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Utopiah
@benetou.fr
· Nov 8
Naive heuristic : avoiding gadgets or services (free or not) that increase inequality by design, through technology or business model or both, would be a good starting point.
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Finished this & it's so damning how Disney Parks operate very similarly to the way many tech companies operate now: here's a big, deceptive demonstration that we likely know we won't ship to customers, or even if we do, there's zero assurances it'll be as promised or be supported in the long term.
So you made a robot stand up and talk... now what? In this over 4-hour journey, Kevin follows the promise of Disney's Living Character Initiative, an effort to populate Disney theme parks with free-roaming, interactive beings. It was touted as the future. How's it going? Watch here: bit.ly/49C6vng
November 24, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Finished this & it's so damning how Disney Parks operate very similarly to the way many tech companies operate now: here's a big, deceptive demonstration that we likely know we won't ship to customers, or even if we do, there's zero assurances it'll be as promised or be supported in the long term.
"mechanisms to design an interactive interface for playing with smartphones connected to his software via Open Sound Control." from "Zombitron: towards a toolbox for repurposing obsolete smartphones into new interactive systems" by Clara Rigaud arxiv.org/html/2508.06...
November 24, 2025 at 10:43 AM
"mechanisms to design an interactive interface for playing with smartphones connected to his software via Open Sound Control." from "Zombitron: towards a toolbox for repurposing obsolete smartphones into new interactive systems" by Clara Rigaud arxiv.org/html/2508.06...
What if you could put a remote desktop in your VR (immersive) environment? video.benetou.fr/w/oLFogKzXGQ...
Tinkering with Selkies selkies-project.github.io/selkies/desi... in AFrameVR via github.com/AdaRoseCanno...
PS: works flawlessly in 2D (in VR & AR) yet challenging, esp. inputs, in #WebXR.
Tinkering with Selkies selkies-project.github.io/selkies/desi... in AFrameVR via github.com/AdaRoseCanno...
PS: works flawlessly in 2D (in VR & AR) yet challenging, esp. inputs, in #WebXR.
Selkies in WebXR (testing)
Relying on linuxserver webtop https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-webtop/ itself relying on Selkies https://selkies-project.github.io/selkies/ Modified ./usr/share/selkies/web/index.html (via...
video.benetou.fr
November 24, 2025 at 8:25 AM
What if you could put a remote desktop in your VR (immersive) environment? video.benetou.fr/w/oLFogKzXGQ...
Tinkering with Selkies selkies-project.github.io/selkies/desi... in AFrameVR via github.com/AdaRoseCanno...
PS: works flawlessly in 2D (in VR & AR) yet challenging, esp. inputs, in #WebXR.
Tinkering with Selkies selkies-project.github.io/selkies/desi... in AFrameVR via github.com/AdaRoseCanno...
PS: works flawlessly in 2D (in VR & AR) yet challenging, esp. inputs, in #WebXR.
"Silicon Valley is deeply conservative. It proclaims to disrupt everything, and make all fresh, new and shiny—except this basic social relationship." notesfrombelow.org/article/sili...
Silicon Valley startups: being evil, again and again
by Ian Wright // Silicon Valley's startup culture believes it's changing the world for the better. But in reality its culture is deeply unethical since it institutionalises theft on a global scale.
notesfrombelow.org
November 23, 2025 at 7:05 AM
"Silicon Valley is deeply conservative. It proclaims to disrupt everything, and make all fresh, new and shiny—except this basic social relationship." notesfrombelow.org/article/sili...
Updated fabien.benetou.fr/Content/Swap... accordingly. I already had a line on codecs but I admit didn't expect something as blatantly wrong as this. Helps make my case though.
November 22, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Updated fabien.benetou.fr/Content/Swap... accordingly. I already had a line on codecs but I admit didn't expect something as blatantly wrong as this. Helps make my case though.
Link without YouTube www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
November 22, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Link without YouTube www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
Unexpected M. C. Escher's starcaise (Ascending and Descending). Imagine walking over this in VR... forever.
November 22, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Unexpected M. C. Escher's starcaise (Ascending and Descending). Imagine walking over this in VR... forever.
On stability for understandability versus cognitively costly nearly arbitrary optimizations : "we reject this global constraint-solver approach. Minimizing “error” is meaningless compared to a human maximizing meaning through thoughtful design." spidermonkey.dev/blog/2025/10...
Who needs Graphviz when you can build it yourself?
