Police get caught committing crimes via hidden (or non-hidden, LOL) cameras all the time.

The same is true for corporations (and plain old abusive bosses).

Where I live, a company was caught making plans for illegal dumping (toxic waste) thanks to a hidden camera worn by a whistleblower.

The most recent news about hidden cameras catching corporate misbehavior are mostly related to meat processing plants. In Texas, I believe they passed an unconstitutional law a few years ago banning people from recording (in public) near factory farms and meat processing plants.

All this illegal/evil behavior was foiled thanks to hidden cameras.

This is why I firmly believe in “one party” laws. Look that up if you don’t know what it means.

So to you, the glasses are irrelevant. You just hate hidden cameras… Like police and various misbehaving corporations all over the world.

This post has triggered my outrage!

…because this is totally normal database stuff. Like, where’s the meat? My phone could handle 500 million rows of data. Is that supposed to be a lot?

I’m not exaggerating about the phone part: A modern smartphone can handle an SQLite DB with billions of records (aka “ROWS”, LOL).

Regular Linux running KDE (e.g. Kubuntu) is vastly superior to those streaming TV devices that run Android.

Just get a wireless keyboard and a regular wireless mouse. You won’t be disappointed.

KDE lets you increase the default zoom level for all applications to something like 225% without fucking everything up.

You’ll still need to go into your Firefox settings to increase the zoom level there, but those two places cover 99.999% of all streaming use cases.

You’re confused: You assume that all cameras on glasses will always be controlled by fascists.

Did it ever occur to you that someone might make their own glasses? Or that a company could make a set that works offline?

If you ran things, such technology would never happen because it would be banned before it got out the door.

But you’d be ok with that because you live in a hole, with perfect eyesight and zero foresight.

You think people should need a license to use technology like glasses and cameras. Listen to yourself!

I don’t know what kind of “anti” hole you fell into but you need to crawl back out.

Who’s pushing to make them hidden? If you want hidden cameras there’s thousands of vastly superior options than thick, ugly, obvious glasses.

Go search AliExpress right now for “hidden camera”. Your mind will be blown.

This isn’t wise for the sole reason that they really are a great benefit to the visually impaired.

Right now the tech is super useful, being able to read small text out loud and differentiate similar objects that certain conditions make difficult. However, the tech has the potential to do so much more.

Banning it now would be like slapping a whole lot of disabled people in the face.

Now with a delicious sweet cream filling.

Double-stuff yourselves in oreoaN👍

I have no doubt that these corporations (well, some of them) consider it a “threat”. “Massive”, though? No.

If it was a “massive threat” they would’ve lobbied long and hard long ago, joining with the MPAA and RIAA (which Sony was part of even back then!) in the 90s and 2000s era of “you wouldn’t download a car!”

Yes, even back then people were hosting their own game servers and not much has changed, really other than there’s a lot more online games now (even ones that shouldn’t be “online”).

This feels like corporate lobbyists trying to justify their jobs. Hopefully they’ll get “outsourced to AI” soon and articles like this will become a thing of the past. Replaced with AI-written legislation making the news because now rocks are required on all pizzas.

When individuals do it, it’s PIRACY!!!

When corporations do it, it’s merely copyright violations.

I’ve heard from copywriters who now fear losing their apartments, one who turned to sex work,

One of these jobs is not like the others!

Or the personification of an arperture, which could indicate a closed mind 🤔

Well, one that can open and close on demand, I guess 😁

A smart name would be Einsteinium.

All the continents should be renamed, “Landia” and the oceans should just be rolled into, “Oceania”.

Why makes things complicated?

It rubs the Costco on its skin.

When my Plott Hound wants attention and she sees me on my phone, she somehow figured out that if she shoves her nose into the bottom of the screen and swipes it up, that makes the app I’m looking at go away. It’s ridiculous!

It started because she wanted to send the whole phone away so she could get attention from my hands. Turns out that motion is all it takes and I’m forced to stop what I’m doing and deal with her (by giving attention, of course 😁).

Actually, you’re right: They do kinda look like scallops.

Having said that, I think I’ve figured out what they actually are: Marshmallows 😂

Something tells me that boom arm is just a tad too short, compared to the fucking telescope of a camera it’s paired with.

Oh please. AI generated images of food are just as realistic as the food in traditional food advertisements.

We’ve all been looking at pictures of painted plastic since forever. Not only that, but photoshopped, painted plastic 😁