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Re: Nearby Glasses

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Post by tclancy »

throwway120385 wrote: post #7
roughly wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

50 years ago anti-social behavior included homosexuality.

Also included drinking from the fountain or sitting in seats or eating at a restaurant with people colored differently from you. I wonder what we're going to make "antisocial" in the next 50 years and whether or not we'll be punishing people for things we'll consider benign again in 75 years. The whole "let's surveil everything to stop all antisocial behaviors" might be going too far just like the idea that everyone…

Can you show your math on how an example of the opposite of what the person you are responding to you can also mean the same thing? Feel free to skip if you live in a non-Euclidian geometry, but the OP was saying such a thing would have been likely to get people killed in the past for violating a society's mores.

Re: Nearby Glasses

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Post by burkaman »

p_ing wrote: post #18

The dichotomy between the statement in the repo "False positives are likely " and the app message "Smart Glasses are probably nearby" is interesting.

I don't think those are contradictory. Say each notification has a 90% chance of being true, so it's reasonable to say "probably". After 10+ notifications, each of which was individually probable, it is still very likely that at least one of them was a false positive.

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Post by toomuchtodo »

tantalor wrote: post #4

I'm a bit torn on this because (at least in the sci-fi utopia stories) when a critical mass of people are recording full time then interpersonal crime and anti-social behavior is strongly discouraged. It's like an honor-based culture at scale.

https://www.wired.com/2013/12/glasshole/

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Glasshole

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

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Post by thomassmith65 »

tantalor wrote: post #4

I'm a bit torn on this because (at least in the sci-fi utopia stories) when a critical mass of people are recording full time then interpersonal crime and anti-social behavior is strongly discouraged. It's like an honor-based culture at scale.

It will be a delight for anyone who ever wished there existed footage of every time they vomited in public or face-planted after tripping on a cobblestone.

Re: Nearby Glasses

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Post by fusslo »

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/meta-trial-mark-zuckerberg-ai-g...

> Judge Carolyn Kuhl, who is presiding over the trial, ordered anyone in the courtroom wearing AI glasses to immediately remove them, noting that any use of facial recognition technology to identify the jurors was banned.

I am not a believer in Zuckerberg's idea of humanity's future.

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Post by AlecSchueler »

tantalor wrote: post #4

I'm a bit torn on this because (at least in the sci-fi utopia stories) when a critical mass of people are recording full time then interpersonal crime and anti-social behavior is strongly discouraged. It's like an honor-based culture at scale.

Would you consider East Germany a sort of social Utopia?

Re: Nearby Glasses

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Post by dec0dedab0de »

This is really neat, I gotta find an android device to try it. Reminds me of the good old days of wardriving with kismet and netstumbler.

I am surprised there isn't an existing BT/BTLE fingerprint table that takes more into account than just what is provided. I would assume each device, or atleast each chipset has subtle quirks that could be used to weed out some of the false positives.

the link in the readme for the identifiers doesn't work because it's relative to the repo, so it is below. I like that they did this, it's so much better than the OUI table for mac addresses, because some companies (cough cisco) keep getting new ones.

https://bitbucket.org/bluetooth-SIG/public/src/main/assigned...

Re: Nearby Glasses

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Post by [deleted] »

tantalor wrote: post #4

I'm a bit torn on this because (at least in the sci-fi utopia stories) when a critical mass of people are recording full time then interpersonal crime and anti-social behavior is strongly discouraged. It's like an honor-based culture at scale.

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Re: Nearby Glasses

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Post by paul7986 »

Bought my first pair of Meta glasses in Oct 2023 and overall I really enjoying using smart glasses! They are great for quickly/easily capturing life experiences. Also, while traveling or wherever asking and getting information on things your looking at - it's cool & useful. Tho Meta makes trash as my 1st pair died after 14 months of use after a software update and then my 2nd pair only lasted 4 months after some water splashes. I called Ray Ban for tech support and the lady on the phone agreed they are trash per how many calls she gets.

I don't care to take pics of strangers tho lots of people who havent adopted them are concerned about such.

Overall no more Meta glasses for me Im waiting for Apple's. They have tons of stores to get your glasses fixed and they don't manufacture trash that breaks! Also, maybe Apple will add a privacy feature so your pics and vids anonymize faces not in your personal network.

Re: Nearby Glasses

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Post by luxuryballs »

tamimio wrote: post #13

Need an iOS. But I think very soon the whole detection won’t be enough, because most people will have glasses, phones, CCTV, etc., I think the best is protecting yourself, so a cloak mask or similar, where for humans it’s barely visible but for machines it blocks you from being scanned or recorded.

an invisibility cloak! crazy times, maybe we can make anti-smart-glasses glasses that detect smart glasses and have an invisible beam that can target and blind the cameras
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