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[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago
[–] hark@lemmy.world 86 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I thought smart glasses could be kind of neat, but no way in hell would I get a pair from Meta.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 67 points 3 days ago (2 children)

A set of FOSS smart glasses powered entirely by local hardware and software that you own and control? That would be kind of neat.

Anything connected to and under the control of a big corporation, though ... miss me with that shit.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 61 points 2 days ago (13 children)

Call me conservative but I think that would still suck. A society where everyone has a camera on their nose pointing at you sounds absolutely dreadful.

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[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Check out Brilliant Labs.

https://brilliant.xyz/

[–] darkevilmac@lemmy.zip 16 points 3 days ago

Just gotta wait for people to write custom firmware for these things, it's cool hardware but yeah I'm not going to run a Facebook OS on my own hardware

[–] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I won't even use my 3d headset that they bought from oculus. it just sits there.

[–] LeTak@feddit.org 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We literally have no idea when that's coming out.....

[–] MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

~~I wish I can look back at my entire day and see what I did. (It will mostly just be computer, kitchen and bathroom only, but still a cool idea)~~

I changed my mind

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I usually use my memory when I want to look back on my entire day and know what I did.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Right? Such a great invention. Quality is not always great but huge storage capacity and amazing privacy protections. And its free!

[–] MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

When I look at my game recordings, I can see my mistakes/places to improve.

If I see the steam overlay saying 150 minutes game time, its like "eh. Its long, but I had fun". But if I see an over 2 hour clip of me not leaving my chair, that will make a bigger impact, reminding me how little I do every day

[–] Quazatron@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Or you can just use your common sense and save yourself the cost of this ugly piece of junk.

People tend to avoid you less if you don't look like a sneaky perv, so that's another bonus.

Plus, you'll not be funding Meta and you'll have one less piece of rubbish in a drawer somewhere that needs recycling after one month of use.

[–] MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm NEVER buying a Meta product. I'm just saying camera glasses is a cool idea. Shame that its tied being a terrible company.

And if you noticed, I only mentioned using it in my own home. Never out in public.

[–] Quazatron@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Enhance your calm, I agree with you.

It's one of those things that sounds great in sci-fi, like flying cars, until you realise that the world is full of awful people that immediately repurpose any new tech for filthy lucre / inflicting suffering / power grabbing.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entire_History_of_You

You'll maybe reevaluate that position after watching this episode of Black Mirror.

Endlessly torturing yourself over minute details throughout each day doesn't sound fun or healthy to me.

[–] MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well... Fuck

I'm glad I have the day off tomorrow cause now I need to process some stuff...

I've heard good things about the show, but that was my first episode I watched. Are they all this good?

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 1 points 2 days ago

For the first few seasons, yeah!

When Netflix bought the rights there was a shift to Americanisation of everything and it started to go downhill but there's still some decent episodes from that period as well. But the best episodes are the oldest ones.

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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 57 points 3 days ago (2 children)

How about we ban hidden cameras in public?

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That would hit undercover and investigating journalism hard

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 days ago

True, damnit.

[–] Melusine@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 8 points 3 days ago

Careful with this. Some French journalists (Cash Investigation) got some nice sequences by using hidden cameras, and I guess from the ads that the camera is not hidden, just tiny... I hate tese glasses with guts as they showed in one ad how people can hate it and thought let's fucking send it

[–] Antaeus@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This can’t possibly be a surprise to people?

[–] Trilogy3452@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I think some don't think of the ramifications. Some willingly let Google follow them around and save their location

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Colour ME shocked

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago

I bought a pair exclusively for masturbation as the thought of those facebook employees having to watch is so hot.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

Who watches the watchers?

Meta apparently

contracted workers at a Kenya-based company called Sama. These workers are data annotators who are tasked with reviewing footage captured from the camera on the glasses and labeling it to help AI systems get better at identifying what they see

Sama is the same company that classified outputs and training material for openai.

[–] THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Hey they're not sposedta do that

[–] GuyIncognito@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

An ant doesn't care that you're watching it until you try to step on it. Why do you think that these bug people would care until it's too late?

[–] LincolnsDogFido@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

What's with the weird comma placement in the, title?

I know its not you, OP

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You mean the “, too”? That’s how it’s supposed to be written. People often don’t do it that way, but that’s how it’s correctly used, and few have accused us anglophones, as a whole, of really understanding how to use our own damn language. It’s the same with “, but”, also, and “, also”, also.

[–] LincolnsDogFido@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm also an anglophone, but this seems not quite right to me. There's no real need to insert a comma in that sentence, as there's no real need to pause for clarity or pacing.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

It’s not about need exactly, it’s about a writing convention. Also, we do have these pauses in our speech/that’s where we would insert those pauses naturally, they’re just often very subtle.

A lot of language, no matter what you speak, has a lot of these subtleties that are so engrained as to be almost unnoticeable. I’m at a pretty high intermediate level French and, because of the closeness with English, I’m actually learning quite a lot about why English is the way it is, too.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

they don't care, and that's the point.

[–] ravelin@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

sensitive and personal footage captured by the devices—including people going to the bathroom, getting dressed, and having sex—is being reviewed

I wanna know... Or maybe I don't... Who is it that sees someone wear these glasses and decides that they wanna f--- them WITH THE GLASSES ON.

Don't get me wrong, I wear (normal) glasses and I like the way I look, but how can THESE glasses be anything but a major turn off?

The ☝️🤓 stays on during sex!

[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 1 points 2 days ago

“Nah it’s fine, big companies would never do such a thing. Besides they’re beholden to the governments.”

Right.

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