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[–] actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 91 points 2 weeks ago (43 children)
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[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 39 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Can we just recycle “glasshole”?

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 weeks ago

Why not both?

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 20 points 2 weeks ago

Thank fucking god.

Wearing those should allow anybody to punch your face without law-based repercussions

[–] 20cello@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

As they should be, fucking perverts

[–] Zier@fedia.io 17 points 2 weeks ago

Meta. The largest portal for all your stalking needs.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

(Although TBH, I would really love to have a wearable computer that was fully open source and local. Unfortunately, big tech going full Orwell has ruined the idea permanently.)

[–] TIEPilot@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Oh I would love a computer on my face to that isn't part of some BS like meta. How fun would it be to look at an object and ask "what is it" and it can find the answer. On a sidebar giving you real time health updates like heart rate, O2 levels, ect. Oh theres a storm rolling in, good to know I'll roll my cars windows up.

Or my fav, your approaching a flock camera, here is an alternate route.

Plus news/rss/emails all in a AR setting.

But we all know this is probably never going to happen because these scumbags want to monetize/teach their failing AI to make a buck.

[–] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Honestly this is one of the biggest bummers for me. I love new tech that comes out, but every time I see something my first thought isn't "oh boy I wonder how I can use this" it's "ah great I wonder how that's gonna gather data on me"

It sucks, the "user data" market has taken all the whimsy out of tech for me.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

I had high hopes for Google Glass because of the previous work of the GA Tech professor who led it, until it came out. That thing was a regression in both privacy and functionality compared to his self-built wearable computers from the '90s or 2000s.

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[–] orenj@leminal.space 11 points 2 weeks ago

Bullying works, now scale it up for rich people above consequences

[–] hushable@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

At least two major events that happen in my city have announced a full ban on the pervert glasses

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 6 points 2 weeks ago

Oh no how unfortunate.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I've worn split wireframe glasses since I was in middle school. I've never worn thick plastic rimmed glasses. For most of my life, I didn't know this is why, but it is now.

[–] TIEPilot@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Works out for you and no shade I'm happy for you :)

I've worn wires, but I'm a rough guy. They don't hold up for me. I will stress for ME.

I also like the look of heavy frames, military they called them "BC's". Call me old, er old school but its my jam.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Birth Control Glasses. Spectacles so ugly you can't get laid wearing them. +2 perception, -11 charisma.

I've got a scar across the bridge of my nose because of my wireframes. I was working as both an instructor and company mechanic at a small flight school, I needed to take some precision measurement of something on the engine, so I went to the toolbox, got a pair of calipers, and I was setting them up as I was walking to the plane, I ran slam into the trailing edge of the wing at eye level. Knocked my ass to the floor, and as I got up I realized I had blood running down my nose, because the wing had pushed my glasses into my face so hard the wire frame cut me.

Do you know what a static wick is? See, airplanes are prone to gathering static electricity, which will build up around the airplane and cause Saint Elmo's Fire. Which wasn't a problem back in the days of tall ships, it is a problem in the days of modern avionics. So airplanes will often have these antenna or frayed wire-like structures attached to their trailing edges to bleed off static electricity. And judging by the scratch I left on that wing flap, my eye socket missed one by about 5 inches.

[–] TIEPilot@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Jesus, glad you didn't lose an eye! That it, I'm sticking w/ my BC's!

And funny you bring up static wicks, I worked an antenna farm years ago w/ a TV tower. We had salt wells and static wicks all over the place!

[–] Alpha71@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nice to see no one learned anything from Google Glass. This is why we're fucked as a species.

[–] TIEPilot@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I got the first invites and I soul searched and bowed out, I offered my code to a few close friends and they saw what I was talking about and moved on.

Its late and I'm full on run on sentences.

[–] unitedwithme@lemmy.today 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Good. Cuz if I see you recording and I ask you to stop, you get one warning... I won't hesitate to punch you in the face and break those obnoxious glasses on your face if you argue. Hey maybe you'll go viral 😅

[–] kinkles@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 weeks ago

And then everyone on the bus claps

[–] Talentlesssculptor@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

And then you go to jail(in most countries).

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[–] homes@piefed.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I was living in NYC when Google Glass first premiered. Within three or four days, almost every restaurant, every shop, and certainly every bar and club had a sign that said “Google glass forbidden! Anyone wearing Google glass will be banned for life!“

I didn’t see many people wearing them, but when I did, it wouldn’t be long before I saw some random person just punch the fuck out of that person, or grab the headset off of the person’s face and just stomp it, and then just start screaming at the person who was wearing them until they ran away, while everyone nearby cheered them on.

And every time, I felt that they deserved that— because they did.

With all of these secret spyware sunglasses that Meta is pushing out today? I fully expected people being beat to death with baseball bats, or being shot in the face with guns. I’m actually quite glad that people are learning their lessons now before they are just being fucking murdered in the streets. But if that’s what it takes for people to stop wearing these sunglasses, not spy on people in record them without their permission, then so be it.

Listen up, you entitled assholes. You wear these stupid spyglasses in public, and you deserve every shred of bodily harm and violence that you get coming to you. And if it takes every single person who puts them on their face being torn apart in the streets and dying horrific death until a long gets past banning them forever, then please please please make that happen. People need to learn that their personal entitlement will cost them their lives if it steps hard enough on others that the others fight back. And we others? We need to learn how to fight back hard enough to make them stop.

[–] Talentlesssculptor@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

I'll take "things that never happened" for 300, Alex.

[–] finley@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why? I’ve seen someone with smart glasses get punched in the face about it, and I don’t even live in fancy New York.

Lol, things happen to people. Get over it.

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[–] actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Things like this make me miss living in New York.

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