So if I’m getting this right they do keep biometrics from people who have never agreed to anything, but only on smartglassers’ devices and they are not transmitting them. Yet?

Still a huge invasion of privacy. Nobody stores data just to be left “pending” in a random folder. Yeah it’s very similar to when they made pseudo-profiles from tagged people on facebook pics. Was not even aware they were eventually and succesfully sued for it.

Can’t get the full article.

Is that really saying they sent updates to non-glasses users’ phones only to access their biometrics, so they can basically broadcast that identification to their glasses?

No way this is EU GDPR compliant. So glad I got a phone that doesn’t come with system-embedded meta shit.

Ah yes, the mad scientist way. Keep clear of the walls during storms though.

Also when you have to drill into a wall (say, to get a cable through it), those devices that detect wires won’t be able to help you anymore. Sooo… Good luck?

Can you come back in a century or two?

Those banners that include necessary cookies are all misdirection so they can make the whole more confusing.

Like how sites want you to believe ads are now worthless if they are not targeted and being fed all of your private data. Untargeted ads used to remunerate them just fine before that was an option.

tumblr has had an incredibly annoying one since forever, the login wall. It shows up while scrolling down about half a screen to tell you you can’t browse any more of it without an account. There are greasemonkey scripts to remove it, but every once in a while tumblr changes the way it’s displaying that shit, so the scripts have to be updated.

(Yeah, I know, tumblr. Don’t judge, I used to download a lot of Sims custom content, and a lot of sim modders like tumblr, for a reason I still don’t fully understand)

I did. I personnally don’t trust those glorified chatbots for anything.

I think it’s meant as kind of a joke, but both are shit really.

Shared might indicate they’re able to keep some level of consistency, but since it’s only consistent in the way it produces bullshit, it’s stil useless (and the worst part is it might be more convincing).

The lab described Gemini’s world as a “shared hallucination” among the agents, which is probably better than diverging hallucinations

“We reject your reality and substitute our own.”

Why should we trust this bullshit with anything serious again?

Threads’ plan is to implement the ActivityPub protocol, the one the fediverse is based on.

In theory threads could then be federated with other ActivityPub servers (Mastodon and Lemmy for example).

In practice, many instance admins saw it as meta’s way to invade that space with their own proprietary bullshit on top of it so they can progressively take control of it. So many decided to block threads as soon as it would be able to federate with their instance.

Oh. I thought it could walk/run, which would have been 200% scarier (and totally overkill, surely).

Turns out that in action the thing looks more like Curiosity with a creepy furby on top of it.

Well, we need a defence against terminators.

Glasses with high correction don’t look that great with thin frames IMO. Even when you get thinner lenses, there still quite thick on the edges.

Thin frames also have kind of an uncanny effect when the lenses warp the size of your eyes a lot. Better have a bulky, obvious thing instead.

There is a distinct rift between what the AI companies are trying to sell and what they can actually do. Anthropic is among the worst, they basically communicate on how astonished they are about their AI every other week (including the mythos claims that have been vastly disproven).

They don’t “claim” it. They suggest and deliberately exploit people’s imagination. Because if they don’t nobody would be buying their shit.

Well, if all it takes for your super-intelligent thinking machine to be evil is just someone to suggest it might be evil, something doesn’t add up.

Some of them are even basic post-it functionality.

Also : these (valid) authorized applications should be completely offline solutions. Because privacy, and because you don’t want your aid failing at random times because it’s relying on some corporate server and network.

Oh shit, they actually said that, “they” being the American department of justice.

“How dare those people try to apply laws to mega corporations?!!”

I have a Quest headset, and I have no idea. But of course I don’t want anything to do wih their “metaverse”, so I would’t be able to see where most of their work went.

What I can tell you is the parts I did use, like the system UI and app store, are complete shit and never improved one bit through the years.

The app store is especially terrible for a company with those resources. It’s using the worst machine translation I ever saw (forget LLMs, this is a lot worse than 2010 google translate). It has terrible search and discoverability options for a store that has comparatively so little content.

Whenever I find something interesting in it, it’s also regularly failing transactions with a major bank in my country. I’m almost listing that as a pro since it discouraged me to get stuff from a headset-locked store that will be completely abandoned very soon.