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

     • Infoseepage

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

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     • Infoseepage

     @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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     • screwlisp
     @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.
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     Christine Lemmer-Webber 🌀 (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 01:50:16 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber 🌀

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     @screwtape @me @sacha Well, now that is an interesting idea I hadn't considered before... using a headless emacspeak environment :blobcatadorable: