Utopiah @benetou.fr · 28/09/2026Brings me back nearly a decade ago as I was tinkering with Bose Frames twitter-archive.benetou.fr/utopiah/stat... in early 2017 during a hackathon in NYC. Is the past the future?😎 /s 010
Utopiah @benetou.fr · 27/09/20267 years later, waiting for delivery of the next one, Valve's time. twitter-archive.benetou.fr/utopiah/stat...twitter-archive.benetou.frTweet 110
Utopiah @benetou.fr · 25/09/2026Damn, so there is in fact on-going work for WebXR support on the Valve Frame github.com/utzcoz/chrom... with some support from Valve (which makes the device) and some verification from Google (which makes Chrome the browser). Very exciting, can't wait to give it a go.🚀 🐧 🕶️github.comFrame support · Issue #5 · utzcoz/chromium-webxr-linuxHey, interesting project, does this work on the Valve Frame? 120
Utopiah @benetou.fr · 23/09/2026New exploit fugu (Support for Quest 2/3/3s/3sx/Pro) Quest 1 support (adb setup and magisk flasher, check wiki) github.com/Lumince/sing...github.comReleases · Lumince/singularitymeta horizon aio root app. Contribute to Lumince/singularity development by creating an account on GitHub. 100
Utopiah @benetou.fr · 23/09/2026I'm excited for the Frame only because it runs on Linux 🐧 ❤️ , the rest, as tinkered in e.g. twitter-archive.benetou.fr/utopiah/stat... I don't think is specifically new. Sure it will reach a broader audience of rich (flat) gamers but that's about it.🤷twitter-archive.benetou.frTweet 110
Utopiah @benetou.fr · 22/09/2026You know it's going to be mind bending when you have to use a virtual camera overlay to explain a perspective shift.😅 000
Utopiah @benetou.fr · 20/09/2026Sunday provocative prompt : the value of slop is deskilling and fear 000
Utopiah @benetou.fr · 19/09/2026Wireless scrcpy : Android-to-VMed Linux-to-Android it still works on Pixel with GrapheneOS to Quest 3 021
Utopiah @benetou.fr · 14/09/2026Alignment today is like billionaires flying private jets to tell us commoners that we should close our tap while brushing our teeth. People working on alignment focus on "big picture" like existential threats meanwhile building the technology today, not tomorrow or in a near future, is already ...news.ycombinator.comAlignment today is like billionaires flying private jets to tell us commoners th... | Hacker News 100
Utopiah @benetou.fr · 14/09/2026Love Scratch (or ScratchJr or OctoStudio) but feel somehow limited by the existing blocks? Check out Snap snap.berkeley.edu thanks to which, with its custom block and JavaScript extension support, I was able to communicate to VR content and play with a GamePad in minutes!😍 000
Utopiah @benetou.fr · 14/09/2026This is so obvious it got overlook but IMHO this short video in the head is exactly what the Web is about knowablemagazine.org/content/arti... It grabs the attentions but only to shows in few seconds an illustration of the core idea of the article. Then you move on to text and photos.knowablemagazine.orgRope, twine and thread: Invisible technologies of the Stone AgeMissing from the archaeological record, fiber innovations like string played a huge role in the daily lives of our ancestors. Researchers are working to weave together new insights from the traces the... 000
Utopiah @benetou.fr · 07/09/2026Quelle ironie pour @artefr.bsky.social : "Exclus du web - La discrimination numérique" Ce programme n'est plus disponible sur arte.tv 😔 100
Utopiah @benetou.fr · 06/09/2026Refactoring isn't hard technically, it's hard mentally because you take a complex project ... then you make it simpler. The result of good refactoring makes its author look more replaceable. 110
Utopiah @benetou.fr · 05/09/2026Using someone's phone Google generated an "answer" without me explicitly asking for it. Honestly I was positively surprised thinking (I have to confess) that it was an interesting suggestion, that I "should" have thought of it myself. Well... it's was nearly correct. Totally useless as-is though.🤷♂️ 000
Utopiah @benetou.fr · 05/09/2026weird idea of the day : in XR what if the scale of your hands was proportional to the distance to your face? Hands close? Tiny for precise tasks, hands at normal distance, normal size, hands 10m away, hands twice bigger than usual. 🙌🤔 000