Exploring a new layout algorithm for control flow graphs.
spidermonkey.dev
November 21, 2025 at 1:34 PM
On stability for understandability versus cognitively costly nearly arbitrary optimizations : "we reject this global constraint-solver approach. Minimizing “error” is meaningless compared to a human maximizing meaning through thoughtful design." spidermonkey.dev/blog/2025/10...
It’s a small thing but between that and recent CloudFlare/AWS/Azure outages self-hosting feels a lot more like a necessity than something nice to have. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US: 'You are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system'
Six judges and three prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have been sanctioned by the Trump administration. In an interview with Le Monde, Guillou discusses the impact of these measures on ...
www.lemonde.fr
November 21, 2025 at 12:22 PM
It’s a small thing but between that and recent CloudFlare/AWS/Azure outages self-hosting feels a lot more like a necessity than something nice to have. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
4 dataviz on a wiki page...
- top left corner, linked pages as nodes on a graph
- top right corner, edits over time
- center, GraphViz of running services on backend
- bottom (invisible here as edited recently) warning of deprecated content
- top left corner, linked pages as nodes on a graph
- top right corner, edits over time
- center, GraphViz of running services on backend
- bottom (invisible here as edited recently) warning of deprecated content
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
4 dataviz on a wiki page...
- top left corner, linked pages as nodes on a graph
- top right corner, edits over time
- center, GraphViz of running services on backend
- bottom (invisible here as edited recently) warning of deprecated content
- top left corner, linked pages as nodes on a graph
- top right corner, edits over time
- center, GraphViz of running services on backend
- bottom (invisible here as edited recently) warning of deprecated content
I feel seen "potent withdrawal symptoms from extended use of copium."
Steam Frame's modular design will take it places only Vision Pro currently goes:
Steam Frame's Modular Design: 'I Don't Think It's Been Done Before'
Steam Frame's modular design will take it places only Vision Pro currently goes.
www.uploadvr.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I feel seen "potent withdrawal symptoms from extended use of copium."
Your Smartphone, Their Rules: How App Stores Enable Corporate-Government Censorship by Daniel Kahn Gillmor for @aclu.org www.aclu.org/news/free-sp... Big Tech Oligopoly helps the Trump Administration crack down on free speech
Your Smartphone, Their Rules: How App Stores Enable Corporate-Government Censorship | ACLU
Big Tech Oligopoly helps the Trump Administration crack down on free speech
www.aclu.org
November 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Your Smartphone, Their Rules: How App Stores Enable Corporate-Government Censorship by Daniel Kahn Gillmor for @aclu.org www.aclu.org/news/free-sp... Big Tech Oligopoly helps the Trump Administration crack down on free speech
When loneliness is the business model.🤮
Total repeat of crypto : sure BitCoin could have been a tool to emancipate from big banks or fintech. It could have been a proper cryptoanarchist dream. Really.
Instead it's frauds & scams!
GenAI & LLMs could be for knowledge.
Instead it's porn & abuse! 🚧
Total repeat of crypto : sure BitCoin could have been a tool to emancipate from big banks or fintech. It could have been a proper cryptoanarchist dream. Really.
Instead it's frauds & scams!
GenAI & LLMs could be for knowledge.
Instead it's porn & abuse! 🚧
AI porn generator and ERP chatbot Secret Desires left millions of images and videos exposed in unsecured cloud storage. I took a look and found folders called "faceswap," where people had uploaded tons of stolen content and random photos of women www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
When loneliness is the business model.🤮
Total repeat of crypto : sure BitCoin could have been a tool to emancipate from big banks or fintech. It could have been a proper cryptoanarchist dream. Really.
Instead it's frauds & scams!
GenAI & LLMs could be for knowledge.
Instead it's porn & abuse! 🚧
Total repeat of crypto : sure BitCoin could have been a tool to emancipate from big banks or fintech. It could have been a proper cryptoanarchist dream. Really.
Instead it's frauds & scams!
GenAI & LLMs could be for knowledge.
Instead it's porn & abuse! 🚧
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Looking for an experienced WebXR developer for a paid project. Please DM if you are one or know one!
November 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Looking for an experienced WebXR developer for a paid project. Please DM if you are one or know one!
Interoperability between self-hosted services
FLOSS self-hosting is honestly on-par functionality-wise with proprietary solutions. The ONE thing that I feel is often missing is integration which relies on interoperability.
How do YOU it?
lemmy.world/post/39023836
FLOSS self-hosting is honestly on-par functionality-wise with proprietary solutions. The ONE thing that I feel is often missing is integration which relies on interoperability.
