Cited on HN 10 times, 2014–2026, never outright recommendedscore 0
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026
HN mostly links it as a joke in Emacs threads, though one commenter calls the video the most interesting part of the Deldo project.
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.
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? [this video] [link]
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. [this video]
I think this video [this 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
>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] [this video]
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. [this video] [link]
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: [this video]
Deldo - Vibration Control and Teledildonics Mode for Emacs [this video] Interview with an Emacs Enthusiast [Colorized] [link] Writing an Emacs implementation in C (Gosling Emacs) | James Gosling and Lex Fridman [link]
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