Utopiah @benetou.fr · 05/09/2026Software trained to generate plausible text out of the statistics on large quantities of text does so, including when requested to explain how it does so. 0 surprise whatsoever yet concerning for users who conflate plausible results with actual thinking. reasoning theater arxiv.org/html/2603.05...arxiv.orgReasoning Theater: Disentangling Model Beliefs from Chain-of-Thought 000
Utopiah @benetou.fr · 03/09/2026Some people joke that technological literacy peaked with Millennials and Gen Z but... honestly between BigTech, Surveillance Capitalism, now CS careers prospect in doubt (incorrectly so IMHO) or at least less sexy, LLMs as low cost (and low quality) teacher alternative... I bet it will be true. 100
Utopiah @benetou.fr · 03/09/2026Apple Cloud, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, etc... 🌧️ Here is instead a 1-liner to send new photos and videos to your own server. ifconfig | grep wlan | grep RUNNING && rsync -r storage/dcim/Camera/ storagebox:/home/phonebackuplive/Camera/ 46s to check 13G of data encrypted. 🌤️ 010
Reposted by Utopiahsadlyitsbradleybot.bsky.social @sadlyitsbradleybot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026OpenXR 1.1.63 specification just released And adds some major Spatial Computing functionality to supported platforms XR_EXT_spatial_container and XR_EXT_spatial_container_self_rendering, the big ones, allows apps to be rendered as visionOS-esque volumes 1196
Reposted by Utopiah404 Media @404media.co · 31/08/2026Erin West and Paul Raffile went to Nigeria to track down a scammer. They found much more than just his identity.404media.coHow Cyber Sleuths Tracked a Nigerian Scammer to His DoorstepErin West and Paul Raffile went to Nigeria to track down a scammer. They found much more than just his identity. 411131
Utopiah @benetou.fr · 01/09/2026After re-inventing the wheel, vibe coding AI bros re-invent notifications, when will all the innovation stop? /s safereddit.com/r/Programmer...safereddit.comVerifying your browser… 000
Utopiah @benetou.fr · 01/09/2026What's more ecological, downloading a 700MiB 720p video or a 1080p HEVC x265 10Bit 400 MiB? The lower file size is obviously better but also I imagine a more modern compression algorithm is more demanding to play? 🤷 000
Utopiah @benetou.fr · 31/08/20262 keyboards updates : - mbk dot glow black for Dilemma V3 Choc - nocturnal silent switches for Piantor Pro BT 110
Utopiah @benetou.fr · 29/08/2026Not ready yet to walk in the street like that but once I get my nocturnal ambient silent switches I'll definitely bring that setup to cafes, trains, etc. 000
Utopiah @benetou.fr · 29/08/2026Made pesto thanks to my GASAP basket, see gasap.be trying my best to support local seasonable small agriculture. 000
Utopiah @benetou.fr · 29/08/2026NSFW adult content : brilliant lewd idea, using hand tracking 🙌 to make the experience progress. Instead of awkwardly pressing buttons, even virtual ones, the interaction hijacks a natural gesture a.rockhardvr.com/jana-demo/ht... Obvious afterward but perfect fit in that specific context. #WebXRa.rockhardvr.comVRP WebXR AR 000
Reposted by UtopiahMatt Henderson @matthen.com · 26/08/2026To tell if a maze is solvable, just hang it by its corners If it tears into pieces, you’ve found a solution 694118857
Utopiah @benetou.fr · 27/08/20261-liner for completion : textForCompletion.split(' ').filter(w=>w.startsWith('hel')) It is far from perfect but it is also so compact and understandable that IMHO it is the best place to start. 000
Utopiah @benetou.fr · 27/08/2026I bet that more than 80% of conversational AI queries, including very technical and niche ones, can be answered in the first paragraph of the respective Wikipedia entry. 000
Utopiah @benetou.fr · 26/08/2026Tired of the AR "glasshole" situation. It's not about the glasses or the technology. It is about recording and potentially sharing without consent! It is totally inappropriate to come up to someone who expects privacy then record them. Don't let technology enable psychopathic tendencies. 020
Utopiah @benetou.fr · 25/08/2026While waiting for MagSafe rings and plates tinkering with safety hooks for the ultimate keyboard pants following a chat with @tovanbo.bsky.social 😜 Imagine Lara Croft but who ventures into Vim! 150
Utopiah @benetou.fr · 25/08/2026Exact same but straight from my desktop thanks to the Web Search plugin of KRunner for KDE Plasma 000
Utopiah @benetou.fr · 25/08/2026current exploration : keyboard and pinch in space no keyboard and mouse, not just keyboard, not just pinch... but each other individually and their intersection and yes, it does mean spatial modal editing. 000
