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Only predators buy those glasses.
I've heard those sorts of glasses can be handy if you're visually impaired and, say, clothes shopping. You can ask the glasses "hey, do these items match?"
Still creepy in the wild, but there are some valid use cases.
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- https://youtube.com/shorts/XXzABpSE3TA The glasses give meh guidance for walking, but seem handy for reading a menu at a restaurant
- https://youtube.com/shorts/Vcatcvvkqac she demos shopping for dog treats and recording video when a car almost hits her
Nah. My wife is legally blind without her prosthetics. She's rather stay blind than use these.
What do you mean she is blind without her prosthetics? Isn't she still blind with the prosthetics or do they help with vision somehow?
Glasses to help see are prosthetics. People can be legally blind when not wearing their corrective lenses.
I'm one of those people. Close to being legally blind if I have no glasses or contacts on. My dad is legally blind without corrective lenses.
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Sorry - she has keratoconus. Her prosthetics are essentially large, hard contact lenses, filled with saline solution, effectively reshaping her corneas. Also called sclerals.
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If they could make these glasses more privacy invading by making them useless for the visually impaired, they would.
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I support smart glasses. Not from meta or Google or whatever the fuck.
The more cameras we point at cops and people in power, the better.
The moment an open-source privacy focused set of frames exist, I'm buying it.
It should have to light up when recording. Like, at a hardware level.
Surveillance at critical points like arrests seems important in order to have basic accountability. Surveillance all the time if you know it or not is more of a slippery slope.
Have a light that beams out from beside the sensor through the same lense, no way to cover it without blocking the camera
Have a visible dot shutter that closes when it's not recording,
Require you to touch the temple on the frame the whole time it's recording.
There are ways
Now I envision cops just straight up jacking people's Rx glasses under suspicion of being recorded, like they do with phones already.
I agree with your premise, but only if it's stored locally and not sent to a corporation, who is likely going to share videos that help to convict other people of crimes but not allow access to video that shows cops doing something wrong.
But also, there should be a legal requirement to have a light visible when recording. If you're found violating this, it should at least be a sizable criminal offense.
Or people with a bad memory for faces and names, who find one of the most harrowing social situations to be when someone walks up to them and says "hey, how you doing?" With no recollection of who this person is or how they know you.
You described me, and I still find those glasses creepy. It’s so much cheaper, easier, and less ethically fraught to just say “oh hey man how are you doing!” and fake it for a minute. Or tell them you’re having a brain fart and keep wanting to call them [random name] even though you KNOW that’s not it. Or, god forbid, just be upfront with people and tell them you’re face blind AF and struggle with placing faces to people outside context.
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So one should just sacrifice everyone elses safety and privacy because you're bad a recognizing faces? I get that it can be helpful, but you are literally uploading strangers faces and likeness to Meta's servers without their consent. It's creepy and predatory.
No, again, this is not what I was addressing. I responded to a comment saying these would only be of interest to "predators". You yourself say that you get how they can be helpful, that's all I was saying too. All the rest of this is arguments that are being imagined.
Oh yeah, that's a good reason to aid the expansion of global surveillance. Let's all be complicit with the police state because we can't acknowledge our social anxieties with a bit of honesty.
Not what I was addressing. I was addressing a comment that said "only predators buy those glasses" by pointing out an obvious alternative motivation.
that kind of motivation is a bit like "its winter and I'm very cold, lets set the city to fire". I guess it won't be cold anymore for you! It's not for wanting to harm other people, it's just an obvious alternative motivation.
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I don't think violating peoples' privacy and paying big tech to extend their mass surveillance network so you can avoid looking awkward to them for a second carries the weight you seem to think it does
What "weight"? I think you're imagining an argument I'm not actually making.
As someone like that, the key is to be affable, apologize, and ask how you know each other. It's not a big deal, most people aren't offended
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that's a perfect argument for trying to justify total and complete invasion of privacy on the streets
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why do you know the android, zuckerborg is one of epsteins clientele.
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How do you even protect yourself and your kids from this? Maybe I can mask up, but I can't expect my partner or her kids to do the same.
Apparently quite a few people are developing ways to defect facial recognition https://www.stratecta.exchange/fashion-that-can-beat-facial-recognition-systems/
I was pleasantly surprised to find out Zenni now offers a near infrared blocking coating for their glasses.
are the prices from Capable a joke? who thefuck pays $6-700 for a pair of joggers or sweater. privacy wear should be affordable, not a luxury. it’s the wealthy class that’s making this a problem in the first place
Has Zenni gotten rid of the polarized lenses? I checked a few sunglasses and couldn't configure them with polarized lenses....
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Youre telling me Meta didnt have this from the start?
Premature release has been the norm for decades. Evil corps apply the same software development methodologies.
And yet, people keep using Meta stuff...
The networking effect in action.
If you've got a dedicated group of friends on a platform and you can't figure out how to move them all at once, you're unlikely to socially isolate yourself just because they ratchet up the enshittification another rung.
Yeah.
At the same time, I think people don’t really understand how toxic Facebook is. It’s a physical health hazard for one relative of mine, a mental one for some others. I’m not exaggerating when I say it would be better for their health if they drank and smoked cigarettes.
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This is going to be so illegal in EU
silently
I can't get facebook off my phone. I can put the app to sleep but it's always going to be there. It's such an invasion of privacy but I don't know how to deal with it.
Some manufacturers mark bundled crap as essential system apps you need root to get rid of, but usually you can disable them which effectively uninstalls it in every other way except it will still take storage space. I wonder if your ROM just used the word "sleep" for that functionality?
adb commands
Get a different phone
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