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[–] 97 points 3 months ago
[–] 40 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Can we just recycle “glasshole”?

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  • [–] 23 points 3 months ago

    Thank fucking god.

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

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago

    Meta. The largest portal for all your stalking needs.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago

    As they should be, fucking perverts

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago* (10 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.)

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  • [+] [S] 5 points 3 months ago (8 children)
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    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months 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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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (5 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.

    Tbh, I don't see how this is significantly better than a smartphone or smartwatch, besides the gimmick factor of having a HUD

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (4 children)

    That's only for the gimmick factor of having an HUD, but now that i think about it, it could be useful for people with some problems that need constant monitoring or smth, like they get a pop up "the sugar in your blood is too low, remember to eat a candy" or smth

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

    like they get a pop up "the sugar in your blood is too low, remember to eat a candy" or smth

    A notification on a smartwatch with sound could easily do this tbh

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    Yeah but they aren't very good usually, they also don't allow you to use an analogic watch which is way better for some people, even just for the aesthetic, and you can easly not notice it and the sound is not viable in some scenarios

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    [–] 12 points 3 months ago

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

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

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

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    Oh no how unfortunate.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

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

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    [–] 5 points 3 months ago (3 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.

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  • [+] [S] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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 😅

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

    Now do cell phones.

    Honestly the hot mic you carry in your pocket that can be used as a wire to record every conversation is more invasive

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    That's kind of a different matter, those stupid glasses aren't as widespread as phones, while we can prevent glassholes becoming the norm, we can't prevent people from using their phones, it's more effective to ask politicians to make regulations or bring companies in court than smash every phone

    You must think of the most effective strategy not the most obvious or the one that seems the fastest

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Pretty funny that the big privacy promoters downvote these comments all the time.

    It's perfectly okay to spy on them, apparently, as long as you do it in a way they don't deem "unfashionable".

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  • [+] -8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    I have it and 99.9% of the time I'm just listening to music. I only record video or take a photo of things I would have normally taken with a phone like candid photos of my kids out something interesting I want to research later.

    Some of us use the glasses as intended.

    Don't make some it seem like all of us are creepy. The mass majority are not.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    IDGAF, they're creepy because fucking Meta makes them and they have cameras that I garuntee they're scanning 24/7, whether you think so or not. You're a nerd for buying them and you make people uncomfortable just by having them on.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Your ignorance of the root problem does you no favours.

    The world at large does not want to be part of Meta's privacy invading dataset. By wearing them and pointing that camera around, you are forcing that on everyone around you. Meta are using that camera and sucking up data at all times.

    This is before we even get to the problems you allude to being accused of.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    "I would have normally taken with a phone" so you recognise there is something not very normal about glasses with cameras correct? Consoomers will consoom anything they're told to.

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  • [–] -3 points 3 months ago
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