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Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor
My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
DIY amusement park, no entry fee, no age limit, scalable difficulty, ...
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
The Fear of Dying Before You Become Yourself https://www.dailicle.com/read/the-fear-of-dying-before-you-become-yourself
"People say they're afraid of death, but often what they really mean is dying as the wrong person. What do we think we’re racing toward when we worry we’ll run out of time?"
The Dailicle Desk · June 22, 2026
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
That's pretty cool, I had no idea one could run JavaScript scripts on the FlipperZero 🐬 https://developer.flipper.net/flipperzero/doxygen/js.html and access the CLI to run them via a Web interface, no installation needed https://docs.flipper.net/zero/development/cli#method-1-using-flipper-lab
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
Kbd mishap, so frustrating I ordered 2 others just to be safe. Interfaces do not matter until they break then suddenly it becomes a stark reminder they are close to the most important thing in the World. Whatever matters to you. Fascinating lesson learned the hard way.
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
What it means to daily drive Linux on a PC, namely a computer that is genuinely yours :
- this morning I made a tool, including its UI, without realizing it.
The console has a background tab to download using a CLI tool (yt-dlp) & the visual interface is using watch to check a file and directory.
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
repurposed blocks from my tangible calendar : X3 stand
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
Damn... #CrossPoint on the X3 is amazing. Just received this minuscule e-ink reader few hours ago, flashed firmware via microSD and voila, WebDAV file server to add content, HTTP interface to do so the same and configure settings. Great on-boarding, it just works!
Another freed gadget 🚀 🔓
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
@ptrpaws@wetdry.world I was chatting with @lvk@mastodon.online about PmOS on Lynx, boot2webXR, Monado, webkitxr and others ways to be more free with XR. Where do you think the gap currently is? Which is the "free-est" headset, rooted or not, to actually enjoy content (ideally WebXR) on? If you were to get hardware or even provide some via e.g. CrowdSupply how would you do it?
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
Stumbled upon the concept of appropriate technology and its pragmatic encyclopedia https://www.appropedia.org
What a fascinating empowering rabbit hole to go down.
I imagine @trevorflowers@hachyderm.io and @olm_e@tchafia.be are familiar with it but just in case!
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
RE: @utopiah@mastodon.pirateparty.be
Imagine this current usage in users too young to have proper self control PLUS fueled by greed strategically leveraging incumbency and dark patterns for addiction.
Think I'm exaggerating? Think again https://www.404media.co/microsoft-wants-to-make-people-addicted-to-scout-its-new-ai-assistant-internal-documents-reveal/
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
Conversation with a 12 y/o today:
Me: what's your favorite App?
Them: AI
- what for?
- homework (shows me how to snap a picture of homework to get it "solved")
- looks like a robot going to the gym on your behalf, are you actually learning?
- sure, the AI teaches me
- does your teacher know?
- nope
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
Between "The Man Who Sold the World" or "Saviour Machine" Bowie was onto something, more than half a century ago.
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
Provocative take : I don't think information overload is a novel phenomenon.
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
" the “primary driver” of these abnormally high failing rates is due to a “vast increase in academic dishonesty” due to students’ usage of large language models, such as Claude, ChatGPT and Google Gemini." https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/academics/failing-grades-soar-as-professors-see-greater-ai-usage-dwindling-math-skills-in-uc-berkeley/article_16fad0bf-02cb-4b8c-8d88-888ffd9f8608.html
Damn, what a useful technology, we just need MORE of it! /s
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics https://leidendeclaration.ai
" Mathematicians have a choice about whether and how to adopt artificial intelligence in the conduct of their research. They also have a responsibility to ensure the continued flourishing of the discipline. This Declaration calls upon mathematicians to exercise this responsibility, and provides recommendations for individuals, institutions, government, and industry.
Although we adopt the perspective of mathematical research, much of what we write applies equally to other aspects of mathematics. This includes work in the broader mathematical sciences, education, mentoring, publishing, funding, science policy, and use of mathematics in the wider world. "
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
AI industry in 1 comment : "The thought behind it was great, but the execution was proving difficult"
From https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/starbucks-quietly-retired-its-ai-agent-just-months-after-deployment-after-it-miscounted-coffee-shop-inventories-and-slowed-down-baristas-192259953.html as an "anecdote" of a deployment of a Nasdaq-100 company present in 87 country.
No big deal.
