It should be within your rights to apply violence if someone records you with Meta glasses or with this pendant without your consent.
Ah yes, the world needs more violence! Just punch anyone you disagree with!
Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant
41–50 of 53 posts
Re: Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Limitless used to be Rewind that maintained one of the most useful pieces of software on my Mac, and I use a cracked version now because I refuse to give it up. There is nothing else like it yet. I seem to recall some other thing that aims to be similar, but that might be cross-platform or otherwise Linux-ish which discounted it as a practical alternative. (I don't remember its name unfortunately)
What is so good about limitless over the others?
I said Rewind, as that's what the company and product was called at that point before they rebranded to Limitless (and completely abandoned Rewind). The product called Limitless had no relation to Rewind and no plans to integrate Rewind's functionality. Rewind's website continued to exist and continued to accept payments, which is how I found and purchased the app, but there were no updates.
- Rewind uses Apple's on-device OCR (Live Text). That alone sets it apart from every other screen recorder, I've never seen another - you can search by any text that has ever been captured on-screen. I do not trust any OCR other than Live Text.
- The on-disk format is fairly compact. Over 7 months of recording is still under 250 GB on my machine.
- It records the URL in Safari so you can return to any web page you have ever visited without having to rely on OCR of the address bar, which isn't even displayed anymore most of the time.
I haven't used most of its other features.
Unfortunately, it's been breaking recently as macOS updates. For instance, notification banners no longer show up in the recordings. This actually removes a huge part of the utility for me, as I used to be able to use Rewind to catch notifications I didn't see in time, but that is no longer possible. So now when I see a notification slide away in the corner of my vision, I just have to accept that there's nothing I can do to ever see what it was (most notifications do not go to Notification Center on my machine; not sure why).
Also, Rewind crashes so often that I need to have a script in crontab to automatically restart it.
Re: Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant
#43It should be within your rights to apply violence if someone records you with Meta glasses or with this pendant without your consent.
Ah yes, the world needs more violence! Just punch anyone you disagree with!
It is not a disagreement, but rather an act of self-defence in response to an act of violence.
Re: Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant
#44It 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.
It's insane to record people without their consent with devices that are designed for concealed recording. It's not insane to fight back.
Re: Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant
#45Is it just me or does anyone else feel a cold sinister gloom whenever they hear any phrase starting with 'Meta develops...'
Oh an AI pendant, what kind of dystopian thing are they going to use this for.
Or is it just me.
Re: Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant
#46Why anyone would pay money for meta to collect their entire life of data is beyond me. Instagram and Facebook and WhatsApp are already free.
no, verrrrry expensive https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/05/26/big-tech-ext... these "free" products are hugely, mind-bogglingly, yet invisibly expensive
Exactly, They are “expensive” because they are harvesting every single piece of data about you that they can possible collect
Most people know something like that is happening but they have no idea the vast knowledge graph of information that is available for sale about them.
And these days that data isn’t just being used for advertising.
Re: Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant
#47Earlier 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.
Scaling a product from 0 to 450 MM is a humongous achievement. Going from 450 to 3300 seems rather small in terms of technical achievement. If you can serve 450 you can serve 3300 MM frankly.
Complete nonsense, as anyone who has worked on a service with scale would know. WhatsApp is not even close to the same architecture as it was at the time of acquisition.
Not to mention the load constraints did not grow 7x, it's orders of magnitude more load increase than that.
As the world's mobile data speeds have skyrocketed in speeds and plummeted in price, WhatsApp is now handling orders of magnitude more data per user than when they served merely 450. And it's all complicated rich media which was not handled at the time.
WhatsApp's file limit at the time of acquisition was 16 MB. Today, it's 2 GB. Per file. It didn't have voice or video calling at acquisition either, also highly complex and expensive to run.
WhatsApp grew 7x in user base, but the scale of data and technical complexity grew exponentially more.
If this were so easy, history would not be littered with high profile scaling failures from messaging apps. Most notably Signal, which couldn't handle a 1.5x influx of users from WhatsApp and was down for weeks.
Claiming a 7x scale is technically easy while your data-per-user growth grows probably 50% a year or more is patently ridiculous.
Re: Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
no, verrrrry expensive https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/05/26/big-tech-ext... these "free" products are hugely, mind-bogglingly, yet invisibly expensive
Exactly, They are “expensive” because they are harvesting every single piece of data about you that they can possible collect Most people know something like that is happening but they have no idea the vast knowledge graph of information that is available for sale about them. And these days that data isn’t just being used for advertising.
Read you loud and clear. I enjoyed the crazy adventure that was the early internet. Really truly enjoyed it for over a decade, almost two. It's now gone, FUBAR and loaded with trackers. I usually can't even access an online newspaper anymore without logging in and being tracked. That's where I draw the line. It is nobody's business what I am reading. Got a stack of books to read now, instead. Not to say that legit sites without trackers don't exist anymore, but finding one of those randomly, for example as a result of search, is getting harder every day. Of course, the risk is real is that as the quality of journalism has diminished, thanks to trackers and putting the most popular dating advice and recipes on online newspapers' front pages in lieu of the reports of what's really happening in the world, we'll all soon be living in bubbles of filtered, sanatized information. So, it's not just privacy threats anymore.
Re: Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exactly, They are “expensive” because they are harvesting every single piece of data about you that they can possible collect Most people know something like that is happening but they have no idea the vast knowledge graph of information that is available for sale about them. And these days that data isn’t just being used for advertising.
Read you loud and clear. I enjoyed the crazy adventure that was the early internet. Really truly enjoyed it for over a decade, almost two. It's now gone, FUBAR and loaded with trackers. I usually can't even access an online newspaper anymore without logging in and being tracked. That's where I draw the line. It is nobody's business what I am reading. Got a stack of books to read now, instead. Not to say that legit si…
Amen. Completely agree.
Getting harder and harder to fight the good fight these days.
Re: Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is so good about limitless over the others?
I said Rewind, as that's what the company and product was called at that point before they rebranded to Limitless (and completely abandoned Rewind). The product called Limitless had no relation to Rewind and no plans to integrate Rewind's functionality. Rewind's website continued to exist and continued to accept payments, which is how I found and purchased the app, but there were no updates. - Rewind uses Apple's on-…
Thanks for the answer. Have you tried building your own solution? Seems like some others have [0], would be interesting to hear what you think of them.
I'm similarly thinking of making a fully local granola competitor just for personal use as I also like having everything on my own machine too.
[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1qnr2f3/os_opensou...