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[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

When do we invent scanner darkly rorschack shit?

[–] minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 hours ago

Metas way to get AI training data is these glasses, palantir is flock cameras, Google is their existing inventory of video from mapping the entire fucking world, Musk has Tesla vehicles, they all have a means to watch the world and feed it to AI. Many have user data from all our devices and our online behaviors that can extrapolate and deduce what reality is.

We're legit fucked if these companies continue to operate in private, secrecy, and zero enforced return of value for he public well-being.

I don't condone violence but,...

Actually, no, I do condone violence against these pricks. Zuck, Bezos, Musk & Co. deserve to be hung by an angry mob.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 15 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Zuckerberg is creepy so this follows. We are talking about a guy who would walk around his startup office with a samurai sword pretending to chop his employees with it. And a guy who deliberately got Julius Caesar’s haircut. And a guy whose original version of Facebook was a platform on which college students could rate the attractiveness of female college students.

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

The Social Network gives great insight into just how terrible and awkward he really is. Plus Jesse Eisenberg knocks it out of the park.

[–] xenomor@lemmy.world 38 points 6 hours ago

It’s wild to me that Ray Ban chose to immolate their brand like this.

[–] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 30 points 6 hours ago

Zuckerfuck is absolute cancer, but the even sadder part is how many losers buy this shit. Shame.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 23 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

We had to ban these at my workplace.

They were already prohibited due to our existing mobile policies, but we had to especially ban them whenever someone brought them in.

[–] WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Did you already know they were creepy, or did they out themselves?

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 1 points 4 hours ago

I imagine Andrew brought them on day 1

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 15 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Zusk will later introduce an "off" feature for 10 bucks a month.

(it will still record everything surreptitiously)

[–] BioMan@awful.systems 5 points 5 hours ago

10 bucks each time you turn it off

[–] LostWanderer@fedia.io 8 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Ugh, this company is totally fucking creepy! If only there were a way to disrupt these glasses using readily available electronics...

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

I just bought new glasses and got an IR-blocking lens coating that's supposed to thwart facial recognition from things like these and Flock cameras and whatnot. It's not active disruption via electronics, but it is a countermeasure...

[–] LostWanderer@fedia.io 1 points 1 hour ago

Countermeasures are good, despite them not being active...It's important to disrupt these terrible techs whenever possible!

[–] WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 8 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

There's an Android app that will constantly scan for their Bluetooth signature in the background and alert you.

I have this app. I work with a douche who wears these (despite then being banned), and this app didn't pick them up.

[–] Penguincoder@beehaw.org 3 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

That must be a huge battery killer.

[–] WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 4 points 4 hours ago

I have it installed on mine & haven't noticed any difference.

[–] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 2 points 4 hours ago

Nah, if you have Bluetooth on your phone is already doing it.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

No fucking way they have enough battery built into that frame.

[–] TIEPilot@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

Its audio recording and takes pictures at a certain interval.

[–] WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Would it be that hard to run a hidden wire to a battery bank? Especially with longer hair?