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[-] derry@midwest.social 42 points 2 days ago

Wow who could have foreseen this coming from the guy who built this: "Facemash" was a website designed to evaluate the attractiveness of female Harvard students.

/s

[-] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 40 points 3 days ago

Normalize calling these people glassholes once again.

[-] microfiche@hexbear.net 24 points 3 days ago

Ah I forgot all about glassholes.

[-] supafuzz@hexbear.net 22 points 2 days ago

normalize ripping this shit off of people's faces and crushing it on the pavement

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 36 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's not secret, though. Meta knows what they did and could respond.

[-] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 36 points 3 days ago

At least Google Glass was very obtrusive had a big, obvious light that came on when the camera was active

[-] LaBellaLotta@hexbear.net 29 points 2 days ago

Wow looks like I have ANOTHER reason to immediately dislike and be suspicious of anyone wearing this bullshit

[-] D61@hexbear.net 20 points 2 days ago

The Khmer Rouge regime targeted individuals they considered intellectuals, and wearing glasses became a symbol that often led to execution, as it was associated with education and knowledge. While not an official policy, many people who wore glasses were persecuted during this time

They were fifty years too early. /s

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 days ago

Granted this is rumor transmitted by refugees at the thailand-cambodia border. There is no hard evidence that this happened iirc. Though it is funny for its absurdity.

[-] EveningCicada@hexbear.net 33 points 3 days ago

sadness-abysmal imagine having a casual interaction with a stranger and then getting like 100 stalkers a week later. Very healthy society

[-] TrustedFeline@hexbear.net 24 points 2 days ago

I bet you can detect these things by bluetooth MAC address

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 29 points 2 days ago

I want to imagine a hacker that makes these overlay goatse onto the screens

[-] sexywheat@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago

Wouldn't even need to hack them. Just say OK GOOGLE! goatse dot cx

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago

But I want it at least burnt into the screen, if not their stupid tech creep retinas

[-] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 19 points 2 days ago

It's Google glass all over again.

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 23 points 3 days ago

Every time I imagine some hell these people create there is some vector I wasn’t keen to and it’s sex pest men.

Like I already hated the idea of some tech dork scanning faces for fuck knows what end - not a good one I say that confidently.

This is shit icing on shit cake

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago

Sex pest society

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago

I thought that was aoc

[-] Crucible@hexbear.net 84 points 3 days ago

The secret camera glasses for creeps that everyone said 'men will use this to take creepy secret pictures of people?' is getting used to take secret pictures for creeps? I think this is obviously just misusing this vital technology which we must have, and that's why we're 'inventing' it again even though last time failed because everyone wearing them got punched for secretly recording creepy pictures.

[-] QinShiHuangsShlong@hexbear.net 59 points 3 days ago

The glasses unfortunately do have cool uses for disabled people. There's a lot of research going on at a university near me about implementing LLMs and vision AI into them to provide the likes of real time subtitles for the hearing impaired and realtime environment description for the visually impaired. They absolutely should be regulated into the ground in their current iteration as creep glasses though.

[-] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 39 points 3 days ago

i remember seeing a post on lemmy about a Chinese company that was making translator glasses, like you could look at writing and it would translate it for you like the google translate phone app but quicker and in your glasses, it also did speech if i remember correctly, was very cool

[-] QinShiHuangsShlong@hexbear.net 34 points 3 days ago

It's such a shame that capitalism bastardises such useful technology and turns people against it like LLMs and these glasses.

[-] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 23 points 2 days ago

Someone on here once suggested that the Internet in a communist world would be life affirming, powerful, and useful and it ruined my fucking day

[-] QinShiHuangsShlong@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago

The terrible truth

[-] Ildsaye@hexbear.net 36 points 3 days ago

Another ethical use would be recording cops and ICE on the sly

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 64 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Unlike being a sexpest, I imagine this is actually something Meta would ban the device's users from doing.

[-] sewer_rat_420@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago

I know a local ice watcher that has been using them, so far no ban. Although I wouldn't doubt Meta will work with ice/cops when it comes to prosecution

[-] ClimateStalin@hexbear.net 27 points 2 days ago

Fuck, real life subtitles would be so useful

[-] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 21 points 3 days ago

I wear glasses with basically one of the lightest prescriptions you can possibly get because it started to affect my work, and I gotta say, real time subtitles in my lenses would be fuckin rad

[-] ghosts@hexbear.net 16 points 3 days ago

Are you staring at my chest?

It's subtitles I swear!

[-] SchillMenaker@hexbear.net 18 points 2 days ago

No, I'm looking below them because Mark Zuckerberg told me that they could see subtitties.

[-] Blakey@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago

my subtitles are up here

[-] D61@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Me glancing: strangelove-wow

Glasses subtitles: bouncing

[-] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

This is what really bugs me with technology like this. I have some memory issues where I can't immediately recall details sometimes, so forget things like names. Something like these glasses with a non shitty version of Facebook would be amazing for me.

Imagine walking down the street and seeing someone you know, and a little window pops up with some relevant information that they've chosen to share with you. It could have their name and a few lines of other information, like saying that their birthday is a few days away, or their kid's and partner's names.

Instead we've got the shittiest version possible where they just suck in as much data as possible to sell to other shitty companies 😤

[-] Riffraffintheroom@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I also have memory issues leading to me forgetting names and that sounds like an invasive, inhuman, and awkward way to live.

hello… Carl. Are you excited for your son’s birthday?

How did you know it was my son’s birthday

oh haha my glasses just popped up a bunch of facts about you

oh. Okay. I have to go.

No on cares if you forget their name. But if you start bringing up shit that they posted about on Facebook it’s going to get awkward.

[-] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

Well, yeah, if you talk to someone like they're a stranger it's going to sound awkward. I already know my friend's names and details about their families, because we're friends. I'm not thinking of approaching random people in the street and spouting private details of their lives..

The reason I said that it would have information that they chose to share is for precisely that - they've actively chosen to share that information with you in particular. An actual conversation between friends would be more like

Hey stranger, long time no see (slightly silly intro between friends, assuming the info hasn't loaded yet). How've you been?

Yeah, not bad thanks. Busy with the kids, but all good (hopefully by now everything's loaded)

I can imagine. How's Kelly (one of the kids) finding school? Is she excited for her birthday?

Oh, she hasn't stopped talking about it. I'm dreading having a house full of overexcited kids in the house for her party, but she's really looking forward to it.

Yeah, I don't envy you for that! (Both laugh, because as much as dads love our kids, birthday parties are hard work). Anyway, I've got to go. Nice to see you again Carl, good luck with the party

Much more organic when you have an actual conversation with a friend and don't just randomly spout facts at someone 👍

[-] microfiche@hexbear.net 43 points 3 days ago

manfluencers

the internet was a mistake

[-] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago

they call short influencers minfluencers

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