Comment on Dumb glasses
xtr0n@sh.itjust.works 5 hours agoPeople with legal issues, immigration issues or violent exes will absolutely dip if they see someone recording. I have none of these problems and I will always avoid gettIng recorded by randos if it’s easy to do so. I can’t reasonably avoid every Ring cam in my neighborhood but I will happily slide 10 feet to the left to avoid becoming collateral damage in some dbags insta reel.
FishFace@piefed.social 4 hours ago
So you can do the same thing when you see someone wearing the glasses, then. You won’t always be able to spot them, of course. Just like you can’t spot if someone’s filming on their phone all the way down a train carriage, or in a crowd.
If your immigration and law enforcement agencies are so awful (I assume most people here are American, and so they are) that normal people recording videos risks harm to people who haven’t done anything wrong, then it seems like the focus should be on that first, and video recording in general second.
People in this thread want to punch wearers of smart glasses because they hate Zuck. They all have issues if their rage comes out that way.
xtr0n@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
The glasses are much more difficult to detect than someone holding up a phone to record. Will the glasses always look super obvious? The old Google ones were ginormous, I don’t know if I would recognize the FB ones in the wild.
You can generally tell when a phone camera is pointed in your general direction within a reasonable range. It’s uncommon enough for people to do this in public outside of large crowds (concerts, sporting events, etc) that avoiding those situations isn’t an undue burden. With the glasses, can you tell whether they’re recording or do you just have to assume that they’re always recording?
This is a non trivial escalation and I will definitely shun and or shame anyone I encounter with this trash tech.
And there is nothing wrong with hating Zuck, his companies and the other billionaires destroying society. If you don’t have issues with existential threats then that is a bigger issue.
FishFace@piefed.social 2 hours ago
The glasses are very chunky. They have a light to show they’re recording, and if you deliberately disable it you could just as well conceal your phone or whatever in a bag.
There’s nothing wrong with hating Zuck, but that shouldn’t extend to uncritically hating everything relating to him and his companies to the point where you’re willing to advocate or excuse violence against his customers, which is happening here.
matlag@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
If I spot one in a public place, and I start filming them while shouting “Are you recording a video right now with these smartglasses?”, I guess that would be totally fine, right? No reason to make them uncomfortable, because they’ll be in their right.
FishFace@piefed.social 2 hours ago
Yeah, that would be very different than punching them, obviously?
matlag@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
It’s absolutely legal to film them as you said, and it is absolutely legal to speak up. If that makes them uncomfortable, that’s entirely their problem, isn’t it?