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
SpaceX and the ‘enshittification’ of markets https://www.ft.com/content/f724d500-fd45-4f38-86b8-549b5cae88ba?syn-25a6b1a6=1 "The IPO of Elon Musk’s company is a big risk for the millions of investors who have put savings into passive investing"
By the very lefist FT. ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
The idea : people looking at me giving XR demo don't have to ponder what it is others are looking at inside the headset, they see on my back.
It's v0.1, after reviewing it the in-VR perspective needs to be way WAY bigger.
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
It just does not add up.
Those AI companies are supposedly full of 1000x engineers thanks to their powerful tool. The brightest researchers with supposedly STOA security models. Yet they f*ck just like everybody else, not replying to disclosure. Why?
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
Journée internationale de la femme en mathématiques. A creuser avec
"Matheuses - Les filles, avenir des mathématiques"
https://www.cnrseditions.fr/catalogue/mathematiques/matheuses/
@cnrs@social.numerique.gouv.fr editions.
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
"we urge Anthropic and other LLM developers that train models using huge datasets downloaded from the Internet to provide these LLMs to their users in freedom." 👌
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
for the next #WebXR workshop, using my new PinePower (Pine64) for fast charging 5 headsets at once 🔌⚡️ (165W)
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
Everybody becoming super genius using AI to be 100x anything while I, like a caveman, learns how ffmpeg works https://fabien.benetou.fr/Tools/Ffmpeg and writes it down in my notes. Today discovering how to use map to exclude a specific stream.
Then I manually update my own script to use it. So old school.👴
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
Looking for Foucault's Discipline and Punish (1975) adapted, maybe as comics, boardgame or video game, to very young kids, e.g. 7yo. Any recommendation?
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
"Within 10 minutes, it had generated a fully functional site for less than 5 yuan (70 cents)."
Crazy right? When you read this you can't help but ponder how "advanced" that whole tech stack is.
Well... except one could do that for free in like 1999 with Geocities. 🤷♂️
https://apnews.com/article/china-ai-us-tech-openclaw-0126a120113a92fa450ecb2e464b35bc
I really get triggered when a Web site is used as an example.
A welcome page is a Web site. A "in construction" page is a Web site. Google also is a Web site. Some of the UI on a space ship it's a Web site (see Dragon).
It doesn't mean anything to help assess complexity of the task.
A kid learning HTML can do a fully functional Web site whereas the (theoretical) 10x software engineer can't make alone the most complex Web site because it takes entire teams to do it.
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
So true it hurts "Having to manually register new domains was something that was really holding back my ability to commit fraud."
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031684
Again it's not about the 'potential' of the technology, it's how it's ACTUALLY being used. Today. Against us.
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
A romantic view : "power no longer lies solely in invention, but in controlling the channels of passage."🤔
It NEVER did. That's the founding myth of the Silicon Valley where innovation trumps control.
Sadly it has ALWAYS been about capturing resources, funding projects consolidating that process.🔐
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260503-apple-the-digital-strait-of-hormuz/
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
Communicating from the browser to the operating system using URLs and their hash properties.
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
RE: @utopiah@mastodon.pirateparty.be
the process of relying on technology boring to venture capitalists, because they are already "too democratized", could prove a good strategy.
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
"club mindset is the product. It’s not technical, it’s not about the model." Davi Ottenheimer https://www.flyingpenguin.com/the-boy-that-cried-mythos-verification-is-collapsing-trust-in-anthropic/
Or how scaremongering from snake oil salesmen has been AI bread and butter for nearly a decade now. Former OpenAI staff rinse & repeat, how unoriginal for masterminds.
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
RE: @utopiah@mastodon.pirateparty.be
Yeay, we march forward regardless!
Global growth in solar “the largest ever observed for any source” https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/04/global-growth-in-solar-the-largest-ever-observed-for-any-source/
#solarpunk today!🌞
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
There’s a Class 100 semiconductor cleanroom inside this backyard shed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfSO-LCKmrA by Dr.Semiconductor
Prototyping - Former European Parliament Innovation lab WebXR consultant and UNICEF Innovation Fund WebXR technical advisor My website https://fabien.benetou.fr my videos https://video.benetou.fr my code https://git.benetou.fr all self-hosted.
"Big Tech says AI is an important tool to fight climate change, while virtually none of the generative AI driving the boom is actually being used to fight climate change." https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2026/04/10/data-center-greenwashing/
