• lepinkainen@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Why can’t a company do smart glasses with self-hostable or fully local processing?

    I’d love a pair but fuck streaming everything I see to a random dude in Nigeria

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      1 day ago

      Well for one thing, it’s creepy and the people around you don’t want to be passively recorded 24/7.

      Remember Google Glass? Its users were called “glassholes” for a reason.

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        18 hours ago

        Of course it is. But if I do it locally it’s just me, not some megacorps wage slaves looking at the data.

        Mostly my nerd brain would like to go “what is this plant” or “overlay all planes overhead to my screen” 😀

        • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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          17 hours ago

          There are to separate issues here:

          • corporation gathering surveillance data on everyone
          • creeps filming women and children

          Even if it’s just for you it’s still creepy. You may not record people without consent but we don’t know that. All we see is a camera pointed at us.

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      17 hours ago

      Self-hosted doesn’t mean “look how nice I am”. When a piece of tech is shit, it’s shit whether it is self-hosted or not.

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          15 hours ago

          Are you a cybersecurity expert? Can you guarantee that the data you’ll collect with your secret agent glasses won’t end up in the open?

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            14 hours ago

            Yes.

            Unless someone phyiscally breaks into my house and steals my server. Which would require a very targeted attack which again is WAAY out of scope in my (and everyone else’s) threat model

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        18 hours ago

        But I want a camera and a microphone.

        I just want to use my own hardware to analyse whatever they’re recording.