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In Neuromancer(1984) it's called Simstim. I think Strange Days got it from there.

Fragments of a Hologram Rose (1977) also by Gibson already had this.

Does anybody know even earlier instances?


cyberpunk on Netflix did it most recently


Yes it’s called “brain dance” in the Cyberpunk 2077 lore which that show is based on.


Please keep writing. I'm hooked!


made me read to the end. brilliant!


Made me stop after searching for her name and not finding it in the rest of the article.


must be a joke since this link gets eaten by privacy badger. Full of trackers.

edit: originally referred to blog.mozilla.com


Privacy Badger gave me one hit, netdna-ssl, at the "Blocked Cookies" level. No hits on uBlock or the new enhanced tracking protection thing. What trackers are you seeing?


Oh, I meant the OPs Link to the Blog Post. I suspect the 5 trackers of post are from the youtube embed. Anyways, my point still stands.


Yep, both google-analytics and doubleclick on blog.mozilla.com


this is actually systemd-paymentsd

[0] man systemd-paymentsd


"You can also now do crazy stuff like having multiple mice with multiple cursors, and linking keyboards, mice, drawing tablets, and touchscreens to each other arbitrarily. You can now have your dvorak keyboard for normal use and a second qwerty keyboard for when your coworker comes over for a pair programming session. You can even give your coworker the ability to focus and type into separate windows from what you’re working on."

has this been done ever before ?


I'm certain multiple mice is (or at least, was) supported on Windows, i remember some of Reflexive Entertainment's games from around mid-2000s having what they called "Mouse Party" which was basically a local multiplayer mode with multiple mice connected to the same PC (their games were casual indie games with simple control schemes that often supported something like that).

In theory multiple mice and keyboards are possible on X too since late 80s/90s, at least assuming the XInput extension is available on the server since the core events do not provide any way to differentiate between devices. But like everything with X, the feature might be there, but it is up to the clients to actually use it and use it properly (which isn't always the case and a lot of "X cannot do <thing>" you hear really means "due to the way we use X, we cannot do <thing>"). And even if the feature is there, if it is a niche case, it may be so buggy that it isn't practically usable (of course this applies to almost every open source project that is older than a couple of years, especially those that are big and have a small number of contributors).

An example of this would be multiple focused windows (one per keyboard) - despite XInput allowing for such a thing, i doubt many window managers and toolkits would be able to handle it (and to be frank, neither does my own toolkit and most likely will never have support for it - it is so niche of a feature, it isn't worth the time and increase in complexity and potential future maintenance).

No idea about macOS.


Yes, Peter Hutterer (who now works on Xorg and libinput) developed Multi-Pointer X. Link below:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-Pointer_X


Multiple mice was supported by the Amiga. IIRC the Amiga version of Lemmings utilized it for two-player mode.


"You can now have your dvorak keyboard for normal use and a second qwerty keyboard for when your coworker comes over for a pair programming session"

Well over a decade ago, I had multiple keyboards with different layouts hooked up to my linux laptop, and could use both of them at the same time with no problem.

I'm not sure why this is supposed to be so novel.


We had to start everything over again from scratch on Wayland. It's not novel for Linux desktops in general, but it is novel for Wayland.


> You can even give your coworker the ability to focus and type into separate windows from what you’re working on.


this plagues my sleep. yes, spreadsheets! I always wonder: what's so special about spreadsheets?


Mainly that a spreadsheet program is available on most laptop/PCs. And most people have been taught how to use an 'office' package at some point. And the UI is sort of built in and familiar.

Perhaps you will be able to sleep easier when the Raspberry Pi' generation come of age? I recollect that small business people built applications with Hypercard a few decades ago.

https://www.wired.com/2002/08/hypercard-forgotten-but-not-go...


Spreadsheets are the best! They are literally THE killer app for PCs.


They do allow people to walk up and start building models with minimal introduction. Low floor, and, alas, as many know here to their cost, a high ceiling in the sense that spreadsheets often get used for more advanced modelling that would benefit from being constructed in a more maintainable way.


the reader view in FF does a good job with those sites (still loads stuff though)


"How to limit the amount of data Facebook and advertisers are collecting about you"

on wsj.com privacy badger and ublock origin go apeshit..


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