I made an app.https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.pocketpc.nearbyglassesNearby Glasses is here to warn you when smart glasses are nearby.
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I made an app.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.pocketpc.nearbyglasses
Nearby Glasses is here to warn you when smart glasses are nearby.I hope it's useful for someone.
The app is open source, free and rather simple
https://github.com/yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglassesIt's also downloadable outside the Play Store. iOS port is in the making
@yjeanrenaud ty
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@yjeanrenaud is this app vibe coded?
@petko no. I am just a bad coder
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@yjeanrenaud that's great and all, but as a non-gender-conforming glasses wearer with social anxiety and somewhat visible autism, do you understand how much harder you're going to make it for me to exist in a city?
no, a weak-ass disclaimer at the bottom of a paragraph of text isn't sufficient. the vast - overwhelming, i'd suggest - majority of people wearing glasses are wearing entirely un-smart glasses that are necessary for them to see shit. and at least some of us are going to be harassed because of this app. "some of us" meaning disproportionately disadvantaged folk - who are of course the least likely to be able to afford smart glasses anyway, but by far the easiest people to approach and smash the entirely necessary prosthetic glasses of.
in short - go back to the drawing board, and don't be so fucking ableist and irresponsible in your next iteration.
@mewsleah @yjeanrenaud I'm sorry, don't know anything about the topic, but why non-smart glasses would be affected?
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@CppGuy @mosquete @yjeanrenaud thank you so much for having checked that. I should have done it myself. I just installed the apk and will play with this app.
@f4grx thank you. I say so in the privacy statement, too. I know, companies lie a lot in those, but I don't
or at least I try not to. Maybe I missed something. I'm no lawyer either -
@petko no. I am just a bad coder
@yjeanrenaud didn't mean it as an insult to your code, I'm just straying away from vibecoded side projects. Will take it for a spin, thanks!
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@yjeanrenaud didn't mean it as an insult to your code, I'm just straying away from vibecoded side projects. Will take it for a spin, thanks!
@petko everything is ok. I did not take it offensive, anyhow.
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@yjeanrenaud that's great and all, but as a non-gender-conforming glasses wearer with social anxiety and somewhat visible autism, do you understand how much harder you're going to make it for me to exist in a city?
no, a weak-ass disclaimer at the bottom of a paragraph of text isn't sufficient. the vast - overwhelming, i'd suggest - majority of people wearing glasses are wearing entirely un-smart glasses that are necessary for them to see shit. and at least some of us are going to be harassed because of this app. "some of us" meaning disproportionately disadvantaged folk - who are of course the least likely to be able to afford smart glasses anyway, but by far the easiest people to approach and smash the entirely necessary prosthetic glasses of.
in short - go back to the drawing board, and don't be so fucking ableist and irresponsible in your next iteration.
@mewsleah I have to wear glasses myself. But thank you for pointing this out for me. I am grateful I improve. Will think about how to address that.
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@Keev that's currently in the readme on github.
directions are hard to triangulate from BLE, afaik -
@asterisk yeah, I'm sorry. Latest Android update broke my Material3 layout. I fixed it in the latest version. Just about to push the release
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@yjeanrenaud then you find them and go
@hunterking or:
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@yjeanrenaud didn't mean it as an insult to your code, I'm just straying away from vibecoded side projects. Will take it for a spin, thanks!
@petko but it's a side project nonetheless. I am no developer by training
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@fuchsi @yjeanrenaud What do you mean by "new spyware"?
@FredricT @fuchsi @yjeanrenaud Cunty reply by someone who thinks surveillance glasses are cool?
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@yjeanrenaud Now we need an app to Jam them or make them stop working altogether.
@Pamela1960 @yjeanrenaud Deflect/distort would be cool.
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@mewsleah @yjeanrenaud I'm sorry, don't know anything about the topic, but why non-smart glasses would be affected?
@ellaw @mewsleah @yjeanrenaud The person apparently believes that anytime someone with this app gets pinged, they will immediately start haranguing anyone around them wearing glasses of any kind.
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@f4grx thank you. I say so in the privacy statement, too. I know, companies lie a lot in those, but I don't
or at least I try not to. Maybe I missed something. I'm no lawyer either@yjeanrenaud thats okay, no problems. I tried the app and ot scans very fast and emits a lot of logs when it sees nothing. May I suggest scanning slower and not displaying the scans when the rssi is below the threshold? That will save battery and cpu.
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@ellaw @mewsleah @yjeanrenaud The person apparently believes that anytime someone with this app gets pinged, they will immediately start haranguing anyone around them wearing glasses of any kind.
@SteveFoerster do NOT put words into my mouth. or the mouth of anyone you disagree with. especially don't do it in order to erect a strawman. that's actually pretty shitty.
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@yjeanrenaud that's great and all, but as a non-gender-conforming glasses wearer with social anxiety and somewhat visible autism, do you understand how much harder you're going to make it for me to exist in a city?
no, a weak-ass disclaimer at the bottom of a paragraph of text isn't sufficient. the vast - overwhelming, i'd suggest - majority of people wearing glasses are wearing entirely un-smart glasses that are necessary for them to see shit. and at least some of us are going to be harassed because of this app. "some of us" meaning disproportionately disadvantaged folk - who are of course the least likely to be able to afford smart glasses anyway, but by far the easiest people to approach and smash the entirely necessary prosthetic glasses of.
in short - go back to the drawing board, and don't be so fucking ableist and irresponsible in your next iteration.
@mewsleah @yjeanrenaud No, seriously, it’s for finding electronic signatures emanating from surveillance glasses, NOT for your warby parkers.
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@mewsleah @yjeanrenaud No, seriously, it’s for finding electronic signatures emanating from surveillance glasses, NOT for your warby parkers.
@wendinoakland @yjeanrenaud what is a "warby parker"?
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@wendinoakland @yjeanrenaud what is a "warby parker"?
@mewsleah @yjeanrenaud Sorry, it’s a hugely popular USian brand of eyeglasses, available online, via mail order. Basically meaning, any regular glasses for seeing. This app picks up specific digital pings from spyglasses made by, say, Meta & Google.
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@ellaw @mewsleah @yjeanrenaud The person apparently believes that anytime someone with this app gets pinged, they will immediately start haranguing anyone around them wearing glasses of any kind.
@SteveFoerster @ellaw @yjeanrenaud "the person" is still here and can answer for herself¹. do i think that will always happen? no. do i think there's a substantive risk of it happening? yes, because that's what happens. and chances are it won't happen to the well-off-looking cis white guy who's by far the most liikely person to be wearing smart glasses, will it?
¹ and don't think i didn't notice the pronoun game, Steve
