It should be within your rights to apply violence if someone records you with Meta glasses or with this pendant without your consent.
Even in public?
Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant
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Re: Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why was it trivial for FB to scale WhatsApp from 450,000,000 users at acquisition to over 3,300,000,000 now? Seems like an insane achievement to scale a messaging service to half of the world.
Was it just because WhatsApp was already generally well designed when they purchased it?
I think that might be common enough these days through sound horizontal scaling principals and especially services that scale for you, but Whatsapp launched in 2009, pretty much the turning point for the tech that enables "web scale".
At that time AWS was just rolling out ELB and RDS, people were still fulfilling their (and most) roles on EC2 servers or even more likely dedicated servers / VPS that took day(s) to commission and might have even been setup by hand, there was no Docker, GitHub was new and Actions, Jenkins etc were years away, and there were very few PaaS- or IaaS-type offerings IIRC just a very nascent Heroku and Google App Engine.
Re: Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant
#13What products has Meta developed internally after Facebook that have been a success? I am actually asking this question, it seems like they have only had success purchasing already ramping products, plowing cash into them, and cross-integrating them into their product set. Why wouldn't they just continue to lean into that profile and wait for people with actual good ideas solve this.
Threads? They have 400m monthly active users and 100m+ daily active users. Though, its userbase likely does not intersect with your interests. Meta Ray-Ban glasses are also a massive success.
Threads is an internally developed Twitter clone when Twitter launched in 2006 and Threads launched in 2023? I'm not saying they didn't build it, but it was not an original product design; they waited until there was already a market, launched and deployed it to Facebook users. I will give you the Ray-Ban glasses, but even that was a product that is a better version of Google Glass, so still not really a unique product.
Re: Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant
#14What products has Meta developed internally after Facebook that have been a success? I am actually asking this question, it seems like they have only had success purchasing already ramping products, plowing cash into them, and cross-integrating them into their product set. Why wouldn't they just continue to lean into that profile and wait for people with actual good ideas solve this.
Why was it trivial for FB to scale WhatsApp from 450,000,000 users at acquisition to over 3,300,000,000 now? Seems like an insane achievement to scale a messaging service to half of the world.
Scaling a product like that is an incredible engineering achievement, but I am speaking specifically about product development. What other products has Facebook innovated internally, worked through the product-market fit, and scaled itself? Again, my point is that they have a ton of resources and a huge existing user base, but the only successes they seem to have are purchasing companies that are ramping. They deploy engineers and connect to the existing user base, but they aren't innovative in product design.
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#15It should be within your rights to apply violence if someone records you with Meta glasses or with this pendant without your consent.
Even in public?
Yes. The issue with Meta glasses and those pendants are that they are designed for concealment, designed to invade the privacy of other people.
Some might argue that mobile phones can also be used to make secret recordings. However, they are not primarily designed for this and it is a side-effect of being a multifunctional tool. However, whenever anyone uses Meta glasses or their pendants in public, one should assume that they may behave maliciously and take appropriate action against such ppeople. Those people will only learn if we collectively decide that punching and breaking their stupid glasses is the right way to handle this.
Re: Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even in public?
Yes. The issue with Meta glasses and those pendants are that they are designed for concealment, designed to invade the privacy of other people. Some might argue that mobile phones can also be used to make secret recordings. However, they are not primarily designed for this and it is a side-effect of being a multifunctional tool. However, whenever anyone uses Meta glasses or their pendants in public, one should assume…
What kind of worse case scenario is running through your mind to be this upset? Not saying it doesn't exist I just would like to know.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Threads? They have 400m monthly active users and 100m+ daily active users. Though, its userbase likely does not intersect with your interests. Meta Ray-Ban glasses are also a massive success.
Threads is an internally developed Twitter clone when Twitter launched in 2006 and Threads launched in 2023? I'm not saying they didn't build it, but it was not an original product design; they waited until there was already a market, launched and deployed it to Facebook users. I will give you the Ray-Ban glasses, but even that was a product that is a better version of Google Glass, so still not really a unique produ…
Sure, it's not original or unique, but that wasn't your question. Facebook itself wasn't particularly unique when it launched.
Re: Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes. The issue with Meta glasses and those pendants are that they are designed for concealment, designed to invade the privacy of other people. Some might argue that mobile phones can also be used to make secret recordings. However, they are not primarily designed for this and it is a side-effect of being a multifunctional tool. However, whenever anyone uses Meta glasses or their pendants in public, one should assume…
What kind of worse case scenario is running through your mind to be this upset? Not saying it doesn't exist I just would like to know.
You say the wrong thing, wear the wrong thing, look disheveled or whatever and the asshole with the KGB glasses records it. Then MoistCunt (always forget the real name) on Twitch makes a "reaction video" and 35 million of his dumb minions hate you forever if you dare to appear on the Internet.
Re: Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant
#19What products has Meta developed internally after Facebook that have been a success? I am actually asking this question, it seems like they have only had success purchasing already ramping products, plowing cash into them, and cross-integrating them into their product set. Why wouldn't they just continue to lean into that profile and wait for people with actual good ideas solve this.
Why was it trivial for FB to scale WhatsApp from 450,000,000 users at acquisition to over 3,300,000,000 now? Seems like an insane achievement to scale a messaging service to half of the world.
“Scaling” as in “making sure the infrastructure can handle much higher load”, or as in “making sure the product remains genuinely useful to people, so that the user numbers go up and not down”? For both, it didn’t happen by itself, but it’s far from rocket science. A sane team of 15-20 people can do it.
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#20It should be within your rights to apply violence if someone records you with Meta glasses or with this pendant without your consent.
Why? Its not for any other camera and its insane you think it is.