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Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign

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Re: Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign

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Post by wolvoleo »

Barbing wrote: post #84
wolvoleo wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I kinda have that though. I use a home assistant voice preview speaker, connected to a locally hosted whisper instance backed by Qwen 3.6. All local and fairly energy-reasonable :) Just saying it's not impossible to have your cake and eat it.

Under a hundred bucks?! Ooooh! https://www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/

Yes however the server for all that did not cost a hundred bucks. A lot more than that :P Of course it's not the only thing I use it for either, and I view it as an investment in learning too. And it wasn't terribly expensive either. Two GPUs of 500 euro in total and 100 worth of components, the rest was all surplus stuff I had from upgrading my gaming PC. Then some dockers for things like whisper (and home assistant's "wyoming" wrapper around it) and ollama etc.

The only issue right now is that home control is relatively slow because home assistant plonks way too much context into the pipeline. It would work much better with an elective tool model like MCP but they don't have this yet.

PS: You could also choose the new Pine64 voice thing, It's looking pretty decent. It wasn't out yet when I bought mine.

Re: Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign

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Post by ChiperSoft »

wolvoleo wrote: post #5

Wow really well done with the lenticular effect. I immediately recognised the reference to They Live too. That must have cost a lot. To get posters like that made.

Back when I worked in cinema we would occasionally get lenticular movie posters. The cost varies by how many they print as a batch, but you're looking at about $10-20 a piece.

Re: Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign

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Post by paul7986 »

elmomle wrote: post #87
paul7986 wrote: post #74

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Have you ever took a photo or video while your in a crowd and other people you don't know appearred in either? Did you care about them and look for them to ask if it was ok that they were in the background of the media you took? Pardon but I don't understand your question cause if you think of it all humans have done the above since the day cameras or video cameras existed. Further, im pretty sure smart glasses to AI…

There is a world of difference between (1) a random individual collecting a few people's faces and voices and (2) a huge corporation nonconsensually collecting that information at a mass scale (and with location!) in an age when identity resolution is automated.

yeah like said Meta is probably not going to win this race but Apple could as it's privaccy focused and they could have as noted..blur out or anonymizes faces that aren't in your network. Apple already labels and tries to name faces it sees often in your photos and has done for years.

Re: Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign

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Post by arjie »

aloer wrote: post #83
arjie wrote: post #26

I wonder if these things will meet the same fate as bluetooth headsets. Once upon a time decried as the preserve of "Bluetooth Douches" who worse the Jabra while taking their banking phone calls, now they're everywhere. Everyone's got Airpods in. One day perhaps Meta Glasses will be the same. I really like them. They're a spectacular (haha) addition to a sightseeing trip. At the aquarium you can ask them what you're…

> I really like them Do you expect your opinion to change as your daughter grows up and makes her own experiences with being filmed all the time? I feel reminded of those always on AI cameras from a few years ago (google?) that were advertised to young parents because that’s like the one singular moment where it’s pretty uncontroversial to do this. Kids are cute and full of energy, hands full, don’t want to miss a mo…

That's a valid point. I think that kids should be able to live with experimentation possible without consequences. In practice, most teens have smartphones now and are indiscriminate in recording them. If anything changes here it will have to be the practice of recording people has to fade because it's impossible to be certain you've not got a smartphone across the room videotaping you. And in public there's no proscription on other people using their smartphones to video you as well.

I doubt I'd even notice if someone was leaning back and video recording me from their seat as I walk down the street. It would just look like a lounging person reading social media.

But yeah, I probably would prefer to have her have access to at least some private spaces without any recording so she can rest easy, but in public that's a societal shift and the smart goggles add very little. It's just inherent in computers that their processes to see also store high-fidelity. Presumably with sufficiently advanced video generation all acts will be deniable or some other such thing will occur.

Re: Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign

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Post by arjie »

niwtsol wrote: post #35
arjie wrote: post #26

I wonder if these things will meet the same fate as bluetooth headsets. Once upon a time decried as the preserve of "Bluetooth Douches" who worse the Jabra while taking their banking phone calls, now they're everywhere. Everyone's got Airpods in. One day perhaps Meta Glasses will be the same. I really like them. They're a spectacular (haha) addition to a sightseeing trip. At the aquarium you can ask them what you're…

That is an interesting perspective I hadn't thought about. I see relatives constantly throwing phone cameras in baby's faces "look here, look here" the kids are trained to look at the phone/camera. I think of the experience from your daughter here, just running up to her mom wearing glasses - I hear the mass surveillance concerns, I see the pervert/harassment angle, I saw a friend do the "recording a party" angle, bu…

I'm glad you enjoyed it. We ended up not using the glasses very much eventually but I'm glad we got some happy moments.

Re: Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign

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Post by wolvoleo »

spaqin wrote: post #89
all2 wrote: post #43

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I would take a camera with AR integration. I'm imagining some mashup of scrap book note keeping in digital space and technical work like car repairs or utility work. Imagine seeing where the studs are in the walls, or finding a now you left yourself in the engine bay of your car...

Certainly I'd like to have my expensive, fragile tech glasses while fixing a car, with all the potential debris about to fling.

Well the hololens did come with an optional shield/hardhat cover just for that kind of scenario. It's not unprecedented.

Re: Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign

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Post by wolvoleo »

ElProlactin wrote: post #85
Barbing wrote: post #47

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There are all kinds of products that we need to reject not because the fundamentals aren't awesome for some proportion of people, but because the implementation is as obviously corrupt as the business owners pushing it. The dumb speaker that OpenAI is hoping you stick in your home to spy on you is not some preposterously worthless piece of crap from beginning to end without exception. It's just a creepy mess that's n…

> ...but because the implementation is as obviously corrupt as the business owners pushing it. Because the business owners figured out that they could get you to pay for things that turn you into an even more valuable product. The cat is out of the bag and there is no reason to believe there will ever be a reversal of this. Not enough people care, and there isn't enough demand for "clean" products to displace the big…

Well my family doesn't live in the same country and most of my friends I don't see every day yet I communicate with them daily. Same with the communities I'm in, they're really active online.

And all my stuff is connected yes but not through big tech cloud. It is pretty easy to avoid all that. I use home assistant and I buy stuff specifically because it supports local connectivity. The biggest issue is whatsapp for now.

Re: Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign

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Post by g-b-r »

garciansmith wrote: post #19
smokedetector1 wrote: post #10

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you genuinely dont see a difference between (1) a single or handful of security-angled cameras controlled by a local business for security purposes (2) any individual possibly recording you at eye level at any second without you knowing, and having the ability to use and manipulate that footage and upload it to the internet

Plus: (1) the security camera footage is constantly overwritten. (2) the video from the glasses is being uploaded to Meta .

Ok, let's not assume (1), plenty of cameras are connected to law enforcement, upload everything to a random cloud service, are trivially accessible by others online, or are made by sketchy Chinese companies.

Re: Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign

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Post by g-b-r »

deejaaymac wrote: post #27

People wearing cameras is going to increase over time, no matter what. Why would it slow down? Don't get me wrong, I'm extremely anti a lot of things, including people wearing cameras all the time, but I see no logical way to stop it without stomping on freedoms. In this case, defense will be your ally, whatever form that may take,eg wearing a mask. If I had to choose between flock cameras and meta glasses existing,…

> without stomping on freedoms

Despite the f. up American idea that people have no expectation of any privacy in public, recording others on behalf of Meta is stomping on freedoms

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