Deldo - Vibration Control and Teledildonics Mode for Emacs

Poor Life Choices0 HN recommenders · 2014–2026
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A demo of Deldo, an Emacs package that lets Emacs hooks trigger vibration events on computer-controllable sex toys. It is an absurd teledildonics project that is half performance art.

HN mostly links it as a joke in Emacs threads, though one commenter calls the video the most interesting part of the Deldo project.

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10 comments from Hacker News

@qdot763672014 · in “Emacs is Sexy”

Um. It counts. There are elisp packages specifically for this after all. Other humans can even participate via the networked paired programming packages. Can your editor do this? HMMM? [VIDEO] [LINK]

@DonHopkins2017 · in “Emacs is sexy”

Kyle Machulis sure loves Emacs. He wrote "Deldo - The Sex Toy and Teledildonics Mode for Emacs": [LINK] It's well worth freeze framing and reading the text in the list of all the different programming languages that Emacs supports. [VIDEO]

@superflit2020 · in “The Pervert's Guide to Computer Programming Languages (2017) [video]”

I think this video [VIDEO] Explains what languages correspond to which fetishes better. You can see the author is very subtle and only say it at 0:55 while discussing some languages. And plus it is Emacs! Edit: NSFW

@sillysaurusx2021 · in “Open Source Vibrotactile Haptics Platform for On-Body Applications”

That video is a trip: [VIDEO] "deldo-eugenics-mode and the end of the editor wars" sounds like a Harry Potter sequel that no one asked for.

@sillysaurusx2021 · in “Deldo is a sex toy control and teledildonics mode for Emacs”

Honestly the video is the most interesting part: [VIDEO] I can't quite figure out if it's performance art or enthusiasm. Probably a bit of both.

@DonHopkins2021 · in “Why Emacs: Redux”

>One thing hasn’t changed though - I still love Emacs and I’m quite passionate about it. As passionate in your love for Emacs as Kyle Machulis is? ;) [LINK] [LINK] [VIDEO]

@DonHopkins2022 · in “Intel unveils BonanzaMine, a Bitcoin accelerator ASIC”

The Beats Whoopie Pill functions both as an bluetooth microphone input and speaker output device, with an ultra-low-frequency-high-power woofer. But it's a real pain in the ass to install and uninstall. Fortunately, Kyle Machulis has written an Emacs mode that supports it. [VIDEO] [LINK]

@DonHopkins2024 · in “Ask HN: Any fun ways to learn Emacs?”

Interview with an Emacs Enthusiast in 2023 [Colorized]: [LINK] Interview with a GNU/Linux user - Partition 1: [LINK] Deldo - Vibration Control and Teledildonics Mode for Emacs: [VIDEO]

@DonHopkins2026 · in “Emacs Appearances in Pop Culture”

Deldo - Vibration Control and Teledildonics Mode for Emacs [VIDEO] Interview with an Emacs Enthusiast [Colorized] [LINK] Writing an Emacs implementation in C (Gosling Emacs) | James Gosling and Lex Fridman [LINK]

@DonHopkins2026 · in “Even More Batteries Included with Emacs”

I LOVE Emacs, but I HATE it when I have the irresistible urge to edit text, but Emacs has dead batteries. [VIDEO]