Reposted by UtopiahLimites Numériques @limitesnumeriques.fr · 25/08/2026🩹 Histoires de pratiques de prolongement de vie d'appareils cassés : Dans le précédent post nous parlions du travail de Jonas Gaugain pour raconter la diversité des stratégies utilisées par les gens pour vivre avec la casse numérique. En voici d'autres, toujours illustrées par Pauline Bouillevart. 155
Utopiah @benetou.fr · 24/08/2026Well, I take it back, maybe AI actually is helping humanity. Sure it might not be curing cancer or solving climate change, heck it is not even curbing it but worsening... but at least in addition to empower scammers and bosses it is also creating new jobs! 000
Reposted by UtopiahCollabora @collabora.com · 24/08/2026Steam Frame is helping bring Arch Linux further into the Arm ecosystem. Holo Core preview with Valve brings early aarch64 packages, sources, and containers. www.hackster.io/news/collabo... #ArchLinux #Linux #OpenSource #SteamFramehackster.ioCollabora Releases First 64-Bit Arm Arch Linux Packages As It Prepares for Valve's Steam Frame VRWork progresses on a build system which will deliver a continuously-updated Arch Linux port for Valve's virtual reality headset. 0112
Reposted by UtopiahArthur Clune @arthur.clune.org · 16/01/2026a16z really are scum. Gambling companies pretending to not be gambling, dogy af ai companions and more www.modelrepublic.org/articles/a16...modelrepublic.orgAndreessen Horowitz is shaping AI policy — while investing in a bleak vision of the future - Model RepublicThe firm’s investment portfolio is full of companies that have exploited legal loopholes, created disturbing products, and broken the law. 011
Utopiah @benetou.fr · 24/08/2026You are probably way more flexible than you think. I have been using a mouse for decades... and just like that, after less than a week, not only I don't miss, but it even just feels weird to even need or want one. Dare try new things, don't get stuck in old habits! 010
Utopiah @benetou.fr · 24/08/2026Are they fancy oven/air-fryer with temperature probe so that it stops when your meat is cooked inside? I have found community.home-assistant.io/t/bbq-meat-t... which is pretty cool but wondering if commercial solutions (ideally open or at least interoperable, e.g Zigbee supported) exist.community.home-assistant.ioBBQ / Meat temperature wifi probe with ESPHome and Home Assistantoh my, that is expensive. I have made progress with the basic cheap meat probes. The key is calibrating. Most instructions call for 32 degrees and 212. What I did was 3 calibrations at 140, 165, a... 000
Reposted by Utopiahsadlyitsbradleybot.bsky.social @sadlyitsbradleybot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Two headsets Networking the same 4DGB Emulator in real time With all of the rendering options able to be changed independently from each other This is so epic, I am going to cry 😭 083
Utopiah @benetou.fr · 24/08/2026weird idea of the day : spatialize a video. no 3D reconstruction, only camera positions and the video itself plays each sequence in its estimated position, in overlapping position past sequences are pushed behind newer ones 100
Utopiah @benetou.fr · 23/08/2026new trick video.benetou.fr/w/ssePERJ7C4... new place video.benetou.fr/w/wYorA6RGbS... today was a good runvideo.benetou.frRollerblading on front toesTired of monopolies on video and wanting to tinker around you'll find here my videos and video related prototypes. 000
Utopiah @benetou.fr · 23/08/2026A hundred years in the future and commanders are still using 4 digits passcode... come on this is just the dumbest security. 100
Utopiah @benetou.fr · 23/08/2026I traveled through France via train this Summer & this is way WAY scarier when you go through. This aerial view is still abstract, actually seeing it, kilometer after kilometer through the entire country is deeply unsettling. This new normal is catastrophic. Source www.franceinfo.fr/environnemen... 000
Utopiah @benetou.fr · 22/08/2026- what it looks like - what it actually does - switching layers with color highlight bastard Dilemma default keymap 110
Utopiah @benetou.fr · 22/08/2026The search for the most compact yet fully ergonomic setup continues : mobile phone as thin client, streaming Webtop (containerized low latency desktop) to a screen or video projector with mouse and keyboard. 200