How do YOU it?
lemmy.world/post/39023836
Interoperability between self-hosted services - Lemmy.World
Plenty of us are using Docker, Podman, Incus, chroot jails, etc to isolate
services. It has become good practice and it makes setting up yet another
service, usually, so convenient. Some services like...
lemmy.world
November 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Interoperability between self-hosted services
FLOSS self-hosting is honestly on-par functionality-wise with proprietary solutions. The ONE thing that I feel is often missing is integration which relies on interoperability.
How do YOU it?
lemmy.world/post/39023836
FLOSS self-hosting is honestly on-par functionality-wise with proprietary solutions. The ONE thing that I feel is often missing is integration which relies on interoperability.
How do YOU it?
lemmy.world/post/39023836
November 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
You know your paradigm is right when you see something new, genuinely unexpected, and think : "I could replicate that in a very short time".
A paradigm is powerful not when it can do everything you want but rather when it can also support things you didn't even know you wanted.
A paradigm is powerful not when it can do everything you want but rather when it can also support things you didn't even know you wanted.
November 18, 2025 at 9:08 AM
You know your paradigm is right when you see something new, genuinely unexpected, and think : "I could replicate that in a very short time".
A paradigm is powerful not when it can do everything you want but rather when it can also support things you didn't even know you wanted.
A paradigm is powerful not when it can do everything you want but rather when it can also support things you didn't even know you wanted.
Operator
www.fun-and-awe.io
November 18, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Truly smart devices would choose not to connect to the internet.
November 18, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Truly smart devices would choose not to connect to the internet.
NG+ Scaling.
If you get to a trillion dollars you should have to start the game over from the beginning at a higher difficulty like your parents not owning a bunch of emerald mines or whatever idk that’s just a random example
November 18, 2025 at 8:24 AM
NG+ Scaling.
Today, I walked into my directory. video.benetou.fr/w/kvJjsPvgJ8...
Stepping in a directory (physically moving over a virtual plate to navigate inside a remote WebDAV directory)
Live testing https://companion.benetou.fr/index.html?username=q4_plates_browser
video.benetou.fr
November 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Today, I walked into my directory. video.benetou.fr/w/kvJjsPvgJ8...
Per directory dot file based spatial configuration.
You want to enter a directory in XR and the layout to match your workflow? Sure, just save the file in there, however you want, so directories and files appear just where you want them to.
Spatial autoenv, kind of.
You want to enter a directory in XR and the layout to match your workflow? Sure, just save the file in there, however you want, so directories and files appear just where you want them to.
Spatial autoenv, kind of.
November 17, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Per directory dot file based spatial configuration.
You want to enter a directory in XR and the layout to match your workflow? Sure, just save the file in there, however you want, so directories and files appear just where you want them to.
Spatial autoenv, kind of.
You want to enter a directory in XR and the layout to match your workflow? Sure, just save the file in there, however you want, so directories and files appear just where you want them to.
Spatial autoenv, kind of.
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Here are my debugging scripts that I use for my previous demo. They are very useful. It not only helps test math and the correctness of algorithms quickly, but also forces you to decouple key systems of your app from each other to make it work.
#spatialcomputing #xrdevelopment #xrdesign
#spatialcomputing #xrdevelopment #xrdesign
November 17, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Here are my debugging scripts that I use for my previous demo. They are very useful. It not only helps test math and the correctness of algorithms quickly, but also forces you to decouple key systems of your app from each other to make it work.
#spatialcomputing #xrdevelopment #xrdesign
#spatialcomputing #xrdevelopment #xrdesign
Damn... didn't expect this to work : made a directory available via WebDAV, here the sources of the Ada & Zangemann children's book from @fsfe.org (available at git.fsfe.org/FSFE/ada-zan... ) and browse in VR.
Some details to iron out but overall worked well!
video.benetou.fr/w/ha1uJz7CaM...
Some details to iron out but overall worked well!
video.benetou.fr/w/ha1uJz7CaM...
November 16, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Damn... didn't expect this to work : made a directory available via WebDAV, here the sources of the Ada & Zangemann children's book from @fsfe.org (available at git.fsfe.org/FSFE/ada-zan... ) and browse in VR.
Some details to iron out but overall worked well!
video.benetou.fr/w/ha1uJz7CaM...
Some details to iron out but overall worked well!
video.benetou.fr/w/ha1uJz7CaM...