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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!

Zacchaeus standing with his full cyborg getup: heads up display, a USB-C dock, a belt, cables leading everywhere including to (out of view) ergonomic keyboards

Like 16 January at 2:55 | Open on social.coop

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Christine Lemmer-Webber

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

16 January at 2:57 | Open on social.coop

Dragon-sided D

@cwebber Just think how long those batteries would last if he used vim instead!

16 January at 3:20 | Open on sciencemastodon.com

Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide

@cwebber Steve Mann got there first.

16 January at 3:01 | Open on mastodon.social

Christine Lemmer-Webber

@Infoseepage yeah I know about Steve Mann

16 January at 3:02 | Open on social.coop

Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide

@cwebber I played around with building a couple wearable rigs way back when 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.

16 January at 3:41 | Open on mastodon.social

Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide

@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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16 January at 3:44 | Open on mastodon.social

John Francis

@cwebber I like that all of it can be done while wired to a desktop computer instead of using a mobile device. That's like golluming up into your desk and sewing your face to the monitor so you can be immersed in a terminal.

16 January at 3:03 | Open on cosocial.ca

Julia Evans

@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 relatable