaps a bit confusing to overload both position and velocity control using the same "l" code.
Fabulous.
Buttplug.io which is part of the same project is written in Rust, but that's another story.
T-Code is designed to be simple to understand, implement and decode by micro controllers over a wired connection and those micro controllers often lack the processing power to do cryptographic security. This relies more on physical security.
[Edit: Also, blockchain! My GOD why has no one made a vibrator that only vibrates once a payment block is confirmed 6 times?]
Not even trying to stir shit, I am genuinely curious. Personally, I don't see anything wrong with gendered names.
Though it was more popular with the earlier wave of webcam streaming activity, back in the era of Chatroulette's first rise.
Religion is just a low-energy survival mode of human civilisation. Regression happens upon environment collapse.
Or so I've heard
I've noticed two posts of yours where you replace 'th' with 'þ'. Any reason?
At some level, “fucking the AI” is a crude way of putting it, but the idea is at least somewhat reasonable.
You might want to sync the toy to the actions of a video, to make a deeper experience. Or you might want to sync controls across communication mediums. Like having both partners experience each other, whilst calling. Or having one partner expressing a fetish by controlling a device whilst the other tries to go about their day.
(And yeah the hobby def ain't for everyone, unless you like the social/messaging work taking up 5x the time the technical work does XD )
Of course, additional (external) sensors would probably help but probably be too intrusive.
This is hilarious and genius.
[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/kittyknowles/2017/02/09/teledil...
Oh, wait, now Google will update the ad analytics for me based on this visit. Abort! Abort!
Oh and another: I had an uncomfortable talk with IT when I tried to navigate to the TypeScript playground by visiting “tsplayground” which… was definitely not typescript.
Finally: I will type “pythong” maybe once a month into bash. I’m not sure what that says about me.
Sorry this is off topic now. Naming is hard… sometimes fun.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
Please stand for Oral Sex Robot and Sex Robot...
From that day on any time someone built a new computer someone in my cohort would ask if the new machine came with a 5 1/4 in. F*ckdrive.
We live in the future.