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   Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 11:55:12 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

   The DIY FOSS Cyborg https://dustycloud.org/blog/the-diy-foss-cyborg/

   Yes, I met a DIY FOSS Cyborg who lives in Emacs and Guix full-time. And YOU TOO can live such a life, if you dare!

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 11:57:24 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     I also posted a video of me interviewing Zacchaeus about his DIY FOSS cyborg setup. It's wild to see!

     On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/flYs1fwwACk
     On PeerTube: https://share.tube/w/uuTsg6L6RKf66fnSN8avtr

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     Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide (infoseepage@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 12:01:25 JST Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide

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     @cwebber Steve Mann got there first.

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 12:02:29 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     @Infoseepage yeah I know about Steve Mann

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     Julia Evans (b0rk@social.jvns.ca)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 12:04:53 JST Julia Evans

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     @cwebber haha I love this and the feeling of "wow this person is telling me about something cool but I absolutely cannot process it right now" is so relatively

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     Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide (infoseepage@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 12:41:03 JST Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide

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     @cwebber I played around with building a couple wearable rigs way back one and was never satisfied enough with the results to refine it beyond the "tangled of wires" stage to something actually useful. Some really cool display technologies coupled with wireless io could enable something much more usable these days without the rats nest.

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     Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide (infoseepage@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 12:44:22 JST Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide

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     @cwebber
     Microvision had some wearable laser displays which I tried out which I thought were really cool. Think they sold some wearables to Boeing for aeronautics engineers to be able to consult assembly documents while crawling inside wings, but not much came of it commercially. They eventually did some of the first laser based pico projectors.

     Wonder how the present laser-rastering-your-eyeball displays compare to the latest micro oleds and whatnot.

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     Mauve 👁💜 (mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 13:09:24 JST Mauve 👁💜

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     @cwebber transition goals 😫💜

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     Jon (jon_giraffe@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 22:00:21 JST Jon

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     @cwebber Just me scrolling and seeing a picture of my doppelgangar dressed as a cyborg... time to go to sleep.

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     Anna e só (anna@friend.camp)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 22:34:51 JST Anna e só

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     @cwebber Ah, he’s got an Ergodox! Really cool!

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     Owlet of Minerva (noctuaminervae@toot.si)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 00:17:57 JST Owlet of Minerva

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     @cwebber This is what I'm going to show friends and family to explain that putting Emacs on my phone is perfectly normal, relatively speaking.

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     Jana (jana@social.jsteuernagel.de)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 00:18:22 JST Jana

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     @cwebber This looks absolutely sick.
     A few weeks ago I already saw someone doing cool stuff with some AR glasses and now this.

     Damn I want to do something like this so bad.

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     Ludovic Courtès (civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 01:44:49 JST Ludovic Courtès

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     @cwebber Amazing. :-)

     What’s that “phone” that runs Guix?

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 01:49:22 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     @civodul See the video: https://share.tube/w/uuTsg6L6RKf66fnSN8avtr

     It's actually a LibreM 5 running PureOS but with the bare bones OS and Guix Home layered on top for everything else... so not Guix as the whole distro (yet)!

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     PuercoPop (puercopop@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 04:11:41 JST PuercoPop

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     • Brandon Rhodes

     @cwebber Over at lobsters, @brandon_rhodes shared a thesis from 1996 about wearable displays. The students are using Emacs as well. Emacs has a long tradition of Cyborgs! https://lobste.rs/s/lnxbxa/diy_foss_cyborg#c_qr3sm5

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     Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide (infoseepage@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 04:55:37 JST Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide

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     • Bill Seitz

     @billseitz @cwebber I remember that because I was a ham and I think it made some of the magazines at the time.

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     Bill Seitz (billseitz@toolsforthought.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 04:55:38 JST Bill Seitz

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     @cwebber @Infoseepage see also Steven Roberts 1983 bicycle (no emacs, RadioShack model100)
     https://microship.com/bikes/
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_K._Roberts

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 10:19:23 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     • Jonathan Frederickson

     @jfred omg well you gotta see this https://bsky.app/profile/danfinlay.com/post/3lfvksuqc6k2n

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     Jonathan Frederickson (jfred@jawns.club)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 10:19:25 JST Jonathan Frederickson

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     @cwebber Okay that is very cool. I think the main things that would stop me from trying it out myself are the aesthetic (which seems like it could be tweaked, you got into that a bit) and the keyboard mounting likely making it inconvenient to sit down (this one feels more difficult to address)

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     screwlisp (screwtape@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 06:37:02 JST screwlisp

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     @me oh, yeah, I saw it thanks, I wondered if either of them talked to @sacha about this previously as well. Is there a transcript?

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     me (me@social.jlamothe.net)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 06:37:04 JST me

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     CC @screwtape
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     screwlisp (screwtape@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 06:44:53 JST screwlisp

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     Iirc when I interviewed @sacha about her experience doing this, she said basically people look at you funny when you're like this whereas an idea is that if you had a screenreader you could use that subtly instead of the displays and pass as a non-cyborg in groups of humans. It's definitely cool.

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     me (me@social.jlamothe.net)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 06:44:54 JST me

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     @screwtape @sacha As much as I love the simpler analog solutions to stuff, I have to admit, having a persistent org-mode overlay is really appealing.